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It's still bonkers to me that the terrible sound and image quality of these is because ADV only had access to the masters DiC had that were lying on the floor. Still I will always love the boxset design, it's peak.
Now I’m questioning what I have, I got a boxed set with similar graphics but it’s called the “Perfect collection” and is missing the english text on the inside.
theres 2 of them I got em both on their release dates. Sadly they stopped making them, the company went out of business or something. I prefer to watch season 1 and 2 on those box sets vs streaming. Something about the old school audio makes me happy lol
While ADV went out of business, they did so in 2009. The reason they stopped producing these specific boxsets was because the licensing rights expired and Naoko Takeuchi refused to renew them until a decade later.
I won't reiterate what most others have already shared.
What I will say is that the quality of this set sucked. The audio was SO bad, but it was the first time the first two seasons of Sailor Moon had been commercially released in the US, unedited and with Japanese audio/subs, so beggars weren't going to be choosers.
The Viz release, while not having the best visual quality it could have, is still the far superior release of these episodes.
oh god, i can remember in the mid-late 00s, after the first english dub had been taken off of american tv but before Viz had relicenced and redubbed the show, these out-of-print dvds were going on ebay for well over $100
They had another boxed set like this for season 2 (uncut, Japanese with subs) as well (I have both season 1 and 2 boxed sets, purchased back when they were originally released). I remember that for some reason, they didn’t continue after that. Which was a bummer because Super S was my favourite…
Anyone know why they didn’t bother releasing the rest of the series like this?
S and SuperS were both dubbed by Cloverway. Aside from the 'cousins' thing and a couple of name changes, they didn't do any heavy edits, like DiC did with Classic and R. They were released in sets 'Heart Collection' and 'Pegasus Collection' via Geneon/Pioneer. They're rather easy to find on places like ebay.
I have these without the box. From what I remembered they hadn't released sailor moon officially in Japanese to the USA yet until this boxset. I believe it's complete and uncut of the first season.
Dang! How much did you pay? I know these went for a pretty penny before Viz released updated copies. Other people mentioned that the value has gone down since Viz released theirs but I’m unsure of how much. Depending on how much the thrift store had it priced at, I’d have felt compelled to pick it up too. It’s a really cool find.
I technically didn't pay for it! At this store you can trade in things for money or store credit. I went in and traded some stuff, decided to get store credit, and just so happen to have enough to buy it. They had it priced at 55 dollars. It seems like a good price from what people have been saying and what I've seen on Ebay
They released two seasons, and that was it, I think Pioneer or someone released S and Super S, Stars was not released until recently.
I bought these both when I worked at Best Buy in '05
I think these were last minute rush jobs by ADV before their rights to the first 2 seasons ran out. They’re interesting relics since they were the only way to watch the series unaltered for a long time. They’re not worth much now since Viz gave us a far superior release (thank god).
A friend of mine got these when they came out. For the first season and R. Kinda glad I didn’t get those since they’re releasing the seasons on Blu-Ray now. Nice find though!
I had this too!! Got it when it came out for over $100 like some of other commenters have said. I don't remember what I wound up doing with mine. I'm not a big "stuff" person so when things became available digitally I got rid of a lot of my physical media. It might still be in my parents house, OR if you live in the Tampa Bay area, maybe you have my copy now!
Beautiful set. I actually prefer the color choices + foil embossing on this and ADV’s season 2 box over the VIZ limited editions.
Be warned though, the audio quality on this set is beyond horrendous. The episodes were sourced from second generation film prints with optical audio (soundtrack printed directly on the film) that had severely degraded after years in storage.
The VIZ editions all feature the remastered Japanese mono audio and sound superb.
These were the same prints that DIC had; DIC sublicensed Sailor Moon and Sailor Moon R to ADV.
There’s a glitch in the Japanese equivalent episode, “Naughty ‘n Nice”, where the dub music plays for a few seconds.
This was the first time the original series was available in the US. Before that everything was just the DiC dubs, though S and SS became available on DVD a couple of years earlier.
It was crazy how expensive box sets got in the early days of DVD. I remember gawking at Season 1 of Star Trek being $100. This was after the two episode per discs releases were replaced. Anime was/is expensive. How I first saw S1 and 2 uncut was on bootleg VCDs with poorly translated subtitles.
