Sailor Moon

By Merrick Nansteel

October 2019

Sailor Moon is an anime from 1992 following the life of a 14 year-old schoolgirl named Usagi Tsukino. Usagi is clumsy, a bit of a crybaby, and doesn’t really do well in her schoolwork (in the first episode, she gets a 30% on an English test).

However, despite all odds, Usagi is actually the “Pretty Guardian of Love and Justice” Sailor Moon (hence the show’s title). She has to balance her everyday life with her life as a Sailor Guardian. Usagi gets help doing so from a talking black cat named Luna. Luna has a yellow crescent moon on her forehead, and (spoiler alert) comes from the Moon. Luna helps Usagi with her three missions: find the Legendary Silver Crystal before the Dark Kingdom (the bad guys of the series) does, find the Moon Princess (there used to be a kingdom on the Moon), and find the other Sailor Guardians.

Along the way, Usagi makes some friends: the kind-hearted supergenius Ami Mizuno (Sailor Mercury), the hot-headed psychic Rei Hino (Sailor Mars), the strong, good-at-cooking, falls-in-love-a-bit-too-easily Makoto Kino (Sailor Jupiter), and the experienced Sailor Guardian Minako Aino (Sailor Venus, formerly Sailor V).

The Sailor Guardians are a team, and so they are all faithful to each other. This anime has become famous amongst the feminist movements, due to the fact that the Sailor Guardians will fight for what’s right, an example being any sexism regarding male-superiority (the first such issue was with one of the characters in the Dark Kingdom, Jadeite). If anyone would ask, I would say that they should watch Sailor Moon as soon as they can. I would rate this anime 5 stars.