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The main cast of Sailor Moon as seen in the 1990s anime adaptation. The Sailor Moon manga series features a cast of characters created by Naoko Takeuchi.The series takes place in Tokyo, Japan, where the Sailor Guardians (セーラー戦士, Sērā Senshi), a group of ten magical girls, are formed to fight against antagonists who aim to take over the Earth, the Solar System and the Milky Way.
In the 1995 English version of Sailor Moon, the westernization of the characters is seen in how a majority of the character names are changed from Japanese to English names. [19] Sailor Moon's civilian name, Usagi Tsukino, is turned into Serena. [19] The love interest of Sailor Moon, Mamoru Chiba, is turned into Darien Shields. [20]
Usagi Tsukino (月野 うさぎ, Tsukino Usagi, renamed Serena in the DiC and Cloverway English adaptations and Bunny in the Mixx/Tokyopop adaptation), better known as Sailor Moon (セーラームーン, Sērā Mūn), is a Japanese superheroine and the protagonist of the Sailor Moon franchise created by Naoko Takeuchi.
Meanwhile, Usagi and her friends decide to dress in their own homemade sailor fuku (Usagi as Sailor Rabbit, Naru as Sailor N, and their other friends, Kanami and Momoko as sailors K and M) in order to scare the thieves away from the jewellery store owned by Naru Osaka's mother, only for Usagi to get kidnapped by Kenko.
Miyuki Kanbe (神戸 みゆき, Kanbe Miyuki) (7 May 1984 – 18 June 2008) was a Japanese actress, model and singer. Throughout her career, she starred as Sailor Moon in the Sailor Moon musicals, as well as portraying Hinaka Tachibana in Kamen Rider Hibiki and Kyouko Kakehi in Battle Royale II.
Naoko Takeuchi (Japanese: 武内 直子, Hepburn: Takeuchi Naoko, born March 15, 1967) is a Japanese manga artist.She is best known as the author of Sailor Moon, one of the most popular manga series of all time. [2]
Luna first appears in the series as a mysterious black cat with a crescent moon mark on the forehead that meets Usagi and tells her she is Sailor Moon, a Guardian destined to fight evil. [3]: Act 1 Luna gives Usagi the mission to find her fellow Sailor Guardians and Princess Serenity, whom, unbeknown to both of them, is Usagi herself. [4]:
Later Tigers Eye, a member of the Dead Moon Circus attacked Unazuki Furuhata, and Usagi and Chibiusa turn up and transform into Sailors Moon and Chibi Moon. Tigers Eye summons a Lemures to fight. The Sailors are in real trouble, but Pegasus appears and powers up Sailor Moon and Chibi Moon, and Sailor Moon destroys the Lemures.