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"From a far away place and time, Earth's greatest adventure is about to begin."
—Opening Scroll

Sailor Moon is the first season of the Sailor Moon series. Known as Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon in Japan, it originally aired on March 7, 1992 on TV Asahi. 40/46 episodes were bundled with 25 episodes of Sailor Moon R to create a 65-episode bundle for English markets.

Plot Summary[]

For the full plot see: Sailor Moon (season 1)

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Ditzy teenager Serena is informed, by a talking cat named Luna, that she is actually Sailor Moon -- a superhero-like champion of the Earth, who's destiny is to fight against an evil villain called Queen Beryl. Queen Beryl and her evil cronies are from an alternate dimension called the Negaverse. The goal of the Negaverse is to take over the Earth, drain away all its energy, and use the energy to resurrect the Negaforce.

Now even though Luna has given Serena her magic locket which allows her to use her special powers and change into Sailor Moon, Serena has a very difficult time believing she's supposed to be a hero, and doesn't take her duties seriously. Luna's number one priority - along with trying to identify the other Sailor Scouts - is to find the Moon Princess and ask for her help. The Moon Princess is from the Moon Kingdom, which Queen Beryl destroyed long ago.

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Over time, the Sailor Scouts are discovered and gathered together -- Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter, and Sailor Venus. There is also the mysterious Tuxedo Mask, who often appears to 'help' the Sailor Scouts. He claims to only be helping them in order to gain all the Rainbow Crystals for himself. Darien (aka Tuxedo Mask) at first has no memory of being Tuxedo Mask, and believes that these Rainbow Crystals can help provide answers to the strange dreams he has about being Prince Darien in another life, who loved the Moon Princess.

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Tuxedo Mask's attempts to get all the Rainbow Crystals fails, and he is hypnotized by Queen Beryl and forced to fight against Sailor Moon and the Sailor Scouts. In a final showdown with Queen Beryl, the other Scouts are captured by the Negaverse one at a time, leaving Sailor Moon to fight the hypnotized Tuxedo Mask on her own. This proves to be a huge mistake on the part of Queen Beryl, because the love of Darien/Tuxedo Mask and the other Scouts for Sailor Moon awakens the Moon Princess in her. Sailor Moon is the Moon Princess, and each of the Sailor Scouts is the reincarnation of their own planet's Princess. who were all part of, and ruled over by the Moon Kingdom. The Scouts, Prince Darien, and the Moon Princess were all part of the Moon Kingdom's Royal Court.

In the end, Queen Beryl is defeated by this collective power of love and loyalty, through the Moon Princess' Silver Crystal.[4]

Production & Broadcast[]

Sailor Moon premiered on March 7, 1992, in Japan produced by Toei Animation and airing on TV Asahi. Though it wasn't a success straight out of the gate, as the first season continued it became a hit in Japan and started seeing dubs in other Asian countries. Development for a North American version of the series started as early as 1993/94 and a 10 minute pilot was created by Renaissance-Atlantic Entertainment & Toon Makers, Inc., though was ultimately rejected by the Japanese stakeholders.

DiC Entertainment would eventually secure the rights to dub Sailor Moon, partnering with Bandai America to produce merchandise. DiC produced a 65-episode package[5], comprising of 40 episodes of Sailor Moon and 25 episodes of Sailor Moon R. Episodes were heavily edited, new music and sound effects were used, and a PSA segment at the end of each episode titled Sailor Says was added, to teach kids morals about the episode.

The series first premiered August 28, 1995 (in Canada) on YTV during the network's after-school The Zone time block. The UPN Network began airing the series in the US starting September 11, 1995 weekday mornings and afternoons.

After the series was officially canceled, it was picked by the USA Network with support from General Mills-sponsored The Program Exchange. Sailor Moon debuted June 9, 1997 on USA's Cartoon Express during the USA Extreme Action Team Block.

The DiC version of Sailor Moon would also air in other English-speaking countries: United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.

Episodes[]

