Little Known Facts


We all love little bits of random info and that's what this page is for, little bits of random info from Sailor moon! And if you know of any more, please share!
  1. According to the Japanese Wikipedia page on Codename Sailor V, the name was changed to that to avoid legal issues with the Sailor Pens company as Sailor V was already a registered trademark (uncertain if this is exactly the story but it is true that something about Sailor V was changed because of that!).
  2. There is much more to Luna, Artemis, and Diana! In the manga it is revealed that they are from the planet Mau. This was also the home of Sailor Mau and Sailor Tin Nyanko. The planet was devastated during Sailor Galaxia's conquest of the galaxy. Here's the info:

    In Act 41 of the manga, Sailor Moon's power causes her companions to revert to their truest forms. The Sailor Senshi become princesses and the three cats are teleported to Sailor Moon's location, where they take on human forms. Luna's shape is the same as she had acquired previously, Artemis gets reverted to the form he had taken earlier in the arc to save Minako, while Diana is shown this way for the first time.

    The reason for their transformation is not discussed until Act 46, in which the three are attacked by Sailor Tin Nyanko. She calls them traitors, using her power to change them once again into humans and then chasing them, trying to kill them. When she introduces herself to Sailor Moon, Luna realizes who she really is. She is a false Senshi from their original planet, Mau, which had once been protected by Sailor Mau. Artemis called it a peace-loving world, but Tin Nyanko informs him that after he and Luna "abandoned" it, its people were wiped out by Sailor Galaxia. At this point, Diana, also in human form, arrives from the future and tries to intervene, but Tin Nyanko hits all three of them with blasts from her bracelets and they shift to ordinary cats, unable to speak.

    Later, as they care for the badly injured cats, Princess Kakyuu tells Usagi that the three of them have powerful star seeds, as brilliant as Sailor Crystals. In Act 47, it is revealed that their inability to speak is a result of injuries to the crescent moon symbols on the cats' foreheads and before leaving to fight Galaxia, Usagi leaves them in the care of her mother. In the next Act, they are brought to the River Lethe and killed by Sailor Lethe. Presumably they are reincarnated at the end of the series with everyone else.
  3. In the Sailor Stars series you find out that Rei goes to a Catholic school. For some odd reason her Grandfather wanted her to go there even though their Shinto.
  4. Mina's love life is the way it is because she is cursed. In the Sailor V manga, she meets Ace Kaitou (the sort of Tuxedo Mask of her story). Sadly however it is revealed that he is actually Danburite (the bad guy), who serves under the Shitennou.

