Yesterday, Toei Animation made a website for the immensely long-awaited reboot of the Sailor Moon anime franchise with an 8-day countdown clock. Then someone hacked it, and discovered the show will be called Sailor Moon Crystal, premiere worldwide in July, and look like this.
Now, when I say hacked, I mean someone just checked if "www.sailormoon-official.com/img/animation/anime.png" happened to link to anything, and discovered the below image with the details (helpfully translated by Miss Dream):
Well, sounds like Sailor Moon to me. I presume that if Toei went to the effort of making a countdown website, the July release date will actually (finally) stick. It's hard to tell for sure with a single promo image, but it seems to me that the character design is a bit closer to Naoko Takeuchi's original manga art. We'll see in seven more days, I guess... if Toei has anything else to reveal.
[Geekosystem via The Mary Sue]
DISCUSSION
I wonder if it will have a plot other than "Sailor Moon runs screaming and hiding until the lat minute when she uses her tiara/ whatever to one- shot kill the bad guy" Honestly I admit not seeing many episodes but this is exactly how every single one of them played out. Every episode could have bees resolved 15 minute earlier.