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Genetics Identities of Characters
Death Heroes & Villains
Gender
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Sexuality
Communications
Clothing
Jokes

Genetics

How can ChibiUsa's hair be pink when her parents' hair colors are black and blond? How is pink hair inherited anyway?

Anime hair colors are a stylistic convention and the characters' hair colors are almost never really what you see. Her hair is no more pink than Superman's is blue.

Generally speaking, characters in anime and manga have brown or black hair (like most Japanese people); the extreme colours are added to make it easier to tell the difference between characters. Look at Sailor Venus and Sailor Mars -- they look almost the same aside from hair colour (especially in the anime).

There's a scene in Galaxy Fraulein Yuna where a few girls are playing with a ball. The girls look a lot like what you'd expect the inner senshi to look like in civilian form if they all had black or brown hair.

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Is Fiole (from the Sailor Moon R movie) from the same planet as Earl and Ann?

He looks similar, and is voiced by Earl's original voice actor. It is possible that they're from the same race, but this is never stated. (They definitely aren't the same person.)

Ikuhara Kunihiko, the director of the R series and R movie, has explained in the LD bonus for the R movie that the movie contained shared ideas with the TV series.

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Who was Usagi's father in the Silver Millennium?

Apparently unknown.

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Death

Is Nephrite really dead?

Yes. He doesn't come back in any way, shape, or form.

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Have the Senshi ever killed anyone? Most of the enemies seem to die by other enemies killing them off, by running into their own attacks, getting caught in the destruction of their base, etc.

Metallia ("negaforce") is obviously killed at the end of the first series. It is arguable that they killed Kunzite, although he really died from his own reflected attack.

Many monsters of the day die, but it's a comics/animation cliché that if you're artificial, it's not considered killing to get rid of you even if you are sentient.

In the manga, the Senshi do kill their enemies.

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In flashbacks, we're shown that Queen Serenity died immediately upon using the Silver Crystal to send the Senshi et. al to the future. Yet we are also shown that she split the crystal to seal away the Seven Shadows. How could these both have happened?

The writers goofed (for once, it's not a dubbing goof).

The entire Seven Shadows plot was added to fill time in the anime.

In the manga, the crystal comes directly out of Sailor Moon's tear, rather than her tear combining the seven pieces into the crystal.

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Gender

Are the Starlights really male or female?

The obvious choice is that they are male and change to female, but there are two manga references which suggest otherwise (but are ambiguous).

First, Princess Fireball asked the Starlights why they chose "this appearance", and they responded that it was easier to find women that way. Some have interpreted it to mean that they chose to be male, although it could also refer to their singing career.

Second, in manga #16, page 165-166, Tin Nyanko tells Usagi not to trust those who are female but dress up as guys. Although obviously referring to the Starlights, she is not really in a position to know much about them.

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Is Zoicite really a male?

Yes.

In the anime, he was also gay. He and Kunzite are a couple.

In the manga, his sexual preference is not specified.

For the English dub, the character 'Zoycite' was given a female voice.

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Sexuality

Are Earl and Ann really brother and sister? Wouldn't that make their relationship incest?

They're really children of the Makaiju tree, from which their race came.

In a sense, this means they are brother and sister (and they admit the tree is their mother), but in another sense, they're no more brother and sister than Adam and Eve.

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Is Sailor Jupiter a lesbian?

The episode which makes people think so is #96 where she seems to have a crush on Haruka.

While some of the other characters thought it might be a homosexual attraction, it was not. It's a cultural difference; she really sees Haruka more as a role model, and wants to be like her, but is not in love with her. The same cultural difference has made Westerners misinterpret similar situations in other series.

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Are Venus and Mars lesbians?

No!

This is based on a misinterpretation of a scene in the manga in the June 1996 Nakayoshi, where they are actually expressing their devotion to the Princess. Since she doesn't say any words, people reading just the translation thought they were referring to each other.

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Have Usagi and Mamoru had sex together (in the present day)?

There is a manga scene which many fans see as evidence. (act 18, manga 5), showing them kissing and lying on top of each other. Usagi stays over at Mamoru's apartment that night, and shows up with the same dress she had on but with his shirt over top of it.

