Luna
Name: | Luna |
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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
Luna in human form |
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
Tomoko Ishimura as Luna |
References
- ↑ http://www.kurozuki.com/takeuchi/sailormoon/settei.html - Alex Glover's Materials Collection translation