MANGA VS. ANIME
This section highlights the differences between
the season of Sailor Moon in the manga
(comic book) and the anime (TV show). If you find a difference that I have not
pointed out (I'm sure there's tons of them!) , feel free to e-mail me here.
Since I am always
reading new segments in the manga (I haven't read all of R, S or Stars yet),
I will
always be adding to this section :)
WARNING: There are some spoilers in here, so read at your own risk!
Sailor Moon
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Manga
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Anime
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| -Darien/Mamoru is a high-school student (around 17 years old) |
-Darien/Mamoru is a college student considered to be 19 or 20 |
| -Sailor Moon has goggles | -no goggles here |
| -There is no Yuuichuro/Chad | -duh! |
| -"Usagi"="Bunny" | -"Usagi"="Serena" |
| -Bunny finds Luna by stepping on her! | -Serena finds Luna when some kids are trying to hurt her |
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-Sailor Mercury has 3 earrings on each ear and no sleeves;
she also has a nifty microphone to go with her visor
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-Sailor Mercury has only 1 pair of earrings and has sleeves on her fuku; no nifty microphone...sniff... |
| -There are no "Rainbow Crystals," everyone's looking for the Imperium Silver Crystal | -There are 7 "Rainbow Crystals" that must be brought together to make the Silver Crystal |
| -Rei is a very chaste priestess | -Rei actually likes guys |
| -Tuxedo Mask finds out Bunny is Sailor Moon almost right away | -It takes the guy 30 episodes to figure it out |
| -Bunny later finds out Darien is Tuxedo Mask | -They both find eachother's indentities at the same time |
| -Luna thinks Ami is the enemy at first | -Nobody really suspects Ami of anything bad |
| Zoicite doesn't have any kind of relationship with Kunzite |
Zoicite and Kunzite are gay (but his name is "Malachite") |
| Everybody believes Minako is the Moon Princess, even Minako (it turns out that Minako only had a crescent symbol to pose as the Princess until they found the true one) | Everybody is completely clueless |
| The Series endings are WAY different | (READ ON to find out how) |
| Usagi and Mamoru die early on | It is the inner senshi that die first |
| The inner senshi lay down their pens (this is the equivalent to laying down their lives) to try to bring back Sailor Moon. | Their deaths aren't quite as heroic; they die fighting youma from the dark Kingdom ("the Doom and Gloom Girls" to you dubbies out there) |
| Minako kills Beryl with a sword | Beryl is killed when Tuxedo Mask's rose shatters the rock she hurls at him and Sailor Moon |
| It is Luna's praying to the Pillar of Prayer on the moon that activates the Silver Crystal and gives Bunny enough power to destroy Metallia | Serena receives the strength needed to kill Metallia from her friends' spirits standing with her |
| No Doom Tree Series | Ta-dah! Enter Alan and Ann |
Sailor Moon R
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Manga
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Anime
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| Rini is 904 or some insanely high number years old | she's around 7 |
| There's not all those dumb droids | Hello Droid Gelax, Droid Frosty, and other really tacky-sounding robots |
| Mercury, Mars, and Jupiter are all capured by the Dark Moon Early On, leaving only Venus, Tuxedo Mask, Rini, Pluto and Moon to go to the future | Rubeus captures the inner senshi all together and tries to pull some terrorist maneuver where Serena will exchange Rini and the silver crystal for them |
| Sapphire is completely evil | Sapphire is a total sweetie |
| Nemesis is the planet where they sent an evil criminal from Crystal Tokyo | Nemesis is the rogue moon that the rebels against Queen Serenity's rule decided to flee to; it's where the Dark Moon family is from |
| Wiseman is the Criminal/Planet Nemesis/evil entity that I'm still confused about | Wiseman is just an old skeleton dude with some cool glowy hands |
| Tuxedo Kamen actually does kiss Wicked Lady (eww, eww, EWW!) when he is being controlled by her | Serena just imagines it happening; Wicked Lady never actually brainwashes him and pulls that icky incest-fest move |
| Tuxedo Kamen whacks Sailor Moon with her Moon Sceptor | no fun stuff here |
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Diana is a character
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The fluffy lilac blob doesn't come around 'til SuperS |
| Ami's a Tokyo Girl | She almost leaves to go to Germany |
Sailor Moon S
Sorry, but I haven't read any of the manga yet! I promise as
soon as I get some
money and buy it, I'll work on this section!
Sailor Moon SuperS
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Manga
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Anime
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| Darien, Bunny, and Rini all see Pegasus first |
Rini is the first one to see him |
| The Outers really are a part of the plot | Where'd they go??? |
| Pegasus comes and goes when he wants to (and when he has the strength) | Rini keeps the poor horse in a little snowglobe in her room |
| Fisheye is not a homosexual; he actually tries to seduce Ami into a freaky sleep-forever state | Fisheye is a guy who dresses like fairies; in the dub they made him into a girl |
| The Amazon Trio last about 10 seconds | What took so long to get rid of them??? |
| We see all the cats in their human form | The closest they get to human is when Artemis gets little boxing gloves |
| The Senshi reach their star forms (or "eternal" if you will, although technically Sailor Moon is the only one to take that title; the rest are "star") | The inners reach their super from, does that help? |
| The Golden Crystal is Darien's Crystal | The Golden Crystal is Pegasus's horn |
| Nephrenia does not have any tragic history; she was a jerk, actually, and tried to curse baby Princess Serenity and the Silver Milennium | Nephrenia (or Nehelania) was at one time good, but then stole all the dream mirrors from her people in order to remain beautiful forever |
| Can we say, BUTT AWESOME??! | I have never wanted to kill a little girl so badly in all my life |
Sailor Stars
| Lots of extra characters: Phi, Chi, Lethe, Mnemosyne, Heavy Metal Papillon, Phobos and Deimos | None of them exist |
| Galaxia chose to become the power-addict she is today | Galaxia was corrupted after sealing Chaos inside her own body |
| Sailor Cosmos is the ultimate form of Sailor Moon from an alternate future; she came back to try to change the past as Chibi Chibi | Cosmos appears for about 5 seconds; Chibi Chibi is Galaxia's starseed that she released before Chaos corrupted her (but see, then wouldn't Chibi Chibi really be the good form of Galaxia? doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me either) |
| The Starlights are GIRLS; they only pose as guys to find their princess | This point is never quite explained clearly |
| Kakyuu is a main character (Personally, I think she's one of the coolest characters in the series) | Kaky-who??? Oh right, she's the one that appeared then died 2 minutes later... |
| Galaxia's throne room and site for battle with Sailor Moon: Star Zero Saggitarius (a.k.a. Saggitarius Zero Star) | Welcome to Galaxy Television ^.^ |
| Don't wanna ruin anything for you, but let me say a lot of people die and some die more than once | Well, I guess a lot of people die in this too |
| The Starlights are a lot nicer to Bunny | For quite a while, Seiya seems to be the only one who's nice |
| Starseeds are explained in depth | Look Mommy, that man has a glittery thing coming out of his forehead! |
| Rini is actually cool and gets her own guardians to go back to the past with her (Asteroid Senshi baby!!!) | Let's just say she's not that involved |
| Galaxia is the main villain | Why in God's name did they feel the need to put Nephrenia in the first episodes? |
| We get to see the outers' castles | no castles :( |
Well, that's about it for now! If you have any questions regarding
comparisons
(or anything else, really!) please e-mail
me. I'd be happy to hear from you :)