Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: List of Sailor Moon Episodes, List of Sailor Moon R Episodes, List of Sailor Moon Supers Episodes, List of Sailor Stars Episodes, List of Sailor Moon S Episodes, List of Sailor Moon Episodes. Excerpt: The anime series logo, which translates to "Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon R" This article lists the episodes of the Sailor Moon anime series, covering Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon R ( R, Bish jo Senshi S r M n ru ? ), the second season of the series. TV Asahi, Toei Agency and Toei Animation co-produced, and Junichi Sato and Kunihiko Ikuhara directed. The series originally aired on TV Asahi between March 6, 1993 and March 12, 1994. According to the "Memorial Song Box" booklet, one can expand the letter "R" into either "Return" or "Romance." Production for this season took place concurrently with that of the second story-arc ( Black Moon ) of the manga by Naoko Takeuchi, closely following the story of the manga. Sailor Moon was originally intended to run only one season, but the first became so popular that Toei asked Takeuchi to keep drawing her manga. At first, she struggled with developing another storyline to extend the series. The premise she settled on, introducing the daughter of Sailor Moon from the future, came from her editor, Fumio Osano. Because the production of both manga and anime occurred at the same time, Sailor Moon R begins with a 13-episode sub-arc that does not appear in the manga, created to give Takeuchi time to catch up. This story features the Sailor Senshi regaining their memories and encountering the Makaiju aliens: it has become known as the Makaiju arc (or "Doom Tree" in the English-language dub). The main story arc explores the future of all the Senshi in a utopic city called Crystal Tokyo, ruled over by Neo-Queen Serenity and King Endymion . New character...