Sailor Moon #01

by Naoko Takeuchi

A Manga (Japanese for comic) that launched the hit TV cartoon. School girl turns super hero while trying to find time for a personal life and romance.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 189221301X
• ISBN13: 9781892213013
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: TokyoPop
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.4" x 6.8"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12

Customer Reviews

Sailor Moon Manga 1

Wow! Here it is, the start of the famous manga, Sailor Moon! Okay, anyways, this book starts out with a girl named "Bunny." She runs into a really strange cat and later the cat, much to Bunny's surprise, talks. Then the cat gives her the power to transform. In the first part Bunny, as Sailor Moon, saves her friend, Molly, from the Dark Kingdom. We are left wondering who they are... Later on, she meets her other guardian senshi: Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, and Sailor Jupiter. We also meet the hot Tuxedo Mask. Who is he anyway... It's a great start for a totally action packed series! The pictures are beatiful as always (Thanks Naoko!). I recommend buying both volumes 1 and 2 at the same time or you will reget it because volume 1 has a cliffhanger ending!-Sailor Pluto-

The VERY origin of our most favorite schoolgirls in action!

It all begun when Naoko Takeuchi, still another aspiring female manga cartoonist decided to spin out a fairy-tale yarn all about a fun-loving young missy with such wide blue eyes and incredibly long blonde "cowtails" (they're PIGTAILS, okay???) who was chosen by an alien cat named "Luna" to save the world - or at least the mystic princess and a mysterious jewel rumored to hold immense powers hidden somewhere out there in the universe.Our sweet 14-year-old heroine, Serena (or "Bunny", if you like) had been assigned by her four-legged mentor to protect innocent folks from the evil as well as finding new members for the whole magic-wielding squad with celestic names like "Sailor Moon", "Sailor Mercury", "Sailor Jupiter", and so on forth. However, the goofy kid behaved so irresponsibly like falling asleep during Luna's stern lectures, bumming free lunch off the other kids, and throwing temper tautrums whenever she had to do something unpleasant like attacking the enemy that you just gotta wonder whether the poor kitty had REALLY made a RIGHT choice in the first place???!! Nevertheless, Sailor Moon herself really pulled through as well as showing some real promise in the very end. And what's more, it didn't take very long for the girl to discover all the other Sailors in one place!:) Girls, you'd just love such dewy-eyed whimsicality, such misty romance, such pretty poses in that swirling pleated skirt and those cute little shoes, such dashing heroes in fancy duds who would SWEEP YOU RIGHT OFF YOUR FEET, and plenty of real humor in this nifty little pocket-sized book (though I admit the artwork itself is a bit awkward in some places) So LET'S JOIN THE WHOLE GANG to ward off the monster mommies, energy-sucking jewelry, brain-washing disks, disappearing buses, even a funny treasure-swiping princess, and so on forth!^-^

Moon Prism Power Make-Up!.......

First off, the art in this manga in wonderful. It is very beautiful and capable of potraying the deep emotional thrill ride this story will take its readers. When I first bought this publication, I wasn't a big fan of Sailor Moon. Alas, after this I was hooked. ...The story of a cry-baby girl named Bunny who meets a mysterious cat named Luna..... Luna gives Bunny a beautiful Brooch that upon calling "Moon Prism Power Make-Up" transforms Bunny into the gorgeous soldier protected by the moonlight...Sailor Moon! Afterwards, Bunny has to fight "icky bad guys" to protect the earth. Thus, she embarks on her mission under Luna's guidance, to find the other "Sailor Scouts". Slowly she falls in love with the mysterious Tuxedo Mask... The past and reincarnation begins to reveal itself....This is, once again, a simply enthralling manga! Much better than the anime, so don't judge by that. Read this wonderful story and you'll surely want to buy the rest!

SAILOR MOON IS THE BEST!

Ok if your into Sailor Moon then you will LOVE the Mixx translation. Now I know I can't read Japaneese and I'm sure most of you can't either and I really don't have time to go looking up translations like some do suggest and I think that that would just ruin the whole experience to have to stop and look up every character. Even if you aren't a Sailor Moon fan but you like Manga and don't know japaneese this series is HIGHLY suggested! I LOVE the first book I think it is one of the best! In the first one you get to meet Bunny better known as Sailor Moon, Tuxedo Mask/Darien Shields then Ami/Mercury, Rei/Mars, and Lita/Jupiter. But DON'T skip around while reading the books, read them in order so you don't ruin any suprises! But most improtantly ENJOY! I think EVERYONE Moonie or not wil LOVE this book!

This book is great!

I saw all of the anime episodes they show in the US on the Cartoon Network.After that I discovered the manga and found that it is much better.In the manga, Bunny is far less of a crybaby (though not totally lacking) than Serena in the anime.I now own Sailor Moon 1-4 and Sailor Moon Supers 1 and 2.I'm working on getting the others that are out now, but this book is definitely one you must own whether you're a huge Sailor Moon fan, a minor Sailor Moon fan or you just like manga in general.It does add a bit of variety to your manga collection, though.In my opinion, "Cresent Moon Bald-Spotted Kitty" does give Luna's name a bit of spunk, don't you think?I think this book is great.I especially like the little notes Naoko puts into the book.Anyway, the first volume of Sailor Moon is one that is great for almost anyone.(Buy it!)