Luna

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Character Information
Name: Luna
Name (kanji/kana): ルナ
Alignment: Moon Kingdom
Species: Intelligent domestic cat
Gender: Female
Lives: Azabu-Juuban, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Occupation: Advisor to Sailor Moon
Family: Artemis (future husband), Diana (future daughter)
Associates: Sailor Moon, Artemis, Queen Serenity
Aliases: "Black" (anime only), Luna Tsukino (PGSM only), Sailor Luna (PGSM only)
First Anime Appearance: Crybaby Usagi's Magnificent Transformation
First Manga Appearance: Act 1 - Usagi - Sailor Moon
First PGSM Appearance: Act 1 - I am Sailor Moon!
English Name: Luna
Actors: Keiko Han (anime, PGSM), Rina Koike (PGSM - human), Jill Frappier (Dub)

Luna is a talking cat and advisor to Usagi Tsukino. It was she who first detected Usagi's power, but at the time did not realise that she was the Moon Princess. Luna and her partner Artemis were advisors to Queen Serenity in the Silver Millennium, and when the kingdom was ruined Serenity used the power of her silver crystal to send the two cats to Earth's future in order to awaken the Sailor Senshi.

Luna awakened Ami Mizuno, Rei Hino, and Makoto Kino to their identities as Sailor Soldiers as well as awakening Usagi as Sailor Moon.

She and Artemis one day marry and have a daughter named Diana who becomes the advisor to Chibiusa. Chibiusa's toy Luna P is also modelled on Luna.

Manga

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Luna in human form
In the manga Luna and Artemis are originally from the Planet Mau and in times of crisis can take on human form (as can Diana) briefly.

Anime

In the anime Luna only takes human form once, in the Sailor Moon S movie, and Mau is never mentioned.

In the Dub

Luna's dub voice, while highly recognizable due to Jill Frappier's take on her, was a focal point of some of the dub's controversy due to the fact that the voice made her out to be an "English-nanny"-type character as opposed to her original implied age (in the Materials Collection Luna's human form is said to appear a year younger than Usagi[1]). She came across as an aloof mentor/guardian old enough to be Serena's mother, rather than an older-sister character like her Japanese counterpart. Her choice of voice in turn caused a fair bit of problems in the dubbing of the Sailor Moon S movie (which corresponds to the manga storyline Lover of Princess Kaguya), in which her human form was revealed.

Live Action

In the live-action series, Luna is a talking and moving plush cat (not a real one). As a side effect of being bathed in the light of the Silver Crystal, she can become a human girl and transform into Sailor Luna to train and help the Sailor Soldiers, but she turns back if she sneezes or is shocked. Her powers have the elemental power of "candy" and she wields a large folding fan at times. Fans view her as the replacement of Chibiusa for the sake of keeping Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon a largely one-series story.

Musicals

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Tomoko Ishimura
as Luna
Luna appeared in the first two musicals: Sailor Moon - Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen, and its revision. Although they remained cats in the story she and Artemis were played by adult actors in cat-like costumes. They were never referenced again in any other Sailor Moon musical continuity. Luna was played by Tomoko Ishimura.

References

  1. http://www.kurozuki.com/takeuchi/sailormoon/settei.html - Alex Glover's Materials Collection translation