Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon
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Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon

Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Japanese: 美少女戦士セーラームーン
English: Sailor Moon
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Information

Type: Manga
Volumes: 18
Chapters: 61
Status: Finished
Published: Dec 28, 1991 to Feb 3, 1997
Genres: Award Winning Award Winning, Drama Drama, Fantasy Fantasy, Romance Romance
Theme: Mahou Shoujo Mahou Shoujo
Demographic: Shoujo Shoujo
Serialization: Nakayoshi
Authors: Takeuchi, Naoko (Story & Art)

Statistics

Score: 8.201 (scored by 2506325,063 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #4262
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #298
Members: 56,639
Favorites: 4,598

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Volumes: /18
Chapters: /61

Synopsis

"In the name of the moon, I shall punish you!"

Usagi Tsukino is a cheerful 14-year-old who attends Juuban Municipal Junior High School. She prefers eating and playing video games to studying, which results in her notably poor grades. She also gets easily upset, whether by baseless insults or reasonable reprimands. It is very unlikely that she could be known as anything but a bad influence and a crybaby, but that begins to change when she meets a black cat.

Given a special brooch from the black cat named Luna, Usagi can use it to transform into a guardian of justice named Sailor Moon! She is now tasked to protect the Earth from all that is evil and to find both a missing princess and a sacred jewel known as the Mystical Silver Crystal. Whether she likes it or not, Usagi's beautiful transformation marks the start of meeting the mysterious Tuxedo Mask, fighting alongside new comrades, and learning to take responsibility in this acclaimed magical girl classic.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Background

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon won the 17th Kodansha Manga Award in the Shoujo category in 1993. The series has received critical acclaim, being credited with redefining the magical girl genre. As of 2022, over 46 million copies of the manga are in circulation.

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon was serialized in English by Tokyopop in their two magazines, MixxZine and Smile Magazine. The publisher later published the volumes from December 1, 1998, to September 18, 2001. It was republished by Kodansha Comics USA from September 13, 2011, to November 26, 2013, based on the Japanese shinsouban reprint. Kodansha Comics USA later re-released the series as Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal Edition based on the 20th anniversary kanzenban reprint. This edition includes new color pages, updated translations, and special holographic covers. The series has also been published in Polish by Japonica Polonica Fantastica since December 1, 2023; and in Brazilian Portuguese by Editora JBC in 12 volumes from April 2014 to March 2015.

The series was adapted into multiple stage musicals, live-action series, video games, and other media, including theme park attractions, an ice skating show, and an idol pop group.

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Reviews

Nov 21, 2019
ENJOYMENT SECTION: 8/10
Ah, good ol’ pretty sailor warriors! Despite being the series most other mahou shoujo copied thereafter, it remains in the tops because very few managed to have its variety and vividness. Plus, I like it too.

ART SECTION: 7/10 [Bishoujos in Sailor Suits.]

Following the trend, the artwork is extremely shoujo, that means very breezy sketches and loose borders between frames. It looks very amateurish in the first part but along the way it improves considerably and towards the end it now looks splendid. You just have to get used to the idea that the plot is driven by dialogue and mostly cinematics, rather motion ...
Jun 16, 2022
Mixed Feelings
I never grew up with Sailor Moon like most of my friends did, so I don't really have the nostalgia associated to it that most people seem to have. That being said, I was always curious about it as I've always heard how good it was from those around me.

There will be spoilers so read on at your own risk:

I think for what it is, it was a decently good series overall. However because I haven't grown up with the series I think my expectations were too high considering how much everyone around my hyped it up. It wasn't for me really, most of the ...
Aug 22, 2024
(READ REVIEW BEFORE HATE RATING!!!!!)

One of the WORST manga I have ever read.

I am NOT the target demographic of a little girl, which this manga's story is supposed to be consumed by, therefore, I think it fair that I am NOT going to critique the STORY ITSELF, because it's a story that's meant for little girls to enjoy, and it is written to be that way. So in fairness, I will not criticise the story in this review. However, I AM going to critique how the story is PRESENTED, as well as the art, structure and so on. As the story could be the ...

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