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Sailor MoonDiscover the amazing world of Japanese Movies...Sailor Moon is the title of the famous series originally authored as a manga by Naoko Takeuchi. It is generally credited with popularizing the concept of a sentai (team) of magical girls, as well as the general re-emergence of the "magical girl" genre itself. The story of the metaseries revolves around the reincarnated defenders of a kingdom that once spanned the solar system, and the evil forces that they battle. The major characters--called soldiers (senshi)--appear as Japanese teenage girls who can transform into heroines named for the moon and planets--Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, etc. The original manga resulted in spinoffs into many other types of media, including a highly popular anime series, musical theatre, video games and a live action series. Although most concepts in the various series overlap, there are often notable differences, and thus there is no real continuity between the different formats. Fourteen-year-old junior high student Usagi Tsukino discovers that she is the reincarnation of Princess Serenity, the princess of a mystical, utopic kingdom on the Moon. She, along with several of her friends, (known as the Sailor Senshi/Scouts) are granted powers to defend the Solar System against an evil force. This evil force originally destroyed her kingdom, the Moon Kingdom. (In the original Japanese known as the Silver Millennium.) Usagi fights using the identity of Sailor Moon, alongside her friends and her destined true love, Tuxedo Kamen. There is a noticeable difference in the story and presentation of the anime and manga. The manga was more complex and darker in tone whilst the anime was simple and had a much brighter outlook on the story, at least in the earlier parts of the series. With 200 episodes originally airing in Japan from March 1992 to February 1997, Sailor Moon is one of the longest magical girl anime series. Although many other shows have followed the same formula as Sailor Moon, most are generally considered to be relatively uninspiring and none have ever been the marketing giant that this anime has become. As it has been translated into many languages and distributed widely, Sailor Moon is arguably one of the most famous anime properties in the world. The anime's first two series contain stories that vaguely revolve around the backdrop of the Silver Millennium and the future Crystal Tokyo. The third series is quite dark in comparison, while the fourth is sometimes considered overly light and silly. Sailor Moon enjoyed renewed interest in its final fifth series, although its reuse of many plot devices (and not including some of the darker points of the corresponding manga arc's story) bothered some fans. This article is licensed under the GNU
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