Sailor Mercury was one of my first waifus before I knew what a waifu was.
Dat hair!
Dose brains!
Dem blues!
...I'll be in my bunk.

Sailor Jupiter is infinitely superior to all others, other opinions are factually wrong.

>>74637
In the end, they're all the same once Black Dog starts drawing em.

In the anime, Minako, because she's a loon. I'm still working through the manga, but thus far it's actually Usagi. Her negative qualities aren't played up so much on the manga, and it makes her a lot more likable. Her relationship with Tuxedo Mask is a lot more interesting in the manga, too.

Favorite character in general is probably English Dub Zoicite though. I know she's a whitewashing of a homosexual man and that's Not Cool and everything, but her performance was just so much fun!

I could never really pick between Mercury, Mars and Jupiter. At the time that it first came out (4th through 5th grade), I had a personality that mixed-and-matched from all three of them, good and bad.

I really like them all and Sailor Moon was a favorite anime of mine, I picked a lot of fights over being told guys couldn't watch it.

I always loved the ballsy monster designs, I mean i had it's share of cheesy but awesome Kamen Rider-eske critters, but you got some really creepy motherfuckers every so often.

I'm always caught in a orbit between Mercury and Jupiter.

I love all of them, really.

I used to rush home from school when I was little to watch it and I had all the dolls and toys that I would play with constantly. It was my first anime and manga.

If I had to pick just one, though, it would probably be Pluto.

In primary school when we played Sailor Moon during recess I was always the one designated as Sailor Jupiter. And she ended up being the one I always stuck with.

Personally, I favor Sailor V.

I'm actually catching the series for the first time on Toonami Aftermath. I... I like Serena. She's clutzy, ditzy, selfish, whiny, and a complete space cadet, but... there's just some kind of weird charm about all her faults that makes me love to see her succeed.

Second favorite would be Sailor Jupiter as she us straight up kicks ass

I only ever saw the Dic Dub as a kid and barely remember it, thus I most likely have no idea whatsoever what Sailor Moon is actually about. But I remember hating Serena and liking Mars.

Jupiter and Mercury are the best sailors. I was never really crazy about the series, but I'd watch it because my sister liked it and because it was good enough to keep my attention between the things I already watched (VR Troopers on UPN and everything on Toonami).

It still astounds me that FUNImation hasn't acquired this series at all. I know it was off the market all together for a while, but it's back on the market for the US and it would definitely make money for FUNI. Slap together a TV version to air on Nick or CN, get out some affordable DVD sets, and they could finally put out the Sailor Stars arc. It makes me wonder just what kind of deal Toei wants that isn't looking good to FUNI.

I watched a two day marathon of it years ago, and found it surprisingly enjoyable. I still troll my friends with the theme song sometimes.
Also >>74635

>>74664
SACRIFICE YOUR CHILDREN TO THE MOON QUEEN, BATHE IN THEIR BLOOD AND BRING US THE SAMPO. ONLY THEN WILL YOU HAVE YOUR PRECIOUS SAILOR MOON.

I hated Sailor Moon because it was so formulaic, please tell me there's a version of it that cuts most of the monster of the week elements and condenses it down to stuff like Dragonball Z Kai does. And for that matter, what other magical girl series are there that avoid the whole monster of the week approach (not counting series like Madoka which are just too short to do that)?

>>74676
>I hated Sailor Moon because it was so formulaic, please tell me there's a version of it that cuts most of the monster of the week elements and condenses it down to stuff like Dragonball Z Kai does
There is. It's called "the manga."

The Toku series does it to a certain extent, too, in the sense that it's shorter and...."denser," I guess would be the word?

After a couple of episodes I am absolutely in love with these two.

Sure their monsters are lame, but their interactions with Darien, Serena, and the rest of the high school are hilarious.

>>74684
Yeah, it's kinda weird. I don't like their arc in general, but I like them as characters.

Needs a Sailor Moon Kai.

