Sailor Moon S

What is Sailor Moon S about?

Sailor Moon S is a TV anime series of 38 episodes animated by Toei Animation, adapted from a manga. It aired from March 19, 1994 to February 25, 1995. AniList classifies it as action, adventure, drama and fantasy. It continues from Sailor Moon R, which is worth watching first.

Synopsis from AniList. The summary above it is written by FreeAnime.xyz from AniList's data.

Themes AniList users associate with it: Shoujo, Magic, Henshin, Female Protagonist, Urban Fantasy, Primarily Female Cast, Slapstick, Super Power, Found Family, Superhero.

Main characters

Characters AniList lists in a main role, with spoiler-free notes.

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  Usagi Tsukino 月野うさぎ

  Main character

  The main character of the series, called Serena in the English dub (nicknamed Bunny in the manga). Usagi is a carefree schoolgirl with an enormous capacity for love, and transforms into the heroine called Sailor Moon.

  Japanese voice: Kotono Mitsuishi

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  Ami Mizuno 水野亜美

  Main character

  A quiet bookworm in Usagi's class called Amy in the English adaptations of the series. She is hugely intelligent, with an IQ of 300, and can transform into Sailor Mercury, acquiring power over water. Ami's shy exterior masks a passion for knowledge and for taking care of the people around her.

  Japanese voice: Aya Hisakawa

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  Rei Hino 火野レイ

  Main character

  An elegant miko (shrine maiden), called Raye in the English version and Raya in the French version. Because of her work as a Shintô priestess, Rei can sense and dispel evil even in civilian form. When she transforms into Sailor Mars, she can also manipulate fire.

  Japanese voice: Michie Tomizawa

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  Makoto Kino 木野まこと

  Main character

  Makoto is the third member of the Sailor Team to be discovered by Sailor Moon, and serves as the "muscles" of the group. In addition to being physically tough, she is able to manipulate electricity and uses some plant-based powers. Her friends rarely use her full given name, normally shortening it to Mako-chan.

  Japanese voice: Emi Shinohara

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  Minako Aino 愛野美奈子

  Main character

  Minako is the fourth member of the Sailor Team to be discovered by Sailor Moon, and serves as the leader of the Guardian Senshi who protect her. She uses love-related powers.

  Japanese voice: Rica Fukami

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  Chibiusa ちびうさ

  Main character

  Chibiusa's real name is actually Usagi, but she is nicknamed Chibiusa to distinguish her from Usagi. She is usually very upbeat, extroverted and outgoing. Though she started out socially awkward, she quickly became popular with her classmates in the 20th-century.

  Japanese voice: Kae Araki

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  Setsuna Meiou 冥王せつな

  Main character

  Sailor Pluto is the soldier who guards the gates of time and acts as Chibiusa's guardian. After the events of the second story arc, she leaves the gates of time to temporarily live as a human being, joins the rest of the Outer Senshi, and becomes a university student studying physics.

  Japanese voice: Chiyoko Kawashima

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  Michiru Kaiou 海王みちる

  Main character

  Introduced in the third story arc, Michiru fights alongside her partner and lover Haruka in defending the Solar System from outside threats. In both versions of the story, she is elegant, sophisticated, capable of sharp anger, and sometimes cold. She is fully dedicated to her duty as a Senshi.

  Japanese voice: Masako Katsuki

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  Haruka Tenou 天王はるか

  Main character

  Haruka is a stubborn, protective individual, but is also strong-willed, capable, charming, and occasionally even doting. She is formally introduced in the third story arc, although she appears in silhouette alongside Sailor Neptune in the final episode of Sailor Moon R.

  Japanese voice: Megumi Ogata

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  Hotaru Tomoe 土萠ほたる

  Main character

  With people who do not know or understand her well, Hotaru is extremely shy and socially awkward, due to her powers and intelligence, but only at first. With her close friends and family, she is a sweet, gentle, young woman with great warmth and spirit.

  Japanese voice: Yuuko Minaguchi

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  Mamoru Chiba 地場衛

  Main character

  Mamoru Chiba is the major romantic interest of Usagi Tsukino. He is often portrayed as stoic, steady and introverted.

