Television Series about the Moon (Film Guide) - Freedom Project, Frontier in Space, Moonbase 3, Sailor Moon, Salvage 1, Smith and Jones (Doctor Who), S (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 49. Chapters: Freedom Project, Frontier in Space, Moonbase 3, Sailor Moon, Salvage 1, Smith and Jones (Doctor Who), Space: 1999, The Butterjunk Effect, The Moonbase, The Series Has Landed, The Silence of the Clamps, UFO (TV series). Excerpt: Sailor Moon, known in Japan as Bish jo Senshi Sailor Moon Bish jo Senshi S r M n, officially translated "Pretty Soldier Sailormoon" or "Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon"), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoko Takeuchi. Fred Patten credits her with popularizing the concept of a team of magical girls, and Paul Gravett credits the series with "revitalizing" the magical-girl genre itself. Sailor Moon redefined the magical-girl genre, as previous magical girls did not use their powers to fight evil, but this has become one of the standard archetypes of the genre. The story of the various metaseries revolves around the reborn defenders of a kingdom that once spanned the Solar System, and around the evil forces that they battle. The major characters - the Sailor Senshi (literally "Sailor Soldiers"; frequently called "Sailor Scouts" or "Guardians" in many Western versions), teenage girls - can transform into heroines named for the Moon and planets. The use of "Sailor" comes from a style of girls' school uniform popular in Japan, the s r fuku ("Sailor outfit"), on which Takeuchi modeled the Sailor Senshi's uniforms. The fantasy elements in the series are heavily symbolic and often based on mythology. Before writing Sailor Moon Takeuchi had written Codename: Sailor V, which centered around just one Sailor Senshi. She devised the idea when she wanted to create a cute series about girls in outer space, and her editor suggested she should put them in sailor fuku. When Sailor V was proposed for adaptation into an anime, the concept was modified by Takeuchi so that Sailor V...