History Anime / SailorMoon

* ClipShow: Episode 89, which played out clips from the first two series, and also teased the third, with voiceovers from the main characters.

* AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: Inverted in Viz's redub of episode 21, "Protect the Children's Dreams! Friendship Through Anime". The translation goes for the correct pronunciation of ah-nee-may, rather than the ubiquitous an-nih-May.

* AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: Inverted in Viz's redub of episode 21, Protect the Children's Dreams! Friendship Through Anime. The translation goes for the correct pronunciation of ah-nee-may, rather than the ubiquitous an-nih-May.

* AdaptationalUgliness: Sailor Mars' grandfather is portrayed as tall and rather attractive in the manga, whereas in the anime, he's short and bald.

* AdaptationDistillation: In-universe example- the Sailor V video game, as popular as it is, has her standing in one spot shooting snakes and bats with a laser pistol, and the poster for the game features what look like stereotypical Mafia members as the bad guys. It is clearly not based very well on the actual Sailor V's adventures.

** In ''S'', the then-currently condescending Outer Guardians have an oddly polite conversation with Tuxedo Mask (despite him being one of the weakest guardians) and refer to him respectfully as Endymion, despite no other indications that they know much about the existing cast (barring Pluto). This was lifted almost directly from the manga, where the Outer Guardians are implied to already know who most of the guardians are/were but are avoiding working with them out of a sense of duty and penance rather than dislike and skepticism.

* BrokenAesop: The (original English) dub-invented [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle "Sailor Says" PSAs]] would have these from time to time.
** In the episode where Molly gets her energy sucked by Neflyte, the Sailor Says segment says that Molly was being true to her heart when she told Neflyte how she felt about him and treats this as a good thing and an important lesson...even though it put her in a coma. Naturally WebVideo/SailorMoonAbridged has fun with this.
--->'''SMA Serena:''' When Molly told Neflyte what she felt, she was being true to her self! '''See what that got her?''' Stupid bitch should've kept her mouth shut.
** The first season finale's Sailor Says had Serena tell the viewer never to give up, no matter how bad things seem, using herself as an example. Except Serena burst into tears and tried to give up every time another Sailor "was captured by the Negaverse".
** During ''Sailor Moon R'', Mamoru breaks up with Usagi and starts treating her coldly so she'll forget about him. Usagi is devastated and spends half the season trying to win him back. A few episodes later, Koan is also on the receiving end of this, being mistreated by Rubeus. While dealing with Usagi, Rei gives her the advice that loving someone is trusting them 100%, no matter how coldly they treat you, and urges her to not give up on Mamoru. Koan argues against that by saying if someone is treating you coldly, then you should dump them... and she's treated as being in the wrong for it. Later in the same episode, Rei straight-up tells Koan to her face that Rubeus doesn't really love her. Two girls going through a similar situation are given a different piece of advice by the same character, the only difference being that [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality one of these girls' lover is a main character while the other is the villain]].
** A particular episode from ''[=SuperS=]'' features a small girl being viciously beaten up by her own mother for having the dream of wanting to be the greatest swordsman in Japan. Turns out that the mother was beating her up because she was trying to teach her to not be so single-minded. Ironically enough, being single-minded is described in ''S'' as having a pure heart, and even then, it doesn't excuse the mother beating the ever living lights out of her own daughter. The episode concludes with the mother promising to beat the child again off-screen while Usagi reminds the audience that the little girl will reach her dreams someday, because "she has a wonderful mother to support her".

* FakeNationality: In the [=DiC=]/Cloverway dubs, Toronto-born Mary Long voices Molly (Naru) in a Brooklyn accent.

The anime was licensed by Creator/DiCEntertainment in 1995 for an English dub, which did poorly in syndication in the US but later found renewed popularity through reruns on cable TV, which led to additional episodes (through the end of the fourth season) being dubbed and broadcast through Cloverway, Toei's US branch, in 2000. By May 2014, Creator/VizMedia announced [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-05-16/viz-licenses-original-sailor-moon-anime-franchise the release of a completely remastered, re-dubbed, uncut version of the original television series.]]

