Sailor Moon

(thing) by Zorin (4.6 d) (print) ? (I like it!) Thu Feb 10 2000 at 1:26:47

Sailor Moon- All about this brat named Serena who whines a lot, runs away from danger constantly ("Never running from a real fight" Wha? Whoever wrote those lyrics to the Sailor Moon theme song obviously never watched the show). It's also about her cats, her friends Sailors Jupiter, Venus, Mars, and Mercury, who are all much cooler than Sailor Moon, I must say. They fight these villains from the negaverse, a place that's really gloomy and generally sucks. Quite hilarious, I recommend it to anyone who has 30 minutes to blow and an open mind.

(person) by Quizro (2.6 mon) (print) ? (I like it!) 1 C! Mon Jul 24 2000 at 22:31:46

Title character in the anime/manga series Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon. Originally the princess of the Moon Kingdom during the Silver Millennium a thousand years ago, she was killed when the forces of the Dark Kingdom destroyed her home. Through the power of Queen Serenity and the Ginzuishou, she was reborn in the twentieth century as Tsukino Usagi.

When the Dark Kingdom rose again, talking cat Luna (put in suspended animation when the moon kingdom fell) sought a champion to find the reborn princess and reassemble the Sailor Senshi. She found her champion in Usagi. Not realizing Usagi was herself the lost princess, she gave her a magical brooch that allowed her to transform into the pretty sailor-suited soldier for love and justice, Sailor Moon.

Sailor Moon's powers evolved over the five years the show was on the air, as did her personality. Originally a whining, clumsy, cowardly crybaby, she gained a tremendous inner strength and a powerful empathy for others...though she stayed clumsy. Her destructive powers faded into the background and she was portrayed more often as a redeemer figure, often sacrificing herself to save others and heal those who'd been turned to the side of evil.

Under certain circumstances she transforms into Princess Serenity. Her destiny is to become Neo-Queen Serenity, ruler of Crystal Tokyo. She now wields the Ginzuishou crystal.

I think hackwrench's identification of the Senshi with Chaos falls apart in two ways: the show stresses again and again and AGAIN the importance of teamwork over individual initiative (the bad guys fail because they can't work together) and at the end of the final season, Sailor Moon fights Chaos personified.

(thing) by Phoebe Caulfield (6 y) (print) ? (I like it!) 1 C! Thu Feb 15 2001 at 8:57:48

Sailor Moon is a highly successful shoujo (girl soldier) anime in Japan which was created due to the popularity of Naoko Takeuchi's highly popular serial manga which chronicles the adventures of a team of junior high students in short schoolgirl uniforms as they fight various evils that tend to periodically infiltrate metropolitan Tokyo. There are eighteen volumes in the manga series, each of which contains three to five episodes and are about 180 pages. Each of five separate storylines lasts for about three-and-a-half volumes. The anime ran for five seasons and spawned three motion pictures. The storylines are complex, spanning from a thousand years in the past to a thousand years in the future.

Sailor Moon is pretty unique in that it's a kid's show, and yet there's all sorts of pretty mature content: for example: Chibi-Usa (Rini) has a pretty blatant Electra complex, people die left, right and center, Sailors Uranus and Neptune are romantically involved (although in the US dub they are laughably referred to as "cousins"), the three Sailor Starlights of season five are inexplicably dual-gendered (they're a boy band by day, girly evil-fighting trio by night), and Mamoru's parents were killed in a pretty brutal auto accident, to name a few.

As I mentioned before, there are five separate storylines for each of the five seasons of the show. Each season of the show had a different name in Japan: Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon, Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon R, Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S, Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS, and Sailor Moon Sailor Stars. If you click on the name of one of the seasons, you'll get a pretty lengthy synopsis of the plot and the characters who are introduced (once I am able to post them all). The anime doesn't always adhere to the plot of the manga; interesting exceptions will be noted.