History Anime / SailorMoonCrystal

The series premiered on July 5, 2014 on Website/NicoNicoDouga, Website/{{Crunchyroll}} and Creator/NeonAlley and the first two seasons consists of twenty-six episodes. It was simulcast worldwide on a twice-monthly basis (the first and third Saturdays of each month).

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The Silver Milennium is never seen or mentioned again after Season 1, even though it was restored to its former glory after Sailor Moon destroyed Queen Metalia.

** Season 3 has its second ending theme, "Maiden's Advice" which is upbeat and cheery despite how dark a note the episode ends on. Special mention goes to Act 34, where [[spoiler:said ending's singer, Chibi-Usa, has her Silver Crystal stolen and is dying]].

On April 28, 2022, a special program celebrating the series's 30th anniversary announced a two-part film adaptation of the manga's final arc, titled ''Anime/SailorMoonCosmos''. Directed by Tomoya Takahashi and once again written by Fudeyasu, the duology was released in the summer of 2023.

On April 28, 2022, a special program celebrating the series's 30th anniversary announced a two-part film adaptation of the manga's final arc, titled ''Anime/SailorMoonCosmos''. Directed by Tomoya Takahashi and once again written by Fudeyasu, the duology is set to be released in the summer of 2023.

** During the music video for "Moon Pride" as the guardians are doing their PowerWalk, Mars is the first guardian to be featured walking alongside Sailor Moon before the others appear, as if in accordance to the bond the two had in the first anime. Mercury is added next, and it is these three walking together before both Jupiter and Venus are included. The shot of the three guardians together also appears to refer to the first anime, when it was just Moon, Mars, and Mercury for the first half of the Dark Kingdom arc up to Act 25. Said walk is also similar to the one made by the aforementioned first three guardian in the first opening. This may also be a reference to the 90s anime, in the eyecatches of which the order of the Inner Guardians to appear is Mars - Mercury - Venus - Jupiter.

* PowerWalk: Music/MomoiroCloverZ's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Va228UhRs Moon Pride]]" music video features the CGI Sailor Guardians joining each other one-by-one in a synchronized walk towards the camera, stopping to form a VFormationTeamShot.

* VFormationTeamShot: Music/MomoiroCloverZ's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Va228UhRs Moon Pride]]" video has the {{CGI}} Sailor Guardians pose in a V-formation with Sailor Moon at center at the end of their PowerWalk.

* {{Bishonen}}: Despite already being attractive, the majority of male characters that play a somewhat important role, ranging from Asanuma to Mamoru, have been given an increase in the looks department.

** ''Crystal'' itself had this happen in the third season which had a new production team at Toei and addressed a lot of the issues with the first two seasons. While the new designs are based on the ones from the previous episodes, they are noticeably rounder and simpler, resulting in much fewer OffModel shots than the previous ones.

* EnhancedOnDVD: The Blu-Ray release fixed a lot of OffModel shots and animation errors.

--->We all have unshakable wills\\
We will fight on our own\\
Without leaving our destiny to the prince

** Notably averted in the first two-story arcs. While otherwise TruerToTheText, ''Crystal'' lacks the manga and first anime's shifts to broader comedy tropes like {{Chibi}}, BlankFaceOfShame and WingdingEyes, and dispenses with some associated GraphicalTropes, ({{Visible Sigh}}s, large {{Sweat Drop}}s and the like). While not lacking in {{slapstick}}, the result is a less ZanyCartoon tone. Played with in Act 19, where comedic elements were finally accompanied by the animated comedy tropes, such as Sailor Moon being shocked to hear that Chibi-Usa's a princess, or when Mamoru blushes wide-eyed when Usagi tells him that Chibi-Usa loves him, among some examples.

* OffModel: In general, ''Crystal'' suffers from many bouts of off-model moments by Toei where characters are drawn in strange fashion. These are often easy to spot due to the level of detail in the characters' faces (which makes differences between frames that much more jarring) and the already elongated limbs and bodies of the characters themselves. The mistakes were most prominent in the earlier episodes, and Acts 5 & onward have a much smaller percentage of these issues (but there is a wonky frame every once in a while). [[http://sailorderpcrystal.tumblr.com/ These]] [[http://sailormooncrystalfailures.tumblr.com/episodes Tumblrs]] document these moments hilariously. Eventually, the Japanese fans got annoyed with seeing this, [[https://twitter.com/cerepalla redrew their own Blu-Ray covers and tweeted them to the artists.]] Interestingly, these fans (and anyone else who tweeted the creators of ''Crystal'' to talk about their dissatisfaction) were blocked by Katsuhiro Takagi, Toei Animation's CEO. Toei re-animated those scenes for the Blu-ray/DVD releases.

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[Music/MomoiroCloverZ ♫ A new legend is starting right now. ♫]]''[[note]]Clockwise from the bottom left: Sailor Mercury, Sailor Venus, Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Mars, and Sailor Moon.[[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[Music/MomoiroCloverZ A new legend is starting right now.]]''[[note]]Clockwise from the bottom left: Sailor Mercury, Sailor Venus, Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Mars, and Sailor Moon.[[/note]]]]