#27 Are you the Moon Princess?

MoonSticks Sailor Moon Comic/Doujinshi #27 Are you the Moon Princess? featuring Sailor Venus/Minako Aino, Sailor Moon/Usagi Tsukino, Sailor Jupiter/Makoto Kino, Sailor Mars/Rei Hino and Sailor Mercury/Ami Mizuno

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174 thoughts on “#27 Are you the Moon Princess?”

  1. “Besides, if I were the Moon Princess, I wouldn’t be called Sailor Venus, I’d be called Sailor M(Wait a second, am I suggesting Usagi is the Moon Princess? I better shut up before I say something stupid.)mmm… Actually, I’m not sure.” – Sailor Venus, probably.

  2. So obvious that these days when kids tell me they can’t wait to figure out who the princess is my eye twitches. But I refuse to give spoilers to anyone big or small so yeah…

  3. it took me awhile to realize that sailor Venus was about to reveal that sailor moon was the princess. i realized that she would have revealed that sailor moon was the princess if she had simply told them that if she,sailor Venus, were the moon princess she would not be called sailor Venus.

  4. I kinda wish the anime would’ve sticked to the manga. In the manga, Sailor Venus made her appearance as the Moon Princess to train/protect who the real princess was. (She doesn’t know that Usagi is the princess)

  5. Sailor Moon: r u the moon princess we’ve been looking for?
    Sailor V: NO WAY! if i was i’ll be called Sailor MMmmmaa– wait was it MMee– or no no MMmmoo
    Everyone: HUH?
    Sailor Moon: Well, I think it’s Ami
    Sailor Mars:*whispers* at least is not Usagi
    Sailor Moon: I HEARD THAT! and HEY it could happen
    Sailor Moon and Mars continue to fight
    Sailor V: is it always like this?
    Everyone else: yup

    :P
    OMG Rei/Sailor Mars, it’s Usagi after all!
    i don’t hate Rei/Mars

    1. Ummm, why would they think that the MOON princess is Sailor VENUS?
      Uh, moshi moshi? Anyone in there?

      1. Well, in the manga, Venus had a crescent mark (the mark of the Moon Kingdom) on her forehead. This was a fake though, as Venus was a decoy for the real princess, Sailor Moon.

        In the anime, they pretty much began asking everyone that looked remotely regal if they were the Moon Princess, for example, Princess D.

  6. Think , how they don’t know that sailor moon is princess serenity??

    Queen Serenity said to Luna and Artemis that only the moon princess can use the moon stick ,and sailor moon is the only that can use the moon stick , so isn’t that obious???

    how stupid are luna and the other senshis

    but the comic is cool!!! continue like that

      1. Actually in the manga only Venus and Artemis had memories about the silver millennium. Venus knew sailor moon was actually princess serenity but since no one else remembered she pretended to be her to keep the princess safe. They eventually get their memories back.

        But the anime could have done so much better in being more elusive about who the princess was. I mean even in the opening theme song they show Serena as the princess. That annoyed me so much. But anyway in the anime version none of them have their memories really so they didn’t know that there was no sailor moon in the silver millennium. So they had no reason to try and put the two together as one.

  7. I always hated how everyone thought Minako was the moon princess when it was obivous Usagi was. 1, she looks exactly like princess serenity, and 2, she’s the only one who didn’t exist in silver millennium which should have been enough proof she was the moon princess.

    XD, The third comic is funny how you have Minako about to say “Sailor Moon.” Lol.

    1. Keep in mind, no one remembered anything from the Silver Millennium–not even the cats did, properly. So no one knew what Princess Serenity looked like, let alone the fact that there was no “Sailor Moon” in the Silver Millennium. However, in the original series, the Senshi were searching for “their Princess,” not necessarily the MOON Princess. They didn’t learn her name or what she was Princess of until her identity was almost revealed. The dub kind of messed that up….

      1. Ha ha yea, the the dub sucks….period! I understand what your saying, but it was still a little more that obivous that Usagi was the princess. Even if they had no idea that Sailor Moon didn’t exist in the Silver Millennium, it was a bit obivous how she transformed into Sailor Moon, who had a cresent mark, and other features which literally said that she was obivously ‘the princess’….and yes, Minako did have the cresent (when disguised), but her cresent didn’t come with her tranformation like Usagi’s did.

