Editing Sailor Moon (section)

== Cultural impact and legacy ==
With their dynamic heroines and action-oriented plots, many credit ''Sailor Moon'' for reinvigorating the magical girl genre. After its success, many similar magical girl series, including ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]'', ''[[Wedding Peach]]'', ''[[Saint Tail]]'', ''[[Nurse Angel Ririka SOS]]'', ''[[Cyber Team in Akihabara]]'', ''[[Corrector Yui]]'' and ''[[Pretty Cure]]'', emerged.<ref name="Thompson"/>{{rp|199}}<ref name=Poitras>{{cite book|last1=Poitras|first1=Gilles|title=Anime Essentials: Every Thing a Fan Needs to Know|date=2004|publisher=Stone Bridge Press|location=Berkeley, California|isbn=1880656531|pages=31–32|edition=4th}}</ref> ''Sailor Moon'' has been called "the biggest breakthrough" in English-dubbed anime until 1995, when it premiered on [[YTV (TV channel)|YTV]],<ref name="Drazen"/>{{rp|10–11}} and "the pinnacle of little kid ''shōjo'' anime".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/editorial/1999-01-01/2|title=Anime and Teen Culture... Uh-oh.|last=Sevakis|first=Justin|date=January 1, 1999|work=[[Anime News Network]]|access-date=July 19, 2009|archive-date=April 9, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090409052527/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/editorial/1999-01-01/2|url-status=live}}</ref> Cultural anthropologist [[Rachel Thorn]] said that soon after ''Sailor Moon'', ''shōjo'' manga started appearing in book shops instead of fandom-dominated comic shops.<ref name="PW Matt Thorn">{{cite web |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/new-titles/adult-announcements/article/5432-matt-thorn-returns-to-translation-.html |title=Matt Thorn Returns to Translation |last=Alverson |first=Brigid |date=February 17, 2009 |work=[[Publishers Weekly]] |publisher=PWxyz, LLC |access-date=December 27, 2011 |archive-date=January 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118121442/http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/new-titles/adult-announcements/article/5432-matt-thorn-returns-to-translation-.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The series are credited as beginning a wider movement of girls taking up ''shōjo'' manga.<ref name="Thompson"/><ref>{{cite journal |last=Deppey |first=Dirk |author-link=Dirk Deppey |year=2005 |title=She's Got Her Own Thing Now |journal=[[The Comics Journal]] |issue=269 |url=http://www.tcj.com/269/e_own1.html |access-date=June 22, 2008 |quote=Scratch a modern-day manga fangirl, and you're likely to find someone who watched ''Sailor Moon'' when she was young. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080531153057/http://www.tcj.com/269/e_own1.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date=May 31, 2008}}</ref> Canadian librarian [[Gilles Poitras]] defines a generation of anime fans as those who were introduced to anime by ''Sailor Moon'' in the 1990s, saying they were both much younger than other fans and were also mostly female.<ref name=Poitras/>

