User blog comment:Bloom peters/What is sailor moon/@comment-26973802-20130809202718

It's a magical girl anime that's kind of like Winx Club, with transformation sequences and battles against evil villains.

The main characters are "Sailor Scouts" named after planets. When I first saw Stella I thought Sailor Venus. Most episodes usually have a Monster of the Week that gets destroyed at the end. These are usually sent by commanders who serve a main villain, and often there's another villain behind him or her.

Season 1 introduces the Sailor Scouts and has them fight Queen Beryl and evil villains from the Negaverse. Season 2 (R) introduces Rini and they fight the Negamoon Family of the dark moon that resides near the Negaverse, whose legacy will be remembered even after its destruction, and a plot twist near the end. Season 3 (S) is darker than the previous two, with a demonically possessed professor, an evil spirit possessing a girl, and a force of darkness who wishes to destroy the world, and plays with the "sacrifice people to save the world" concept, which newcomers Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune are willing to do, and a plot twist midway. This season sees the deaths of the most major characters of any season, including one introduced in a previous season. Season 4, Super S, introduces the Dark Moon Circus, headed by Zirconia and Queen Nehelenia, and is considerably more relaxed than S. An ally appears in the form of a pegasus (well, he's technically an alicorn), and the MOTW's are clowns who are destroyed in a similar style to the victims of Yugi's Mind Crush in Yu-Gi-Oh!

There is a fifth season, Sailor Stars, but it only exists in Japanese version as it never got dubbed, so the English dub of Sailor Moon ends after Nehelenia's defeat in Super S.

Fun fact: Whatever people used to say about it, Sailor Moon has a higher body count of named characters than James Bond. Most of them are disintegrated in a family-friendly way kinda like Darkar and Baltor, but one is particularly bloody, even worse considering he was killed for betraying the villains and turning good. (Though his blood is green)

If you like Winx Club, you'll love Sailor Moon