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New Sailor Moon’s premiere event excludes men — Unless accompanied by women


Anime News Network

The official website for the 20th anniversary of the Sailor Moon franchise announced on Friday that there will be an advance premiere screening event for the Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal anime series. The women’s fashion magazine ViVi is collaborating on the June 30 event to celebrate the heroine Usagi’s birthday.

The “birthday party” will feature ViVi models and “secret guests.” The Zepp Diver City facility in Tokyo will host the screening of the new anime’s first episode on June 30 at 7:00 p.m. However, the staff caution that the time is subject to change. Moreover, male attendees will not be allowed — unless accompanied by a female attendee.


Details on ticket sales and other information for the “Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal Advance Premiere Screening Event: Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Usagi Tsukino’s Birthday in Special ViVi Night” will be announced on May 28.

The anime’s website gave a synopsis of the story inspired by Naoko Takeuchi‘s original manga:

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• Among the 2,000 guests welcomed by the Emperor and Empress at their annual spring garden party were Exile member Hiro and Olympic gold medal figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu.
• The imperial couple reportedly used the occasion to “touch the silver and bronze medals” won by ski jumper Noriaki Kasai at the Sochi Games.

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Former Tokyo rail yard of 'Shiodome ruins' proved a rich archaeological site

May 24, 2014

By KAZUAKI OWAKI/ Staff Writer

Shiodome, a bustling commercial center full of glass skyscrapers, epitomizes today's Tokyo, but the area was built, quite literally, on the ruins of history. Until 1991, when the project to revitalize the former rail yard began, few people knew that relics from the city's past lay beneath the ground.

An area approximately 266,000 square meters became dubbed the "Shiodome ruins," and this was where Susumu Saito, 56, of the Tokyo Metropolitan Archaeological Center discovered piles of brick, stone and concrete in April 1992. These structural materials were the ruins of the old Shinbashi terminal, thought to have been demolished after being damaged by the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923.

"The top floors of the station had burnt down, but 20 centimeters below the ground was the basic structure still retaining its original form," says Saito.