# Sailor Moon (1992)

> A clumsy middle school girl discovers she is the destined Sailor Moon and must lead a team of fellow senshi against the Dark Kingdom.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/3395

## Facts

- Seasons: 5
- Episodes: 200
- Episode runtime: 24 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: animation, action, fantasy
- Network: tv asahi
- Cast: Kotono Mitsuishi, Aya Hisakawa, Michie Tomizawa, Emi Shinohara, Rica Fukami, Toru Furuya, Keiko Han, Masaya Onosaka
- TMDB rating: 7.7/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103369/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: mild
- Tone: earnest, campy, cheerful, romantic, whimsical, adventurous

## What critics say

Audiences broadly regard Sailor Moon as a warm, campy and enduringly charming magical girl series whose friendship and heroism carry its episodic battles.

## Synopsis

Sailor Moon (1992-1997) is a Japanese animated magical girl series created for TV Asahi, produced by Toei Animation and based on the shoujo manga by Naoko Takeuchi. Clumsy second-year middle school student Usagi Tsukino (voiced by Kotono Mitsuishi) is an ordinary teenager until a talking cat named Luna (voiced by Keiko Han) tells her she is destined to become Sailor Moon, champion of love and justice, and must find the fabled Moon Princess. Her engine is a double life: she juggles school, friends, and a crush on the mysterious Tuxedo Mask (voiced by Toru Furuya), while a team of fellow destined senshi, including Ami Mizuno (voiced by Aya Hisakawa), fights the Dark Kingdom's monsters and villains who threaten the world. The series spans five seasons and 200 episodes, structured as a mostly episodic monster-of-the-week story with a serialized arc of villain factions and growing mythology. It is set in contemporary Tokyo with a cosmic backdrop of moon kingdoms and past lives. The tone is earnest, colorful, and cute, with campy comedy and romance sitting alongside high-stakes battles. Fans of Pretty Cure, Cardcaptor Sakura and Power Rangers will find resonance in its transformation sequences, friendship-driven heroism, and shoujo sensibility.

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