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 "Moon Prism Power, Make-UP!" This page covers the manga and anime. For the entire franchise, see Franchise.Sailor Moon.A famous manga (and anime adaptation) created by pharmacist-turned-manga-author Naoko Takeuchi.Sailor Moon tells the story of Usagi Tsukino, a clumsy and lazy 14-year-old underachiever whose life takes a turn for the unexpected when she discovers that she is the Reincarnation of an ancient lunar warrior from the Moon Kingdom. With the aid of a feline mentor called Luna, Usagi must take up the mission of defending the Earth from the various evils that threaten it while searching for the reincarnation of the Moon Kingdom's princess.Over the course of a year, Usagi grows into her role as the Magical Girl Sailor Moon and greatly matures as a result, gathering a team of four other reincarnated warriors and realising her true potential as both a fighter and a growing young woman. The series itself mostly follows a Monster of the Week format, with subsequent series introducing escalating foes and matching power-ups, and greatly expanding the mythos behind Usagi's past life in the Moon Kingdom and her fated future in the utopian Crystal Tokyo.The show ended up licensed all over the world throughout a good portion of The Nineties, and practically every country/region received its own international dubs, all of which thoroughly displaced the original work (which itself heavily displaced the original manga). The regulation of translation accuracy, adaptation for ease of viewing, and editing due to local censorship concerns varied wildly by region, but thanks to the blooming internet, fans became aware of these changes (loudly, in the case of the North American fandom) sometimes well before episodes aired.Uncensored and censored versions of most of the series eventually came out in the States thanks to Geneon and even ADV Films. All of these sets, as well as the uncut DVD releases for the three films (also released by Geneon), have since fallen out of print. Around 2003, Toei quietly pulled all licenses to the franchise worldwide, which means non-bootlegged DVDs now cost a hefty sum of money. This license pull happened right when Sailor Stars sat on the cusp of getting dubbed into English (which means that season never got dubbed or released in the States). Toei has shopped the show (in its entirety) around again in recent years , and some countries have begun rebroadcasting the series — but only using their old dubs.Sailor Moon received several Video Game Adaptation games between 1993 and 2004, including a fan project by Destiny Revival based on Final Fight and Double Dragon variants of Beat 'em Up games.Back when it ran under the name Mixx Comics, Tokyo Pop picked up the original manga as one of its first series; all of their releases, however, went out of print in 2005. Kodansha picked up the slack starting in 2011 by using the 2003 Japanese reprints as the base for a new printing of the series.The manga has a prequel in Codename: Sailor V (well, a prequel of sorts, anyway; the first issue got released before Sailor Moon, but the series itself finished after Sailor Moon ended). An aborted American live-action/animation blend adaption also exists; a company called Toon Makers pitched this to Toei instead of the dub, but since Toei didn't pick it up, a two-minute music video put together using footage from the pilot Toon Makers produced remains the only footage ever seen by the general public. You can find more information on this project at Toon Makers Sailor Moon.In 2012, Toei Animation revealed plans for a new Sailor Moon series that would air worldwide starting in the summer of 2013, however it was later announced that this would be delayed.This page has a character sheet; please put character-specific tropes there instead of adding them here.Because of the massive amount of tropes associated with Sailor Moon, we've split the trope listing into three separate pages:
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