Keep in mind that ChibiUsa was sleeping in Mamoru's bedroom while they were in the living room of his apartment.

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Jokes

What does "talent" mean (as an Internet joke)?

This refers to a line in the Snow White episode of the dub.

Makoto said that she should be Snow White because she has the largest breasts (which made Mamoru very nervous). In the dub, it was changed to having the most "talent". So people on the Net sometimes refer to breast size as "talents".

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Identities of Characters

Who is ChibiChibi?

The manga and anime differ on this question.

In the manga, she is the early form of "Sailor Cosmos". There are several stories about exactly how Cosmos is related to Usagi, one of them being that she is the Eternal form of Sailor Moon.

In the anime, ChibiChibi is the star seed of Galaxia. Sailor Galaxia released her star seed into the galaxy after sealing Chaos inside of her body. The star seed became ChibiChibi. She contains Galaxia's "light of hope ... [her] glitter of life." As the star seed drifted away, Galaxia told it: "Go to someone who will wrap you gently, to the one of love and justice."

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Who is ChibiUsa?

The daughter of Usagi and Mamoru, who time-traveled from the future. Read her profile for more information.

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Who is Empress Metallia?

On Global television (in Canada), they goofed this up in their commercials.

They showed a short-lived, early monster as Beryl, and Beryl as Metallia.

Empress Metallia does exist. The energy Beryl is gathering is for Metallia to return to the Dark Kingdom in corporeal form. In the dub, she's called "the great Negaforce."

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Who is the Moonlight Knight?

Tuxedo Mask was split into two when revived after the battle with the Dark Kingdom. The Moonlight Knight held his love for Usagi, and was created by the Ginzuishou in order to protect Sailor Moon (not by a "part of him that wanted to protect her" like the dub claims). This also resulted in his regular self not remembering anything about her for a while, even after all the Senshi had been reawakened.

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Who is Rubeus?

Other than one of the minions of the 'Dark Moon,' he is rumoured to be the son of Zoicite and Malachite. I don't know how that's genetically possible, considering Zoicite and Malachite are both male. Another rumour suggests that he's Beryl's son (they've got the same hair...).

If he is the son of any of the Dark Kingdom villains, it would likely mean that he was sent into the future before their defeat, then sent back by the 'Wise Man.'

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Who are the Sailor Star Lights?

They are three male singers also known as the Three Lights. They become female warriors (the Star Lights). They are Seiya (Sailor Star Fighter), Taiki (Sailor Star Maker), and Yaten (Sailor Star Healer).

Seiya is quite fond of Usagi, but she tells him that they can only be friends because she has a boyfriend already (and she's not planning on breaking up with Mamoru any time soon). They do actually go out on at least one "date," but nothing much happens aside from Seiya becoming very disturbed by the amount that Usagi can eat.

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Who is Sailor V? Does she really exist?

Sailor V is really Sailor Venus, the fifth member of the team.

The Sailor V comics were published first, before Sailor Moon. After the Sailor Moon comic started, Sailor V was included in it as Sailor Venus.

Unfortunately, DiC messed up the dub. The first Sailor Venus episodes had her appear, everyone being told she's Sailor V, and Usagi was very happy because she's a huge Sailor V fan. The dub of those particular episodes took out pretty much all reference to Sailor V except for the title of at least one episode (Sailor V Makes the Scene).

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Heroes & Villains

There are nine planets, so why don't we see a Sailor Scout for each one?

Mamoru is Prince Endymion of the Earth, and his name in Japanese uses the kanji for "Earth", so he obviously represents Earth (besides, the moon revolves around the Earth). You'll probably never see a Senshi for Earth.

Mamoru is claimed to also represent the sun, with Helios (from SuperS) as his guardian, and his astrological sign (Leo) is ruled by the sun.

