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Sailor Venus wrote:It arrived for me yesterday and it rocks!!!

The theme is so kool, like Sailor Universia said!

The transformation scenes are kool aswell, and you see Sailor V!!

is it like the Comic movies of America. (Spiderman X Men, Blade)

Much better! My favorite character is Mako-chan. She seems very classy in the live-action, for some reason. And you're right, Sailor V is sooo cool! I wish we saw more of her in the anime.

Yes, I do have a few references.

Now, I can read Japanese, so the vast majority of my manga collection is the original version. If you can read kanji, or you just want to collect the originals, I suggest Anime Nation (They have a good selection of the reprints that feature a solitary senshi on each cover), or SASUGA.

If you're looking for the English translation by TokyoPop, I suggest, as always, Amazon. They are almost always in stock and have used books you can buy for really cheap (except the Stars books can get really expensive). If you can read French or German, I suggest getting those versions, since the English version is pretty bad and uses the Americanized terms like "scout" and "Darien."

The Artbooks are pretty much impossible to find in their original format---they are out of print in Japan. I have the French versions which have the notes that Naoko wrote in Japanese. The Infinity Artbook is EXTREMELY rare. I've only ever seen it once and it was $700. If you really want to "read" the artbooks, MangaStyle! is great and Naoko's notes translated into English.

I hope I helped!

I learned to read and speak it when we had a foreign exchange student spend a half-term with my family. I was about five or so.

I believe that's just the first volume of StarS. Maybe Ebay would have a better deal? Unless you're desperate, I wouldn't pay that much for one tankubon.

Japanese is much easier to learn to speak than read. I'm learning kanji to this day.

*Nods enthusiastically* Sailor Moon is definately where I got my start.

No. PGSM ended after the first season. I wanted to see Stars live action.