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Originally Posted by DrWho2002
Toei will also not let Sailor Stars be licensed. They won't let it because they feel that if it were, the image of Sailor Moon most people have would change.
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I'm beginning to think that might not be the case, as a Geneon rep on Anime on DVD's boards mentioned a rumour that the conflicts that Takeuchi and Kodansha (the manga's publisher) are affecting the rights to SM anime in general and that they might be losing their license. So maybe all the licensing conflicts are related to that and not just because of Toei's worry about its image.
Something like that could explain why the Japanese DVD releases are being held up--it really doesn't make sense when Sailor Moon is still popular enough to support a rerelease/redoing of the manga and a new live action series. (I'd have thought that the rerelease of the manga implies that her problems with Kodansha have been cleared up, at least partially, but this post on AOD was very recent, and the rerelease has been coming out for a few months now.)