Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon started out in February of 1992 as a girl's manga that eventually filled 18 volumes, paralleled as an anime show, spawned a musical as well as video games and merchandise, and become popular with boys and girls of all ages around the world. The anime show aired weekly in Japan starting in 1992 and lasting until February of 1997. There are varying differences between the manga and the anime and disagreements between Naoko Takeuchi and Kodansha were high at the close of the series; however, recently improved relations have led to Takeuchi-san offering the possibility of new episodes while endless rumors abound.

The original show divided the series into five parts marked as follows:

Season Title	Episodes	Main Theme
	1 - 46	This series involved the search for the ginzuishou and the Moon Princess and featured the introductions of Sailormoon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus. The major villians were the Four Generals (Jadeite, Nephrite, Zoisite, and Kunzite), Queen Beryl, and Empress Metallia.
	47 - 89	The first arc involved the Ail, Ann and the Makaiju. The longer second arc featured a peek at Sailorpluto and the villians from the future Neo-Tokyo, first including Rubeus and the Ayakashi sisters but later also including Safir, Esmeraude, Dimando, Black Lady, and the Wiseman.
	90 - 127	This is questionably the best season involving the introductions of Sailoruranus, Neptune, and Saturn and the search for the talismans which leads to the discovery of the Holy Grail, Supersailormoon, and the ultimate battle between the Massiahs. The villians are the Death Busters, including Professor Tomoe, the Witches, Mistress Nine, and Pharaoh 90.
	128 - 166	This is almost unanimously considered the worst season as it is centered around Chibiusa and the Outers never appear. The first arc involves the Amazon Trio while the second arc involves the Amazoness Quartet, but the entire season is about Zirconia and Nehelenia's search for the Golden Mirror, where Pegasus is hiding.
	167 - 200	My particular favorite of the series, Sailorstars features the introduction of the idea of millions of Sailor senshi from all aspects of the universe, including the Starlights and the major villians, the Animamates (Sailors Iron Mouse, Aluminum Siren, Lead Crow, and Tin Nyanko), and the ultimate Sailor senshi, Galaxia.
As far as the American aired "Sailor Moon" goes, DiC slaughtered the show. Sometimes entire episodes were deleted! This kind of butchering is very common for Anime brought to America. The late-night version of Gundam Wing was the first unslaughtered anime to be aired. (The afternoon one sucks, though. You have to stay up for the midnight run to see the real deal.) They really didn't even translate the show; they made such heavy editings that there is basically a totally new script. Such changes involved adding completely original dialogue for Cardians, who never spoke in the original and tieing in the different seasons by using NegaSomething as a common enemy. Also, the villians in the original were often associated with stones/metals. The first series involved names of green tinted stones. Such changes in the dub as Jedite, Neflyte, and Zoycite seem ignorant; however, the alteration of Kunzite to Malachite (also a green tinted stone!) proved that there was SOMEONE there who understood the name gag even as they butchered it! In DiC's defence, they had to cut episodes because foreign shows must be imported in a package of 65 episodes and preferably still end at a breaking point in the storyline. If a show's a hit, they bring over more episodes. DiC decided to skip some episodes (click here to see which), and combine the two episodes of the defeat of Queen Beryl and Metallia/NegaForce so that there would be 65 episodes ending with the defeat of the Ayakashi/Twisted Sisters. Also, DiC does NOT have a big say in when or where the show is aired, so the bad time slots and extra cuts made for commercial time by USA and some local stations were not DiC's fault. So far, every time a Japanese Anime was syndicated and shown on USA, it was cancelled; Sailor Moon was no exception. They stopped translating the show during the second season, but finished it after seeing the popularity in Canada soar and the dolls racking in the dough. After airing on Cartoon Network, DiC felt confident enough to commit to translating the third and fourth seasons as well. They should have learned by now to give the fans what we really want. We'll see how it works out.