Editing Sailor Moon (character) (section)

==Differences in English and other languages==
Like other foreign language adaptations, the first North American adaptation of the ''Sailor Moon'' anime by DiC and Cloverway took several liberties with the series, changing various aspects and localizing content to fit North American audiences. Among these were renaming Usagi as "Serena", and subsequently referring to Princess Serenity as "Princess Serena." The Sailor Guardians were referred to as "Sailor Scouts" and Sailor Moon's transformations were altered to omit the "Make Up!" phrase. The names of her attacks were also changed. For example, "Moon Tiara Action" was changed to "Moon Tiara Magic", "Moon Healing Escalation" was changed to "Moon Healing Activation" or "Cosmic Moon Power", and "Moon Princess Halation" was changed to "Moon Princess Elimination." In the later seasons, most attacks were maintained according to their original Japanese names and her family name was retained as "Tsukino."

The initial English manga release by Mixx/[[Tokyopop]] were made to coincide with the first anime adaptation, so many character names and spellings were kept between the two. However, Usagi's name was changed to "Bunny" to match more closely with her Japanese name's meaning.

Antonia Levi wrote that the two different initial English versions lost some of the meaning behind her name, with the TV version losing the rabbit meaning and the Mixx/Tokyopop name losing the moon meaning.<ref name=Levip38>{{cite book|last=Levi|first=Antonia|chapter=New Myths for the Millennium: Japanese Animation|editor=John A. Lent|title=[[Animation in Asia and the Pacific]]|date=2001 |publisher=[[Indiana University Press]]|place=[[Bloomington, Indiana]]|isbn=0-253-34035-7|page=[https://archive.org/details/animationinasiap00john/page/34/mode/2up?q=%22YuGiOh%22 38]|via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref>

The initial French, German, and Italian dubs renamed Usagi with rabbit puns. The Cantonese version used the name "Yuet-yeh Toei" (using the characters {{zh|t=月野兔|labels=no}}, {{zh|j=jyut6 je5 tou3}}), which Levi stated kept the meaning of the moon and rabbit themes, but "unquestionably changed the heroine's nationality".<ref name=Levip38/>