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When a young girl named Usagi rescues a black cat named Luna, she learns that she is to become the glamorous superhero, Sailor Moon, and use her powers to protect the Earth from evil, join forces with the other Sailor Senshi, and find the mysterious Moon Princess, although she might be closer than she thinks.
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Sailor Moon is a long-running anime series based on the popular manga series Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon that ran in Japan from 1992 to 1997. Sailor Moon was adapted into English by DiC Entertainment and premiered in North America in 1995 on FOX, WB, and UPN.
The comparisons between both animated series were inevitable, however, and the fanbase was vocal. The '90s anime is beloved all around the world, so Sailor Moon Crystal had a lot to live up to. And in several ways, the newer series outshines the original.
It began broadcasting in Japan on TV Asahi on March 7, 1992 and ended on February 27, 1993, lasting 46 episodes.
The English theme does however appear in all 4 seasons on DVD, as well as the movies during the original English release. The Planet Power upgrades for the Inner Sailor Scouts which were part of the original manga where skipped in the Sailor Moon S anime adaptation.
"Moon Prism Power, Make Up" is the 1st command that Usagi Tsukino used to transform into Sailor Moon. It is her 1st transformation phrase in the manga, anime, and Crystal while it is her only one in Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon.
Sailor Moon, originally released in Japan as Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon (Japanese: 美少女戦士セーラームーン, Hepburn: Bishōjo Senshi Sērā Mūn) and later as Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, is a 1992 Japanese superheroine anime television series produced by Toei Animation using Super Sentai motifs.
In the first several episodes of Sailor Moon, Usagi is fighting the bad guys by herself. Most of these are filler episodes and can be skipped. Once Sailor Mercury and Sailor Mars show up, the plot starts to pick up more.
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Then there were the numerous deaths and nudity in the show. However, the primary reason the season was never dubbed was because the company only bought the rights up to Sailor S, meaning they did not have the license to dub the rest. Many fans thought this season would never get dubbed into English.
According to the booklet from the Sailor Moon Memorial Song Box, the letter "R" stands for the word "Romance", "Return" or "Rose". Sailor Moon R. The anime series logo, originally translated to Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon R, and later as Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon R.
Sailor Moon Crystal aims to more strictly follow the manga. The newer anime has done a much better job of adapting the manga's story to the screen. While Crystal doesn't do a perfect job of exactly following the manga, it does a better job than the original.
PLEASE NOTE: I will only be mentioning the best legal places to watch Sailor Moon, so you might have to pay for a better experience.Netflix. While you can't watch the original 90s anime on Netflix, the platform still lets you enjoy the entire remake (including the Eternal movies.) ... Crunchyroll. ... Amazon. ... Hulu.
Sailor Moon: 10 Things That Only Happened In The ‘90s Anime. Sailor Moon has made a lot of changes over the last few decades, but what events only happened back in the 90s? When the Sailor Moon manga was adapted for animation in the 1990s, the manga was also still ongoing. As a result, not everything in the anime was exactly the same as the manga. ...
Sailor Chibi Moon was able to use the Golden Crystal because of her connection to Helios, but it made for a big departure from the manga. There, the Golden Crystal was actually inside Mamoru because it’s what gave him his own magical ability to become Tuxedo Mask . The change might have been made to make it clear that Mamoru wasn’t quite as “magical” as the Sailor Senshi in the ‘90s version of the anime.
Her marks dropped in school, she began paying less attention to the fight at hand, and she became a bit more shallow. By making her less focused, the writers drastically changed her. Sailor Venus was always one of the best strategists of the group, so the ‘90s anime’s take on her is an odd one.
In some cases, that meant one-off episodes spotlighting characters that didn’t get as much storytime on the page. There were other cases, however, where that meant whole arcs were unique to the anime. In either case, there are a lot of things Sailor Moon fans might remember about the franchise that actually only happened in the anime.