I wanted to be a classy lady like Sailor Neptune when I grew up. Also, I really liked her transformation theme.

While Serena is my favorite, I still like the other four as well.
Although I never liked Uranus and Neptune's attitude. Sometimes I couldn't stand them.

>>74676
http://animania.eclectic-world.com/post.cfm/sailor-moon-essential-episodes

You can always cut out the nonessential episodes. I think there's more you could probably cut but I haven't watched it in a while so I'm not sure which ones.

Like anon said above the manga handles this much better.

>>74702
Well, less Kai, and more like Brotherhood.

>>74724
In that case, I guess the Toku series is the closest thing to Brotherhood. In that it re-adapted the manga, and veered a little closer to it in some ways. It wasn't a 1:1 adaptation either, though, and added some entirely new elements to the lore, like Dark Mercury and Princess Sailor Moon.

>>74647
When all else fails

Just ship them together.

>>74679
>>74702
OK, thanks for the help. I'll look into the manga, like it or not Sailor Moon was a pretty big part of my childhood nevertheless.

>>74725
Oh yeah, forgot to add this in the OP:
http://missdream.org/
This place has plenty of SM related stuff, including the toku series. I need to get updated with that as well.

>>74801
PreCure rule: everyone is gay to each other.
In SM case, everyone BUT Darien and Serena.

>>74702
Are those custom figures?

>>74806
>In SM case, everyone BUT Darien and Serena.
I don't know. Those two are definitely an item and exclusive and everything, but did you see the googly eyes she was making towards Rei when she first met her?

>>74806
>>74808

people remember: Japan doesn't interpret homosexuality the same way we do.

We see two women in a "relationship" like status? That's considered "training wheels" for when they eventually have to settle down with a guy. That's literally how Japan sees lesbians and women are expected to "grow out of it".

Could the writer for SM actually want her characters to be lesbians? I dunno. But it actually wouldn't be out of character for them to have distinctively male husbands at the end of the series.

... except for Uranus and Saturn. Those two are a bit too much on the far left.

>>74812
You mean Uranus and Neptune. And yes, those two are definitely lesbians. It's been confirmed by the author.

>>74808
Plus all of her romantic tension with Uranus after her introduction in the manga.

iirc Serena even had sexy dreams about her at one point.

>>74815
Everyone had a crush on Uranus when she first appeared. Of course, Ami's the only one who realized she was a girl when they first met her.

>>74816
Ami had a crush on Neptune instead

Also: Jupiter is the best anyone who says otherwise is a scrub

>>74816
I went back through the comic to find Serena's bisexual confusion dream because it's funny and it turns out I forgot the scene where Uranus initiates legit girl-kissing.

Like so.

>>74806
>Are those custom figures?
Sadly. I don't think there'll ever be any decent figures from the series.

Pic related, another custom I love.

>Watchin' Sailor Moon via stream
>Get to the episode where Sailor Mini Moon shows up, and Darien breaks up with Serena
>chat is filled with "Hurr durrr finally a girl got friendzoned" and "this is cuz you wouldn't take it in the pooper ya dumb bitch"

I hate humanity

>>74831
Well they can't really use vapid nerd lingo from the late 80s - early 90s. They didn't have an easy to use internet to form collective conscious.

>>74684
Yeah, I never cared for them either. It never made sense for me to have the girls lose their memories, only to get them right back again.

>>74869

I'm halfway convinced they were POSITIVE the series was ending after the first season so they decided to leave off on a simple/ambiguous note.

Course the manga DID continue and the anime still had to follow it.

>>74877
I'm pretty sure they had more than that first season's worth of the manga when they finished season one.

>>74879

Then they thought the anime's popularity was fading or something.

Either way they left season 1 off with them all suddenly having amnesia and returning to "normal". I can't see much of a point for doing that unless they thought they couldn't keep going and needed to end it off ambiguously enough for them to imply that the whole thing was at an end.

