In the show’s first season, the nefarious Queen Beryl of the Dark Kingdom scours Tokyo for a magical silver crystal that will bring her unimaginable power, while the crystal’s true owner, average Japanese schoolgirl Usagi Tsukino, begins to regain her memories of her past life as Princess Serenity of the Moon Kingdom, all while fending off attacks from Beryl’s henchmen and sundry demons. Season One: Sailor Moon Episode 33: “Enter Venus, the Last Sailor Guardian” I struggled to find an episode from that season worthy of a spot on this list. In the interest of balance, I’ve also tried to spread out my picks across all five seasons, though that seems a little unfair while I could happily choose all ten of my favorite episodes just from the glorious third season, season four is a gloppy mess.
In my choices here, I’ve tried to draw from both categories. There are two chief types of Sailor Moon episodes: cute, quirky stand-alones where nothing much happens apart from subtle character development, and big, epic game-changers. Out of the two hundred episodes that make up the show’s five-season run, it’s tough to single out ten for special attention. A beautiful example of giddy, silly escapism, Sailor Moon is gonzo and hilarious, as well as boundlessly charming and often poignant. Chief among Usagi’s non-Soldier allies are a talking cat named Luna and her much-older reincarnated boyfriend, Mamoru Chiba, who has his own secret identity: he’s Tuxedo Mask, a cape-wearing masked dandy who hurls roses as projectile weapons. She fights an unending slew of villains and demons and miscreants from all over the galaxy with the aid of her four fellow reincarnated Sailor Soldiers: brainy Ami (Sailor Mercury), temperamental Rei (Sailor Mars), brawny Makoto (Sailor Jupiter), and glamorous Minako (Sailor Venus). Sailor Moon centers around Usagi Tsukino, an adorably scatterbrained eighth-grade girl who discovers she’s a reincarnated super-powered princess from the moon. Last year saw the debut of a reboot, Sailor Moon Crystal I watched enough of Crystal to realize it was a limp and charmless copy of the original (the characters are poorly defined, and worse, it’s not funny), which then sparked a renewed craving for the pure, uncut glory of old-school Sailor Moon.
LIST OF SAILOR MOON EPISODES SERIES
I first fell in love with the 1992 anime series Sailor Moon in 1996 when I was working at a soul-killing temp job and living for my nightly dose of the weirdly-dubbed episodes that were then newly airing on U.S. television.
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