    In the Silver Millennium, he was Adonis, a lowly foot-soldier posted to Venus who was also good at fortune telling. One day he saw Princess Venus and fell in love with her, but his love was hopeless. In his final death scene against Sailor V, where he is killed half in self defense on her part and half in suicide, he foretells that her love shall forever remain hopeless, dooming her and at the same time leaving her path open to put her mission before romance without hesitation.
  5. In the wedding scene at the end of the Stars manga, Usagi says "I felt it. The feeling that a new star will be born. Soon we will have our daughter." This, along with the scene right before which shows Usagi and Mamoru waking up together, implies that Rini was conceived at age 16 before they were officially married.
  6. Usagi was the only character to appear in all 200 episodes of the anime.
  7. Sailor Mercury was the only one to actually be killed by the DD (Doom 'n Gloom) Girls while the rest were killed using kamikaze attacks.
  8. In the manga, the scouts tell Andrew who they really are. Lita's friend Asunama (the manga version of Ken) also knows who the scouts are in the manga.
  9. Death is a common occurrence and each senshi dies at least twice in the series.
  10. The names we know in the North American version were not the first names given. We could have known the inner scouts as any of the following: Serena - Victoria or Celeste or Darien, Amy - Blue, Raye - Dana or Rae, Lita - Sara or Maggie, Mina - Kari or Monica or Alicia, Darien - Mark, Tuxedo Mask - The Masked Tuxedo. Hear the names in this promotional video.
  11. Chad and Greg never existed in the manga.
  12. Rini is 903 years old in the manga.
  13. Serena gets drunk twice in the series.
  14. Amy once beats Haruka in a senshi battle.
  15. DIC added 8 extra notes to Alan's flute song.
  16. In the manga, Hotaru's dad held a convention to show off his latest invention, which Hotaru attended, and it blew up in everyone's face. Only he survived and in his torment over losing Hotaru, he turned her into a half cyborg.
  17. In the episode "So You Want To Be A Superstar" in the North American dub, Sailor Moon breaks the fourth wall and looks at the screen to say, "If you see Luna tell her that I could really use her help."
  18. In the manga we discover exactly why Rei stays with her grandfather. Her mom died a few years after she was born and she hated her father so much for neglecting his family (he's a lawyer) that she decided to stay with her grandpa on her mom's side. An example of that neglect was that Rei never actually saw her father, only the assistant he sends. She actually falls in love with him too.
  19. Lots of stuff in the show is labeled 10-BAN because of a joke. 10 in Japanese is juu, adding BAN gets you Juuban, which is their school district.
  20. The Starlights aren't related and in the manga they were always women (think Haruka) but don't tell their fans. The looking like men part was a ploy because they thought it would be easier to attract the attention of women (ie. their princess) that way.
  21. The Three Lights are not brothers nor are they sisters. As they were all born in the same year.
  22. The Starlights first names are in fact all Kou. In Japan you say your last name before your first name and in the manga they say their names as Seiya Kou, Yaten Kou, and Taiki Kou. Not only that but on page 77 of the original print of the tankoubon manga #16, there is a panel that shows school test results and it very clearly says "Mizuno, Ami" and "Taiki, Kou".
  23. Ami's mom and dad are divorced. One day her dad went to his studio in the woods (he is a painter who does Japanese water colors) and later her mom got a divorce slip in the mail. However, Ami gets a postcard from her dad every birthday.
  24. Phobos and Demos, Rei's crows, become human in Act 34 of the manga. We also learn that they are from the planet Coronis and face a similar situation with Lead Crow that Luna and Artemis face with Tin Nyanko. In the anime, while they can be seen, they don't play the same role.
  25. You can figure out the year each character was born in because the time in the Sailor Moon world ran parallel to real time when the show first aired in Japan and continued to through the whole series.
  26. Usagi's family, Hotaru's father, Mamoru, and Haruka are all incredibly wealthy by Japanese standards. Usagi's family not only have their own house, but a very large one with two floors. Mamoru drives imported cars and goes to a private university. Haruka has a helicopter, a motorbike, and several cars. Hotaru lives in a mansion. It might not seem like much to Americans but most Japanese people live in apartments the size of a "standard" American dorm room for twice or triple the rent.
  27. Juuban (where all the girls live and play) is a real place in Japan. It's pretty much a 'rich' part of town. The word "Juuban" translates to "Tenth Street." The coincides with the fact that many of the characters are wealthy (see above). Naoko also moved to Juuban soon after Sailor Moon made it big.
  28. Sailor Iron Mouse and Sailor Lead Crow's alter identities are puns. Iron Mouse goes as Chuuko Nezu. Her first name Nezu is the pun, in Japanese Nezumi means 'mouse' or 'rat'. Lead Crow posed as Karasuma Akane, Karasu means 'crow' in Japanese. 'Aka' in Akane means 'red' (she's red colored). In Japanese, there is no distinction between the letters L and R also (yet another pun). Along with this, in the manga, Tin Nyanko poses as a foreign exchange student named Suzu Nyanko. Suzu means 'tin bell' in Japanese. In the anime she wears a bell around her neck.
  29. All the Senshi's last names are puns on their planets except for Minako's. Take for example how you say Mars in Japanese 'Kasei' which literally means 'Fire Star.' Ka is also pronounced Hi. Fire is the first Kanji in Kasei and also the first one in Hino. All of them work that way except Aino Minako's. Ai means love and Kinsei means Gold Star. The reason Aino Minako doesn't fit the puns and doesn't use the kanji for 'Kin' is because she was created before Naoko made the other characters.
  30. Touma Yumi and Midorikawa Hikaru the seiyuu for Anne and Alan in Sailor Moon R, were also the seiyuu for the SMR movie villains, the Kisenian Flower and Fiore.
  31. In the future as Neo-Queen Serenity, Usagi still doesn't write in kanji. Ami makes alot of comments about that in Sailor Stars. Kanji is very important, kindergartners learning it.
  32. Hikawa Shrine does actually exist in Japan. However, they replaced the original 'hi' kanji on the temple with the 'hi' for fire in the anime.
  33. There is also a Crown Game Center in Juuban as well, along with several other places used in the manga and anime (check out the book Warriors of Legend and see some examples here).
  34. Minako started wearing a red bow in her hair because a boy she liked told her she'd look nice in it (in the Sailor V manga).
  35. The Senshi all have castles based on the names of the moons of their home planets. Uranus' castle is called Miranda Castle, Neptune's is Triton Castle, Pluto's is Charon Castle, Venus' is Magellan Castle.
  36. The manga describes Haruka as being both 'male and female.'
  37. Alan and Ann were the only villains (not including the movies) to not come from the manga. They were created so the manga could catch up with the anime.
  38. Mizuno Ami is one of Japan's most liked anime characters.
  39. If you look really closely in Sailor Moon, you might be able to see the building of TV-Asahi. That's the company that aired Sailor Moon.
  40. Naoko originally intended all the Sailor Senshi to wear different sailor suits and wear masks. Sailor Moon was also going to have a gun and a cape (see pics here).
  41. Diana was originally going to be a fairy and Artemis was going to be Luna's twin (see above pics). You can also learn many other interesting facts from the above pictures that may or may not have made it into the manga. Example: Sailor Mercury's goggles were modeled after the Terminator.
  42. The kanji for the "Juu" part of Juuban looks like a crossroad which is why the junior high school is called "Crossroads" in the dub.

Unconfirmed Little Known Facts

This are things that came with the above but I am not so sure about them. Anyone know if their true or not?
  1. Takeuchi Naoko is such a huge fan of mirrors than she decided to base the fourth series (SMSS) around them.
  2. The reason why all the attacks are in English, even in a Japanese show is because Japanese really love saying English words.
  3. Black Lady was changed to Wicked Lady for fear of lawsuits over it being racial (uncertain if this is true but it sure is plausible).
  4. Kunzite was supposedly changed to Malachite to avoid legal issues with the copyright holder of the word Kunzite.
  5. In the manga, Sailor Moon's hair was going to turn silver when she transformed, but the editor said it should be yellow because it looks better on the cover because it's flashier.
  6. Haruka and Michiru were initially created to gain a more male audience.
  7. Lita was to come in in episode 17 and smoke to look like she was in a gang. In the episode, "Jupiter Comes Thundering In" Lita was about to take a smoke when Serena showed up.
  8. When everyone entered High School in the Stars series, it's found out that that was a MAJOR mistake. They were all meant to go into High School in the SuperS series like in the manga, but the producers and script writers forgot and MAJORLY screwed up.
  9. Sailor Jupiter was originally to be 17 years old.


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