I actually missed out on it as a kid. Anywhere I can catch up?

>>74882
All of the dubbed episodes are on Veoh, so you shouldn't have any trouble getting caught up. I'll start you off: http://www.veoh.com/watch/v19888754ad4PE569

>>74879
>>74881
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sailor_Moon_R_episodes
>Sailor Moon was originally intended by Takeuchi to run only one season, but the first became so popular that Toei asked Takeuchi to keep drawing her manga.
>Because the production of both manga and anime occurred at the same time, Sailor Moon R begins with a 13-episode sub-arc that does not appear in the manga, created to give Takeuchi time to catch up.

Anyway, maybe it's just me but I cannot watch the dub. I watched it as a kid and loved it but after I watched some of the sub I went back and tried to watch it again and everything about it irked me, especially Serena's voice and how mean everyone is to each other (especially Raye who is such a bitch). Maybe I've become one of those crazed pro-sub people or something.

>>74889
Neat.

>>74889
Look, much as I hate the elitism of sub-snobs, there's nothing wrong with thinking that one version of something is better than another on a case-by-case basis. Especially with older works when dubs were legitimately generally of poor quality.

But Dub Zoicite was still cool.

>>74818
>>74819
I liked how they looked in the anime but the original art style in the manga is kind of... eugh.

Surprise I never really was on your side.

Ami has always been my favorite. She had such a cute voice in mexpanish.

Dem villains.

>>75193
She had a cute voice in any language.

>>75205
Gotta love 'em.

>>75224
Including swedish.
Sailor Moon Transformations an…
Aw man I can belive it taken me this long to post something about my first anime (series)...
>TV4 Junior FTW

I LOL'd at this.

>>75250
and this.

And this is Lita/Makoto'ś perpective.

>>75250
>>75251
>>75252
Why are Sailor Scouts so lewd?

>>75253
Sailor Moon is an 80s work and Naoko Takeuchi knew what some of her TV audience would come to see.

>>75251
Heheh.

>>75254
Takeuchi probably liked to keep things kinda spicy anyway. >>75205

>>75257
Skipped the impact frame. Huh. Odd.

>>75257

Jeez, take a picture, Makoto. It'll last longer.

Dem legs.

>Looking at randow Eva hent on fakku.net
>Found this
AHAHAHAHAHAHA! Va Fan! Aw man that funny.
>And then they fucked

Inner? Ami. Outer? Setsuna.

>>75363
Could you link/name what that's from? Even if the rest of it is utterly uninteresting, I'd like to know without having to sort through the literally 800+ Eva dojins on Fakku.

>>75377

http://www.fakku.net/doujinshi/asuka-route-english

>>75205

After watching Venus lament being the only sailor scout not attacked by the pure heart snatchers, she might be my favorite scout.

These two are just too much.

>>75873
Everyone knows Venus is a filthy slut

>>75875
Fuck you sir. Everyone knows Sailor V is a pure and innocent maiden, who unlike her princess actually values duty over romance, which is why she never actually gets any.

Moon Crystal Power, Make Up! (…

More Ami/Sailor Mercury

So I've been on a magical girl kick as of late, and decided to start up into this one, along with W.I.T.C.H. How many different manga and seires does this have? Mangareader only has as far as Volume/Chapter 12, (prolly chapters, they seem real short) where they're already fighting Queen...Metalia? Is that what it is? Also, Tuxedo Mask is apparently dead and his body is possessed by the queen. I ask because this is all going at kind of breakneck speed, they only have the first five Sailor Scouts, but it looks like it's all but ready to end.

>>76000
Only one manga, which is called simply Sailor Moon in english, though I think the new re-release puts "Pretty Guardian" at the top in tiny letters. Japanese purists may also label it "Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon" or "Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon."

There were somewhere around fifteen volumes of the manga in the original release. I think the latest re-release (both in Japan and in the US) had higher page counts and brought it down to about ten volumes. But the English re-release is only up to like Volume 5 or 6 or so right now.

