What Are You Talking About?
Sailor Moon is a japanese animation series centered around a group of girls, reincarnations of the same girls from the past. The main character, Tsukino Usagi, is the reincarnation of the past princess of the Moon, Princess Serenity. She is the leader of the scouts, and they are her guardians.
The other scouts (Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter, and Sailor Venus) are also reincarnations, with the exception of Sailors Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. They are also all princesses of their respective planets. For example.....
Sailor Jupiter = Princess of Jupiter
........... and so on.
In the past, they all lived in a city on the Moon, called Silver Millenium. When the city was destroyed, Queen Serenity, Princess Serena's mother, sent all of the scouts to be reincarnated in the future, so that they could lead normal, happy lives.
Unfortunately for them, normal it wasn't. Luna, who was Queen Serenity's advisor, was also sent into the future to act as Princess Serenity's guardian. (Luna is a cat, btw) When monsters started attacking people on Earth, Luna found Usagi and told her that she is Sailor Moon, and that she would have to fight these monsters, and in the long run, defeat their master, and also find the other scouts, all while trying to keep up with her school, sleeping, and eating schedule.
Sooner or later, all the scouts are found, countless enemies are fought, more memories of the past return, and new friends are made.
The change in Usagi is incredible throughout the duration of the series. In the beginning, she is reluctant to take up the duties of a Sailor Scout, but eventually she accepts her situation and becomes the sweet, loving, compassionate person we see in the Sailor Stars series. On the other hand, she never loses her naivete or her appetite.
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So Where'd It Come From?
Sailor Moon was first broadcast in North America in 1995. The series quickly became a hit in Canada and Australia, but received low ratings in the USA where most stations aired it at 6 a.m. or earlier. On the basis of low American ratings, DiC stopped translation after 65 episodes (7 Japanese episodes were skipped, so English episode 65 was actually Japanese episode 72). In 1997, prompted by the success of Sailor Moon in Canada and high sales of Sailor Moon dolls, Irwin Toys of Canada sponsored translation of a further 17 episodes, finally completing the Sailor Moon "R" series for English-speaking viewers. Also in 1997, Mixx Entertainment began publishing an English translation of the Sailor Moon manga (comics). In 1999 Pioneer Entertainment released English-language home videos of the three Sailor Moon feature films.
Sailor Moon finally returned to American television on Cartoon Network's Toonami program shortly thereafter. Proving successful, Cartoon Network commissioned translation of 77 more episodes (the Sailor Moon S and SuperS series). Cartoon Network's English translation of Sailor Moon S series began airing June 12, 2000 (September 16, 2000 on YTV in Canada). SuperS launched on Toonami September 26, 2000. In 2001, Pioneer Entertainment began releasing home videos of Sailor Moon S TV series, including an uncut subtitled version! In 2002, Pioneer began a home video release of Sailor Moon SuperS.
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