If you woke up today and felt the unexpected urge to win some love by daylight and then fight a little evil when the sun goes down, there's a good reason for that: the first image of the upcoming Sailor Moon reboot has been released at the official website, kicking off the countdown to the debut of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal.

Designed to be a stricter adaptation of the Naoko Takeuchi's original manga rather than the anime that ran in the '90s and introduced worldwide viewers to the world of magical girls, Crystal is set to stream worldwide starting this July. And if this image is any indication, it might just involve Usagi's hair reaching truly out-of-control status. Check out the full image below!

The image was also accompanied with a plot synopsis, handily translated by the Japanese by the fine folks at Anime News Network:

Usagi Tsukino is a second-year middle school girl who is a little clumsy and a crybaby, but she is full of energy. One day, she meets Luna, a black cat with a crescent moon on her forehead, and she transforms into Sailor Moon, a sailor-uniformed pretty guardian of love and justice! As a chosen guardian of justice, Usagi seems to have a mission to find the Illusionary Silver Crystal with the other guardians and to protect the princess.

Meanwhile, the queen of the Dark Kingdom, Queen Beryl, also sends minions to the town where Usagi lives to obtain the Illusionary Silver Crystal, which has immense power. This causes strange events to unfold….

Can Sailor Moon really find the Illusionary Silver Crystal with the other Sailor guardians, and protect the princess…!?

 

Sailor Moon Crystal will be produced by Atsutoshi Umezawa of Pretty Cure and directed by Munehisa Sakai (One Piece), and honestly, as someone who has a completely unironic (but slightly nostalgic) love of Sailor Moon, I just hope they'll preserve the single best part of the manga. This caption box:

 

Sailor Moon v.1 by Naoko Takeuchi
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Same here, Usagi. Same here.

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