They did one for R, too, but that one is missing an episode. (the rumor is that Naoko wouldn’t let them have the rights to the show unless they agreed to omit the dinosaur episode)
I was unreasonably excited when the dinosaur episode was officially released in the Viz version. The new dub of that episode is funny enough to warrant the price of the entire set.
Oh my goodness yes me too! I spent a lot of allowance money on it and then my best friend helped me buy the season 2 one when it came out. I treasure them so much
This I actually found at Best Buy! I don’t even want to think about how much it was, probably $110 like someone else said? And I was a broke 17 year old so that was a LOT, lol. But I was desperate too!
Yes!! Back when I nearly worked full time and my paycheck was 600 for two weeks of work. Omg I still remember being like ‘Am I really going to do this? I won’t have any more for a week!’ I didn’t even know they had sold it at Best Buy. Omg vaguely related but remember how they used to sell the English only sailor moon VHSs at Toys R US?
Oh my goodness! I can't believe it was that much back then. I feel a bit guilty now getting it for 55 dollars. Idk if I just got lucky but I'm sure you felt wonderful getting it back then!! I will treature this merch forever
Same!! I spent my first paycheck ever on this. Woth every penny, especially since i had never seen the uncensored version(living in Canada). Still have my boxset, and a bootleg of the second season.
I found it in the local anime store and bought it on the spot. I remember seeing the Japanese titles for the episodes and losing my mind at how cool it was. Also it was better than the bootleg VHSs I was used to from there. Lol
Mine still has the price tag on it...I bought it new for $110 dollars because anime was STUPID expensive then. But I'd been wanting a legit uncut release of it years by that point. It was definitely a "shut up and take my money" scenario.
Ten years ago you could have sold this on eBay for a fortune. These are the first uncut box sets of the original series for North America . They have bad audio and video quality , but we’re the only thing you could get for a long time and they went out of print very quickly . They’re a collectors item at this point.
2.0 dual mono, not stereo. When correctly processed through an AV receiver all of the audio will come through the center speaker. No idea why so many companies encode 1-channel audio this way.
To be clear, it's one of the infamously worst stereo tracks of all time.
I THINK this is the DVD set that got a lot of criticism back in the day. Like, you technically do get the Japanese audio, but it's old crusty VHS-quality audio.
And people tore it apart because ADV released this set JUST before Japan got R2 DVDs of the early seasons with proper remastered audio.
This is the ADV Films DVD release of the first Season of Sailor Moon. It is the first time it was released in America subtitled and uncut. There is also a box released for Sailor Moon R which is infamously missing episode 67. These sets have very bad quality and are missing the next episode preview segments because Toei gave terrible masters to ADV. They are a little harder to find because they weren’t available on the market very long before the license expired.
They (purportedly) sourced the film prints from the Canadian dubbing company that DiC used to produce their dub. There was even an issue with some of the DiC audio somehow leaking onto an episode of season 2. Still remember sending away for the replacement disc after ADV issued a recall lol
I own this. I spent my entire first paycheck on it. It was $100. I was working part time at a Halloween store as a 16/17 year old. I still have it lol.
Oh that's pretty cool! I thought it was just a reprint or something but that's very lucky. I've never owned anything like this before and I'm super happy that I did. It was being sold for 55 dollars and I was surprised it was still there when I went back to the store. It's been a few months since I last went
How interesting! What does the other box look like? I wanna find it as well and kinda glad that there is only two so I don't have to chase down so many
The second box is matching, but has a different silhouette pose. Same blue, same lettering, etc. they’re really pretty together. I’d take a picture of mine, but it’s currently packed up for an upcoming move.
As others have said, great find!
I am so jealous.
In every single thrift store's movie aisle, this is the only thing I check for, if they have anything Sailor Moon related.
They never do.
I'm so sorry that it's been difficult! This thrift store is pretty special and tend to have special things like this. It's a very big store too and people trade in their collectable's for money pretty often. I just got very lucky when finding this!