During the “Doom Tree” arc, Mamoru didn’t have his memory of the Sailor Senshi or his experiences with them. His subconscious memories of Sailor Moon and his love for her, however, created the Moonlight Knight persona, which popped up at fights and mysteriously vanished until the truth was revealed and he regained his memories.
Usagi didn’t initially know who this little girl (who looked remarkably like herself and Chibiusa ) was. Eventually, the anime revealed that she was the sentient form of Sailor Galaxia’s star seed, which Galaxia had removed from herself.
In the manga, it was clear from the beginning, despite their awkward first meeting, that Usagi and Mamoru were meant to be. The anime didn’t entirely make that clear from the get-go. Instead, Usagi wasn’t the only one interested in him. The introduction of Rei as Sailor Mars also created something of an attempted love triangle.
Across five years and 200 episodes, Sailor Moon averaged a viewership rate of 11.6%, with its highest episode achieving a 16.3% (episode 74, or episode 28 of Sailor Moon R, “Defeat Rubeus: The Battle in Space”). 1
I really wanted to get Card Captor Sakura numbers, but NHK doesn’t publish them…
Back to the point at hand, one thing that I find incredibly interesting with regard to just how popular Sailor Moon was is that, frankly speaking, the anime actually wasn’t as hugely popular as many people believe.
Yes, that’s right. The very same Dragon Ball series that everyone hates was watched by more people on a per-episode basis than Sailor Moon. 3. “But wait,” I hear you yelling out ineffectually at your Blackberry screen, “you can’t just compare every time slot equally!”.
Didn’t everyone know about the greatness of Tenchi Muyo , Serial Experiments Lain, and Project A-ko? Apparently not.
While it’s surprising to see that Sailor Moon was little more than a blip in terms of broadcast anime viewership in the 1990s, when put in context of what an achievement those numbers are for an anime focused on the shojo market, it’s easy to see how and why the series was adapted into the marketing machine we know it as today.
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As the original leader of the Sailor Senshi, Minako Aino (or otherwise known as Sailor Venus) has a penchant for getting into some messy situations with her disastrous inability to juggle her duties as a Sailor Senshi and her life as a teenage girl.
Upon seeing it, Taiki has a change of heart and tells Ami he understands what she meant about dreams and romance, and uses the most of it.
When Taiki rejects Ami’s notion of dreams and romance, saying that dreams and romance aren’t as important as science, this leads to hostility between the two.
Due to her quiet and shy nature and her ability to achieve good grades, Ami Mizuno is often misunderstood by her peers. People rarely look beneath the surface to see the girl that’s hiding beneath.
When the Sailor Senshin are attacked, Usagi’s powers malfunction, leaving her vulnerable and in danger. When Luna and Usagi are transported through a portal, Luna explains the reason Usagi’s powers have been malfunctioning—because she isn’t committed to being a Sailor Senshin anymore.
The Makaiju’s Secret" Was Part Of An Entire Filler Arc (Episode 59) Not only is this episode filled with life lessons for both the Makaiju (the tree from which the villains, Ail and An, were born) and the viewers, it’s also a part of an entire filler arc, Sailor Moon R, that aired while waiting for the manga to be updated.
Loss is inevitable in Sailor Moon, but the casualties are always on the other side. That doesn't make their deaths any less hard to watch, though. In episode 86 , Saphir disabled Wiseman's reactor powering the Malefic Black Crystal and escaped to the 20th century with the key card.
The Sailor Wars come to an end in episode 200, the '90s anime's final episode. As Galaxia decimates the planet and seizes all of the other Sailor Guardians' Star Seeds, Princess Serenity holds out hope she can save not only her friends but also Galaxia.
When Sailor Moon transforms into Princess Serenity , she decides the Silver Crystal is the only way to stop the asteroid from colliding with Earth. Using the crystal is a double-edged sword; the user's life force will diminish.
Sailor Moon got very serious in episode 24 when Nephrite suddenly changed; he protected Naru from the enemies and died because of it. Naru wails as Nephrite fades in her arms, and even the Sailor Guardians express sadness as he disappears into the ether.
