Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon)

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Synonyms: Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon

Japanese: 美少女戦士セーラームーン

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Type: TV

Episodes: 46

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Mar 7, 1992 to Feb 27, 1993

Premiered: Spring 1992

Broadcast: Saturdays at 19:00 (JST)

Producers: TV Asahi, Toei Advertising

Licensors: ADV Films, VIZ Media, DiC Entertainment

Studios: Toei Animation

Source: Manga

Genres: Fantasy, Romance

Themes: Mahou Shoujo, Mythology

Demographic: Shoujo

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 7.73¹ (scored by 185,728 users)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #1115²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #601

Members: 374,892

Favorites: 10,195

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Synopsis

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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Background

The series won the 1992 Animage's Anime Grand Prix Award.

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Adaptation:	Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon
Sequel:	Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon R
Summary:	Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Memorial
Alternative version:	Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Crystal

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Characters & Voice Actors

Tsukino, Usagi

Main

Mitsuishi, Kotono
Japanese

Hino, Rei

Main

Tomizawa, Michie
Japanese

Kino, Makoto

Main

Shinohara, Emi
Japanese

Aino, Minako

Main

Fukami, Rica
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

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Staff

Simone, Jamie

Producer

Satou, Junichi

Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Endou, Yuuji

Sound Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Ikuhara, Kunihiko

Episode Director

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Opening Theme

"Moonlight Densetsu" by DALI

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Ending Theme

	1: "Heart Moving" by Misae Takamatsu (eps 1-26)
	2: "Princess Moon" by Ushio Hashimoto (eps 27-46)

Reviews

Aug 14, 2023

Peach_Main

Recommended

Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon, simplified as Sailor Moon, is a series that is known for popularizing the Magical Girl genre of manga and anime. It is considered to be the best Magical Girl franchise of all time. Even if girls and young women are the intended target audience, I think Sailor Moon can be enjoyed by anybody.

Sailor Moon is all about a young girl named Usagi Tsukino, who is chosen to be the titular legendary sailor soldier by a talking black cat named Luna. Her mission is to find her allies and protect the world from the forces of the Dark Kingdom. In order to ... do so, they must find and obtain the Legendary Silver Crystal before their enemies do. The Dark Kingdom seeks the Silver Crystal in order to resurrect their great ruler. However, as the search for it proves to be difficult, they settled on stealing energy from humans to give to their great ruler by having their members sneak into Japan pretending to be normal people.

The main character Usagi / Sailor Moon isn't the most competent person, but that actually helps out the comedic part of the series. From the very first episode, it shows her oversleeping and ending up late for school. Her incompetence even carries over to her duties as a sailor soldier where most of the time it's her dodging attacks while freaking out until somebody helps her. Even though Usagi is supposed to be the soldier of legend, the show makes it clear she can't go solo in all of her fights.

The second character is Ami Mizuno / Sailor Mercury. She is the top student of Usagi's school having an IQ of 300. Studying has been the only thing she has done in her life and has no experience in making friends with others. That is until she met Usagi and became a Sailor Soldier. From there, Ami learned to become more open to others and no longer fears ending up alone. As a sailor soldier, she is more of a supporter with her ability Bubble Spray helps her and her allies avoid being seen by their enemies and she has a miniature computer that gives info on an enemy's weak point.

The third character is Rei Hino / Sailor Mars. Rei is a shrine maiden who is said to have a sixth sense that allows her to detect paranormal beings. People do not accept her because of this, but Usagi believes they are in the wrong for doing so. Despite their friendship, Rei has very little tolerance for Usagi's incompetence and takes nearly every opportunity to criticize her for it. This constantly leads to a lot of childish bickering between the two of them. As a sailor soldier, Rei's specialty is fire magic and she can dispel curses with talisman scrolls even when she's in her civilian guise.

The fourth character is Makoto Kino / Sailor Jupiter, and she is very physically strong. Her physical strength does come off as scary to others, but that doesn't stop Usagi from wanting to make friends with her. Makoto has a recurring gag where she developes feelings for boys that have at least one similarity, no matter how big or small it may be, with an upperclassman she previously had a crush on. As a sailor soldier, Makoto uses thunder magic and performs hand-to-hand combat.

