sentences:  By the end of 1995, each volume had sold approximately 300,000 copies.In 1995, after a bidding war with Toon Makers, who wanted to produce an American live-action/animated hybrid adaptation, DIC Productions L.P. licensed the first two seasons of "Sailor Moon" for an English-language release in North America.The Mississauga-based Optimum Productions was hired to dub the anime.