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Project WikiMoon is an ongoing project to create a definitive database of information about Sailor Moon.

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May 31 is the birthday of Hiroyuki Matsumoto, who played Nephrite in PGSM.

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May 30 is Kou Taiki/Sailor Star Maker‘s birthday!

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Ryuuta Tasaki, the director of the live-action series, played Kenji Tsukino when he appeared for the first and only time in the Special Act.

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Mai Watanabe, the twelfth actress to play Makoto Kino/Sailor Jupiter in the Sailor Moon musicals, was the twentieth longest running performer in Sera Myu history, and the longest running Sailor Jupiter, making her the longest running Inner Senshi not from the first stage.

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Ayaka Komatsu, who played Sailor Venus in the live-action series, hates whipped cream - which made the scene where she had to eat some in Act 12 a very unpleasant one for her.

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In episode 54 of the original anime, the Moonlight Knight told Sailor Mars that he wanted to listen to her “beautiful singing voice” one more time. This statement implied that he knew her civilian identity, yet none of the other characters showed that they noticed.

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The song “I Was Born to Love You” by Queen was used as background music in Act 29 of the live-action series.

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May 24 is the birthday of Ayano Gunji, the fifth actress to play Chibiusa/Sailor Chibi Moon in the Sailor Moon musicals. Her first musical was Shin Densetsu Kourin in 1998, and her final show was in 2000’s Shin / Henshin - Super Senshi e no Michi - Last Dracul Jokyoku.

Ayano was the longest running Chibi Moon actress. She was also the oldest to play Chibiusa in the first run of the musicals, graduating four months before she turned 12; when Petite Étrangère began, Airi Kanda was only two months away from turning twelve.

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May 24 is the birthday of Keiko Takeda, the first actress to play Hotaru Tomoe/Sailor Saturn in the Sailor Moon musicals.  Her first show was Sailor Moon SuperS - Yume Senshi - Ai - Eien ni… in 1995, although the character of Hotaru did not technically debut until the next musical, and her last show was Eien Densetsu (Kaiteiban) - The Final First Stage, in 1998.

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In 1997 the Italian psychologist Vera Slepoj declared that the last season of the Sailor Moon anime would seriously compromise children’s sexual identity because of the Three Lights’ sex change when they transformed into Sailor Senshi. Because of this, in the Italian dub there were a number of changes which altered the storyline, one of which was that the Sailor Starlights were the twin sisters of the Three Lights and switched places with their twins when they transformed.

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May 22 is the birthday of Fumina Hara, the second actress to play Usagi Tsukino/Sailor Moon and the first actress to play Neo-Queen Serenity in the Sailor Moon musicals. Her first performance was in Shin Densetsu Kourin in 1998, and her final show was Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Natsuyasumi! Houseki Tankentai in 1999.

After graduating from the musicals, Fumina has performed many roles in TV dramas and as a voice actress for various anime shows. She has also become considerably popular as an idol and has released quite a few DVDs.

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Shino Kakinuma, who played Naru Osaka in the original anime, returned to play Hotaru’s mother, Keiko, in Act 32 of Sailor Moon Crystal.

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In the manga side story “Rei’s and Minako’s Girls School Battle“ Rei claimed that she had never farted.

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The musical Kakyuu-Ouhi Kourin included the only time that Sailor Chibi Moon ever used the Moon Stick.

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Episode 78 was the first time in the original anime that Makoto was shown with her hair out of its ponytail.

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May 17 is the birthday of Nanae Abe, the second actress to play Minako Aino/Sailor Venus at the Shining Moon Tokyo stage show.

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Random Sailor Moon Trivia:

For the first eight episodes of the original Brazilian Portuguese dub of the anime, Mamoru and Tuxedo Mask had different voice actors because the production staff did not know they were the same person.