Sightings

Spotting Sailor Moon images in other walks of life is always fun. Here are the ones that I know of in no particular order (taken from around the web and some by my friends and I). Feel free to submit others (please try to include pictures and information)! But please note that personal cosplays, random webcomics, and other such things aren't really sightings. See below for what qualifies!

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A Special Reverse Sighting

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Show: Bishoujo Kamen Poitrine

This is a very special sighting as this is one of the shows that inspired Naoko Takeuchi to write Sailor V and later Sailor Moon. You can clearly see the similarities between the show and Naoko's early artwork of Sailor V, Sailor Moon, and the other scouts. They also shared many similar gadgets. Watch the opening here.

Sightings in Sailor Moon

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An advertisement for Tenchi Muyo appeared on a bus in episode 31.
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Episode 104 featured Akiko Yajima as Tamasaburou and Miki Narahashi as Chagama. Both of these actresses appeared in Crayon Shin-chan, and thus the episode featured an extended reference to the series. Chibiusa has a disturbing encounter with Shinnosuke, a boy whose mannerisms are very similar to the title character. He was played by Yajima, who also played Shin-chan. Shinnosuke's mother, as in the original, was played by Narahashi.
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The two main characters from the anime Goldfish Warning! were featured in many places around the anime and manga, including as dolls in crane machines and in newspaper advertisements.
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Unconfirmed Sighting

These are not so much "unconfirmed" as they are "I don't have enough information or a picture to post them with the ones above". If you can help with any of these then please let me know!

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  1. In an issue of the Simpsons Bart comics, there's an anime parody chapter and Mr. Smithers transforms into "Sailor Smithers". It's in comic issue #12.
  2. There are some in Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei like Meru in Neo Queen Serenity's "frozen" pose and a Burning Mandala parody.
  3. In Kyouran Kazoku Nikki, Kyouka's magical girl transformation in episode 15 looks Sailor Moon like.
  4. There is a sighting in KimiAru.
  5. Sailor Moon pops up as an answer to a question on Trivial Pursuit Unhinged. The question was about some blond doll being created in 1959, the answer was Barbie but Sailor Moon was one of the choices.
  6. In a German issue of MAD Magazine there is an article called "The Top Ten Deaths for Anime Heroes". Sailor Moon is shown tripping on her pigtails and breaking her neck with a caption that reads, "This happens when....er..."
  7. At the end of Megaman X2, several list scroll by that list the names of the minor enemies. One is listed as "Saivor Moon R".
  8. Sailor Moon is cited a scientific paper from 1999. Here's the full citation: Nagata, Ryoichi (1999) "Learning Biochemistry Through Manga -- Helping Students Learn and Remember, and Making Lectures More Exciting," Biochemical Education, 27:4, 200-203.
  9. The article 'Forget about Sailor Moon; we love Barbie!' by Dave Barry appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
  10. In the manwha "One", there is a girl wearing a sailor fuku with Usagi's exact hair only black.
  11. In one chapter of Midori no Hibi where Seiji goes to buy clothes for Midori, there is a doll that has on an outfit much like the kind the Sailor Senshi wear. And in another chapter, Seiji is at the store and theres a poster with a girl with pigtails and the Japanese characters for 'Sailor Moon'. Also there is a chapter in vol. 6 where Seiji and Midori go to a convention. There's someone dressed up as Sailor Moon.
  12. In Helen: Sweetheart of the Internet, on March 5th and 6th of 2002, there were two stripts talking about how Helen liked Sailor Moon, it even had a picture of her..
  13. In a teen magazine (perhaps CosmoGirl or Seventeen) with Jessica Simpson on the cover, featured a collage of 'Female Role Models' and a sketch of Sailormoon was in there.
  14. Beauty Fighter Sailor Chemist was a parody doujinshi of Sailor Moon by Yuka Kawada. It was published in "Japan Pop!: Inside the World of Japanese Popular Culture" (2000), edited by Timothy J. Craig.
  15. In an old comic book ordering magazine there is a strip of Popeye deciding to go for a new look to appeal to the new age of comics and he comes out in sailor moon's fuku singing "I'm Popeye the Sailor Moon."
  16. In a documentary on Yuricon on British TV Channel 4, there is a clip from episode 180 and a couple of clips from episode 106.
  17. In a Simpsons comics anthology there was a side-story with Comic Book Guy saying something about a promotional giveaway manga for Mr. Sparkle (the Japanese dish soap with the mascot who resembles Homer) and the plot was something about this evil ink-monster bringing manga characters to life and battling Mr. Sparkle. One of the manga characters he fought was called "Sailor Moose". She said things like "A-HA! But how can you hope to do battle against the peky powers of Sailor Moose?!"
  18. In the April 2005 issue of Megami Magazine there is a picture from Ultimate Girls that features a Sailor Moon sighting.
  19. In an old nickolodian preview there was a bunch of nick characters dressed up as various anime charachters. Helga from Hey Arnold had on a sailor fuku and had an attack called "spinning hearts of love" or something like that. She was called Helga Moon.
  20. In the manga Sabrina series Halloween issue, one of the party-goers is dressed as Sailor Moon.
  21. In one of the books of the novel series The Princess Diaries, the main character, Mia, watched a Sailor Moon marathon and also referred to the series more than once.
  22. There's an Archie comic where Betty learns that Jughead is into Manga and reads such manga as: Tragic Night Sayearth and Sailor Lunar.
  23. In Maze, when male maze is in female maze's brain, he is with what looks like Usagi and a dozen other anime babes.
  24. In Cold Case Files 2x01, Silent Witness/Innocence Lost, you can see a Sailor Moon backpack.
  25. In a Discovery Channel show about Progeria (a disease where you age very rapidly and look like an old person although you're very young), there was a girl with a Sailor Moon Comforter on her bed.
The ones below are ones I am uncertain about. I don't know if the pics go with the info or perhaps need more info. Any help would be much appreciated!

A homes and garden type magazine once ran an article on the 3d Adventures of Sailor Moon.
In an issue of Nickelodeon magazine (before April 04), they had a section called "If Cartoon Characters Were Real..." where they had relistic drawings of Scooby Doo, Shaggy, and other popular cartoon characters at the time, including Sailor Moon.
In Mortal Kombat: Armageddon there is a hairstyle for a female Kreated Fighter that looks like Sailor Moon's.
In the video game Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, the Cutie Moon Rod was an available weapon in the game. Its special attack sent a wave of four crescent moon-shaped blades flying forward.
In the Archie Digest Magazine number 193 (possibly 168), there is a Betty and Veronica story called 'Star Struck'. In it they are head over heels for an Astronomer named Maxfield Standin. He wears a white blazer with a blue shirt and has long thick brown wavy hair. Remind you of anyone? And his wife is named Molly, who has her hair tied back with a bow.
A character was mentioned as having downloaded Sailor Moon pictures on his computer in the 2001 movie The Hole. ---- I have watched this but have not come across any mention of Sailor Moon.


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