Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon

Usagi Tsukino is an average student and crybaby klutz who constantly scores low on her tests. Unexpectedly, her humdrum life is turned upside down when she saves a cat with a crescent moon on its head from danger. The cat, named Luna, later reveals that their meeting was not an accident: Usagi is destined to become Sailor Moon, a planetary guardian with the power to protect the Earth. Given a special brooch that allows her to transform, she must use her new powers to save the city from evil energy-stealing monsters sent by the malevolent Queen Beryl of the Dark Kingdom.

But getting accustomed to her powers and fighting villains are not the only things she has to worry about. She must find the lost princess of the Moon Kingdom, the other Sailor Guardians, and the Legendary Silver Crystal in order to save the planet from destruction.

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Tsukino, Usagi Main

Mitsuishi, Kotono Japanese

Hino, Rei Main

Tomizawa, Michie Japanese

Aino, Minako Main

Fukami, Rica Japanese

Kino, Makoto Main

Shinohara, Emi Japanese

Mizuno, Ami Main

Hisakawa, Aya Japanese

Chiba, Mamoru Main

Furuya, Toru Japanese

Luna Main

Han, Keiko Japanese

Artemis Main

Takato, Yasuhiro Japanese

Zoisite Supporting

Nanba, Keiichi Japanese

Nephrite Supporting

Mori, Katsuji Japanese

Simone, Jamie Producer

Satou, Junichi Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Endou, Yuuji Sound Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Ikuhara, Kunihiko Episode Director

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Sep 3, 2024

KrenZane

Recommended

*Ordinary Schoolgirl Usagi does not need to be a Revolutionary Girl Utena*

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Love in Sailor Moon always has been hanging around the branch of romance people run up to with eager eyes. Teenage girls pass through days in a city dressed in the blessings of the pink and rosy, ribbon tied by hands who wish to hold those of the people they love--few fulfilled, most in yearning. The sailor soldiers of love and justice were only agents of romance and world peace through local service to me, as nothing else could overcome the sheer attachment of the series to the same subject. It was a pleasant ... surprise that through the final confrontation, Sailor Moon's love unlocked a more universal concept for itself to cleanly use the slice-of-life elements and the lack of heroic super abilities on a grandiose scale to its advantage. Initially, it gave a stale taste that the expected amount of "Magic" in "Magical Girl" was undetected, but indeed, it seems like older shows are masters of brainwashing right at the denouement, sweeping the floor with an explosive finish to compensate for the slow journey laden only with bread crumbs of refreshing lore and action.

Ordinary Schoolgirl Usagi does not need to be a Revolutionary Girl Utena. A protagonist who leads like Usagi--who leads with stellar incompetence, clumsiness, and easily-distracted near-sightedness--is surely to be a ticking time bomb at the mercy of character development (or lack thereof). Her irresponsible behavior contrasting the sober heroism of the other four, to me, sets her above the rest of the cast by miles not only because of colorful dynamics interplaying, but also because Sailor Moon makes a fictional life realistically filled with challenges one would rather want to opt out of in exchange for the simple days of going to school, being late, spending late nights at entertainment; hanging out with friends, talking about boys in turn, eating shortcakes and chocolate parfaits; finding love, giving love, and receiving love. It is the love for the ordinary life and everyone presiding within it that prevails by the end alongside, of course, the same old romance which will never fade away, and will continue to fill the Earth with tempting levels of energy foreign invaders would want to get their hands on and defile with their pessimistic ideals. I could tolerate the myriad of silliness everyone and their mother can fully enumerate by virtue of its time period, production conditions, supreme OP and EDs, and beauty one might attribute to nostalgia-related things, and though it has definitely affected my enjoyment, Sailor Moon still poses considerably in its landing.

There will be more to explore for four more seasons and extra content. I am hopeful for the future installments, and shall settle on this score for now, what with its problems that have left me sour much along the way, especially with the way our girls were treated like under-leveled players in terms of the administration of their personality and relevance aside from their powers being dead an episode after arrival. Toleration can really only do so much when the problems still lie at the back of the head.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Nov 12, 2024

Jayden4star

Mixed Feelings

Never Watched this as a kid and decided to give it a chance earlier this year and overall I think it's fine but at the same time I don't know why so many people glaze this season so much the first half is extremely slow due to the fact that Usagi as a protagonist is boring and annoying as shit I know that she gets better later on but this season has one of the worst first impressions I've seen from an anime the villains are also uninteresting Queen Beryl doesn't do shit until the final two episodes The Four Kings of Heaven sound cool ... but end up being boring as shit, it also doesn't help that the shows pacing (at least to me) doesn't pick up until the other Senshi are introduced.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Mar 31, 2021

Digoligo

Not Recommended

It all started when i clicked on the "Randomize!" for one of 2021's AWC entries and got Sailor Moon S (The Third Season) and had to see the first ones. After finishing the first season, i wanted to say some things...
You see, i dont skip episodes, fillers or not... If an Anime has 46 episodes on its MAL page, it has 46. And thats wheres Sailor Moon has some trouble with MY PARTICULAR TASTE.

Let me explain: Imagine you're on a bus, but the driver keeps hitting the brakes when theres no need. Well, Thats a Filler... a lot of "old" animes has a lot ... of them....And Sailor Moon is one of them... It has a good story, but the pacing is horrendous, the amount of times they recycled the same idea of a villain doing evil but to different people is bizarre, and sadly it ruined the experience for me..

Another Thing that bothered me was the amount of "reused assets". Every episode showed at least one sailor transformation, and sometimes all five would. there were times where some characters had some silly faces, but thats the "90's charm".

Well, Sailor moon is an 4/10 overall with all the fillers, but the story itself was... Enjoyable, if only they cut half of the anime.... maybe 24 episodes would be more "digestible", a 7/10, but with 46 episodes, the story drags.

One day i'll check the "Crystal" remake

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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