Sailor Moon FAQ – Characters

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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".

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."

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."

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.'

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.

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).

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 first 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 Soldiers of the four largest asteroids, but not in the anime.

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

Pluto's classification as a dwarf planet has no relevance to the series. There are a number of characters affiliated with heavenly bodies that aren't planets, including Sailor Moon.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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).