        And to be clear, the princess and the ‘moon’ princess were pretty much going to be the same person. As an example, the ‘princess’ wouldn’t have been any random person (who didn’t have any association with the moon, the other senshi, etc)

    1. In the comic, Usagi is using her disguise pen to “disguise” as the “Moon Princess”. This occurs before the sailors realise Usagi is actually Princess Serenity. Rei is just making fun of her. Hope this makes sense!

  8. hi all i think sailor moon is cool but sailor chibi moon is idk how to say more cool then all in that movie:),i love luna and artemis they are soo cute especially their daughter diana ty now that i say what i think for sailor moon i feel better

  9. wait,the moon princess is usagi,because in silver millenium she is princess serenity.(are i’m right?)

  10. LOL!
    You have NO IDEA how frustrated I got how no one could figure out this ‘moon princess’ business, when I was like six, and every two seconds I’d be like “IT’S SAILOR MOON! MOON! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?”
    Everything about this was perfect, the moon behind Venus, her “change”, I lovelovelove this. Made me laugh out loud x9032743289432895
    Would you mind if I reposted this on my Tumblr? Dorky, I know, but I just need to share this. I’d have the link and would give you the full credit :) Thanks!

      1. It’s obvious that, as main character, Sailor Moon will become the most important of everything. When Haruka (I think) stated Usagi couldn’t be the messiah because she couldn’t utilize the infinite power of the grail, I thought to myself “Pssh.. yeah she is. It’s called practice”

    1. You have NO IDEA how frustrated I got how no one could figure out this ‘moon princess’ business, when I was like six, and every two seconds I’d be like “IT’S SAILOR MOON! MOON! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?”

      Exactly my reaction when I re-watched Classic. Seriously, which one is the Moon Princess? Hmm… could it be the one named Sailor Moon? Nah, it’s the one from VENUS!

      Honestly! It’s so *frinking* obvious when they admit that there wasn’t a *Sailor Moon* in the past! Gene blind! All of them!

  11. To think I was the only one who believed Minako changed too much after some episodes.

    She started as being organized to be the unofficial leader of the girls, then she became Serena 2.

    My theory comes from the episode where they went to the hair salon, in that episode it was shown that the bad guys believed Minako was Sailor Moon because her DNA matched with that of Sailor Moon’s. This because Minako used her hair bursh on Serena, and perhaps with this, some of Serena’s “genetic traits” went to Minako, infecting her to the point she was like Serena.

    Yeah I know, it is pseudoscience but well…

  12. I can’t believe I didn’t notice that sailor MOON was the MOON princess when i was watching the anime XD!

  13. lulz… Yeah, you’d think they could have figured it out earlier, but then you have to remember that Usagi-chan is not by any means dainty, eloquent, or graceful, which is how we typically think a princess would be. :-P

    Nice one!

    1. well really i think chibi jenifer this comic should kinda be at the begging tho
      and sailor moon they should know its her the moon prinecss because sailor moon has moon in it im not sure u get it any way but probly you got that comic from idk im not samrt like ami the brains

  14. Venus’s whole “Nope! I may have the moon behind me…” rant in panel 2 made me laugh out loud.

    I showed my little brother (Probabley Venus’s biggest male fan. I said probabley) and he giggled at Venus in the last frame.

  15. I knew there was gonna be one about the search for the Moon Princess! The first time I saw the episode I was like, “They actually think that Sailor VENUS is the MOON Princess…” Their names are a dead give-away.

    Luv it, Chibi Jen! Keep up the great work!

  16. This is something I caught right off the bat when I first watched the series. Seriously, how many did they expect to fool with the “Venus is Moon Princess” theory? It sorta made more sense in the manga, where Minako continued on as “Sailor V” and didn’t reveal that she was “Sailor Venus” until Usagi was revealed to be the Moon Princess. But then, the whole thing in the live action was just ‘WTF?’ Because how dumb did they have to be to not realize that Princess Sailor Venus of all people wouldn’t be the Moon Princess?

    In the anime, I think it was that they simply couldn’t see the similarity in Usagi and Serenity, ’cause Serenity was supposedly more mature than Usagi. So the whole concept of “Usagi is the Moon Princess” probably seemed ridiculous. But…I dunno, it was still a bit of a stretch for me to think that Luna wouldn’t figure out at most a few episodes in that Sailor Moon is the Moon Princess… *sigh*

      1. Mmm…the way I see it, the anime only showed us Serenity after she got all love-stricken with Endy. In the manga, before their whole romance, ‘rene was shown to be a lot like Usagi and only got all serious after the whole war and conflict started. So, from there, I devised that the Serenity we see in the anime is post-romance and therefore the whole over-implied maturity and seriousness that we don’t normally see in Usagi. It’s actually kinda similar to how Usagi acts, ’cause usually, she won’t get all serious and responsible ’til around the final battle, where everything seems to be going downhill. So yeah…that’s my explanation for that.

