Anime "Sailor Moon": Characters

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

Briefly about the plot

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

In the first of five seasons, brave warriors face a group of demons who call themselves the "Dark Kingdom". Taking away energy from people, demons gradually gain strength, and only Usagi and her friends can prevent them. To do this, they need to find the magic rainbow crystals. If you collect all these crystals, you can find great power, and therefore you can not allow them to fall into the hands of demons.

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

Although in the end, the "Lunar team" of female warriors manages to defeat these demons, in each of the next four seasons, the Earth is threatened by enemies from other planets, so Sailor Moon, her friends and Toxedo Mask will often stand guard over the good of justice.

Characters

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

main characters

The main, leading the plot, the heroines in the "Sailor Moon" five. All of them are schoolgirls with different characters and different backgrounds, united by a mission to save the Earth about enemies ("We carry good and justice" is their motto). Each of the warriors in sailors is patronized by their heavenly body - the 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 translates as "Moonlight". She even looks like a bunny, especially because she braids her hair in 2 characteristic ponytails, reminiscent of hare ears.

Cheerful and carefree Usagi (which in the first season of anime is called Bunny) does not like to study, although she is not stupid and without any problems passes the exams when she prepares for them. But you usually do not want to prepare, it's much more interesting to go with a girlfriend to a karaoke club, bake another delicious meal or once again quarrel with a harmful guy named Mamoru.

So Bunny would live the most ordinary life, if she did not meet a nice (at first sight) speaking cat Luna. The cat told Usagi that she is one of the "warriors in sailors" who are called to protect Serenity, the princess of the Moon Kingdom, and in every way interfere with evil demons in the implementation of their villainous plans, in one word - to bear retribution for the moon. And how do you manage not to drop out of school? The task is not easy, but Usagi will surely cope.

In addition to the main character, there are characters in "Sailor Moon", without which she could not cope with the emerging problems.

Ray Hino (Sailor Mars)

The second most important after Sailor Moon character - it's Sailor Mars, it's Ray Hino. Its name means "Fiery Soul", which fully corresponds to the planet's patron, and the nature of this girl. Long before Rei found out about her belonging to "warriors in sailors," she had a supernatural ability to predict by fire. Classmates were wary of her and even accused of all the strange things happening around her.

Stubborn and quick-tempered, brave and independent, Ray did not immediately agree to join the Sailor Moon team, but still had to do it to withstand the impending threat.

Rei is very disapproving of Usagi's frivolity, which is why frictions are constantly arising between them. But there is in this a positive side: due to its practicality and prudence, Rey often cools the ardor of his overly amorous girlfriends.

Ami Mitsuno (Sailor Mercury)

A classmate of Usagi, Ami, whose name means "Water Rain", is another of the soldiers in sailors. Responsibility, a madness at school and some seclusion is all about her. In the class, the girl was considered cumbersome and did not want to be friends, so she is wary of others.

Learning that Ami is also a warrior in a sailor, Usagi tried to make friends with her, but she managed to do it soon. Like Ray, Ami did not want to accept her fate, only the reason was completely different. If Ami spends time fighting the evil forces, how can she manage to learn more? And to study it is necessary, and certainly for "excellent", because Ami in the future is going to devote himself to medicine, like her parents. Perhaps if she lived in our world, the question "what is" Sailor Moon ", this character could hardly answer, because this girl does not have time for such nonsense as anime.

And yet what's to be, one can not escape, and so Ami also had to fight to protect herself and her friends.

Makoto Kino (Sailor Jupiter)

In the team of female warriors in the sailors of Makoto (translated from Japanese her name means "Truth") it seems older not only in terms of age, but also in character and life experience.

Early losing their parents, the future Sailor Jupiter was forced to learn to stand up for herself. Perhaps, because it formed a militant, genuinely masculine character. Usagi is afraid of her new friend and her ability to use military techniques, but at the same time, like the other main characters in the "Sailor Moon" characters, she respects her as her eldest sister. Despite the boyish behavior, Makoto loves to cook and generally to work around the house, she can go shopping with her friends with pleasure, so this heroine is not really as straightforward as it might seem at first glance.

