Sailor Moon is the mo🦋st iconic magical girl show in existence. The designs of Sailor Moon and the other characters are memorable and different from other anime characters we have seen during the '90s. Naoko Takeuchi brough🔥t us a classic that anime fans new and old will always recognize regardless of what year it is.
The manga was first adapted by Toei Animation, the famous animation studio that also brought us the Dragon Ball franchise and One Piece, to name a few. It was a huge hit in Japan, and later around the world, but as an adaptation to the original manga, the classic Sailor Moon was not necessarily great. Not to say that it's terrible since the '90s a💧daptation had g🅷orgeous animation, stellar music, and a memorable art style.
The anime is not the only one at fault either, since even the reboot, Crystal, has its fair share of issues that do not make sense. Heck, even the manga has some things we question that aren’t really answered, but they are mostly nitpicky queries that don’t completely distract us from the story. Those that grew up with the Western dub and then later watch the original Japanese or new Viz Media dub will be very confused ab🎶out someꦜ characters’ genders or parts of the story having been changed.
Sailor Moon is not the perfect story, but it is a good one that brought about a lot of nostalgia to fans who watched the 90s adaptation, read the manga, or even started watching the reboot. Here are twenty-five things in Sailor Moon that do not make sense.
25 Confusing Genetics﷽ 𒁃
Chibiusa is the future daughte🌌r of Usagi and Mamoru. With this in mind, you will notice that she does not share any hair or eye color from both of her parents. Just🍬 how does that work?
No wonder Usagi got jealous of Chibiusa before finding out the truth.
Genetically, it does not make sense for Chibiusa to have different hair or eye color, but Naoko managed to clear u🌊p this issue. Original🔯ly, Usagi had pink hair in her original design, but it is more than that. Check out Tuxedo Unmasked’s explaining more about this phenomenon.
24 🐓 ꦅ Nice Nail Polish
Anyone outside of the Sailor Moon fandom will know that the transformations scenes are what they remember from the series. After all, it’s how we see the Sailor Scouts transform to face off the𒈔 bad guys. Other than our tendency to question what’s going on, which we’ll 🌳get to later, there is one part that confuses us.
Why do the Sailor Scouts have n𓃲ail polish if they would just be covered up by gloves immediately after? Is it just an extra touch, or does it complete the cosmetics the girls get while transforming? Or maybe it's a gimmick to sell nail polish in general?
23 𒁏 The Lost Memories ꧃
Before the second season of Sailor Moon could get to the meat of the story, the filler episodes took over to extend the show lꦇonger. While it does help Naoko Takeuchi with having more time to continue the manga, this ꦺsection just doesn’t add up well.
While the girls managed to get their memories back, Mamoru’s case was different. The Moonlight Knight was Mamoru’s lost memories and while we got an explanation in the anime, it still gets our heads scratching from with confusion. Thankfully Crystal spared fans from this headache.
22 🐓 𓆏 Just More Drama
As if the 90s anime couldn’t be any more guilty, it added a lot of drama to keep viewers on the edge of their seats. One issue that was completely unnecessary was w🐼hen Mamoru broke up with Usagi. Because of the nightmares he had been having, he believ𝔉ed that leaving her would save her.
But he was completely wrong.
Out of fear and for Usagi’s safety, it makes sense, but Mamoru’s future self, King Endymion, did this to🎃 test his relationship with Usagi. Fortunately, Mamoru and Usagi managed to make it through de🐼spite what happened.
21 ಞ 🐷 Time Travel Headaches
It seems that there are a lot of issues circulating about the Black Moon arc. This case can be said in both incarnations of the manga and anime, and it's about the lack💜 of worry for time paradoxes. There was a lot of time traveling involved, ranging from Chibiusa 𓆏traveling back to the past, to the Sailor Scouts and Tuxedo Mask heading to the future.
With how the Black Moon Kingdom was stopped and saved Crystal Tokyo, we can’t help but wond🐎er if there would be other issues 🎀that would occur as a result of changing the course of history. This is what fan theories are for anyway.
20 Mamo▨ru, You Poor Soul 🐽
A lot of tension came about during the Black Moon arc, and it got real when Chibiusa gave in to the corruption of W⛦iseman. She would grow into a ꦇbeautiful, but dangerous woman that would attack Sailor Moon and the other Scouts, but then take Tuxedo Mask.
Before he was hypnotized by her, why didn't Mamoru recognize his own future daughter despite being older? He was suspicious, but he didn’t question it. That doesn’t even answer Chibiusa’s Electra complex, and when they kissed, t🎀hat threw us off with a hint of nausea.
19 Allergic To Letಌters? 🅺
Ami Mizuno is the second Sailor Scout introduced to🦩 us who would later become Sailor Mercury. She is a genius and while she is not the strongest Sailor Scout, she is still very important for her brains and strategy. The last thing she worries about is love.
In Ami’s First Love, she liked t🅠he idea of having a rival who got a better score than her on a test and develops feelings for him. She would then get love letters an♈d that would cause her to feel ill. In reality, something like that does not happen, unless lovesickness is really that strong.
18 ꩲ Westernization Taking Over... Almost 🍸
When Sailor Moon became locꦫalized in America, it would become a huge hit, just like in Japan. The formula was to have🔯 every single character that has a Japanese name be changed into Western ones. For example, Usagi would change into Serena.
Although in the third season, where Hotaru shows up, she was the only one to not have her name changed. She might have been spared from being localized, but that just makes Hotaru feel 🅷out of place while everyone is either Lita, Darien, or Michelle. Maybe 💦Cloverway just couldn’t think of a Western name for Hotaru?
17 ✅ They're Clearly Reco🌳gnizable
If there is one issue that even super Sailor Moon fans can call out, it is the lack of identity changes when the Sailor Scouts transform. When Sailor Moon first saved an imposter of Naru’s mother, i﷽t is amazing how Naru could not recognize her frien🍸d defeating the monster Morga with a tiara.
There really is no clear-cut evidence as to why no one recognizes the Sailor Scouts. At least in the live actio♍n series, they look like normal Japanese citizens but turn completely different when they transform.
16 🅠 Not So Subtle Disguises
Like with the previous entry, Sailor Moon as a whole is guilty of having not-so-good disguises for any of the characters except﷽ for Tuxedo Mask and in the live action series. If we have to pinpoint the worst way to use a disguise🌞, it's when the Sailor Starlights come in.
The original anime had the three ladies turn into men when they were in civilian form. This was unneeded and it even goes against Naoko Takeuchi’s statement that only women can be Sailor Scouts. No wonder America never got to see Sailor Moon Stars back in the day.