Usagi carries this burden all by herself for many episodes, and it is episode 194 where she comes clean during an especially heartbreaking scene. After Sailor Tin Nyanko's failed attack, Usagi collapses because she briefly mistook Seiya for Mamoru. She ultimately breaks down and blurts out everything that has been going on with Mamoru. To which Seiya, who harbors deep and romantic feelings for Usagi, asks her if he himself is enough for her.
Often accused of being too sentimental and optimistic, Sailor Moon's power does not lie in brute strength or destruction. It is her ability to love and forgive that makes her so powerful; she sees through Galaxia's crimes and understands this is not of her own doing. Using the Silver Crystal and her overwhelming sense of compassion, Princess Serenity expels the evil force, Chaos, from Galaxia's body. The entire galaxy is safe — for now.
And Sailor Moon cannot follow because she cannot power-up to Super Sailor Moon anymore. In the end, Sailor Moon's desperation and will to save Saturn from dying, as well the combined powers of her fellow Sailor Guardians, allows her to turn into Super Sailor Moon. She then rushes into the vortex and rescues Saturn off screen.
On March 7th, 1992 , the original Sailor Moon anime premiered in Japan. Now, 25 years later, we have two Japanese anime versions, multiple dubbed versions, various musicals, the manga and edited manga, a live action show, three movies, and the list goes on. Sailor Moon has become a worldwide phenomenon that creator Naoko Takeuchi couldn’t have expected, but here we are!
Whenever Sailor Moon went in on a task, so did her team. Hell, it even got to the point that multiple villains had changes of heart and turned good thanks to Sailor Moon’s pureness. The anger, hate, and animosity that the Sailor Starlights had washed away and they, too, join Sailor Moon’s side completely. Girl power. Teamwork. Unity. You’re strongest when you’re not alone. Each character had their fear, their weakness, but together they were able to patch the holes that each weakness and flaw brought along, and instead turned them into one tough entity to deal with.
Sailor Moon constantly draws her strength and power from her friends and allies. This includes Tuxedo Mask, the Sailor Starlights, and even villains at times. Sailor Moon ’s heart constantly grows larger with more empathy, sympathy, and understanding for everyone; her heart is filled with love. We consistently see her drawing strength from her friends during the larger final battles (Beryl, Wiseman, Pharaoh 90, Nehelenia, Galaxia), and builds upon that strength to make herself stronger. It’s beautiful.
They never actually said the words “I love you,” but they never needed to. From their casual flirtations, to their playful banter, to the way they’d speak to each other, plan with each other protect each other… The relationship between Haruka and Michiru was very clear. And it was very beautiful. And it was a surprise for an anime in the early ’90s! So much so, that the Cloverway English dub of Sailor Moon S in 2000 and 2001 switched them from a romantic relationship to…cousins. Interesting. They were a pair that went well together like good wine and cheese, supported each other, understood each other, finished off where the other started. They were there for many fans when they didn’t have representation in many other places. They were role models. They…should’ve gotten their own movie in SuperS but ANYWAY.
While children in the West would have to wait until the start of the next decade to watch its English adaptation, the original Cardcaptor Sakura came out towards the end of the 1990s, just making it part of the decade. Things like Sakura using roller skates to get around, famously seen at the start of the first episode, really highlights the fashions and trends of the decade.
Likewise, the anime would serve as a gateway for Western anime fans, something highlighted by it being Adult Swim's pilot anime series, although that premiere wouldn't happen until 2001.
The mid-'90s to early 2000s series, Tokyo Crazy Paradise, takes place in a sci-fi version of 2020, filled with all kinds of futuristic technology.
Corrector Yui came out towards the end of the decade and, rather fittingly, showcases an exaggerated take on what the future would have been like: the World Wide Web has evolved into a virtual reality called the "ComNet." In fact, the titular heroine is a magical girl in the online world.