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Guest article by Rob Maxwell 

Of the six Sailor Senshi actresses, five remain active. Hama Chisaki (浜千咲 - Sailor Mercury) became unemployed when her teen fashion magazine job with 「melon」 went away with its cancellation. Not long afterward, her official website announced she would be taking a break for both health reasons and to prepare for college entrance exams. That was in February 2006. This, combined with a lack of updates to her website, leads most people well familiar with the Idol industry to believe she has retired. By now, Izumi Rika, her real name, would be finishing her first year of college.

Wanted to bring up one or two things. First off, did you know Sawai Miyuu's been in some public service posters for the Tokyo government? I've been seeing these around the city since February but never had a camera to take a photo of it for the site, and accidentally stumbled onto the campaign's website a few days ago where I found they had a scan of it.

The campaign site itself is here. They basically want people to stop calling ambulances for minor emergencies and take taxis to hospitals instead, which they've renamed "support cabs."

As may come as no surprise the lack of updates has been for veritable lack of things to discuss. I'd love to have some new series translations or something along those lines  for you but even Sailor Moon channel hasn't been updating with new things lately.

I've looked for Sailor Moon stuff here in Tokyo, it's about as hard to find in mainstream shops as DDR is in most arcades. Unless you look really hard or go to a place that specializes in otaku stuff, it's gone. Sawai Miyuu's pretty easy to find though, she's in a new advertising campaign. I'll get a picture of the posters you can find in train stations next time I get the chance.

I think that's about all there is to say, I'm doing a lot of traveling right now (Kansai all this week) so I don't have much time to update. I'm willing to accept guest articles if anyone's interested. Andy's sent in a new installment in his Anime Recs series so that'll be up soon.

Last, on the tour, we have three slots currently open, but we'll be finalizing the attendance list soon so this is the last chance. If you contacted us but didn't hear back, please write to us again.

Completing the diaries for the week from the official Live Action Sailor Moon page.