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Sailor Moon is a magical girl series with incredibly high stakes. The conflicts that drive the plot come from space villains and entities that want to take over Earth, and star-crossed romance. Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask don't have the average love story, they find each other in every lifetime and fall in love, no matter how many time they're torn apart.

They fell in love in their past lives as Princess Serenity and Prince Endymion, but their romance triggered their untimely deaths. Circumstances aren't any less dire in their current lives. Not everything is doom and gloom, though; the couple has their fair share of beautifully written fairy tale moments.

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Sailor Moon is a classic shojo magical girl series. As is the case with many shojo fantasies, epic romance is the backbone of the series. Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask's forbidden love in their previous lives as Princess Serenity and Prince Endymion acts as the inciting incident to the whole saga.

Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask have a dramatic and heart-racing romance, but they aren't the only characters with compelling love stories. Usagi's friends have their fair share of swoony romance and heartbreak. Even some of Naoko Takeuchi's villains, like Kunzite and Prince Saphir, have love stories that help humanize them to the audience.

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The Sailor Moon brand is the premiere Magical Girl anime and manga franchise, with the classic 1990s anime in particular being the most well-known incarnation. It's since undergone various adaptations and remakes, including the Sailor Moon Crystal anime that told a more manga-accurate story. Amid these different iterations was another that took the property into live-action while also radically changing some of the story's elements.

Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon was the first fully-fledged live-action Sailor Moon series, and it gave a somewhat more down-to-Earth interpretation of the story. Released over a decade after the original anime, this show was actually not even the first attempt at a Sailor Moon TV series with live-action actors. Changing the material while still embracing what fans loved so much about previous versions, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon is an often overlooked but important part of the franchise's history.

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Sailor Moon is an epic magical girl anime with plenty of monster-of-the-week skirmishes, magical transformations, and devastating battles. Romance is the main engine of the story, though. It's Princess Serenity and Prince Endymion's forbidden love affair that launches the events of the series, and their love is a huge part of Usagi Tsukino's motivation.

Romance isn't only for the heroes in Sailor Moon, though. Many of the villains have their own love affairs. Some of the villain romances have redemptive qualities for the characters, and some of the romances are quite strange and even cruel. Either way, the stakes are high for a villain in love.

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Sailor Moon features a robust cast of characters, with many of the Sailor Guardians, their allies and their enemies so popular that anime fans unfamiliar with the show still recognize the characters. The vast roster showcases sympathetic villains and questionable heroes, making it a truly revolutionary show that prioritizes character depth and development especially for its younger audience. With so many amazing people within the Sailor Moon story, some were bound to have tragic backstories, with their pasts shaping and defining their exploits within the series.

Whether the villains used their trauma to justify their actions or whether the heroes looked at their past sorrows and vowed to be better, the myriad characters within Sailor Moon offer complex views on the ways past trauma shaped the present and the future. From Mamorus loss of his parents at an early age to Prince Saphirs intense loyalty to his brother Prince Demande,...

Sailor Moon is an epic story spanning generations and galaxies. Usagi Tsukino moonlights as the superhero fighting for Love and Justice, Sailor Moon. She and her Sailor Guardians battle otherworldly threats and slowly uncover the events of their past lives.

There are plenty of twists and turns as the Sailor Guardians face new villains in every story arc. Some villains have surprising origin stories, and some have heartwarming redemption arcs where they sacrifice everything to do what is right. There are also plenty of dramatic twists and reveals in Usagi and Mamoru Chiba's romance plot.

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A theory suggests Jayne Cobb was almost a Reaver, escaping this fate due to his family moving from Miranda's moon of Caliban. Jayne's connection to Miranda adds depth, explaining his humanity amidst his tough exterior. Jayne's potential as a Reaver affects his character development, creating a tragic link to Firefly's storyline.

A Firefly fan theory introduces the idea that a member of the Serenity crew almost became a Reaver before the events of the show. Within the universe of Firefly, Reavers are considered some of the galaxy's most dangerous threats. A horde of twisted and animalistic humans who have long since lost their humanity, the Reavers are treated as monsters that must be avoided at all costs. The events of the Firefly follow-up (and unfortunate box-office bomb) Serenity eventually delved into their origins, revealing they were the result of the Alliance's experiments.

