History Trivia / SailorMoon

* IKnewIt: It was generally accepted by the fandom that the R in ''Sailor Moon R'' stood for either Return and/or Romance. This was never once been confirmed by the anime. In fact, while the eyecatch for ''Sailor Moon S'' states its full name (''Sailor Moon Super''), the eyecatch for ''Sailor Moon R'' simply calls itself ''Sailor Moon R''. However, a ''Sailor Moon'' [[https://sailorastera.tumblr.com/post/154767297767 magazine]] revealed that R stands for "Returns!".

** Despite Creator/VizMedia streaming the re-dub on Hulu in the U.S., it wasn't until September 18th, 2020 when Bell Media acquired the Canadian streaming rights to the Viz dub and released it on their streaming service Creator/{{Crave}} (under their youth-oriented WOW!WORLD Brand). However, three years later, Crave dropped the title, so the re-dub can no longer be heard online in Canada. Parenthetically, demand is actually emerging for ''Sailor Moon'' to get a new Canadian dub, and given the passage of the ''Online Streaming Act'' in Canada in 2023, that may be the only way for ''Sailor Moon'' to once again be audible online in English in Canada going forward.

** Hotaru was originally going to have what was referred to as "a druid's staff", a small brooch Saturn on her bow, and her fuku color was going to be yellow-ochre.

** When Creator/CarlMacek was originally tapped to work on [=DiC=]'s dub, he actually wanted to embrace the show's Japanese origins, feeling it was inherent to its themes and identity. He wanted to keep the Tokyo setting (which [=DiC=] did eventually revert to as well), and didn't want to change any character names. [=DiC=] was not interested in this, and Macek's replacement, Fred Ladd, turned in a far more localized adaptation.
** Creator/KunihikoIkuhara was originally going to direct the ''Sailor Moon [=SuperS=]'' NonSerialMovie, but left the series under vaguely explained CreativeDifferences.

** Originally, Ikuhara Kunihiko was going to direct the ''[=SuperS=]'' movie, and his story involved Sailor Uranus stealing a talisman from the Sailor Guardians to reawaken Sailor Neptune, who was in a 1,000-year sleep at a place called the End of the World. The climax would have involved a rodeo scene with Sailor Moon on White Pegasus chasing Sailor Uranus on Black Pegasus.

** Takeuchi also never explains why only Tuxedo Mask has a Sailor Crystal.

* ScienceMarchesOn: Pluto was officially declassified as a planet in 2006.

** Despite Creator/VizMedia streaming the re-dub on Hulu in the U.S., it wasn't until September 18th, 2020 when Bell Media acquired the Canadian streaming rights to the Viz dub and released it on their streaming service Creator/Crave (under their youth-oriented WOW!WORLD Brand). However, three years later, Crave dropped the title, so the re-dub can no longer be heard online in Canada. Parenthetically, demand is actually emerging for ''Sailor Moon'' to get a new Canadian dub, and given the passage of the ''Online Streaming Act'' in Canada in 2023, that may be the only way for ''Sailor Moon'' to once again be audible online in English in Canada going forward.

** Despite Creator/VizMedia streaming the re-dub on Hulu in the U.S., it wasn't until September 18th, 2020 when Bell Media acquired the Canadian streaming rights to the Viz dub and released it on their streaming service CRAVE (under their youth-oriented WOW!WORLD Brand). However, three years later, Crave dropped the title, so the re-dub can no longer be seen online in Canada.

** Despite Creator/VizMedia streaming the re-dub on Hulu in the U.S., it wasn't until September 18th, 2020 when Bell Media acquired the Canadian streaming rights to the Viz dub and released it on their streaming service CRAVE (under their youth-oriented WOW!WORLD Brand).

** The '90s anime was not made available for a digital streaming release in Canada until 2016 when Viz released it (as well as ''Crystal'') subtitled only on Tubi TV. It took over four more years for the dub to become available for digital streaming in Canada, through Bell Media's Crave service.

* ImageSource: Prince Diamond is featured on the page image of ConqueringAlienPrince.

* BadExportForYou: The anime has long had this problem in the US.

** Since Viz released their original US Blu-rays almost three years before Toei released theirs' in Japan, the HD remaster on their discs for seasons 1-3 is a different one, done in-house. While both remasters are upscales of the same 2002 SD source, Viz's remaster had smearing, ghosting, ringing, mosquito noise, and other problems. Additionally, the standard DVD edition of Vol. 1 had a pillarboxing glitch, which caused the video to be played inside a black square on many [=TVs=] and standard DVD players. Viz's releases have improved slightly in later sets though (with the final two seasons using the same upscale as the Japanese release), and the movie Blu-rays were taken from very good Japanese 35mm HD transfers. Madman Entertainment would end up using the same masters as the Japanese ones when time came to release their sets in Australia.
** Finally averted with Viz's 2022 Blu-rays, which use Toei's own upscale for the entire series, which, while not perfect, is much more watchable than their own upscale used for their original 2014 Blu-rays.

** Most of the first English dub's staff and cast weren't happy how it turned out, except a few of the voice actors. For [=DiC=], the dub's poor reception stings; to Western fans of the original Japanese, the {{dub name change}}s stoked ire for years (even though many of the name changes actually made sense... and [[DoubleStandard no one complained about European dubs changing the characters' names]]); to the Japanese, ''especially'' Takeuchi herself, its biggest sin was the fact that it was severely {{Bowdlerize}}d and edited. That last reason is why it has ''never'' been rebroadcast on television. Fortunately, Viz was given the go-ahead to redub the entire thing from scratch. Roland Parliament, the second ADR director and voice of Umino (a.k.a. Melvin), wrote a book about all about the production issues of the dub called ''Sailor Moon Reflections'', which was released in August 2014.

