Sailor Moon (Viz Dub)

The Viz Media of Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon (美少女戦士セーラームーン), (sometimes referred to as "Sailor Moon Classic"), is the second  of the  Sailor Moon series. The Viz Media in-house dub of Sailor Moon’s is a localization of Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon. Names for characters, locations and other content originally cut for time or deemed inappropriate for children or "Americanized" in the original localization by Optimum Productions, for DiC, Pioneer Entertainment and Cloverway Inc., are retained.

Viz Media's English localization of Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon, debuted on Hulu and Viz Media's Neon Alley on May 19, 2014. it was streamed on a weekly basis until April 11, 2016. Viz Media has since continued to release Viz's English localization of the series in two-part and  sets.

Story
"Usagi Tsukino is a cheerful 14-year-old schoolgirl who often finds herself in unwanted trouble. One day, she saves a talking cat named Luna from some mean kids, and her life is changed forever. Luna gives Usagi a magic brooch that transforms her into Sailor Moon, defender of love and justice! Now Usagi must work with Luna to find the other Sailor Guardians and the Moon Princess, whose Legendary Silver Crystal is Earth's only hope against the dark forces of the evil Queen Beryl!"

- Rightstuff.com

Season 1

 * See: Pretty Solider Sailor Moon (Season 1)

Season 2

 * See: Pretty Solider Sailor Moon (Season 2)

Season 3

 * See: Pretty Solider Sailor Moon (Season 3)

Season 4

 * See: Pretty Solider Sailor Moon (Season 4)

Season 5

 * See: Pretty Solider Sailor Moon (Season 5)

Episode Guide
The following episode guides below refers to episodes streamed weekly from 2014 to 2015, not the seasons that were released on DVD.

New English Distribution
May 16, 2014, North American manga and anime distributor Viz Media announced that they acquired the entire Sailor Moon series, as well as the three films and specials for an English-language re-release in North America. The series began streaming on Neon Alley and Hulu in the United States on May 19, 2014 and to released the first unedited and remastered and bilingual Blu-ray and DVD set, containing 13 episodes in Fall 2014.

Similarly sized sets followed in 2015, 2016 and 2017. The same year, Viz Media announced that they would produce an English localization for Sailor Moon Crystal. July 5, 2014, Viz Media held a special panel for "Sailor Moon Day" at the in,.

There, they revealed the new cast of voice actors for the new localization of the first season of Sailor Moon, which included the likes of Johnny Young Bosch. They also announced plans to distribute a limited edition Blu-Ray box set of the first season November 2014, with special purchase incentives from Rightstuff.com.

Streaming Sites
All four seasons of Sailor Moon that were originally broadcast in the United States under the licence of DiC, Pioneer Entertainment, and Cloverway Inc., were officially released on Hulu and Neon Alley on Monday, May 19, 2014, subtitled with the original Japanese audio.

The first four episodes of the first season's new English dub was released for free on the aforementioned streaming sites. Both Hulu and Neon Alley, broadcast two episodes of the first season every Monday from May 2014 to October 2014.

The English dub for the second season, Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon R, was later broadcast in fourteen to eight-episode chunks from in April 2015, May 2015 and later July 2015 on Friday. Sailor Moon and Sailor Moon R are the only two seasons that were streamed every Monday with Viz's English dub from 2014 and 2015 respectively. Hulu.com has since become a paid service website, while Viz Media's Neon Alley remains a free streaming site. The Viz Media dubs for Sailor Moon were also made available for for free on Hulu's affiliate site,.

Home Video Release
The DVD and Blu-Ray release of Pretty Solider Sailor Moon was November 15, 2014 and February 10, 2015. Special features included a behind the scenes featurette on the recording sessions, art galleries, and a featurette on the Anime Expo convention. Default languages include English and Japanese with English subtitles.

The first part of Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon R was released July 14, 2015. and the second part on October 27, 2015. The first part of Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S was released on and  November 15, 2016 and the second part was released later June 20, 2017. The first part of Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS was released April 24, 2018. and the second part was released on November 13, 2018. The first part of Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars was released June 18, 2019. and the second part is set to Release later November 12, 2019