The enduring popularity of the anime eventually led to ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'', a more faithful manga adaptation, in 2014, with Creator/KotonoMitsuishi once again reprising her role as Usagi/Sailor Moon. ''Sailor Moon'' received several VideoGameAdaptation games between 1993 and 2004, including a fan project by Destiny Revival based on ''VideoGame/FinalFight'' and ''VideoGame/DoubleDragon'' variants of BeatEmUp games. The anime series also spawned five TV specials and three theatrical films. The films are [[NonSerialMovie non-serial movies]].

* CanadaEh: The DIC and Cloverway English dubs were recorded in Toronto.

* BittersweetEnding: All the seasons end with such.

** At the conclusion of their duel in ''Sailor Stars'', Chaos attempts to break Usagi's will by calling her no different to it, claiming she claims to be above fighting but that she is a guardian proves she loves battle. Unfortunately for Chaos, Usagi rebuffs this with a "ShutUpHannibal".

* ForWantOfANail:
** If Sailor Moon ''had'' let Uranus and Neptune kill Hotaru/Sailor Saturn in the ''S'' season, then she wouldn't have been able to heal the Phages in ''Sailor Stars'' or even defeat Galaxia (or have faced Nehellenia in the first arc of ''Sailor Stars'' since Galaxia only freed her so the new threat would force baby Hotaru to grow up and have her Star Seed ready for her when she arrived) since she wouldn't have earned her "Eternal" transformation which required ''all'' the Sailor Soldiers (minus Chibi Moon) to lend her their powers. So if Uranus and Neptune had gotten what they wanted, the Earth would have been [[DownerEnding completely devastated by the Shadow Galactica]].
** In the ''Stars'' season, had Uranus and Neptune ''not'' attacked when Sailor Moon and Sailor Star Fighter were about to shake hands and establish an alliance, they would have been able to work together as a group and the constant conflict between the Earth Senshi and the Starlight Senshi wouldn't have happened.

* GenreBlind: Present especially in the first season, when Usagi and her friends never seem to suspect any monster activity when weird things happen, despite them having been in such situations in every preceding episode.

* DietEpisode: Usagi tries to go on a diet but fails in an early episode that involves the villains taking energy from girls who are obsessed with getting thin. Notably, this is ''not'' done for AnAesop in the Japanese script - it's mined for pure comedy at the need for women to stay skinny. [[ValuesDissonance In America, they had to make a "Sailor Moon Says" about how eating disorders and crash diets are a bad thing]].
* DistressBall: In Episode 62, the entire team except for Sailor Mercury are completely helpless against a perfectly ordinary MonsterOfTheWeek so that Sailor Mercury can realize that she's needed and come save the team. The usual sexist implications aren't present; instead, it's to deliver [[AnAesop the Aesop]] that Ami should stay with the Sailor Guardians instead of leaving to fulfill her dream.

%%* EvilCostumeSwitch: Endymion, Galaxia, and especially Black Lady (who even gets [[EvilIsSexy a new body out of the deal]]).

* CatchPhrase: In the DIC and CWI dubs, Sailor Moon's trademark catchphrase, "Tsuki ni kawatte oshioki yo!", was sometimes rendered faithfully as "[[InTheNameOfTheMoon In the name of/On behalf of the moon]], I shall punish you!", and other times not so faithfully as, "On behalf of the moon, I will right wrongs and triumph over evil, and that means ''you''!" As for the other Sailor Guardians, their trademark catch phrases were virtually ''never'' rendered faithfully in the original dubs.

* TakenForGranite: Jadeite's [[FateWorseThanDeath encased in crystal]] in the first season. A similar fate almost happens to Rei as well when she was bitten by a snake that promptly turned to stone afterwards, but it might have just [[ShatteringTheIllusion been an illusion]]. Another monster encased women in wax, trapping Ami and Makoto.

* FreeRangeChildren: The Inners are able to go all over town at all hours of the day and night and go on beach trips, camping trips and ski trips without supervision despite being middle school/high school age. However, it should be pointed out that Usagi, Ami and Rei are the only ones with guardians, whereas Makoto's parents are dead, Minako's parents are never mentioned, Mamoru's parents are also dead, Haruka and Michiru's parents are never mentioned either (but in the manga, Uranus says they have patrons), Setsuna is the only adult, and Hotaru, the youngest one, is more or less adopted by her fellow Outers.