There were five anime series, but they were basically just different seasons of a single series. The seasons go like this:
1. Sailor Moon
2. Sailor Moon R
3. Sailor Moon S
4. Sailor Moon SuperS
5. Sailor Moon Sailor Stars

All in all the anime is about 200 episodes, as I recall. There are also three anime movies--Sailor Moon R, Sailor Moon S, and Sailor Moon Super S. These are separate stories from the seasons they're named for, and I don't think they're based on stories from the manga. They're pretty good, and I'd personally consider the Super S movie to be better than the Super S season, all told. There was also a Sailor Mercury special that was based on an omake in the manga I think. I haven't seen that one. I don't think any of the other senshi got their own special.

Finally, there was a Tokusatsu series three or four years ago called Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, which is inspired by the same storyline as the first arc of the manga and the first season of the anime, but is probably at least as different from either as the anime adaptation is from the manga.

There are also some musicals called Sera Myuu, but they're little more than fan productions and I don't know that you can even find recordings of them.

>>76004
Hold up there, home slice. I'm pretty sure that the musicals were sanctioned by toei. And La Soldier is the bees knees. If anyone here is interested, you can find some translated on YouTube. More info here:;
http://wikimoon.org/index.php?title=Sera_Myu

>>76004
>Finally, there was a Tokusatsu series three or four years ago called Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Not sure, but I think it's been a bit longer. I remember watching the first episodes in some small convention quite sometime ago. I'd risk saying... six years?

>>76020
They're sanctioned by Toei, but I don't think they're part of any of the other continuities or have any of the staff of any of the official productions. Officially sanctioned fan-productions, basically.

I was just saying "They're there if you're interested and can find them, but don't feel like you're going to be missing out on an important of Sailor Moon if you don't."

So yeah, the little bit I read isn't even close to the end after all. Should have figured as much, since Chibi-Moon wasn't introduced yet.

>Looking for subs of SuperS because last time I watched it I only watched the essential episodes so I feel like I should watch it all
>Go to the pirate bay
>ONE MILLION individual episode torrents for every season plus the live action
>No batches
(okay there were batches but not of what I was looking for)

Why.

What's everyone's favorite season, by the way? Mine is Stars.

Forgot t post this in the OP.
http://missdream.org/
Miss Dream has been working on translations for plenty of SM media, including the toku series.

And by the way, yesterday was Usagi's birthday.

>>76523
OH

MY

GOD

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-07-06/sailor-moon-manga-gets-new-anime-in-summer-2013

[SMC] Sailor Moon OP 1 "Classi…

>>76523
>>76525
Maybe we'll finally get some decent figures of the Scouts now.

>>76523
>>76525
Sweet mother fuck yeah!

>>76526
My DOSH for S.H. Figuarts of the whole cast.

>new anime series
>new anime series

I saw this and I was cooking and I let my food burn

I am seriously so excited about this!

>>76523

>>76535
FAMENAG WE'RE ALSO GETTING XILLIA

>>76536

I AM CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC

>>76537
Why cautiously?
Toei knows they can fuck this up.
Or else, heads will roll.

>>76539

No, about Xillia

>New Sailor Moon
>I have no face

Don't think I ever answered OP... and the answer is obviously delicious delicious Makoto.

>>76523
>>76525
Dunno, did the anime stray too far from the manga? Like Rurouni Kenshin, I don't see much they could impr-...
>However, the staff intends to release the new anime worldwide simultaneously.

...Screw this, I'll wait and see :D

(Also I had no idea Tuxedo Mask had the same voice as Seiya, nice)

>>74687
I a while we're about to know if you are a wizard.

>>76546
I mean, it's a 52 chapter series adapted into 200 episodes.
They're like entirely different things.

Hopefully this one will have Tuxedo Mask's powers.

>>76523

Also, Pluto was my favorite and the best.