New York Comic Con News—At the New York Comic Con Kodansha USA Publishing announced that it commissioned a second print run of 50,000 copies of the first volume of Naoko Takeuchi’s Sailor Moon after the first printing sold out in just four weeks.  This means that there are now 100,000 copies of the new edition of 1990s “magical girl” shojo classic in the North American market. 

 

Sailor Moon was the first shojo series hit in the North American market and helped establish Tokyopop as a premier publisher.  But the series has been largely unavailable since 2005, and there certainly appears to have been a considerable amount of pent-up demand.  Even with only two volumes currently available (Sailor Moon Vol. 1, and the new-to-the-U.S. prequel volume, Codename Sailor V) Takeuchi’s Sailor Moon has once again established it self as one of the top shojo properties in the U.S. market.  The two Sailor Moon volumes took the top two spots on the Nielsen BookScan list of graphic novels sold in bookstores in September (see “Sailor Moon Is #1”).

 

Now if someone will just make the Sailor Moon anime series available again.