Historian [[Fred Patten]] credits Takeuchi with popularizing the concept of a ''Super Sentai''-like team of magical girls,<ref name="ST">{{cite web|url=http://www.sequentialtart.com/archive/nov02/ao_1102_1.shtml|title=Taking One for the Team: A Look at Sentai Shows|last=Sebastian|first=Trisha L.|date=November 2002|publisher=Sequential Tart|access-date=October 20, 2016|archive-date=September 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924100555/http://www.sequentialtart.com/archive/nov02/ao_1102_1.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Patten">{{cite book|last1=Patten|first1=Fred|author-link=Fred Patten|title=Watching Anime, Reading Manga 25 Years of Essays and Reviews|date=2011|publisher=Stone Bridge Press|location=New York|isbn=978-1611725100|page=50}}</ref> and Paul Gravett credits the series with revitalizing the magical girl genre itself.<ref name="Gravett">{{cite book|last1=Gravett|first1=Paul|author-link=Paul Gravett|title=[[Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics]]|date=2004|publisher=Laurence King|location=London|isbn=1856693910|page=78|edition=2nd}}</ref> A reviewer for ''<abbr>THEM</abbr> Anime Reviews'' also credited the anime series with changing the genre—its heroine must use her powers to fight evil, not simply have fun as previous magical girls had done.<ref name="THEM">{{cite web|url=http://www.themanime.org/viewreview.php?id=405|title=Sailor Moon|last=Christi|date=c. 1992|publisher=T.H.E.M. Anime Reviews|work=THEMAnime.org|access-date=October 20, 2016|archive-date=August 6, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110806002113/http://www.themanime.org/viewreview.php?id=405|url-status=live}}</ref> The series has also been compared to ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'',<ref name="Grigsby"/><ref name="Craig">{{cite book|last1=Craig|first1=Timothy J.|author-link=Timothy J. Craig|title=Japan Pop!: Inside the World of Japanese Popular Culture|date=2000|publisher=Sharpe|location=Armonk, New York|isbn=9780765605610|pages=[https://archive.org/details/japanpopinsidew00crai/page/259 259–278]|chapter=Sailor Moon: Japanese Superheroes for Global Girls|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/japanpopinsidew00crai/page/259}}</ref> ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'',<ref name="Drazen"/>{{rp|281}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.animerica-mag.com/features/buffyvsmoon.html |title=Animerica: Animerica Feature: Separated at Birth? Buffy vs. Sailor Moon |date=c. 1999 |publisher=[[Animerica]] |access-date=October 20, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040407170022/http://www.animerica-mag.com/features/buffyvsmoon.html |archive-date=April 7, 2004 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.animerica-mag.com/features/buffyvsmoon_02.html |title=Animerica: Animerica Feature: Separated at Birth? Buffy vs. Sailor Moon |publisher=[[Animerica]] |access-date=October 20, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040407172915/http://www.animerica-mag.com/features/buffyvsmoon_02.html |archive-date=April 7, 2004 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996 TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]''.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Yoshida |first=Kaori |year=2002 |title=Evolution of Female Heroes: Carnival Mode of Gender Representation in Anime |url=http://journals2.iranscience.net:800/mcel.pacificu.edu/mcel.pacificu.edu/aspac/home/papers/scholars/yoshida/yoshida.php3 |url-status=dead |journal=[[Western Washington University]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130831095335/http://web.archive.org/web/20071111070234/http://journals2.iranscience.net%3A800/mcel.pacificu.edu/mcel.pacificu.edu/aspac/home/papers/scholars/yoshida/yoshida.php3 |archive-date=August 31, 2013 |access-date=October 20, 2016}}</ref> Sailor Moon also influenced the development of ''[[Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir]]'', ''[[W.I.T.C.H.]]'', ''[[Winx Club]]'', ''[[LoliRock]]'', ''[[Star vs. the Forces of Evil]]'', ''[[Robot Chicken]]'', ''[[Steven Universe]]'', and ''[[Totally Spies!]]''.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Saito|first1=Kumiko|title=Magic, Shōjo, and Metamorphosis: Magical Girl Anime and the Challenges of Changing Gender Identities in Japanese Society|journal=[[The Journal of Asian Studies]]|date=2 January 2014|volume=73|issue=1|pages=143–164|doi=10.1017/S0021911813001708|s2cid=162306735 }}</ref>

''Sailor Moon'' is associated with the [[feminist]] and [[Girl Power]] movements and with empowering its female viewers,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Newsom|first=Victoria Anne|date=2004|title=Young Females as Super Heroes: Super heroines in the Animated 'Sailor Moon'|journal=Femspec|volume=5|pages=57–81}}</ref> especially regarding the "credible, charismatic and independent" characterizations of the Sailor Guardians.<ref name="Dicomanga">{{cite book |first=Nicolas |last=Penedo |page=464 |editor=Nicolas Finet |title=Dicomanga: le dictionnaire encyclopédique de la bande dessinée japonaise |publisher=Fleurus |language=fr |location=Paris |isbn=9782215079316 |year=2008}}</ref> ''Sailor Moon'' is regarded as empowering to women and feminism in concept, in particular through the aggressive nature and strong personalities of the Sailor Guardians.<ref name="FEMSPEC">{{cite web|url=http://www.femspec.org/samples/sailormoon.html|title=Young Females as Super Heroes: Superheroines in the Animated Sailor Moon|last=Newsom|first=Victoria|date=c. 2004|website=femspec.org|publisher=Femspec|access-date=October 20, 2016|archive-date=July 28, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160728025422/http://www.femspec.org/samples/sailormoon.html|url-status=live}}</ref> It is a specific type of feminist concept where "traditional feminine ideals [are] incorporated into characters that act in traditionally male capacities".<ref name="FEMSPEC"/> While the Sailor Guardians are strong, independent fighters who thwart evil—which is generally a masculine stereotype—they are also ideally feminized in the transformation of the Sailor Guardians from teenage girls into magical girls.<ref name="Grigsby"/>

The most notable hyper-feminine features of the Sailor Guardians—and most other females in Japanese girls' comics—are the girls' thin bodies, long legs, and, in particular, round, orb-like eyes.<ref name="Grigsby"/> Eyes are commonly known as the primal source within characters where emotion is evoked—sensitive characters have larger eyes than insensitive ones.<ref name="FEMSPEC"/> The stereotypical role of women in Japanese culture is to undertake romantic and loving feelings;<ref name="Grigsby"/> therefore, the prevalence of hyper-feminine qualities like the openness of the female eye in Japanese girls' comics is clearly exhibited in ''Sailor Moon''. Thus, ''Sailor Moon'' emphasizes a type of feminist model by combining traditional masculine action with traditional female affection through the Sailor Guardians.<ref name="FEMSPEC"/>