Sailor Moon and her magical gal pals are back for a brand-new adventure on Broadway. Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: The Super Live, the popular Japanese stage show based on the famous shojo series, will run in North America this spring.

Per Variety, the musical adaptation of Sailor Moon is touring America in 2025. Nearly 20 cities are scheduled for the North American tour, beginning with Pittsburgh in March and ending in New York City in April. As noted by Variety, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: The Super Live is the “longest sustained U.S. engagement of a Japanese stage show based on a popular manga or anime” following Attack On Titan: The Musical in 2024.

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Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: The Super Live is one of many musical adaptations of the Sailor Moon anime and manga series in Japan. Similar to the Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon – Nogizaka46 Version musical, the upcoming Super Live stage show will adapt the “Dark Kingdom” story arc featuring the evil Queen Beryl. However, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: The Super Live was designed with international audiences in mind, relying more on action than Japanese speech. Nonetheless, the actors involved in the stage show will speak in Japanese with English surtitles. Surtitles are translated captions broadcast on a projector above the stage, commonly seen in opera performances.

Ticket sales for the Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: The Super Live North American tour will go live on Jan. 31, 2025. A preview performance will take place on March 12 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Afterward, the Sailor Moon musical will officially open on March 15 in Austin, Texas, for the 2025 South by Southwest. Seattle, Chicago, St. Louis and Milwaukee are also listed for the U.S. tour. The Sailor Moon musical will conclude its run at the Palladium Times Square Theater in New York City on April 25-26.

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For over 30 years, Sailor Moon has been a pop culture phenomenon that defined the magical girl genre worldwide. Although spinoff titles and anime TV and movie remakes continue to be available, the original 1992 anime remains embedded in the minds of mainstream audiences — especially for English fans when it premiered on Cartoon Network on June 1, 1998. The original Sailor Moon anime returned to Cartoon Network in May 2024 for the short-lived Toonami Rewind block, where the brand-new English dub by Viz Media was broadcast every Friday evening. Following the cancelation of Toonami Rewind, Sailor Moon will now air on the Saturday night mainline Toonami block on Adult Swim.

The original Sailor Moon anime TV series and movies are available on numerous streaming platforms like Crunchyroll and Hulu. Sailor Moon Crystal, the 2014 anime reboot, is also available on numerous streaming services. However, the two-part Sailor Moon Cosmos movies are available worldwide on Netflix.

Sailor Moon

A group of schoolgirls discover they are incarnations of super-powered alien princesses, and use their abilities to defend the earth.

Release Date

March 7, 1992

Creator(s)

Naoko Takeuchi

Cast

Kotono Mitsuishi
, Aya Hisakawa
, Michie Tomizawa
, Emi Shinohara
, Rika Fukami
, Tôru Furuya
, Keiko Han
, Kae Araki
, Yasuhiro Takato

Seasons

5

Studio

Toei Animation

Creator

Naoko Takeuchi

Writers

Sukehiro Tomita

Number of Episodes

200

Streaming Service(s)

Hulu
, Pluto TV

Directors

Junichi Sato
, Kunihiko Ikuhara

Japanese Title

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon

Based On

Manga

MyAnimeList Score

7.74 (Season 1)

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Source: Variety, Sailor Moon official website