Sailor Starlights

The Sailor Starlights in the anime

The Sailor Starlights were three Sailor Senshi, Sailor Star Healer, Sailor Star Fighter, and Sailor Star Maker, who came from outside the Solar System. After their home planet Kinmoku was attacked and eventually destroyed by Sailor Galaxia, they traveled to Earth in order to escape their own deaths. Sailor Uranus, Sailor Neptune, and Sailor Pluto considered them unwelcome intruders.

Gender

Anime

In the anime, the Starlights were originally female, but they disguised themselves in male bodies while in civilian form on Earth. They did this to help them look for Princess Kakyuu, as they felt a boy band would be less conspicuous singing about their Princess, and would also get more fans and thus, more publicity.

Manga

In the manga, the Starlights only cross-dressed as men in civilian form and did not physically become men. The reason for this cross-dressing was the same as the reason their anime counterparts took on male bodies.

Mythology

The Sailor Starlights' mythological backgrounds are unclear; some fans consider them to be based on the Hindu trimurti (Shiva, Brahma, and Vishnu), but other fans dispute this theory.

Notes

• Naoko Takeuchi didn't like the fact Starlights physically changed to male bodies when they disguised themselves the anime, because this way her ultimate rule that only girls can become Sailor Senshi was broken.

• In the Italian dub of Sailor Moon Sailor Stars, the Starlights' sex switching was not present. Instead the Sailor Starlights were said to be the twin sisters of the Three Lights. This explaination was added to the Italian dub after Vera Slepoy, a psychologist, claimed that Sailor Moon made young boys become homosexual.

• In the manga, the Starlight's sailor fuku were navy blue, but were black in the anime.

Trivia

8 In the anime, the Starlight eye colors matched the secondary colors of their fuku: blue for Seiya, green for Yaten, and violet/purple for Taiki.