Sailor Moon

On the data. Two anime tell the same five stories. The 1992 series ran 200 episodes to February 1997, numbered continuously in Japan so that a season is a range rather than a restart: episodes 1 to 46 are the first season, 47 to 89 are R, 90 to 127 are S, 128 to 166 are SuperS and 167 to 200 are Sailor Stars. Sailor Moon Crystal, from 2014, retells the same arcs from the manga, much faster and with far less anime original material, and it did not finish on television. Its 39 broadcast episodes stop at the end of the Infinity arc, and the story continues as films: Sailor Moon Eternal, released in two parts in 2021, covers the Dream arc that the 1992 anime told as SuperS, and Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos, released in two parts in 2023, covers the Stars arc. Anyone who watches the 39 episodes and stops has not seen the last two fifths of Crystal. This site treats the 1992 anime as the spine and gives it the story order, because it is complete on its own terms, because it is the version the fandom is built on and because the three 1990s films only make sense inside it. Crystal sits in its own group with no story order positions, which is a judgement rather than a verdict on quality: the two are not compatible tellings and mixing them episode by episode produces nonsense. Commit to one. Crystal is closer to the manga and much shorter; the 1992 anime is slower, funnier, heavily padded in places and has a genuinely different ending to several arcs. The films slot mid-season and this catches people out. The R film is set during the R season and not after it, the S film during S and the SuperS film during SuperS, and none of them is required. Two of the specials, Make Up! Sailor Guardians and Ami's First Love, were shown in cinemas alongside those films, and the SuperS Special is three short television segments; all sit outside the story order. The English dub history is the other thing worth knowing before you pick a version. DiC dubbed the series from 1995 and cut it hard: six episodes were dropped or merged, so the first 89 Japanese episodes became 82 English ones, with names, dialogue and one entire relationship rewritten. Cloverway took over for S and SuperS around 2000 and kept much of that approach. Sailor Stars was left undubbed by both, and no English dub of the final season existed until Viz Media completed one in November 2019, twenty-two years after it aired in Japan. Viz also redubbed all 200 episodes uncut from 2014 onward, which is the version to look for. This means episode counts differ depending on which release you are counting: this page uses the Japanese broadcast figures of 46, 43, 38, 39 and 34, totalling 200, because they describe the complete material, and any English count below that is a cut version rather than a different series. Crystal's own numbering is inconsistent across services too, since its first 26 episodes were streamed fortnightly as one continuous run and are catalogued as either one season or two, which is why season 3 is sometimes labelled season 2. The 2003 live action series, 49 acts plus a direct to video epilogue and a prequel, is a third continuity with its own ending and no connection to either anime. The stage musicals, which have run since 1993 and are a large part of the franchise in Japan, are left out because they are theatre rather than film or television.

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