The fifth and final character is Minako Aino / Sailor Venus. Prior to the events of Sailor Moon, Minako has been protecting the world from the Dark Kingdom alone under the alias Sailor V. She eventually joins the other sailor soldiers after saving them from some high ranked members of the Dark Kingdom. Having some similar physical traits with Usagi, Minako sometimes plays decoy in order to protect her.

In their fight against the Dark Kingdom, the sailor soldiers are sometimes assisted by a mysterious man named Tuxedo Mask. Nobody knows who he is or why he helps them, but one thing is clear: He is in search for the Silver Crystal as well. For that alone, everybody remains cautious around him... except for Usagi who is madly in love with him.

The Dark Kingdom is the main antagonistic force of Sailor Moon. Their leader Queen Beryl is extremely strict as she gets furious at her minions when their schemes fail. She also hates Usagi immensely for reasons that will be revealed towards the end. Her minions are known as the Four Heavenly Kings. Their names are Jadeite, Nephrite, Zoisite, and Kunzite. Yes, I'm sure you chemistry majors noticed that they are named after minerals. This is a trend with a lot of the villains in Sailor Moon as the author, Naoko Takeuchi, was a chemistry major herself, and I think that's a genius idea. The Four Heavenly Kings are tasked with either collecting human energy, finding the Silver Crystal, or hunt down the sailor soldiers to kill them. To fulfill their tasks, they deploy Youma into Japan.

You may have noticed the number of episodes being a total of 46. As a TV show in the 1990s, Sailor Moon utilizes a formula known as either Villain of the Week or Monster of the Day. Most of the episodes consist of the main characters trying to live their normal lives until they find out about what evil plan the Dark Kingdom has been doing behind their backs. After that they fight and defeat the episode's Monster of the Day, which usually consists of a single Youma. One topic that's been heavily debated on social media is should these filler episodes be skipped? In my opinion, old school anime like Sailor Moon are known for their comedic filler, so skipping them would defeat the purpose of getting into them. I know not everybody has free time to get through all of it. My best advice is to go at your own pace. The most logical pace would be one episode a day. Some days, you might have time for multiple or no time for any at all. I mean, as someone who sometimes keeps up with Let's Play channels on YouTube on a daily basis due to finding their current or latest LP to be interesting, who's to say an anime fan can't do the same for an old school anime they took interest in?

Sailor Moon's music is considered classic. The opening Moonlight Legend still is a banger of a song to this day. The two endings Heart Moving and Princess Moon both do a good job ending off each episode in a positive note after each Youma's defeat. The cast of voice actors did a good job for each character they played as, but we can't talk about Sailor Moon without talking about the main actress herself, Kotono Mitsuishi. Her role as Usagi is by far her most notable work. Fans of Sailor Moon can never forget the iconic line: "In the name of the moon, I'll punish you!"

While the anime my friend recommended to me before were good first impressions on anime, Sailor Moon has gotten me to decide that watching anime is officially one of my hobbies. It's all thanks to an advertisement of Sailor Moon Crystal I found on the YouTube Home Page one day. I did a little research, learned about this first adaptation, and now it's my first favorite anime series. Admittedly, the filler episodes can start to feel repetitive. Regardless, Sailor Moon is still an old school anime classic with a lot of effort put into its artstyle and animation. I have a bias in favor of female protagonists, but I swear I try not to let it affect my final score. Even without this bias, I find Sailor Moon to be a series that can keep you entertained as you watch it. I give the first season of Sailor Moon 9/10.

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Apr 17, 2022

Starriedd

Mixed Feelings

Sailor Moon (1992-1997)

I decided to take a look at this classic, given how iconic it is, being one of the benchmarks in the world, and what can I say?
Sailor Moon adds the tropes of your typical shoujo series, with a somewhat silly, smiling, lovesick protagonist, good with everyone because yes but despite, with the passing of the episodes you grow fond of her, like her friends Ami, Rei, Makoto, Minako, Haruka, Michiru, Setsuna and Hotaru
Sailor Moon is a phenomenon among Mahou-Shoujo and popular culture in general, having a wide cast of characters with rich personalities and making reference to some social issues, having representation of ...

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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 ...

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