        Besides, the senshi and everyone couldn’t remember a thing from their past lives other than the time that surrounded the fight with the Dark Kingdom, meaning it’s not really that certain if Usagi and Serenity were really so different.

        1. Ohh, interesting! Thanks for sharing that :) I’m not familiar with the manga much so I wouldn’t know. I did think it was a bit suspicious when Neo Queen Serenity writes a letter back to Chibiusa, and the grammar was wrong or something XD Adds a bit of silliness to her.

          1. Well, to be honest, I only know the bare basics of the manga. I’ve only been able to read the first arc and I haven’t even finished that yet… XP But, from what I observed, I think that that was idea with the whole Usagi/Serenity deal. I think they really were alike, it’s just that no one remembers the side of Serenity’s personality that was essentially Usagi.

            Heh, and you do bring up a good point with the letter. It looks like ol’ Neo Queen Serenity is still the same Usagi we know and love (that includes the usage of hiragana instead of kanji ^.~), just a bit more matured in her adult years.

  17. WHAT, USAGI IS THE MOON PRINCESS?!

    I always loved how even more ridiculous Usagi was in the live action in terms of finding out that Minako is Sailor Venus. XD

  18. *laughing* “need…air….can’t stop…laughing!” *large gasp* XD

    phew, well hey at least I know that this stupid computer won’t shut down YET. I seriously need a new comp. Aside from lets get to this comic. Was Venus trying to keep the princess a unsolved mystery? Or was she the truly blonde one here? I love that they and you had a moon in the background to confuse the senshi.

    “Could you be… the moon princess we’ve been looking for?”
    *10 seconds pass*
    “Nope! I may have the moon behind me, but I’m just a sailor soldier like the rest of you!Besides if I was the MOON princess, I wouldn’t be called Sailor Venus- I’d be called Sailor… M-mmm…actually I’m not quite sure!”

    Thats what made me laugh like there was not tommarrow! Ethier she thought she’d blow the princess’s identity or as I said she was the true blonde one here.I bet the other shenshi had had “???” look!

  19. I’m guessing they thought she was the moon princess since in some episode or other it’s revealed that Venus would occasionally dress as the moon princess to trick would be kidnappers or something.

  20. I have to say, the live-action series handled that whole thing much better, re-enforcing that there are four soldiers PLUS the Moon Princess (i.e., we could have a Moon Princess who wasn’t a soldier at all), and calling Sailor Venus calling herself exclusively “Sailor V” until the Moon Princess is revealed.

  21. LOL this is one of my favorite ones to date! I absolutely love your style and humor. Keep ’em coming please. :D

  22. Nice one this week! Thanks for providing with such kawaii SM doushinji!

    ~Always there supporting and anticipating for more~

    All the best! =D

  23. lol Minako just can’t say anything without the valley girl blondness kicking in. :tongue:

    I knew since day one she couldn’t be the Moon Princess, but the whole scene worked for drama. In season one, she was rather serious. Appropriate, since she arrived pretty late and everything needed to be a huge lead up to the battle against the Dark Kingdom. But after that, we saw a more silly and over-the-top side of Minako. One that made us laugh, cheer and get creeped out.

    *holds a pure heart* kekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekkeke

    1. Very true :} And since she was so serious-like, it was funny seeing the other girls react to her. They looked up to her a lot more as someone really knowledgeable ^^

      The comes the next seasons..and *poooff* gone! lol

      1. :D lol To be fair, it’s understanable why they looked up to her and continue to respect her now. She’s been around longer, was somebody that inspired Usagi herself, and has done a great service to the Sailor Senshi from Classic to Stars. But the one that everyone looks up to now is obviously Usagi. Easily understandable, but let’s never forget that even though Minako is silly, she’s still the Goddess of Love and Beauty. Though the two timing was questionable.

  24. when I was young (about 6 or so) and watched the tv show for the first time, it was a BIG surprise for me that sailor moon was the moon princess. I took the tv show very seriously, haha

    1. Oh really? That’s pretty cool actually XD
      Although I knew Sailor Moon was the Moon Princess it was still very suspenseful and dramatic when Princess Serenity finally awoke. I can probably imagine your excitement not knowing it at all :)

  25. I’m sure this has been said a million times on this page, but it does make a lot more sense in the Manga – Sailor V was pretending to be the Moon Princess during the interim.

