Act 1 Usagi SAILORMOON

Usagi Tsukino meets a talking cat named Luna who tells her that she is really Sailor Moon, a champion of justice.

Nakayoshi February 1992

Shinsouban

(edited)

Kanzenban

(restored)

Old style art of Sailor Moon is some of my favourites (๑￫‿￩๑) This picture is no exception. If there’s interest, maybe I will look over it in depth at a further date!

Things of note:

• This image was omitted from the tankoubon print
• — was edited for the shinsouban release to reflect her “proper” fuku
• — was restored for the kanzeban “perfect” release

Original Picture Collection Vol. I

Merged by Terralune

• 360 X 511 mm
• Title page of the February 1992 Nakayoshi
• Media: Color ink, color tone
• Paper: Fine BB Kent

“This is a color picture from the title page of the first issue with the serial. I was still wavering on Sailor Moon’s costume design, and drew this while worrying about it. I waver a lot. At first I was thinking about giving her a cloak and a boomerang. The picture and design are really completely different from now. But since this is the color picture from the title page of the first issue with the serial, which should be commemorated, it’s a work very, very deep with memories.”

Act 1 Usagi SAILORMOON

The very first page of Sailor Moon!

Nakayoshi February 1992

Tankoubon

Shinsouban

Kanzenban

Despite being one of Takeuchi’s oldest pieces (presumably), this page hasn’t over gone as many changes as one might expect.
The original print and kanzenban appear to be the same, while the tankoubon and shinsouban have smaller pages, and thus the image has been cropped – this is especially noticeable on the bottom panel.

Random things of note:

• This page was coloured in all Japanese releases except the tankoubon
• Ikuko wears a ring high on her left pointer finger