Anime "Sailor Moon": characters

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Since the release of the anime "Sailor Moon", its characters literally captured the minds of girls in Japan, and later around the world. There are several reasons for such popularity, but the main one is that the heroines are very diverse and "vital". Each girl can find among them the one that is most like her.

Story Brief

In the Japanese city of Tokyo, seven of the most ordinary schoolgirls live with their worries, problems and joys. However, they have one secret that unites such seemingly different teenagers. All of them, when the Earth is threatened by demons from other planets, are able to turn into "warriors in sailor suits" and fight the villains. One of them - Usagi (Bunny) Tsukino, the main character of the Sailor Moon anime, becomes the leader of the team. She learned about her abilities when she met the magical cat Luna, who told her about her destiny.

In the first of five seasons, brave female warriors face off against a group of demons calling themselves the "Dark Kingdom". Taking energy from people, the demons are gradually gaining strength, and only Usagi and her friends are capable of them.interfere. To do this, they need to find magical rainbow crystals. If you collect all these crystals, then you can gain great power, and therefore they cannot be allowed to fall into the hands of demons.

However, it turns out that there is a third party in the hunt for the Crystals - a mysterious masked warrior named Toxedo Mask. As usual in most "girl" anime, Sailor Moon herself falls in love with Toxedo. This character, however, is trying to find the crystals not for the sake of helping the warriors, but for his own purposes.

Although in the end, the “Moon Team” of warrior girls manages to defeat these demons, in each of the next four seasons, enemies from other planets threaten the Earth, so Sailor Moon, her friends and Toxedo Mask will have to stand guard over the good more than once justice.

Characters

Perhaps those who have never watched anime will wonder: what is he like, a typical Sailor Moon character? What's this? It is very difficult to give such a definition, because all the main characters are very different in character, habits and appearance. However, one thing is for sure: the characters of this anime are the most ordinary Tokyo schoolgirls with supernatural powers.

Main characters

There are five main heroines leading the plot in "Sailor Moon". All of them are schoolgirls with different characters and different backgrounds, who were united by the mission to save the Earth from enemies ("We bring goodness and justice" - that's their motto). Each of the warriors in sailor suits is patronized by her celestial body -Moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus. This partly determines their character and fighting ability.

Usagi Tsukino (Sailor Moon)

The name of this bright and childishly naive fourteen-year-old girl is translated as "Moon Hare". She even looks like a bunny, especially due to the fact that she braids her hair into 2 characteristic ponytails resembling rabbit ears.

Cheerful and carefree, Usagi (who is called Bunny in the first seasons of the anime) does not like to study, although she is not stupid at all and passes exams without problems when she prepares for them. But you usually don’t feel like getting ready at all, it’s much more interesting to go to a karaoke club with a girlfriend, bake another yummy or once again quarrel with a mischievous boy named Mamoru.

So Bunny would have lived the most ordinary life, if one day she had not met a cute (at first glance) talking cat Luna. The cat told Usagi that she was one of the "warriors in sailor suits" who were called upon to protect Serenity, the princess of the Lunar Kingdom, and in every possible way interfere with the evil demons in the implementation of their villainous plans, in a word - to carry retribution in the name of the moon. And how do you manage not to drop out of school? The task is not easy, but Usagi will definitely do it.

In addition to the main character, there are characters in Sailor Moon without whose help she could not cope with the problems that arise.

Rei Hino (Sailor Mars)

The second most important character after Sailor Moon is Sailor Mars, aka Rei Hino. Her name means "Fiery Soul", which is fully consistent with andpatron planet, and the character of this girl. Long before Rey knew she was a Sailor Warrior, she had an uncanny ability to divine with fire. Her classmates were wary of her and even blamed her for all the strange things happening around.

Stubborn and short-tempered, brave and independent, Rei did not immediately agree to join the Sailor Moon team, but nevertheless was forced to do so in order to confront the impending threat.

Rei is very disapproving of Usagi's frivolity, causing constant friction between them. But there is a positive side to this: thanks to her practicality and prudence, Rei often cools the ardor of her overly amorous girlfriends.

Ami Mitsuno (Sailor Mercury)

Usagi's classmate Ami, whose name means "Water Rain", is another one of the sailor suit warriors. Responsibility, obsession with studies and some isolation - it's all about her. In the class, the girl was considered a nerd and did not want to be friends, so she is wary of others.

Having learned that Ami is also a warrior in a sailor suit, Usagi tried to make friends with her, but she did not succeed immediately. Like Rei, Ami didn't want to accept her fate, only for a different reason. If Ami will spend time fighting evil forces, then how can she still have time to study? And it is necessary to study, andcertainly "excellent", because in the future Ami is going to devote herself to medicine, like her parents. Perhaps, if she lived in our world, this character would hardly be able to answer the question “what is Sailor Moon”, because this girl has absolutely no time for such nonsense as anime.

And yet, what will be, it cannot be avoided, and therefore Ami also had to fight to protect herself and her friends.

