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''Sailor Moon'', known in Japan as ''Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon'', is an anime series adapted from the manga series of the title by Naoko Takeuchi. The series was produced by Toei Animation and directed by Junichi Sato, Kunihiko Ikuhara and Takuya Igarashi and produced by TV Asahi and Toei Animation. The first four seasons were dubbed and released in North America by DIC Entertainment and Cloverway. The series concentrates on the adventures of Usagi Tsukino, a schoolgirl who learns that she and several other girls can transform into superheroines, Sailor Senshi, and fight against evil forces that threaten the world. The series aired from March 7, 1992 to February 8, 1997, on TV Asahi in Japan. In addition to the 200 episodes, three feature-length films were produced, as well as five short films. In North America, the episodes aired from September 11, 1995 to December 21, 2000, on YTV in Canada, and in first-run syndication (and later on Cartoon Network) in the United States. The first two seasons of the series, ''Sailor Moon'' and ''Sailor Moon R'', were sold across 20 VHS volumes in Japan in 1995, and by the end of that year, each volume had sold more than 300,000 copies. In 2001, ADV Films released the English dubs of the first two seasons to 20 VHS volumes. The two first English language seasons were released on 14 Region 1 DVDs in 2002 by ADV.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sailor Moon on DVD, Release Info, News )〕 ADV also released subtitled and uncut versions of the first two seasons in two separate Limited Edition DVD box sets in 2003.〔 Pioneer Entertainment released both edited and unedited versions of the third and fourth seasons, ''Sailor Moon S'' and ''Sailor Moon Super S'' respectively, on DVD and VHS in 2001 and 2002.〔 In 2004, the international rights to the series expired. At the start of ''Sailor Moon S'', the episode numbers for the dub were adjusted by YTV to match those of the original Japanese version. There had previously been a gap in numbering because of the seven episodes that had been cut or merged in the previous two seasons. Because of this, episode numbers 83-89 were never used for the dub. However, in the United States, 83-89 were used for the dub on Cartoon Network, and did not match those of the original Japanese version. On May 16, 2014, the entire anime series (all 200 TV episodes, all three movies, and the TV specials) was re-licensed for an updated English-language release by Viz Media. ==Episode list== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of Sailor Moon episodes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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