Usagi Moon

Usagi Tsukino(aka Sailor Moon) is one of the original five Sailor Senshi sailor soldiers and is the main character of Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon series. She is the princess of the moon, and a bit of a ditz. She has a black cat named Luna who is her guardian cat from the moon.

Her name translates directly from Japanese as "moon field rabbit." This is a pun, because the character used for "field" is pronounced "no," which also means "of" in Japanese. So her name is a pun on "rabbit of the moon," a reference to a Japanese Buddhist legend about a rabbit pounding mochi on the moon. (Like the Western "Man in the Moon") There are many references to rabbits throughout the series.

Usagi Moon

Usagi Moon

Usagi was the first soldier introduced to us in Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon. She saved Luna, and fell asleep at her house after crying. Soon after waking, Luna explained to Usagi that she was the Soldier of the Moon, and she gave Usagi her transformation brooch. Her first time saving someone was when she saved her friend, Naru, from her possessed mother.

Usagi Moon

Usagi Moon

Sailormoon Episode

The 200 episodes of the Japanese anime series Sailor Moon were adapted from the eighteen volume manga series of the same name written and illustrated by Naoko Takeuchi. The episodes were directed by Junichi Sato, Kunihiko Ikuhara, Takuya Igarashi, Takao Yoshizawa and Hiromichi Matano, and produced by TV Asahi and Toei Animation. The first four seasons were dubbed and released in North America by DiC Entertainment and Cloverway. The series concentrates on the adventures of Usagi Tsukino, a schoolgirl who learns that she and several other girls can transform into superheroines, Sailor Senshi, and fight against evil forces that threaten the world.

Sailormoon Episode

The series aired from March 7, 1992, to February 8, 1997, on TV Asahi in Japan. In North America, the episodes aired from September 11, 1995, to December 21, 2001, on YTV in Canada, and in first-run syndication (and later on Cartoon Network) in the United States. In addition to the two hundred episodes, three feature-length films were produced, as well as five shorts. The fifth season, Sailor Stars, has not been licensed for release in English. As of May 2004, the series has officially gone off the air in all English-speaking countries due to lapsed licenses which have not been renewed.

Sailormoon Episode

The first two seasons of the series, Sailor Moon and Sailor Moon R, were sold across 20 VHS volumes in Japan in 1995, and by the end of that year, each volume had sold more than 300 000 copies. In 2001, ADV Films released the English dubs of the first two seasons to 20 VHS volumes. The two first seasons were released on 14 Region 1 DVDs in 2002 by ADV. ADV also released subtitled and uncut versions of the first two seasons in two separate DVD box sets in 2003. Pioneer Entertainment released the English dubbed and uncut subtitled versions of the third and fourth seasons, Sailor Moon S and Sailor Moon Supers respectively, on DVD and VHS in 2001 and 2002.

Sailormoon Episode

Sailormoon Episode

Snow White Cartoon

Snow White is a 1933 animated short film in the Betty Boop series from Max Fleischer's Fleischer Studios. Dave Fleischer was credited as director, although virtually all the animation was done by Roland Crandall. Crandall received the opportunity to make Snow White on his own as a reward for his several years of devotion to the Fleischer studio, and the resulting film is considered both his masterwork and an important milestone of The Golden Age of American animation.

Snow White Cartoon

A magic mirror, with a face resembling Cab Calloway, proclaims Betty Boop to be "the fairest in the land", much to the anger of the Queen. The Queen orders her guards Bimbo and Koko to behead Betty. With tears in their eyes, they take Betty into the forest and prepare to execute her. Betty escapes into a frozen river, which encloses her in a coffin of ice. This block slips downhill to the home of the seven dwarfs, who carry the frozen Betty into an enchanted cave. Meanwhile, Koko falls down a hole and arrives at the same cave, where the evil Queen turns him into a grotesque creature, all while singing the St James Infirmary Blues. With her rivals disposed of, the Queen again asks the magic mirror who the fairest in the land is, but the mirror explodes in a puff of magic smoke that returns Betty and Koko to their normal states and changes the Queen into a hideous monster. The queen monster chases the protagonists until Koko grabs its tongue and, with one mighty yank turns it inside out. Betty, Koko, and Bimbo dance around in a circle of victory as the film ends.

Snow White Cartoon

This plot, such as it is, is really more a framework to display a series of gags, musical selections, and animation. Critics have cited the film as having some of the most imaginative animation and background drawings from the Fleischer Studios artists. Mae Questel does the voices of Betty Boop and the Olive Oyl-ish Queen, and Cab Calloway does the voice of Koko the Clown, singing "St. James Infirmary Blues". Koko's dancing during the "St. James" number is rotoscoped from footage of Calloway.

Snow White Cartoon

The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. In 1994 it was voted #19 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field. The film is now public domain.

Snow White Cartoon

Snow White Cartoon