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A couple of days ago we mentioned the Sailor Moon Airing in UK rumor that's being spread around. I put in a call for British readers to write to us with news; though I heard back from a few people, we didn't receive any solid confirmation. Sailor Dees at Moon Chase did some investigation and is calling the rumor's bluff; we're going to side with that as well.

One of our forum users also points out that while the original Sailor Moon Wii rumour isn't true, you can actually play old Sailor Moon games on the Wii through his method.

Tokyo Game Show has recently taken place; the major Japanese video game companies were showing their upcoming releases. If there was a Sailor Moon game coming out for Wii and produced by Namco/Bandai, it would have been on the Namco/Bandai list of upcoming games at the show. To our knowledge, it it is absent.

While we have reported whatever information we've been given about about a possible Wii game coming out, right now all we have to go on is what Yes Asia has said, which is not a lot of evidence for its existence. Although anything is possible, if this rumor were try we would have expected the game to at least be mentioned as an upcoming release by the purported publisher.

 In other news, Geneon appears to be exiting the American anime scene. Last month they announced a deal whereby ADV would take over distrobution, now that deal has been cancelled. Geneon is letting go of most of its staff and is becoming an effective non-entity in the US anime market. While this is sad news for the anime industry, and while Geneon released the Sailor Moon films, Sailor Moon S, and Sailor Moon SS seasons on DVD several years back, we feel their absence is largely irrelevant to the potential for Sailor Moon's relerease in the US. Recent indications from Toei are that they're gung-ho on doing things themselves (and via broadband).

Regardless, this is a sad day for the US anime industry; one of its longtime stalwarts is departing. We wish Geneon's staff the best of luck in finding new positions.

Last, Sailor Moon Channel has updated with Act 6 of their animated "Prism Channel " Manga. 

Lilly-chan received a response from the Yes Asia team as posted in this thread telling her:

Thank you for shopping at YesAsia.com!

Regarding your enquiry about the game "Sailor Moon (Working Title) (Japan Version)" YesAsia catalog number: 1004513672, please kindly note that it is relesase by Namco officially. The manufacturere's name is written in our product introduction page also. According to the supplier, this item is going to be released at December 31, 2007. You are welcome to place the order after the price is determined.

Once again, thank you very much for your continued support of YesAsia.com. 

We'll see how it goes. Great job, Lilly. 

When contacted about the item in question, YesAsia has twice responded that the item is indeed shipping, per information received from "their supplier." One response you can see here at our forums, another one was given to sailordees at Moon Chase. At the very least, then, the listing is not a mistake in YesAsia's product directory, and they do believe such a game is going to be released this year.

Forums member sailormoon555 links to us at a forums thread this page at YesAsia.com, a notable store for imports: a Namco game for the Nintendo Wii with the working title of "Sailor Moon."