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Adaptation Distillation: In-universe example- the Sailor V video game, as popular as it is, has her standing in one spot shooting snakes and bats with a laser pistol, and the poster for the game features what look like stereotypical Mafia members as the bad guys.

The anime on the other hand made him short and bald.

Adaptational Ugliness: Sailor Mars' grandfather is portrayed as tall and rather attractive in the manga.

In the manga he's just brutally honest while in the anime he would throw straight-up insults.

Mamoru is much snarkier and meaner to Usagi in the early original anime than the manga.

The rivalry between her and Usagi is played up much more - and even more so in the DiC/Cloverway English dub. In the anime she's hot-tempered, boy crazy, and is also a Jerkass/ Jerk with a Heart of Gold.

Rei in the manga is an Aloof Dark-Haired Girl and Celibate Hero.

They died quickly in the manga, but in the anime, they're turned into humans and given beautiful dreams by Pegasus after they sacrifice themselves.

One can only speculate if they ever gave the aged-up Hotaru back, and how they explained her growth spurt. This created a problem for Stars, which is why Setsuna basically ends up simply taking baby Hotaru from her father at the beginning of the season.

He also does not survive the Infinity arc of the manga either Hotaru ends up being raised by Haruka, Michiru, and Setsuna. In the anime the explosion is more of a freak accident and Tomoe allows himself to be possessed purely to save her life. In the manga he was a mad scientist and the accident that killed his wife and injured Hotaru was caused by his mad experiments. In the manga they are much more villainous but the anime has them eventually being purified by the Silver Crystal's power. The four sisters in the Black Moon Clan.

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She's about to take it, but changes her mind at the last moment and returns in time to get her mid-season power upgrade (which finally makes her more action-geared) and rescue the rest of the team from a monster only weak to ice, and she returns to the fold. Instead, she's offered a chance to study abroad and further her goals of becoming a doctor, which will remove her from the Sailor Guardians.

Achilles in His Tent: The standard plot happens a little differently to demure Mercury, who starts as the only Guardian without offensive abilities, and is too nice to storm off.

The translation goes for the correct pronunciation of ah-nee-may, rather than the ubiquitous an-nih-May.

Ac CENT Upon The Wrong Syl LA Ble: Inverted in Viz's redub of episode 21, Protect the Children's Dreams! Friendship Through Anime.

It formally concludes with Raye apologizing to Serena for her lack of faith in episode 35 (31 of the dub). Since they didn't actually have any more footage to support this, the plot just suddenly drops, though it gets a call back in a later episode where Raye again does something horrible to Serena that didn't happen in the original Japanese version.

Aborted Arc: The original DiC English dub added a storyline where Raye tries to have Serena thrown out of the Sailor Scouts (built from a one-episode plot where Rei simply objected to the idea of Usagi being ready for more responsibility given her established behavior).

Both the anime and manga end on a high note as Usagi brings peace to Earth and the galaxy.

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The series is generally broken down into the following story arcs (not counting filler): Dark Kingdom, Black Moon, Infinity (Death Busters), Dream (Dead Moon Circus), and Stars (Shadow Galactica). The series itself mostly follows a Monster of the Week format, with subsequent series introducing progressively more powerful villains and matching power-ups, and greatly expanding the mythos behind Usagi's past life in the Moon Kingdom and her fated future in the utopian Crystal Tokyo. Over the course of a year, Usagi grows into her role as the Magical Girl Sailor Moon and greatly matures as a result, gathering a team of four other reincarnated warriors and realizing her true potential as both a fighter and a growing young woman. With the aid of a feline mentor called Luna, Usagi must take up the mission of defending the Earth from the various evils that threaten it while searching for the reincarnation of the Moon Kingdom's princess. The life of ditzy school girl Usagi Tsukino takes a turn for the unexpected when she discovers that she is the Reincarnation of an ancient lunar warrior from the Moon Kingdom.

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It premiered on Maon TV Asahi, replacing Goldfish Warning! on the 7:00 PM Saturday time slot, and ended on February 8, 1997. Sailor Moon is the first anime adaptation of Naoko Takeuchi's manga, Sailor Moon, produced by Toei Animation.