Sailor Moon is a anime (Japanese Animation) and manga (Japanese comic book) written byNaoko Takeuchi. It has five seasons (200 episodes), three tv specials, three movies, and 18 volumes of the manga. It VERY popular in Japan and it is conquering the world (take the U.S. and France for example). In addition it has MANY video games and merchandise. Also Sailor Moon has the charm to have fans of both gender, female AND male (such as the thousands Japanese men and boys who stood in line to buy Sailor Moon products)
Sailor Moon came from a manga that Naoko Takeuchi wrote called Code Name wa Sailor V or Code Name: Sailor V (most people just called it though Sailor V). It centers around a girl named Minako Aino (Mina in english version) who fights crime as a sailor soldier named Sailor V while also dealing with normal stuff such as romance. Sailor V never became an anime but it became very popular. It became so popular that Takeuchi decided on expanding it and this created Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon deals with the life of the sailor soldier of the moon (thus Sailor Moon) named Usagi Tsukino (Serena in the english version) and Sailor V became Sailor Venus and she became a supporting character (Sailor Moon is now the protagonist).
The Sailor Moon saga is very complex. It deals with the past, present,
and the future.
It first starts out
in the past when Sailor Moon was not Sailor Moon but the moon princess
living on the moon kingdom on the moon. The soldiers that protected her
were Sailor Venus, Sailor Mars, Sailor Mercury, and Sailor Jupiter. The
moon and the Earth disliked each other but the prince of Earth, Mamoru,
(Darien in the english version) and the moon princess were in love with
each other. The prince told the princess good bye since he had to go to
fight a evil queen that has come to the universe. The universe protectors
were Sailor Uranus, Sailor Neptune, and Sailor Pluto. There is another
sailor soldier named Sailor Saturn but she is not there (not born) because
she is the messiah and everytime she is born she destroys the ENTIRE planet
that is filled with evil problems and makes it reborn pure. The protectors
of the universe had died protecting. The evil queen was Queen Beryl and
it the end she kills everyone (including the princess and the prince) except
Queen Serenity. She then uses her wand (which has her power) and sent everybody
to the present (including the prince, princess, and all the soldiers AND
the evil Queen) so they can have a better chance to win the queen. There
Queen Serenity dies because she had to use all her power.
In the present, the guardians cat, luna, turns Usagi (who does not remember her past) into Sailor Moon so she can fight evil. The rest of the soldiers become sailor soldiers either by Luna (Sailor Mars, Sailor Mercury, and Sailor Jupiter), Artemis (Sailor Venus) or by themselves (Sailor Uranus, Sailor Pluto, Sailor Neptune, and Sailor Saturn). They all have their own different powers and EVERY sailor soldier IS a princess of their own respective planet (Sailor Mercury is the princess of Mercury). Mamoru (Darien) becomes Tuxedo Kamen (Tuxedo Mask in the english version) in search of his past and he does find out about his past as well as becoming again romantically linked to Sailor Moon.
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