Sailor Pluto is the one that ChibiUsa talks to through her Luna ball, and appears in holographic form near the end of the R season. Uranus, Neptune, and Saturn appear during the S season. Sometimes called the Senshi of the outer solar system, they're not actually part of the main team. In the past, their mission was to protect the solar system from outside invaders. In the present day, they spend much of the S season searching for the talismans in order to reveal the Sacred cup. However, even after finding the talismans and the Sacred cup, and accepting Sailor Moon/ Princess Serenity as their leader; they rarely fight alongside each other.

Sailor Mars has pet ravens named Phobos and Deimos (the moons of Mars). They have been shown in human form in the manga, where they are said to come from planet Coronis (not a real planet).

The black moon in the Sailor Moon R series is Nemesis, a dark star theorized as responsible for comets like the one that killed off the dinosaurs.

In the manga corresponding to the Sailor Moon SuperS season, the Amazoness Quartet become Sailor Scouts of the four largest asteroids, but not in the anime.

The Sailor Starlights don't seem to be associated with any particular heavenly bodies.

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Were the four main generals really friends of Tuxedo Mask once?

This idea is stated in the Sailor Moon "Friends and Foes" children's book, in English.

The idea really does come from the original manga, though not the anime. There are also pictures in the manga showing them paired with the four Senshi. No references to them being engaged or in love from the text have been found. However, the Sailor Moon Another Story RPG played heavily on the assumption that the Senshi were in love with the generals.

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What are the shoe sizes of the Sailor Senshi?

I have no idea. They are all pretty short, compared to North American women, so I would expect their shoe sizes would not be very large. As is common with Asian women, I'd also expect them to have narrow feet (A or B width, I'd guess).

I don't think trying to figure out something based on my own height and shoe size would help. It can easily vary. I know quite a few ladies who are close to me in height, but have different shoe sizes.

If you want to get really technical, you could take a picture of Sailor Moon (or one of the other girls), and use that in relation to her height to figure out her shoe size. Measure from the inner elbow to the wrist (that will be the exact length of her foot). Then you can convert that measurement to shoe size, if necessary.

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Transformations

Do we ever see the Scouts transform back?

In episode 115, Sailor Uranus transforms back normally.

We also see Sailor Moon transform back twice when she loses a previous transformation before getting powered-up, but these are arguably abnormal transformations back that might not look like normal ones.

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Do we ever see Tuxedo Mask transform?

Yes.

Episodes in which he transforms are: 16, 22, 30, and 62 (English); or 19, 26, 34, and 69 (Japanese).

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Communications

Who is ChibiUsa talking to in the future, through her Luna ball?

Sailor Pluto, whom she calls "Puu".

The dub messes this up the first time by using Luna's voice and pretending ChibiUsa is talking to the ball instead of using it as a communicator to talk to another person. They changed the voice fairly soon after.

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Who is Luna talking to on the computer in the early episodes?

It's Artemis, Sailor Venus's cat. Luna is rather annoyed when she finds out.

The dub goofs here. In dubbed episode 39, Luna and Artemis refer to a real Central Control. The episode was probably scripted by someone who didn't see the episode where Central Control is found to be Artemis.

Anyway, ignore it. Central Control doesn't exist.

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Clothing

Why does Makoto wear a different school uniform?

From a Japanese book Secrets to Sailor Moon: because there isn't one of the school's uniforms in her size. This is because she transferred late in the school year.

In Sailor Stars (anime) she gets a regular high school uniform. And apparently, in SuperS (manga) she gets the regular Juuban uniform.

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How come nobody ever recognizes the Senshi in costume?

There's no real explanation. They may be magically immune to being recognized, but we're never told that.

In Japanese episode 5, and in dub episode 15, Usagi hides from her brother when in costume, apparently because she's afraid she'd be recognized. If there is magic involved, she didn't know it at the time. Dub episode 31 says that they can't be recognized in their normal identities, though this line may not have been in the original version.

Asai, in episode 100, recognizes Venus. Fiole in the R movie recognizes Tuxedo Mask.

This problem doesn't happen in the manga; they seldomly appear in front of people they know. Usagi and Tuxedo Mask recognize each other almost immediately, and Motoki recognizes them in costume (volume 3 p.p. 100, 177; volume 4 p. 113).

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