Groove just made a very exciting announcement via their blog tonight, a Sailor V Pullip is going to be released! Not many details are known just yet about the release of Sailor V as of this writing but I’m guessing she will be a November release. Sailor V will be the fourteenth doll released in the very popular Sailor Moon x Pullip series.
For those of you unfamiliar with the series who are possibly wondering why she looks so much like Sailor Venus right now it is because she is Sailor Venus. The character Aino Minako was previously featured in Naoko Takeuchi’s manga Sailor V where she was the main character, which predates Sailor Moon. Sailor V carried over to the new Sailor Moon manga but as Sailor Venus although she is famous as Sailor V in the Sailor Moon universe as well ie. even in the very first episode you see Sailor V video games and Usagi fantasizes about being a hero like Sailor V even trying to deliver a savage Sailor V kick to her younger brother. Of course, I speak of my experience with the older series and the manga somehow I can’t quite bring myself to watch Sailor Moon Crystal ^^;
I will be sure to update here as more details become available! This one is a definite must buy for me as I love the Sailor V manga possibly even more than the Sailor Moon manga.
Pullips and Junk 
I was not expecting this release, but am happy to see it.
Sailor Moon Crystal is excellent. I was about 17 when the cartoon originally aired in the US. I love it and ended up discovering the original series and manga a few years later after stumbling across info online and was blown away at the differences. That is all to say I have long history with series. I was not expecting to like SM Crystal so much, but it is really excellent and I think anyone that enjoyed the older series would be happy with it.
There was never much of any Sailor V merchandise so I was surprised and delighted by the announce of this release.
I have actually watched a few episodes of Sailor Moon Crystal, I watched the old anime series as a kid basically and I think it holds a lot of nostalgia for me. I still have all my old fan-subbed tapes and I remember patiently waiting for Stars as it came out. I still enjoy watching the old series but I didn’t enjoy it as much I liked the lighter tone of the older series ^^; . My husband only watched a little bit of the original anime and he absolutely loves Crystal and keeps current with it. On the bright side now is the time to be a fan of Sailor Moon new or old, there is a new anime and the old stuff is all coming out on blu-ray 🙂