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Ray Mona posted StarStorm, a yr after uncovering the American-appealing Guardians of the Cosmos
Last yr, misplaced media documentary YouTuber Ray Mona shared the chunky pilot episode for an American appealing adaptation of the Saint Seiya manga and anime. This yr, she uncovered the misplaced pilot episode from StarStorm, a proposed live-action adaptation of Saint Seiya. (This pilot became as soon as made three decades before final yr’s Knights of the Zodiac film starring Mackenyu.)
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After a yr since finding Guardians of the Cosmos in allotment 2 of The Secret Tales of Saint Seiya… The obnoxious cancelled live action Saint Seiya pilot episode, identified as StarStorm, has eventually been FOUND!
You might perchance well be ready to search out the chunky documentary within the thread🥰 pic.twitter.com/4EIxCMWPC5— Ray Mona (@TheRayMona) August 27, 2024
Mona has since uploaded the pilot to her YouTube channel, change into independent from her new documentary:
The chunky StarStorm pilot episode has been posted on my channel change into independent from the documentary! You might perchance well be ready to hunt it within the hyperlink within the thread!
PS. The unwatermarked reproduction will also be added to this thread this coming Tuesday- preserve your eyes peeled! pic.twitter.com/GzXGIdOarS
— Ray Mona (@TheRayMona) August 29, 2024
Mona shared the chunky pilot episode for an American appealing Saint Seiya adaptation in April 2023. The proposed caricature, titled Guardians of the Cosmos, became as soon as conceived and scrapped within the course of the Nineties. The documentary maker obtained the photos from the Library of Congress. She had bought permission from former Bandai The United States president Frank Ward to retrieve all paperwork connected to the American live-action Sailor Moon TV existing (identified colloquially on-line as Saban Moon after Energy Rangers producer Haim Saban). The Guardians of the Cosmos photos became as soon as bundled with the Sailor Moon paperwork.
The long-established two-allotment documentary on the origin concerned Ray Mona’s seek the total pilot of StarStorm. Finest 20 seconds of photos from the pilot became as soon as ever made public until August. Esteem Saban Moon, the pilot became as soon as created by Energy Rangers producers Renaissance Atlantic.
After uncovering the Guardians of the Cosmos photos, the documentary maker shifted her center of attention to contextualizing that pilot episode. She speculated that StarStorm might perchance well find incorporated parts from Guardians of the Cosmos for a doable hybrid live-action/appealing existing care for Saban Moon.
Mona’s discoveries were unbelievable for the anime fandom. Now not handiest manufacture they existing a fraction of misplaced media, but it undoubtedly also expands our knowing of the medium as an total.
Sources: Ray Mona’s X/Twitter legend (hyperlink 2) and YouTube channel (hyperlink 2)
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