Makoto Kino (Sailor Jupiter)

Makoto (her name means "Truth" in Japanese) seems to be the oldest in the team of warriors in sailor suits, not only in age, but also in character and life experience.

Losing her parents early, the future Sailor Jupiter was forced to learn to stand up for herself. Perhaps that is why she developed a fighting, truly masculine character. Usagi is afraid of her new friend and her ability to use fighting techniques, but at the same time, like other main characters in Sailor Moon, she respects her as an older sister. Despite her boyish behavior, Makoto loves to cook and generally take care of the house, she can go shopping with her friends with pleasure, so this heroine is actually not as unambiguous as it might seem at first glance.

Minako Aino (Sailor Venus)

Famous pop singer, idol of Tokyo schoolgirls, including Usagi and Ami, beauty and heart stealer - all this can be said about Minako. But she also has a second, hidden side of life: when there is a threat to goodness and justice, Minako turns into a mysterious warrior SailorV (only later, when she joined Usagi's team, she became known as Sailor Venus).

Beautiful blond, long-haired Sailor V looks very similar to Princess Serenity, who is called upon to protect the warriors in sailor suits. She uses this feature of hers to distract enemies from the real princess - Usagi.

In addition to appearance, Minako has one more similarity with Usagi - cats helped both awaken their magical powers. Minako has a white cat Artemis, with whom she has a very warm relationship.

Sub-characters

What anime for girls can do without "prince handsome"? That is why, in addition to the main characters, there is another character who plays a leading role in the Sailor Moon metaseries, although he appears sporadically - Toxedo Mask.

The Sailor Soldiers' mysterious helper who wears a mask always accompanies his appearance with a scarlet rose. Of course, Sailor Moon falls in love with this handsome man, for the time being unaware that he and the high school student Mamoru Jiba (“Protector of the Earth” in Japanese) who always teases her are the same person.

Toxedo Mask, the incarnation of Prince Endymion, is destined to be with Sailor Moon (Princess Serenity). In the Moon Kingdom in the future, they had a daughter, Chibiusa. When the kingdom is threatened again, the baby travels back in time and literally falls on Usagi's head. This is how the character Sailor Chibi Moon first appears. From the anime, we learn what happened infuture and why such a little girl decided to become a warrior like Sailor Moon.

There are characters in the Sailor Moon anime that are not so significant, but are also warriors in sailor suits. "Sweet couple" - Neptune and Uranus (Michiru Kayo and Haruka Teno), for example, almost never part. They are both girls, but Hotaru (aka Sailor Uranus) looks and acts like a guy in real life. Michiru seems to be the complete opposite of her friend. She is gentle and feminine, enjoys playing the violin and draws well. Toward the end of the anime, they became practically foster parents for another warrior - Sailor Saturn (Hotaru Tomo). This girl differs from the rest not only in her morbidity and physical weakness, but also in the origin of her gift. Due to a childhood accident, Hotaru became a dark warrior of destruction and was only able to return to the light side by turning her back into a baby and raising her again.

Setsuna Meio (Sailor Pluto) appeared in the story at the moment when Sailor Moon and Chibiusa traveled through time. Pluto guards the Gate of Time from uninvited guests, and during her service she became very lonely and unsociable, although she treats the rest of the warriors quite friendly.

Villains

The characters appearing in the Sailor Moon anime, as in any fairy tale, are divided into positive and negative. Each season presents its own group of alien demons, who certainly need to capture the souls of people, power, the Earth and generally get rid of Princess Serenity.

At the very beginning, a group of villains who call themselves the Dark Kingdom appear. They are looking for seven rainbow crystals, which, when brought together, will turn into one powerful one that can help seize power. Well, along the way, the leader of this bandit group, Queen Beryl, along with her assistants, takes the souls of people in order to bring her mistress Metallia back to life.

In the second season, when the warriors in sailor suits lost their memory and began to live normal teenage lives, the Children of the Dark Forest, Eil and Anna, flew to Earth. Believing that human energy was needed to revive their tree, they took the souls of people and did not even suspect the Tree's real need for love.

After successfully rescuing two lovers, in the second half of the season, the Sailor Warriors had to fight another demon, the Chasing Sisters, who were hunting for baby Chibiusa.

In the third season, the mascot warriors had to fight Professor Tomo, the father of Sailor Saturn, and his Apostles of Death. And after Hotaru joined the Sailor Moon team, the earthlings were attacked by the Dead Moon Circus, whose demons fed on people's dreams. And finally, the final enemies of the warriors in sailor suits were Sailor Galaxia and other star warriors like themselves.

And in addition…

In addition to five seasons of anime, three full-length films were also released on television: Sailor Moon R, Sailor Moon S and Sailor Moon SuperS, the game series Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon andmany musicals. Manga lovers can also read the original source from which the anime was made, and in 2014 even a re-release closer to the manga. In general, in Japan, and throughout the world, this anime has become one of the most popular. Almost all the characters presented in Sailor Moon became the inspiration for numerous cosplayers. Their photos were presented in the article.