Sailor Moon Crystal Season 3 Blu-ray & DVD
Here’s all the information you’ll need on getting the Sailor Moon Crystal Season 3 anime on Blu-ray and DVD! There are 3 versions being released for each volume:
- Limited Edition Blu-ray
- Limited Edition DVD
- Regular Edition DVD
The limited editions will include a 28-page booklet, all packaged in a luxurious box. Both limited and regular editions will have audio commentaries by Kotono Mitsuishi (Sailor Moon), Junko Minagawa (Sailor Uranus) and Sayaka Ohara (Sailor Neptune) for Volume 1, the other two volumes’ audio commentaries haven’t been determined. Volume 1 of all versions will include 4 episodes: 27 to 30.
The release dates are as follows:
Limited Edition Volume 1s – June 29, 2016
Limited Edition Volume 2s – July 27, 2016
Limited Edition Volume 3s – August 31, 2016
Regular Edition Volume 1 – July 27, 2016
Regular Edition Volume 2 – August 31, 2016
Regular Edition Volume 3 – September 28, 2016
In addition, when you buy all 3 limited edition volumes (Blu-ray or DVD) from CDJapan, you’ll get a B2-size (70cm x 50cm) fabric poster featuring Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune. Other bonuses from other stores include a storage box from Animate and a LP size storage case from Amazon JP.
Preorder links:
Limited Edition Blu-ray
Volume 1: CDJapan (8,800yen)
Volume 2: CDJapan (8,800yen)
Volume 3: CDJapan (9,800yen)
Limited Edition DVD
Volume 1: CDJapan (7,800yen)
Volume 2: CDJapan (7,800yen)
Volume 3: CDJapan (8,800yen)
Regular Edition DVD
Volume 1: CDJapan (5,800yen)
Volume 2: CDJapan (5,800yen)
Volume 3: CDJapan (6,800yen)
The cover art of Volume 1 has been released:
17 Comments
Chris
I mean I love this show and I loved this season but, does anyone else think that 27,400 yen is a little much for one season.
Ajana
No keychains this time?
Bruna
It’s not really about the anime but… It has been sometime since the last proplica’s announcement 🙁
I was excited to get a crisis moon compact next. Maybe they are waiting the anime to catch up with the realeses?
Does anybody know if they dropped the star locket proplica btw?
Amy
Will this have English subtitles?
smcollectibles
No
Sally
Season 3’s art style has really grown on me since it first started.
Bruna
OMG, I wanns see the bonuses before I choose where to buy from T^T. I can’t wait to see!
Mighto
I hope there will be a Box for CD Japan Orders in the future too.
Would love to store the new Blurays next to the Season 1-2 Box
Dano
OMMMMGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!! Soooo pretty!!!!! SO EPIC!! Season 3 is FLAWLESS, everytime that i see an episode i always end up crying at some point, because it has made my dream come true of finally having an anime that makes justice to the Sailor Moon storyand characters. 17 years waiting to see tis happen and it finally happened! 🙂
I wonder if volume 1 will also be a music box tho? it’d be pretty.
James
Its really disappointing that people think “Crystal” does justice to the story and characters compared to the 90s anime, in which the characters were far stronger, had significantly more development and massive amounts more proper characterisation.
Not to say that Season 3 isn’t a huge improvement of the first two seasons, but “flawless”? Absolutely not.
Amyranth
Crystal IS based on the source material though. The original storyline that Naoko wrote for the anime, but it wasn’t ever made the way she wanted. I find it to be more rich than the anime, which doesn’t hold up many years later with a rewatch. I own the first 4 seasons on DVD, and every once in awhile I’ll pop in a DVD (usually the Infinity Arc, which is one of my favorites) and I cringe every couple of episodes or so. I prefer a storyline that flows and makes sense without adding dozens of side characters and a Monster Of The Day. Crystal is definitely becoming the anime I wanted when I was reading the comic book and I fell in love with THAT story and THOSE characters.
James
The 90s anime holds up incredibly well, with interesting characters and motivations, great story arcs and morals that are still significant to this very day. Literally every character is more developed and complete in the 90s anime, be it main characters, side characters or ESPECIALLY villains. That, to me, is what being “rich” is about.