Ep. # Episode Title Original Airdate (CA) Original Airdate (US)
JP US
1 1 "A Moon Star is Born" Aug. 28, 1995 Sep. 11, 1995
3 2 "Talk Radio" Aug. 29, 1995 Sep. 12, 1995
4 3 "Slim City" Aug. 30, 1995 Sep. 13, 1995
7 4 "So You Want to be a Superstar" Aug. 30, 1995 Sep. 14, 1995
8 5 "Computer School Blues" Sep. 1, 1995 Sep. 15, 1995
9 6 "Time Bomb" Sep. 6, 1995 Sep. 18, 1995
10 7 "An Uncharmed Life" Sep. 7, 1995 Sep. 19, 1995
11 8 "Nightmare in Dreamland" Sep. 8, 1995 Sep. 20, 1995
12 9 "Cruise Blues" Sep. 11, 1995 Sep. 21, 1995
13 10 "Fight to the Finish" Sep. 12, 1995 Sep. 22, 1995
14 11 "Match Point for Sailor Moon" Sep. 12, 1995 Sep. 22, 1995
15 12 "An Unnatural Phenomena" Sep. 14, 1995 Sep. 26, 1995
16 13 "Wedding Day Blues" Sep. 15, 1995 Sep. 27, 1995
17 14 "Shutter Bugged" Sep. 18, 1995 Sep. 28, 1995
18 15 "Dangerous Dollies" Sep. 19, 1995 Sep. 29, 1995
19 16 "Who is that Masked Man?" Sep. 20, 1995 Oct. 2, 1995
21 17 "An Animated Mess" Sep. 21, 1995 Oct. 3, 1995
22 18 "Worth a Princess's Ransom" Sep. 22, 1995 Oct 4, 1995
23 19 "Molly's Folly" Sep. 25, 1995 Oct. 5, 1995
24 20 "A Friend in Wolf's Clothing" Sep. 26, 1995 Oct. 6 1995
25 21 "Jupiter Comes Thundering In" Sep. 27, 1995 Oct. 9, 1995
26 22 "The Power of Friendship" Sep. 28, 1995 Oct. 10, 1995
27 23 "Mercury's Mental Match" Sep. 29, 1995 Oct. 11, 1995
28 24 "An Artful Attack" Oct. 2, 1995 Oct. 12, 1995
29 25 "Too Many Girlfriends" Oct. 3, 1995 Oct. 13, 1995
30 26 "Grandpa's Follies" Oct. 4, 1995 Oct 16, 1995
31 27 "Kitty Chaos" Oct. 5, 1995 Oct. 17, 1995
32 28 "Tuxedo Melvin" Oct. 6, 1995 Oct. 18, 1995
33 29 "Sailor V Makes the Scene" Oct. 9, 1995 Oct. 19, 1995
34 30 "A Crystal Clear Destiny" Oct. 10, 1995 Oct. 20, 1995
35 31 "A Reluctant Princess" Oct. 11, 1995 Oct. 23, 1995
36 32 "Bad Hair Day" Oct. 12, 1995 Oct. 24, 1995
37 33 "Little Miss Manners" Oct. 13, 1995 Oct. 25, 1995
38 34 "Ski Bunny Blues" Oct. 16, 1995 Oct. 26, 1995
39 35 "Ice Princess" Oct. 17, 1995 Oct. 27, 1995
40 36 "Last Resort" Oct. 18, 1995 Oct. 30, 1995
41 37 "Tuxedo Unmasked" Oct. 19, 1995 Oct. 31, 1995
43 38 "Fractious Friends" Oct. 20, 1995 Nov. 1, 1995
44 39 "The Past Returns" Oct. 23, 1995 Nov. 2, 1995
45-46 40 "Day of Destiny" Oct. 24, 1995 Nov. 3, 1995

Missing Episodes[]

Five episodes of Sailor Moon were cut from the 65-episode pack. Though no official word has ever been said as to why these episodes were omitted, fans have speculated it could be due to certain scenes of violence or inappropriate behavior that DiC would not be able to edit. Episode 2, Episode 5, Episode 6, Episode 20 , and Episode 42 were all not dubbed.

Episode 45 and Episode 46, were combined and edited into one episode of the dub; episode 40 "Day of Destiny".

Credits[]

Role Name
Executive Producer Andy Heyward
English Adaption Produced by Louis Hurtubise
Production Creative Consultant Fred Ladd
Directed by Junichi Sato
English Adaptation Writers Mycheline Tremblay, Gary Plaxton, Lisa Lumby-Richards
Casting Trish Dynes, Nicole Thuault
Performers Denis Akiyama, Steven Bednarski, Karen Bernstein, Kirsten Bishop, Lindsay Collins, Lisa Dalbello, Tony Daniels, Naz Edwards, Jill Frappier, David Fraser, Katie Griffin, Terri Hawkes, Elva Mai Hoover, David Huband, Loretta Jafelice, Kathleen Laskey, Julie Lemieux, Mary Long, Kevin Lund, Wendy Lyon, Tracey Moore, Colin O'Meara, Stephanie Morgenstern, Roland Parliament, Nadine Rabinovitch, Barbara Radecki, Susan Roman, Rino Romano, Ron Rubin, Alison Sealy-Smith, Maria Vacratsis
ADR Executive in Charge of Production Randall H. Zalken
ADR Associate Producer Nicole Thuault
ADR Directors Tracey Moore, Roland Parliament
ADR Assistant Director Jeff Lumby
ADR Engineer Salvatore Grimaldi
Audio Mixer Engineers Mark Baldi, Luc Hébert
ADR Mixing Services Provided by Optimum Productions Toronto, Canada
Main Title Music Adaptation Bob Summers for Don Perry Music
Main Title Vocals by Nicole & Brynne Price

Home Media[]

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Volume 1 of Buena Vista's VHS release.

Buena Vista would be the first North American distributer to bring Sailor Moon to home video. They chose to release 12 select episodes over 6 tapes. ADV Films would take over the licensing rights in 2000[6] and it would be the first time North American audiences would be able to own the entire first season on VHS, with DVDs hitting shelves in 2002[7]. Season 1 was spread over 10 VHS tapes and 7 DVDs.

Following the success of the dub releases, ADV Films also released the complete uncut first season with original Japanese audio and English subtitles in 2003.

In 2004, ADV Film announced the Sailor Moon license would be expiring[8]. There is no official DiC Entertainment dub of Sailor Moon available, all of ADV Films products are now out of print. Viz Media has taken over the license, and in 2014 began releasing DVD and Blu-ray sets with the original Japanese audio, and new English dub.

Trivia[]

  • Opening scroll
    The opening scroll at the beginning of the opening credits was only used for the first 14 episodes.
  • DiC's initial pitch to investors and networks included names that would later be changed for the final product.[9]
    • Serena was named Victoria and would transform by saying "Moon Power!"
    • Amy was named Blue, Lita was named Sarah, Raye was named Dana, Mina was named Carrie.
    • Tuxedo Mask was called The Masked Tuxedo.

References[]

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