    1. I think in the manga it was referred to more as Princess Serenity, which is left a little bit more ambiguous to the reader. In the anime though, they call it Moon Princess and OBVIOUSLY its Sailor Moon.

      The whole Sailor V/Venus thing is interesting…cuz she was originally going to be the main character, right? She ended up being the prototype to Sailor Moon though.

  26. haha when I first saw this scene that’s kinda how I really expected it to be…. “no I’m not the princess silly! She’s standing right… oh ahhh nevermind!” XD or “no but I’m sure we can find her together!” lol…. To me it was soooo obvious Minako/Venus wasn’t it so why they even tried to pull that trick is beyond me… they should have made it more like the manga ^^; it would have made more sense…

  27. *laughs*

    Venus Knows that Sailor Moon is the princess and says something else to keep it a secret
    LOL! =^_^=

  28. Yeah, that scene never did make sense in the anime.

    At least in the live-action version she kept her Sailor V look long enough that it seemed ambiguous, if you didn’t already know.

    1. After seeing she was the Moon Princess, and had the Silver Crystal, and Holy Grail.. I assumed she had EVERY special item in the series. lol..phew, good thing I was wrong… (well, sorta XD)

  29. Sailor Venus could TECHNICALLY be the Moon Princess because of how the planet Venus is the Twin Planet of Earth. So if she is the twin of earth, she is separate like the moon from earth making her the Moon Princess. THATS WHAT I THINK THOUHG BUUUUT really, Usagi/Sailor Moon was right away Moon Princess. The only reason why people would be tricked is the Princess is all royally, mature, polite and skilled. Usagi is…..not so much.
    Loved the comic, totally Sailor Venus/Minako in the frames. Way to be!!! Can’t wait for next week!

    1. lol, thank you :D :D

      Interesting point you brought up about the Twin planets..though I don’t think there’s any relevancy to the series XD (Venus and Earth/Tuxy?) But that’s the most sensible explanation so far, lol.

      1. If you read Sailor V Manga it explains the whole Twin Planets thing and all her attacks are MOON POWER! And Such! It was the original that led to Sailor Moon so thats where i got most of my information hehe!

  30. That last panel is sooo Mina-ish. And it so bothered me they couldn’t put two and two together. Just like figuring out who Chibiusa’s mom was. >_>

      1. I think part of the reason they didn’t except Usagi=Chibiusa’s mother is because people don’t automatically think ‘time travel- future child’ as a plausible reason. If you told anybody a family member is really a future child they probably won’t believe the person. Just not something people will think about right away.. even with so many similarities.

  31. I love this!

    I was FIVE when I first saw this, and, even then, I would ask my mom, “Wouldn’t the MOON Princess be the one who has the MOON powers? As in… Sailor MOON?”

    I also love how Minako looked all composed and cool when she first appeared — she would have fit in with the Outers at that point. But that only lasted… three episodes, max. :P

    1. ahahah, had to laugh about the 3 episodes max comment.

      I remember actually thinking “@_@???!” when Minako/Venus started acting so silly and ditzy XD XD
      I was thinking “what happened to her??” lol.

      1. The “mature, cool Minako” thing doesn’t last very long, does it? I think the last episode where she’s like that is the one where Katherine is attacked — after that… XD It surpised me, too!

        But that’s OK, though. I love Minako’s goofiness! <3

        1. I started thinking she was goofy in the episode where she dances weirdly along with Rei.

          (Too bad her character in the live-action doesn’t capture either coolness, or goofy :{)

          1. In the manga she’s pretty serious at impotent times. At least in Senshi form. She can be goofy in the manga too but she was a bit goofy from the start if you read Codename Sailor V

    2. I like goofy Mina way better, personally. ^^<3 I find the COOL AND EDGYâ„¢ Outers less charming for the most part. (not that I hate them, but.)

      1. I guess that’s why people consider Sailor V and Sailor Venus entirely different characters, since there’s some pretty contrasting differences.

        Actually, I kinda *LOVE* Mina for her ability to pull off both — as Sailor V, she pioneered the “cool, mysterious new senshi” act all the Outers would later do. But, as Sailor Venus, she’s as high-energy and cute as any of the other inners (actually, she’s THE cutest, possibly rivaled only by Usagi! ♥)

        1. Haha, it’s so true, especially if you read Sailor V where, IMO, she’s even crazier and more off the wall than the rest of the inners (and actually, her SuperS character act demonstrates that pretty well too.)

