Characters
The series features an extensive cast of characters. Initially, the main protagonists are title character Sailor Moon, her love interest Tuxedo Mask, and the Guardian Senshi (Sailors Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus). They are later joined by Chibiusa, Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask's daughter from the future, and the four Outer Senshi (Sailors Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Saturn).
Each major arc of the manga and its anime adaptation features a different group of villains: the Dark Kingdom (in the Dark Kingdom arc of the manga and in the first season of the anime), the Black Moon Clan (in the Black Moon arc of the manga and in Sailor Moon R), the Death Busters (in the Mugen/Infinity arc of the manga and in Sailor Moon S), the Dead Moon Circus (in the Yume/Dream arc of the manga and in Sailor Moon SuperS), and Shadow Galactica (in the Stars arc of the manga and in Sailor Moon Sailor Stars). The first few episodes of Sailor Moon R feature a filler arc that introduces the Makaiju, two aliens that arrive to Earth to find life energy to collect for an alien tree, and the first six episodes of Sailor Moon: Sailor Stars reintroduce Queen Nehellenia from the Dead Moon Circus.
Supporting and recurring characters in the series include Luna, Artemis, and Diana (three cats that act as advisers to the Sailor Senshi), the families and friends of the Senshi, the Sailor Starlights and Princess Kakyuu, and the mysterious Chibichibi, among others.
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“No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary was the case: persons playing a part in my life—the first twenty years of it—had about them something semi-fictitious.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)
“His leanings were strictly lyrical, descriptions of nature and emotions came to him with surprising facility, but on the other hand he had a lot of trouble with routine items, such as, for instance, the opening and closing of doors, or shaking hands when there were numerous characters in a room, and one person or two persons saluted many people.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)