The Mystery Pic
Those of you who visited this website back in the old days probably remember that I used to be searching desperately for the source (and/or larger scans of) the following images, right?
From An Eternal Moonlight
From Star Healer's World
As the above images were obviously drawn by Naoko, but had never been reprinted in any of the Sailor Moon manga volumes or artbooks, I was rather desperate to find the original source of them. A couple of people informed me via email that the image were printed on furoku items (i.e. free goodies) that came bundled with some issues of Nakayoshi magazine. After many years of searching, however, I am pleased to report that I've finally gotten my hands on two of the furoku items that include these images!
The first is a set of two gold foil stickers. Please click the thumbnail for a larger image:
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My apologies that my scanner couldn't quite capture the proper color of the gold foil.
Anyway, the next item that I found was a cardboard "Constellation Map." If you've ever done any amateur stargazing then you've probably played with one of these before. It's a map of the night sky that you can spin around. Align the correct date and time, make sure that you're standing facing north, and then use the map to identify the different constellations in the sky. Of course, as it goes without saying, the map included as a Nakayoshi furoku is only accurate for the night sky over Japan. ^^;; Anyway, the front of the map is bordered with pictures of the Inner and Outer Senshi. On the back of the map are the three Starlights. This is what the constellation map looks like, front and back. Click the thumbnail for a larger view.
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Here are scans of the Starlights images only. Click the thumbnails for a larger view.
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The above images were actually printed on a really, really tiny scale. So my apologies that the scans didn't turn out so great.
Anyway, the mystery is now solved! Thanks to everyone who helped me track down these images over the years. And especially thanks to Akaiko for alerting me to the auctions for the above furoku items.
Finally, here's a bonus round: Another furoku item, this time a pack of tissues, with the same mystery images printed on it. Here are photographs of the elusive tissue pack:
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That's the source from which the "Star Healer's World" images were ripped, I'm guessing.
