Sailor Moon (美少女戦士セーラームーン, Bishōjo Senshi Sērā Mūn?) is the title of the famous series originally authored as a manga by Naoko Takeuchi that resulted in multiple other types of media, including anime, musical theatre, video games and live action tokusatsu.
The story of the metaseries revolves around the reincarnated defenders of a destroyed kingdom that spanned the solar system, and the evil forces they battle.
Sailor Moon is generally credited with popularizing the concept of a sentai (team) of magical girls rather than anime in which one girl works alone. It is also credited with the reemergence of the popularity of mahou shoujo, or Magical Girl anime.
Although many concepts in the manga, anime, musicals and tokusatsu overlap, there are many notable divergences. Fans caution viewers not to always use information from either source to explain the other.
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