  Japanese voice: Tooru Furuya

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  Souichi Tomoe 土萠創一

  Main character

  Souichi Tomoe is generally referred to simply as "Professor Tomoe", and the English dub refers to him as "Doctor" Tomoe. He first appears in Episode 90 of the anime and Act 25 of the manga. In the manga Tomoe is outright malevolent.

  Japanese voice: Akira Kamiya

Supporting characters

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  Luna ルナ

  Supporting character

  Luna was a talking cat and advisor to Usagi Tsukino. It was she who first detected Usagi's power, but at the time did not realize that she was the Moon Princess.

  Japanese voice: Keiko Han

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  Artemis アルテミス

  Supporting character

  Artemis is the companion to the leader of the Guardian Senshi—he trained Minako Aino as Sailor V, and remains by her side when she takes on her proper role as Sailor Venus.

  Japanese voice: Yasuhiro Takato

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  Naru Oosaka 大阪なる

  Supporting character

  Naru starts the series as Usagi's best friend in school. Her mother owns a jewelry shop and she is the victim of several attacks by Youma.

  Japanese voice: Shino Kakinuma

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  Gurio Umino 海野ぐりお

  Supporting character

  Gurio is a smart nerd who is a classmate of Usagi and Naru at Juban Public MIddle School. He is usually called by his family name “Umino”. He keeps the sailor team up-to-date with information and rumors.

  Japanese voice: Keiichi Nanba

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  Kaolinite カオリナイト

  Supporting character

  Kaolinite is the loyal assistant of Professor Tomoe, and is also greatly infatuated with him. She first appears in Act 24 of the manga and Episode 90 of the anime.

  Japanese voice: Noriko Uemura

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  Mistress 9 ミストレス９

  Supporting character

  Mistress 9 is a malevolent entity from "Tau Ceti Star System" who has come to Earth to help open a gateway for her master, Pharaoh 90. She is called the "Messiah of Silence" and possesses Hotaru Tomoe's body (to varying degrees of intensity).

  Japanese voice: Yuuko Minaguchi

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  Motoki Furuhata 古幡元基

  Supporting character

  In the anime, Usagi calls him Motoki-oniisan and has a very big crush on him in the beginning of the series. He is also friends with Mamoru Chiba, who attends the same college he does, Azabu Institute of Technology. His girlfriend is Reika, a wonderful science student.

  Japanese voice: Yuuki Satou

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  Unazuki Furuhata 古幡宇奈月

  Supporting character

  Unazuki Furuhata (古幡宇奈月, Furuhata Unazuki), known in the English anime as Elizabeth Hansford (Lizzie), is the sister of Motoki Furuhata. She first appears in episode 69 of the anime and is mistaken as a rival love interest for Mamoru Chiba.

  Japanese voice: Miyako Endou

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  Yuuichirou Kumada 熊田雄一郎

  Supporting character

  Yuuichirou Kumada known as Chad Holdenford in the English version, is a ragged-looking young man who appears only in the anime, helping out at the Hikawa Shrine. In the English version, he talks like a surfer dude and calls himself a struggling musician. His family is very rich and even have a lodge in the mountains.

  Japanese voice: Bin Shimada

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  Eudial ユージアル

  Supporting character

  Eudial is the first and possibly the leader of the Witches 5. She first attacks the Sailor Senshi in episode 103. Her name comes from the mineral eudialyte. In the anime, Eudial seems to be the oldest of the group, and is much resented by the others — particularly Mimete — because Professor Tomoe seems to favor her.

  Japanese voice: Maria Kawamura

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  Mimete ミメット

  Supporting character

  Mimete is the second of the Witches 5 to confront the Sailor Senshis.

  Japanese voice: Mika Kanai

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  Tellu テルル

  Supporting character

  Tellu is the third member of the Witches 5, named for the mineral tellurite. In the anime, Tellu is assigned the task of gathering pure hearts. She approaches this by opening a flower shop and giving away beautiful plants, Telluns, which will later wrestle the pure hearts out of their owners.

  Japanese voice: Chieko Honda