Luna

Character Information

Name:	Luna
Name (kanji/kana):	ルナ
Alignment:	Moon Kingdom
Species:	Intelligent domestic cat
Gender:	Female
Lives:	Juuban, Tokyo
Occupation:	Advisor to Sailor Moon
Family:	Artemis (future husband), Diana (future daughter)
Associates:	Sailor Moon, Artemis, Queen Serenity
Aliases:	'Black' (anime only), Sailor Luna (PGSM only)
First Anime Appearance:	Crybaby Usagi's Magnificent Transformation
First Manga Appearance:	Manga Chapter 1
First PGSM Appearance:	PGSM Act 1
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 did not at the time relise 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 Soliders.

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

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

Manga

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 S Movie, and Mau is never mentioned.

In the dub

Luna's dub voice, whilst highly reconised due to Jill Frappier's take on her, is the focus point of a fair bit of the dub's controversy due to the fact that the voice makes her out of be an "Old maid" type chracter as aposed to her age (which, given her human from, looks to be around 20). Her choice of voice in turn caused a fair bit of problems in the dubbing of the second Sailor Moon Movie (Which corosponds to the Manga stroyline "Princess Kaguya's lover") in which her human form is revealed.

Live Action

In the Live Action series, Luna is a talking and moving plush cat (not a real one) can become a human girl and transform into Sailor Luna to train and help the Sailor Soliders as a side-effect of being bathed in the light of the silver crystal. She turns back if she sneezes. 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 Pritty Guardian a largely one series story.