Brief mention of Sailor Moon in a NYT article from two days ago. Thanks Andy Floyd for sending this in.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/28/arts/design/28clam.html?_r=2&8dpc&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

The article is about CLAMP but brings up Sailor Moon a few times.

Unlike Serena, the ditsy teenager who transforms into Sailor Moon, the
heroine of another popular series, Sakura is a good-natured but never
saccharine girl who learns and grows from her supernatural experiences.
Her best friend, Tomoyo, makes cute costumes for her magical missions.

I'm mentioning this just because people are bound to speculate. There was a bumper on Adult Swim earlier tonight which was a letter from a fan complaining about them showing Voltron. It said something like "Why don't you just air Sailor Moon? It would be as gay as Voltron."

Voltron used to air along with SM in the old Toonami blocks. But something tells me this isn't a hint they'll actually do that, just a joke. People at CN have stated repeatedly in the past that Sailor Moon does not match their current programming aims compared to those of some five+ years ago.

We've come across another new remix of one of the Sailor Moon opening themes, this time of the North American theme. It's from a group called Osaka Popstar and is on their new CD. Their homepage isn't exactly well built but you can find more info about the CD if you look it up on iTunes.

The theme song  on their CD is only about a minute long so we're only offering a 15-second sample this time.

It's a punk-cover of the opening, which is interesting not for the cover of the song itself but because the band's drummer is Marky Ramone from the Ramones. As Jon put it to me, "18-year-old J-Pop girls I understand. [But] the drummer from the Ramones? What?"

Well, if anything it's another example of the extent to which the series has entered American pop culture. Before long we'll be seeing it on "Remember the 90s shows." Incidentally, stats on the iTunes page indicate that it's the top selling song off their album, which came out in May.