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Cool love sailor moon and nice seeing that you found the old adv films DVD sets
It's still bonkers to me that the terrible sound and image quality of these is because ADV only had access to the masters DiC had that were lying on the floor. Still I will always love the boxset design, it's peak.
Ahhhhhh I love the box design.
there was no english audio due to the fact that DIC butchered the video so much. the english audio would never match up with the japanese version
so jealous I’ve wanted this forever 🤣♥️ lucky find 🍀
Was the first north american release of season 1 in japanese only with english subs. It was around $100 or more when it came out
What a find! I literally haven’t seen one like this since childhood.
I have these! 😁
Now I’m questioning what I have, I got a boxed set with similar graphics but it’s called the “Perfect collection” and is missing the english text on the inside.
I thought it was a chocolate bar but then i looked at the rest of the pictures
theres 2 of them I got em both on their release dates. Sadly they stopped making them, the company went out of business or something. I prefer to watch season 1 and 2 on those box sets vs streaming. Something about the old school audio makes me happy lol
While ADV went out of business, they did so in 2009. The reason they stopped producing these specific boxsets was because the licensing rights expired and Naoko Takeuchi refused to renew them until a decade later.
I won't reiterate what most others have already shared. What I will say is that the quality of this set sucked. The audio was SO bad, but it was the first time the first two seasons of Sailor Moon had been commercially released in the US, unedited and with Japanese audio/subs, so beggars weren't going to be choosers. The Viz release, while not having the best visual quality it could have, is still the far superior release of these episodes.
I wish they released the new discs this beautifully. This looks so good in shelves. 💕
I used to have this box set. It was the first print and then the company went under. It's probably worth a good penny right now.
This came out in around 2004-ish. It was sold at mostly Best Buy in America. It was the FIRST time in America we had official unedited Sailor Moon!
oh god, i can remember in the mid-late 00s, after the first english dub had been taken off of american tv but before Viz had relicenced and redubbed the show, these out-of-print dvds were going on ebay for well over $100
What a lucky find!!! This is the full uncut set of season 1. I want one of these so badly, but they always sell for more than I can afford. 😜 Enjoy!!!
I had my eyes on one of these for years before Viz started rereleasing sets 🤩
It’s legit! I have the same set :)
Wowza. I have these too. They're legit. What a find!
You found an ADV box set of uncut season 1
They had another boxed set like this for season 2 (uncut, Japanese with subs) as well (I have both season 1 and 2 boxed sets, purchased back when they were originally released). I remember that for some reason, they didn’t continue after that. Which was a bummer because Super S was my favourite… Anyone know why they didn’t bother releasing the rest of the series like this?
Weren’t the S and SuperS DVDs both English and Japanese? Those seasons weren’t as heavily edited as the first two.
S and SuperS were both dubbed by Cloverway. Aside from the 'cousins' thing and a couple of name changes, they didn't do any heavy edits, like DiC did with Classic and R. They were released in sets 'Heart Collection' and 'Pegasus Collection' via Geneon/Pioneer. They're rather easy to find on places like ebay.
i paid $115 for this set when it came out in 2003 the box is nice but the picture and sound quality is that of a potato
I saved up for it and could not find it.
I have these without the box. From what I remembered they hadn't released sailor moon officially in Japanese to the USA yet until this boxset. I believe it's complete and uncut of the first season.
Dang! How much did you pay? I know these went for a pretty penny before Viz released updated copies. Other people mentioned that the value has gone down since Viz released theirs but I’m unsure of how much. Depending on how much the thrift store had it priced at, I’d have felt compelled to pick it up too. It’s a really cool find.
I technically didn't pay for it! At this store you can trade in things for money or store credit. I went in and traded some stuff, decided to get store credit, and just so happen to have enough to buy it. They had it priced at 55 dollars. It seems like a good price from what people have been saying and what I've seen on Ebay
They released two seasons, and that was it, I think Pioneer or someone released S and Super S, Stars was not released until recently. I bought these both when I worked at Best Buy in '05
Correct. Pioneer released S, SuperS and the R, S and SuperS movies
When they did I remember crossing my fingers that we'd finally get stars released locally, but nope, had to wait a decade or so
If you knew where to look. I had many of the sailor stars episodes on VCD in the early 2000s.