* DisownedAdaptation:
** Naoko Takeuchi herself didn't like the end result of the '90s anime much, due to Creator/ToeiAnimation changing several elements of her stories. She actively tried fighting some of the changes for ''Sailor Stars'' herself, but she found she had very little, if any, influence on the anime's production.
** Takeuchi also refuses to have the [=DiC=]/Cloverway dub get a rerelease. When Viz wanted to give the dub a ''Rock the Dragon''-style release Takeuchi prevented them from doing so.

* FranchiseZombie: Naoko Takeuchi intended for the manga to end after the Dark Kingdom arc, but the producers for the anime persuaded her to continue. By the time you reach the Stars arc, Takeuchi's frustration is nearly palpable. The villains are, respectively, the Sailor Guardians of the Milky Way Galaxy and the force of pure Chaos, as if Takeuchi is daring her producers [[SortingAlgorithmOfEvil to tell her to "top that."]]

** "But Naoko said this!" and "Naoko said that!", it's rarely true. Series creator, Creator/NaokoTakeuchi rarely gives interviews or even makes public appearances, and fans very rarely interact with her. There are many fan misconceptions that range from her hating the 90s anime adaptation to regretting creating the series at all. There's also the long standing rumor that she prevented the final season of the anime from making it over to the states out of fear of how they would [[{{Bowdlerize}} treat it]]. None of these are true, although supposedly she did have some issues with the original anime, there's no evidence that she outright hated it.
** There's some debate if Naoko really did approve of the English voice cast for the Viz redub. Viz themselves only say the "creator" approved them. Some believe they were actually referring to Toei. In addition, there's the longstanding rumor that Naoko hated the 90s anime dub, and that influenced the the prevention of the final season making it over. There's really no evidence one way or the other, although she did once directly complain about DiC's slow pace of bringing the show to the US, and supposedly thought Jill Frappier's performance of Luna was interesting, while finding Usagi/Serena's voice too deep.

* GodNeverSaidThat:
** There is an unsourced, infamous myth that Creator/NaokoTakeuchi feels the same way about the original Canadian dub that Queen Beryl feels about the Sailor Guardians.

** As for the original English dub by [=DiC=]/Cloverway, it hasn't seen an official re-release since the early 2000s. According to Viz, the original cinetape materials for that dub no longer exist or are in very poor shape. Though, to be fair, Viz actually ''wanted'' to rerelease the DIC/Cloverway dub in a home media boxset (like what Funimation did for their DBZ Rock The Dragon boxset). But Takeuchi herself vetoed the idea, and prevented this rerelease from coming to fruition due to her personal distaste for the DIC dub.

** As for the original English dub by [=DiC=]/Cloverway, it hasn't seen an official re-release since the early 2000s. According to Viz, the original cinetape materials for that dub no longer exist or are in very poor shape. Viz actually ''wanted'' to rerelease the DIC/Cloverway dub in a home media boxset, like what Funimation did for their DBZ Rock The Dragon boxset, but Takeuchi herself vetoed the idea, and prevented this rerelease from coming to fruition due to her personal distaste for the DIC dub.

* OvertookTheManga:
** The Makai Tree arc is a product of this, mainly because they didn't expect either to go beyond a single series.
** The Rainbow Crystal sub-arc from season 1 was also a case of this.
** The Nehellenia villain arc extended into ''Sailor Stars'' to pad out the fact that the final storyline of the manga was far shorter than the ones preceding it.
* PeripheryDemographic: Despite the series being a very well known shojo classic, it still managed to attract a sizeable ammount of teenage and college-age males who came to see cute girls fight. The Michiru/Haruka couple also provides a healthy dose of GirlOnGirlIsHot.

** As for the original English dub by [=DiC=]/Cloverway, it hasn't seen an official re-release since the early 2000s. According to Viz, the original cinetape materials for that dub no longer exist or are in very poor shape.

* DisownedAdaptation: Naoko Takeuchi herself didn't like the end result of the '90s anime much, due to Creator/ToeiAnimation changing several elements of her stories. She actively tried fighting some of the changes for ''Sailor Stars'' herself, but she found she had very little, if any, influence on the anime's production.

** The entire franchise was never licensed in Arabic-speaking countries (until ''Anime/SailorMoonEternal'' came into Creator/{{Netflix}}) due to [[BannedInChina the show featuring elements that go against the Islamic law.]] However, Israel broadcast the anime in 2011, dubbed in Hebrew (making it the only Middle Eastern country to recieve the televised broadcast of ''Sailor Moon''), and other Muslim-dominated countries, such as Malaysia and Indonesia managed to recieve the franchise.

* NowWhichOneWasThatVoice: Optimum's English dub of the '90s anime lists only the voice actors and not the characters they play.

* TheWikiRule: The [[http://sailormoon.wikia.com/wiki/Sailor_Moon_Wiki Sailor Moon Wiki]], [[http://wikimoon.org/index.php?title=Main_Page Project WikiMoon]], [[http://sailormooncharacters.wikia.com/wiki/Sailor_Moon_Characters_Wiki Sailor Moon Characters Wiki]], the [[http://sailormoondub.wikia.com/wiki/Sailor_Moon_Wiki Sailor Moon Dub Wiki]].