Sailor Moon

Sailor Moon

Part of the British Museums 'Manga' Exhibit

Sailor Moon, known in Japan originally as 'Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon', has come to epitomize the genre of 'magical girl' manga and is read widely by both female and male audiences. A fundamental aspect is that an ordinary woman can obtain magical powers through some sort of transformation. Sailor Moon follows the adventures of average middle-school student Tsukino Usagi (meaning 'Rabbit in the Moon'). She meets a black cat named Luna and is recruited on a secret mission with a group of other comrades to battle evil. The genre of magical girl manga began in the 1960s and is still going strong.

Takeuchi Naoko

1991-1997

8.5" X 11"

English and Japanese

Magical girl Manga