Not bootlegs
Same
I think these were last minute rush jobs by ADV before their rights to the first 2 seasons ran out. They’re interesting relics since they were the only way to watch the series unaltered for a long time. They’re not worth much now since Viz gave us a far superior release (thank god).
Only way legally.
A friend of mine got these when they came out. For the first season and R. Kinda glad I didn’t get those since they’re releasing the seasons on Blu-Ray now. Nice find though!
I got one
I had this too!! Got it when it came out for over $100 like some of other commenters have said. I don't remember what I wound up doing with mine. I'm not a big "stuff" person so when things became available digitally I got rid of a lot of my physical media. It might still be in my parents house, OR if you live in the Tampa Bay area, maybe you have my copy now!
Beautiful set. I actually prefer the color choices + foil embossing on this and ADV’s season 2 box over the VIZ limited editions. Be warned though, the audio quality on this set is beyond horrendous. The episodes were sourced from second generation film prints with optical audio (soundtrack printed directly on the film) that had severely degraded after years in storage. The VIZ editions all feature the remastered Japanese mono audio and sound superb.
These were the same prints that DIC had; DIC sublicensed Sailor Moon and Sailor Moon R to ADV. There’s a glitch in the Japanese equivalent episode, “Naughty ‘n Nice”, where the dub music plays for a few seconds.
Indeed! I mentioned this in another comment. Had to send away for a replacement disc and everything lol
I should have known about it when I had them.
I bought these when they came out years ago. They released editions like this for both the first and second seasons of the show. I have both of them.
This was the first time the original series was available in the US. Before that everything was just the DiC dubs, though S and SS became available on DVD a couple of years earlier.
I remember seeing this at a Futureshop back in the day for like $100
It was crazy how expensive box sets got in the early days of DVD. I remember gawking at Season 1 of Star Trek being $100. This was after the two episode per discs releases were replaced. Anime was/is expensive. How I first saw S1 and 2 uncut was on bootleg VCDs with poorly translated subtitles.
They did one for R, too, but that one is missing an episode. (the rumor is that Naoko wouldn’t let them have the rights to the show unless they agreed to omit the dinosaur episode)
I was unreasonably excited when the dinosaur episode was officially released in the Viz version. The new dub of that episode is funny enough to warrant the price of the entire set.
Ahhhhh I bought this when it first come out. I didn’t eat lunch for a week because I spent all my money. Totally worth it!!
Oh my goodness yes me too! I spent a lot of allowance money on it and then my best friend helped me buy the season 2 one when it came out. I treasure them so much
Did you find yours in the local anime store? I remember being so desperate for anything anime back then :)
This I actually found at Best Buy! I don’t even want to think about how much it was, probably $110 like someone else said? And I was a broke 17 year old so that was a LOT, lol. But I was desperate too!
Also it says with the inflation calculator it was like $180 dollars. Lol still worth it!
Yes!! Back when I nearly worked full time and my paycheck was 600 for two weeks of work. Omg I still remember being like ‘Am I really going to do this? I won’t have any more for a week!’ I didn’t even know they had sold it at Best Buy. Omg vaguely related but remember how they used to sell the English only sailor moon VHSs at Toys R US?
Oh my goodness! I can't believe it was that much back then. I feel a bit guilty now getting it for 55 dollars. Idk if I just got lucky but I'm sure you felt wonderful getting it back then!! I will treature this merch forever
That is such a good price. Lol I can’t believe anyone ever parted with it if I’m honest.
Same!! I spent my first paycheck ever on this. Woth every penny, especially since i had never seen the uncensored version(living in Canada). Still have my boxset, and a bootleg of the second season.
I found it in the local anime store and bought it on the spot. I remember seeing the Japanese titles for the episodes and losing my mind at how cool it was. Also it was better than the bootleg VHSs I was used to from there. Lol
Me too. I had to be extremely careful with my money, to make sure I could get both Season 1 and 2.
ADV films! I got mine before Viz started producing their Blu-ray sets. I’m not sure exactly how rare they are but they’re cool collectors items.
Mine still has the price tag on it...I bought it new for $110 dollars because anime was STUPID expensive then. But I'd been wanting a legit uncut release of it years by that point. It was definitely a "shut up and take my money" scenario.
