Usagi Tsukino is a normal girl until she meets up with Luna, a talking cat, who tells her that she is Sailor Moon. As Sailor Moon, Usagi must fight evils and enforce justice, in the name of the Moon and the mysterious Moon Princess. She meets other girls destined to be Sailor Senshi (Sailor Scouts), and together, they fight the forces of evil! (Source: Kodansha USA) Notes: - The tankoubon release contains 52 Acts and 9 bonus chapters across 18 volumes; chapter/volume counts follow the tankoubon release. - The shinsouban release contains the original 52 Acts plus 8 new Acts across 12 volumes, but no bonus chapters as all 9 were released separately in Sailor Moon Short Stories alongside another bonus chapter that was previously released in an artbook. - The kanzenban release contains both the 60 Acts and the 10 bonus chapters from the short story shinsoubans across 10 volumes.
Japanese study overview
Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon is a Japanese manga of 402,862 characters, with 14,278 unique words and 1,622 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 14,278 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 戦士soldier×475
- 星star (usu. excluding the Sun)×445
- 力force×420
- 水晶(rock) crystal×332
- 銀silver (Ag)×327
- 幻phantom×312
- 思うto think×304
- 巻volume (of book)×269
- 年year×268
- 敵opponent×240
- 全all×212
- 巻roll (e.g. of cloth)×200
- 亜美Abi×63
- 黒水晶black quartz×59
- 武内直子Takeuchi Naoko (1967.3.15-)×57
- 月野うさぎUsagi Tsukino (Sailor Moon character)×56
- 火野Hino×53
- 名まえname×47
- 聖杯chalice (for Holy Communion)×43
- 税込including tax (of a price)×37