Minako Aino (Sailor Venus)

The famous pop singer, an idol of Tokyo schoolgirls, including Usagi and Ami, a beauty and a thief of hearts - all this can be said about Minako. But she also has the second, hidden side of life: when there is a threat to good and justice, Minako turns into a mysterious warrior Sailor Vie (only later, joining Usagi's team, she became known as Sailor-Venus).

Beautiful blond long-haired Sailor Vee externally very similar to the princess Serenity, which is designed to protect warriors in sailors. This feature of its uses, to distract the enemy from the real princess - Usagi.

In addition to appearance, Minako has another similarity with Usagi - both helped to awaken their magic powers of the cat. Minako is a white cat Artemis, with whom she has a very warm relationship.

Minor characters

What anime for girls can do without the "beautiful prince"? That's why, in addition to the main characters, there is another character, in the metaseries "Sailor Moon" playing the leading role, although appearing sporadically - Toxedo Mask.

The mysterious assistant of the sailors-warriors, wearing a mask, always accompanies his appearance with a scarlet rose. Of course, Sailor Moon falls in love with this handsome man, not knowing for a while that he and the ever-bullying high school student Mamoru Djiba ("Earth Protector" in Japanese) are the same person.

The fate of 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, Chibius. When the kingdom is once again in danger, the baby goes to the past and literally falls over Usagi's head. So for the first time the character Sailor Chibi Moon appears. From the anime we learn what happened in the future and why such a small girl decided to become a warrior, like Sailor Moon.

There are in the anime "Sailor Moon" characters, not so significant, but also are warriors in sailors. "Sweet Couple" - Neptune and Uranus (Michiru Cayo and Haruka Teno), for example, almost never part. They are both girls, but Hotaru (she is Sailor Uranus) in ordinary life looks and behaves like a guy. Michiru seems the opposite of a friend. She is gentle and feminine, is fond of playing the violin and draws well. Closer to the final of the anime, they became almost foster parents for another warrior - Sailor Saturn (Hotaru Tomo). This girl differs from the rest not only with soreness and physical weakness, but also with the origin of her gift. Because of the accident in the childhood, Hotaru became a dark warrior of destruction, and it was possible to return her to the bright side only by turning it into a baby again and bringing it up again.

Setsuna Mayo (Sailor Pluto) appeared in the story at a time when Sailor Moon and Chibius were traveling through time. Pluto guards the Gate of Time from uninvited guests, and during her time of service she became very lonely and unsociable, although she treats the rest of the warriors fairly friendly.

Villains

Emerging in the anime "Sailor Moon" characters, like 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 in general to get rid of the light of the princess Serenity.

At the very beginning there is a group of villains calling themselves the Dark Kingdom. They are looking for seven rainbow crystals, which, together, will turn into one powerful, capable of helping to seize power. Well, incidentally, the leader of this gangster group, Queen Beryl, along with her assistants, takes away the souls of people to bring back to life her lady Metallia.

In the second season, when warriors in sailors lost their memory and lived their usual teenage life, the Children of the Dark Forest, Eil and Anna, flew to Earth. Considering that to revive their tree they need human energy, they took away the souls of people and did not even suspect the real need of the Tree for love.

After the happy salvation of the two beloved, in the second half of the season, the sailors-warriors had to fight with yet another demoness, the Sisters-persecutors who hunted for the baby Chibiusa.

In the third season, warriors in mastrosks had to fight with Professor Tomo, the father of Sailor-Saturn, and his Apostles of Death. And after Hotaru joined the Sailor Moon team, the Earthlings attacked the Circus of the Dead Moon, whose demons were fueled by human dreams. Well, finally, the final enemies of warriors in sailors were Sailor Galaxy and other such starry warriors as they themselves.

And in addition ...

In addition to five anime seasons, three full-length feature films have also appeared on TV screens: Sailor Moon R, Sailor Moon S and Sailor Moon SuperS, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon and a lot of musicals. Fans of the manga can also read the source, which was the anime, and in 2014 - even re-release, closer to the manga. In general, in Japan, and all over the world, this anime has become one of the most popular. The inspirers of numerous cosplayers became almost all the characters represented in the "Sailor Moon". Their photos were presented in the article.