Without a doubt, Sailor Moon has become one of the most popular anime collaboration series with Pullip. Sailor Star Fighter was the seventeenth doll released as a part of this collaboration series, the Sailor Stars are often overlooked when it comes to merchandise so I am glad that they were included. Originally announced for a March release in Japan Sailor Star Fighter’s release was delayed a month, we get dolls in the US roughly a month after their US release so she was not released here until the end of May. Sailor Star Fighter’s MSRP was 22000 yen, I recently purchased mine via Pullipstyle for $140 and have very slowly been photographing her on my back porch as my injuries heal from my recent car crash.
Sailor Star Fighter appeared in the Sailor Moon Stars arc in the manga and the final season of the original anime series (Sailor Moon Crystal hasn’t progressed that far yet). Sailor Star Fighter was the leader of the Sailor Starlights who come to earth searching for Princess Kakyuu who was the princess of their home planet who fled to earth before the planet was destroyed. The Sailor Starlights masquerade as a boy band Three Lights their music contains a hidden message to their lost princess in the hopes that it will reach the princess. You may have noticed I used the term boy band in the original anime, the Sailor Starlights their civilian identities were male and they changed into girls when they become Sailor Stars. In the anime Seiya, Sailor Star Fighter’s civilian identity developed unreciprocated feelings towards Usagi (Sailor Moon’s civilian identity) who was completely oblivious.
If you are in the US and wondering why none of this sounds familiar the final season of the original Sailor Moon anime never made it over to the US, so if you only ever watched on Cartoon Network you missed out. Sailor Moon was always heavily censored in the US and somehow I don’t think the censors could get past the male starlights turning into the female Sailor Stars. Genders or more accurately voice actors had to be changed so homosexual relationships were not portrayed in the case of villains (both Zoisite and Fish Eye were male characters in the original version but were given female voice actors in the US dub) or in the cases of our heroes were merely said to be “cousins” which happened to Sailor Neptune and Sailor Uranus. As much as I hate the bastardized US dub of Sailor Moon without it I and probably countless others probably would not have sought out the original uncut Japanese series. I know for me it was just the starting point it, it opened up the floodgates and over 20 years later I’m still watching anime so Sailor Moon will always hold a special place in my part as my first anime series.
Enough about Sailor Moon , let’s talk about the doll!
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