Wikipedia:WikiProject Sailor Moon/Sailor Moon volume 01

Pretty Sailor Soldier Sailor Moon
Author	Naoko Takeuchi
Original title	Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon
Illustrator	Naoko Takeuchi
Language	Japanese
Series	Sailor Moon
Publisher	Kodansha
Publication date	February 1992
Publication place	Japan
Published in English	RELEASE DATE (1st English language edition)
Media type	Paperback, Tankoubon
Pages	191
ISBN	4-06-178721-7

Sailor Moon Manga Volume 01 is the first tankoubon, or collected volume of Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon manga.

The official English-language translation of this volume was done by Tokyopop.

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Plot overview

Usagi Tsukino is a below average 14 year old girl who is constantly late for school. She wishes she could become like her idol Sailor V. She gets this wish fulfilled when a black cat shows up and gives her super hero powers. Now she must find the others of her team. She finds Ami Mizuno, who is rumored to be a genius. She turns out to be Sailor Mercury. Next she finds Rei, a miko of Hikawa Jinja, who turns out to be Sailor Mars. They all work together to try to find the Maboroshi no Ginzuishou. In an effort to do so they attend a ball, but find that their lead is not true. Meantime Usagi is falling for Tuxedo Mask and Mamoru, whom they don't know is friend or foe. They finally find Makoto Kino is Sailor Jupiter and then go on a search for the ginzuishou and the princess.

Act listing and plot

Act 1

An ordinary 14-year-old school girl, Usagi, dreams of being a superhero, like her idol Sailor V. She meets a black cat named Luna when she is late to school one day. She finds out that this black cat can talk! Luna then tells her that she is the Sailor Soldier for Love and Justice Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon finds out that her best friend Naru is under attack by the enemy. Sailor Moon goes to rescue Naru. She finds that she doesn't really want to be a Hero, and begins to cry. This puts everyone under the enemy's spell to sleep. Tuxedo Mask cheers her up and she defeats the enemy, thinking that it was all a dream. She finds out that it wasn't a dream afterall.

Act 2

There is a new beautiful smart girl named Ami. Usagi and Luna don't know if she's a friend or an enemy. When Usagi and Luna study the disk Ami uses for cram school they find out that the disk was created by the enemy. Usagi goes to investigate. Luna recognizes her as Sailor Mercury. Sailor Mercury creates a fog and Sailor Moon defeats the enemy.

Act 3

People that ride the Sendai Hill Bus six o' clock bus are disappearing. Usagi, Ami and Luna go to investigate. Usagi finds a beautiful miko named Rei. Luna thinks that she might be the Princess. Usagi rides the 6 o'clock bus to find out that Jadeite it behind the kidnappings. Usagi transforms and Sailor Mercury transforms. Jadeite freezes Mercury's fog. Usagi uses her tiara, Luna traps Jadeite, Rei transforms into Sailor Mars and defeats Jadeite.Everyone is rescued, however, Nephlite and Zoicite are not pleased.

Act 4

There is an announcement that Princess D is showing off a precious gemstone. Usagi thinks that Princess D might be the Princess. The Enemy thinks that the gemstone might be the long sought after Maboroshi no Ginzuishou. Princess D gets possessed by a youma, but Sailor Moon manages to stop the youma with her new Tiara and a new attack. Tuxedo Mask finds her drunk and kisses her, keeping her handkerchief which has her name on it.

Act 5

There is a new tough girl who saved Usagi. She's mysterious! Rumors are flying around that she was kicked out of her last school for fighting. Usagi makes friends with her and finds out that her name is Makoto and that she is an excellent cook! Makoto meets Motoki and falls for him. Meanwhile the enemy possess a Bridal Shop. Makoto gets attacked. Sailor Mars, Sailor Mercury, and Sailor Moon come to save the day. Makoto is not pleased at being tricked and transforms into Sailor Jupiter, defeating the enemy. Usagi finds out that Makoto left her last school because her senpai dumped her, and she felt a pull towards Juuban.

Shinsouban / Renewal

The shinsouban had some marked differences from the original in revisions. The cover of the manga was changed, the flap cover art was cut, and new additions were made. There is a page of stickers in this volume. There are a few color pictures, and a color picture of the first page of the manga. There is an added table of contents which did not exist in the original. Many of the internal images were changed or rearranged. For example, the transformation sequence for Sailor Moon is slightly different and clearly redrawn. Several bits of screen tone were taken out and replaced with either new screen tone, or screen tone that was more relevant. There are a few text changes, many to make the text less wordy and to cut side comments. All thank you messages and liner notes are taken out and replaced either with a new picture or a picture that was in the liner notes. A lot of changes were made to this volume versus other volumes. Consequently, new art can be seen throughout the volume.

English-language version

The English language version changed the original cover. When introducing Ms. Haruna, "Buy The Cherry Project!" was changed to "Same first name as Patricia Olsen." Other offhand comments were Americanized, such as "I thought she might be Miss Rain" becoming "She looks like Demi Moore," and the insertion of comments about Toto and Kansas and Arnold Schwarzenegger. A comment about Molly being a princess was cut for space issues.

The English manga also played with the meaning of odango and "lump-head" changing it to "cow tails" and "pig-tails". It cut the original note and used, what I believe is a previous interview. The English version also mentioned queen in the place of princess, which does not make sense in the context of the series. The introduction that Sailor Moon gives is different-- It says A "Champion of Justice and Defender Against Evil" as opposed to the conventional "for love and justice I am the pretty Sailor soldier" It also replaced soldier with scout as a way to conform to the dub.

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