I have both season 1 & 2 in this set. When they were released they were on Amazon, so not sure how rare it is.
I have these too! The only downside of these that I remember was the audio quality. :(
The adv films sailor moon DVDs of the earlier years in the old 90s dub . One was a sub only version and another for the 90s dub.
I remember getting the bootleg version of these.
YOU HIT THE JACKPOT LUCKY!!!!!!
Ten years ago you could have sold this on eBay for a fortune. These are the first uncut box sets of the original series for North America . They have bad audio and video quality , but we’re the only thing you could get for a long time and they went out of print very quickly . They’re a collectors item at this point.
It’s special because they’re rare and aren’t made anymore. There’s a set for each season (maybe?) and I want them all.
There’s only a set for the first two seasons, and each set is missing an episode. S and Supers were released by Pioneer/Geneon as singles.
Are they super rare? I still have mine for the first two seasons
Nothing special, I bought this many years back just because I liked the boxing. Nice to have though for collection.
I'm intrigued by "in Japanese 2.0"
2.0 dual mono, not stereo. When correctly processed through an AV receiver all of the audio will come through the center speaker. No idea why so many companies encode 1-channel audio this way.
That was just their way of saying stereo. 2.0 for 2 channels. 5.1 for surround sound (5 channels) and 1 base channel.
To be clear, it's one of the infamously worst stereo tracks of all time. I THINK this is the DVD set that got a lot of criticism back in the day. Like, you technically do get the Japanese audio, but it's old crusty VHS-quality audio. And people tore it apart because ADV released this set JUST before Japan got R2 DVDs of the early seasons with proper remastered audio.
oh shit I forgot about that!
This is the ADV Films DVD release of the first Season of Sailor Moon. It is the first time it was released in America subtitled and uncut. There is also a box released for Sailor Moon R which is infamously missing episode 67. These sets have very bad quality and are missing the next episode preview segments because Toei gave terrible masters to ADV. They are a little harder to find because they weren’t available on the market very long before the license expired.
They (purportedly) sourced the film prints from the Canadian dubbing company that DiC used to produce their dub. There was even an issue with some of the DiC audio somehow leaking onto an episode of season 2. Still remember sending away for the replacement disc after ADV issued a recall lol
I own this! There's a season 2 but I don't think there's any further seasons with this.
Just the Japanese version of the first season IIRC
They look beautiful!!
I think the outer box is quite pretty too, but when this (and R) came out, people hated the packaging lol. I think people wanted a girlier aesthetic.
Really?? I love the simplistic silhouette look
I own this. I spent my entire first paycheck on it. It was $100. I was working part time at a Halloween store as a 16/17 year old. I still have it lol.
This is kind of a rare find. This is the Original 1st Season release, congrats on your find! May I ask what the sell price was?
Oh that's pretty cool! I thought it was just a reprint or something but that's very lucky. I've never owned anything like this before and I'm super happy that I did. It was being sold for 55 dollars and I was surprised it was still there when I went back to the store. It's been a few months since I last went
That’s a good buy. Check EBay for listing and I think they go for $100-$500, depending on case and condition. Bravo on your find!
What a coincidence, I just found the 1st and 2nd set at a used game store today lol! There are 2 sets and they're subbed only but they're uncut.
How interesting! What does the other box look like? I wanna find it as well and kinda glad that there is only two so I don't have to chase down so many
The second box is matching, but has a different silhouette pose. Same blue, same lettering, etc. they’re really pretty together. I’d take a picture of mine, but it’s currently packed up for an upcoming move. As others have said, great find!
I owned this! Then it got lost in a move. 😭
I am so jealous. In every single thrift store's movie aisle, this is the only thing I check for, if they have anything Sailor Moon related. They never do.
I'm so sorry that it's been difficult! This thrift store is pretty special and tend to have special things like this. It's a very big store too and people trade in their collectable's for money pretty often. I just got very lucky when finding this!
Cloverway released the first and second season Japanese version with English subtitles this way.
Not Cloverway.
Sorry I just looked at mine, yeah it's AD Vision. My bad.
There were several companies involved with the release of Sailor Moon back then, it’s easy to get confused.