The new arrangement is very nice, though I think the classical concert version will forever remain my fav. I like how all the inner VAs take part in it.
MD is the only “90s” thing I never minded, because they have included it in all the musicals as well from the start, so it’s kind of in another level than everything else at this point.
During the production of the original 1992 Sailor Moon anime the voice actresses for the five Inner Senshi (Kotono Mitsuishi, Aya Hisakawa, Michie Tomizawa, Emi Shinohara, and Rica Fukami) formed a group called Peach Hips which performed several songs from the anime.*
Astonishingly, the group never performed Moonlight Densetsu, the defining theme for the original anime/the Sailor Moon franchise as a whole.
That is...with the exception of a bonus feature attached to Vol. 9 of the Sailor Moon Laser Discs. The performance can be viewed here:
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As you can tell the sound quality is unfortunately not great.
However, a higher quality version of the performance also exists in another video which presents the full bonus feature:
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I have used my amateur sound editing skills to extract the performance as an mp3 so that you can all enjoy the song as performed by the original voice actresses.
*The most famous of which was probably 'Moon Revenge', the theme song for the first Sailor Moon film, Sailor Moon R The Movie (aka Sailor Moon R: The Promise of the Rose for you DiC fans).
YAY, as expected, we got a cover collab with the guys from LambSoars. Their cover version of the infamous Sailor Moon OP “Moonlight Densetsu” was just uploaded to LambSoars’ official YouTube channel. Tomorrow, another collab will be posted on Hikaru’s official YouTube channel so please look forward to it!
Also check out their little After Talk video on Twitter.
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Thoughts: Ohhh, this was neat. Hikaru’s voice blends in well here. Wish it had been longer though. Excited for tomorrow’s song. On a side note, Hikaru looks amazing. I am pretty sure this is one of Keiko’s dresses (the one she wore in Paris XD)