As for making sense, that’s a losing comparison because Takeuchi wasn’t exactly a great writer. The manga, and as a result Crystal, is absolutely lousey with plot holes on an almost episode by episode basis. The 90s has lots of filler (which is not always a bad thing considering the huge ensemble that are extremely underdeveloped in the manga), but it always kept its main storylines straight and to the point.
And for Crystal and the manga having no monsters of the week? Then what were the Spectre Sisters? Or the Witches 5? Or the Amazon Trio? Or the Sailor Animamates? Because the 90s anime made them ACTUAL CHARACTERS does not change he fact that in the manga they were straight up Monsters of the Week.
Crystal is enjoyable, but as a long time fan of Sailor Moon, I can admit that the manga has always been one of the weakest versions of Sailor Moon and Crystal reflects a lot of its issues.
Linda
it all comes down to personal opinions and I personally think both the manga and Crystal are great, and I what I love most of them is the pacing, there were much too many fillers that were very unnecessary and wasted alot of time in the 90s anime, while Crystal is clear-cut and straight to the point without those unnecessary fillers. As for character development, well, personally I think there are better character development for some of the characters in Crystal, for example Usagi/Sailor Moon and Chibiusa. In the 90s anime, Usagi was always the same, she was always the immature crybaby who would always mope and cry and bicker if she doesn’t get her way, it’s like she never grew up or never matured, she was always the crybaby schoolgirl, it’s like she never had any real character development in terms of her personality. Same with Chibiusa, she was always just this annoying brat. But in Crystal, Usagi is much more mature, yes there are still moments when she was like a crybaby, but she gradually became more mature further into Crystal and became wiser, her character development in Crystal is so much better and more likable, we get to see her character grow and mature. Same with Chibiusa, she was a little brat in her first few episodes in Crystal, but now she’s also become more mature, she’s more respectful towards Usagi and others and behaves better.
Rei/Sailor Mars is also another character that I like so much better in Crystal, in the 90s anime she was usually so arrogant & bratty and rude towards Usagi, but she’s much more mature & pleasant in Crystal.
So I strongly disagree with you, yes Crystal still has flaws (and so does the 90s anime), but I think the writing and character development in Crystal is better than what you think, especially for some of the characters.
Ugh
You don’t need to be the sailor moon police, if people enjoy it they can enjoy it, being “disappointed” people like it is just childish, grow up.
James
Not disappointing in that people are enjoying it, I am definitely enjoying Season 3, disappointing in that people talk down on the 90s anime when doing so, when in fact especially when it came to characters the 90s anime was usually superior.
Linda
your opinion are “not” facts, they’re just your opinions, so stop sounding like your opinions holds anymore weight than anyone else’s.
Kathryn
I’ll admit, I fell in love with the 90’s series first, but once I read the source material I had a hard time going back and enjoying it. With the exception of R and S, the stories were altered so much that they barely represented the source material except for the character designs. Even the personalities seemed like they’d been messed with. Sailor Mars was feisty instead of thoughtful and calculating, Sailor Mercury lost her “shy nerd” personality, Sailor Neptune was a slut (Wanna get to know me better Seiya? Take off my clothes! Tee hee!), Sailor Moon herself was a moron who somehow managed to barely squeak by a “friendship” finish at the end instead of going on her epic space journey in Sailor Stars. Don’t get me started on Mamoru’s generals, the amazon trio, or the Three Lights. Everything was just… Filler. It wasn’t even filling in the spaces between new comics like Naruto, it was just replaced with filler. There were times that even the bosses felt like the disposable monster.
As a TV series it was good for its time, and I think it had a positive effect on the superhero genre as a whole, but it didn’t follow the source material very often and I think I’m not alone in saying that I’ve been waiting for it to be given a more accurate treatment. I think Crystal has been good to it, and I greatly prefer it over the original series. Honestly my only real complaint about the third season is the return of the stock-footage attacks. I enjoyed that attacks were actually part of the animation in the first two seasons.