          OF course there was that one time with the Sailor V manga where she used the ‘sulfur” attack…that wasn’t quite as cool and edgy as usual ^^;

  32. I love these cute little comics. X3 They make me want to go back and rewatch certain episodes, since it’s been so long that I only vaguely get a lot of the jokes.

  33. I liked it. I wondered why in the anime they didn’t have Sailor V as the moon princess decoy, even if its kinds obvious either way that it would be Sailor Moon. I like how Moon has a question mark by her head like ‘what- Sailor M? Sailor Moon? Huh, wait what?’ Or Usagi can be really dense so I don’t know if she made that connection. Minako’s aura completely went to mature Sailor Venus to ditzy Minako. ;p

  34. I actually loved how they worked that into the anime. XD Since she was undercover as the Moon Princess in Sailor V for a while. I also love how Minako has contrast in her personality(ies?). So serious at times, yet such a goof. XD

  35. I agree! I was waiting for a comic touching that part of the show.
    In both versions, when I watched it, I was thinking, “Excuse me, but that’s Sailor Venus, not sailor MOON. Ya know, Moon Princess=Sailor Moon. Put yo heads together!!”. XD

    1. hahah yeah! It’s harder for them to realise Tuxedo Kamen = Prince Endymion though! lol

      Oh..but then in the English dub.. Princess Serenity = Serena. Prince Darien = Darien.
      LOL.

    1. She posed as the Princess in both the Manga and the Live action versions. She had a crescent moon on her forehead (And a crown in the live action) to emphasize “Here be Moon Princess”. It harken’s back to her Days as Sailor V where she had moon based powers.

        1. Indeed it does. In the manga she only uses that attack as Sailor V. Once she’s shown as Venus she’s never shown to use that move again. (Mainly because most manga attacks are only used once anyways….)

  36. That’s something that’s always bothered me, how NO ONE realized that Usagi/Sailor Moon was the Princess… >_

      1. She had to be the decoy! That actually happens in the manga too. *hardcore manga and live action fan* XD The anime gets a little bit too long… XD

  37. Nice! Sailor Venus was so mysterious, composed, mature… Then she opened her mouth for more than five seconds and Minako came out! I love her silliness.
    Also, I never understood how their disguises could be THAT good. :) Not even recognizing that their names were their governing planets… :) I love Sailor Moon XD

    1. hahah yeah, that’s what makes Venus wacky and fun ^^ What a contrast!

      I can kind-of see why Sailor Moon thought she was the Moon Princess, since she always saw Sailor V as her idol. Why does no one question why she’s called Sailor Moon..and not a planet?

      Actually..how come Luna thinks there’s a “Sailor Moon” now, when there wasn’t a “Sailor Moon” in the Silver Millennium?

      1. Hey, your memory probably wouldn’t be any better after being stuck in a Thermos for a few thousand years. ;)

  38. haha i loved this one :) and even when i was little i always knew sailor moon was the princess its wayyyy to easy ;p can’t wait to the next one!!!

  39. Lol I saw SM 1 like two months ago. I thought it was kinda odd they would find Sailor Venus to be the princess….I must say, Minako really had a cool superhero personality, lol….then she joined up with Sailor Moon and co…. Yeah. XD

    1. Yes I agree about the super-hero personality!! I remember watching when she first appeared and she was wowww…. jumps in gracefully with a mask and saves the day!

      But the name just gives it away! XD Ruins everything.

      Oh, and then she turned ditzy like Usagi, lol.

  40. Nice, I remeber watching the first season so long ago (not that long probably about 5 years ago) but I remeber that all the episode leading up to all the Sailor senshi plus the Moon Princes. To me it seems like that when they would fine Sailor Venus they would actually find the real Moon Princes.

    1. Yeah.. the story was really building up! When Sailor Jupiter came..didn’t they say they gathered all 4 soldiers already? When Venus comes along it’s a dead giveaway.. not that us fans ever doubted Usagi = Moon Princess.lol

      1. *lurker here*

        actually in the manga she always knew. after all, she was fighting as Sailor V before the others ever became Sailor senshi. She then therefore was able to regain her past memories before the rest of them did.

        however in the anime it was kind of vague on whenever she really knew or not.

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