Sailor Moon has been a worldwide phenomenon since the early 1990s. It began as a manga series by Naoko Takeuchi that was later converted into an anime series.
Kodansha (full name: Kobunsha Co., Ltd.) publishes the manga in Japan in their monthly manga anthology, Nakayoshi. It started running in May 1991 and hasn’t stopped since. Toei Animation’s anime ran from 1992 to 1997 and featured 200 episodes, three movies (one of which is a remake), and two short specials. The anime was broadcast on TV Asahi in Japan, and DIC Entertainment dubbed it into English for North American distribution. The Sailor Moon video games were also dubbed by this dubbing company (yes, there are several games).
Takeuchi Naoko designed the characters, while a team of authors, including Takeshi Kanda (author of Key Hunter), Mariko Mochizuki (author of Sukeban Deka), and Toshio Masuda, came up with the storyline (author of works such as Devil Hunter Yohko).
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Sailor Moon Plot
The series’ main character is Usagi Tsukino, a 14-year-old girl (nicknamed Sailor Moon). She shares an apartment with her mother and father in a typical Tokyo building. Usagi is friends with a lot of different people, including Ami Mizuno, Rei Hino, Makoto Kino, Minako Aino (who eventually becomes Sailor Venus), and Luna. Usagi isn’t particularly popular at school, but she does have a few friends. Naru Osaka is her best friend. Umino, Naru’s brother, is also a Sailor Moon fan.
Usagi and her friends face alot of usual teenage issues, on top of which they must fight evil. Metalia, an alien, is the embodiment of this evil. Metalia is on the lookout for people to infest and convert to her kind.
However, because Sailor Moon and her allies are great warriors, she has only been able to locate a few humans. But one day, they discover that Ami, Rei, Makoto, and Minako, Usagi’s classmates, are also Sailor Senshi (Sailor Scouts). Sailor Mercury (Ami), Sailor Mars (Rei), Sailor Jupiter (Makoto), and Sailor Venus (Venus) are among them (Minako). The Sailor Senshi’s four members now stand a far better chance of beating Metalia!
Every now and then, these monsters invade Tokyo, and it’s up to the girls to stop them. The Senshi learn about their pasts as well as their future destinies while fighting these monsters.
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Toei Animation and Bandai created filler episodes to be used in the absence of actual episodes. They range in length from 15 minutes to 45 minutes and can be found among the original anime’s 200 or so episodes.
The Sailor Moon anime series has a total of 50 percent filler episodes.
