NicoNico Stream Info!

[AhkneeKitteen]

FIRST OFF HERE IS THE CHARACTER ART I KNOW EVERYONE WANTS THIS IMMEDIATELY


I like the designs but the faces are bothering me for some reason - this art doesn't really do justice to the full designs.  The official site has character bios up now; you can see civilian and senshi form on there and I'm cool with basically everything but the faces??? Am I the only one who is bothered by the faces alone?!!!

Anyway, yes I watched the stream live via MissDream, thank that team.

Bullet points because concise is good:

• Anime streams @ 7pm Japan time (~6am EST) on JULY 5
• New Myu titled Petit Estranger, with only Mercury being recast from La Reconquista
• Chibimoon and Pluto are in the new myu!!
• DVD of La Reconquista out July 9

That's about it on that front, but here's the list of seiyuu for the team:

• Moon: Mitsuishi Kotono
  
• Mars: Rina Satō (Naomi in Corpse Party: Book of Shadows, Elvira in Buddy Complex, Ema in Brother's Conflict)
  
• Jupiter: Ami Koshimizu (Ryuko in Kill la Kill, Yukiko in Persona 4, Cure Melody in Suite Precure)
  
• Venus: Shizuka Ito (Teoria in Majestic Prince, Yayoi in Psycho Pass, Tamaki in To Heart 2)
  
• Mercury: Hisako Kanemoto (Cure Peace in various Precure, Haru in Akuma no Riddle)

They all spoke on stream for a few moments - I really only was feeling Hisako's voice as Ami, but we'll see what we see.

So??? What does everyone think?

This has been Ahknee, reporting mere minutes after the stream because I'm a cool cat like that.

[princess]

interesting if you ask me *facepalm* although i'm gonna have to get used to the new voices lol *^^*

[sahjan]

I watched the stream too! Had to catch it for 8am and I don't feel like it was worth it -__-
Idk why I still feel like the characer designs are just really good fanart...I need to see them in animation to believe it.
Their faces bother me too. I remember in the chatbox during the livestream on missdream.org a lot of people were disappointed with the designs!

[AhkneeKitteen]

Yeah, the stream was pretty disappointing. I was more hype there was going to be a new myu for the Black Moon story! I can't wait to see who is cast as Demando, though no one will live up to how great Hikari Ono was in the role in the original myu run.

I think the new art has caused the great new fandom divide like PGSM did back in the day. On the one hand, you've got people who are in love with the designs, and on the other you've got people like you and I who are like "what??? this is it?" And don't even get me started on how many people I've had get on my case about not absolutely worshiping the new designs, yeesh.

I think part of the issue I have with the faces is that they just look like imitations of Takeuchi's style that fell flat. I'm hoping there's some fixing on that before the show starts but I'm not getting my hopes up.

[princess]

i seeeeeeee ^.^

[moon yagami]

could not catch the stream, but I'm happy with what everyone around me who is excited about this has summarized for me...

[princess]

*embarrassed* actually, i couldn't catch it either kira... when i said i see i was referring to what i read. but i'm still excited about this though. =)