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“The Voice” blind auditions of season 25 concluded on Tuesday, March 12 with each of the four coaches selecting their 10th and final artist to join their team. John Legend heads the current panel of coaches, returning for his ninth season in a red chair. Reba McEntire and Chance the Rapper each return for their second season and Dan + Shay make history in their first season in the first ever two-coach chair.

Before the coaches divide their teams of 10s for the Battles round head-to-heads beginning Monday, March 18, we asked You who your favorite artists are so far from each team. Check out the results for each of our four “Who is your favorite artist on Team ___?” below.

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On Team Dan + Shay, the favorite as of this writing is 21 year old Madison Curbelo who sang “Stand by Me” and is...

As The Voice’s Season 25 Blind Auditions neared their conclusion Monday, we were introduced to a standout that one coach went so far as to liken to Brandy, a would-be winner who gave a performance that could only be called Dylanesque, and a country boy with as much gravel in his vocal as you’d find on a dirt road in Nowhereseville. Read on, and we’ll review all the singers who advanced from Night 5 of the Blinds.

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Naoko Takeuchi takes great care with developing her characters in Sailor Moon. Usagi may start out fighting alongside the four Inner Senshi, but it's not long before the world opens up and many other Senshi and allies join her. Each one of the large cast has a detailed backstory and personality.

Takeuchi loves astrology and astronomy, and which is etched into the Sailor Moon series. Each character has their own distinct personality and motivations, and that's reflected in their zodiac signs and the folklore of their home planets. While they all wear a different versions of the same sailor suit, they all have different, nuanced character designs.

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Sailor Mercury is the first Inner Senshi to reveal herself to Sailor Moon. She's the brainy one of the group who focuses on acing her classes and broadening her mind. She can always be trusted...

Zombie Town is a comedy zombie film directed by Peter Lepeniotis, he also worked on the screenplay with Michael Samonek and Michael Schwartz. The comedy horror film follows the story of Amy (Madi Monroe) and Mike (Marlon Kazadi) as they unleash a centuries-old curse turning everybody in their town into zombies. To undo this they must find a infamous filmmaker who might have a solution. Zombie Town also stars Chevy Chase, Henry Czerny, and Dan Aykroyd in supporting roles. So, if you loved Zombie Town here are some similar movies you could watch next.

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Synopsis: Simon Pegg and Nick Frost reteam with director Edgar Wright in this wildly entertaining thrill ride that critics call “funny as hell” and “sheer comic perfection”. Twenty years after their first epic pub crawl attempt, the “five musketeers” reunite in their home town to complete the ultimate challenge – one night,...

Nathan Fillion's The Rookie is one of the most popular network dramas on TV, and eight of Nathan's co-stars from his previous series have made cameos on the police procedural. Fillion was first introduced to audiences as Captain Malcolm Reynolds, pilot of the spaceship Serenity and the leader of a band of smugglers in the 2002 series Firefly, which became a cult hit even though it was canceled by Fox after one season. Fillion went on to star as a famous mystery writer who helps the NYPD solve murder cases in the 2009 acclaimed series Castle, which aired for eight seasons on ABC.

Since 2018, Fillion has played the main protagonist, LAPD Officer Nolan Ryan in ABC's The Rookie. The series follows the life of Nolan, the oldest rookie officer in the department, and his fellow officers in the Mid-Wilshire Division. During the Rookie's five seasons, Fillion, who has formed close relationships...

Chicago Fire has had a revolving door of characters through its 11 seasons, including Wendy Seager. The long-running procedural, part of Dick Wolf's One Chicago franchise, follows the personal and professional lives of the firefighters, rescue personnel, and paramedics of the Chicago Fire Department Firehouse 51. While the show tends to focus on the main cast, recurring characters get their share of the story and often stick around for multiple seasons, winding in and out of the crisscrossing story.

One of the later introductions to Chicago Fire is Wendy Seager, a Lieutenant with the Office of Fire Investigation. Wendy first appears in season 8, episode 7, “Crazytown,” and is a recurring character for a few episodes. She then departs in season 9 only to return in seasons 10 and 11. Wendy worked closely with Lieutenant Kelly Severide in their fire investigations, and their close proximity and easy chatter always bordered on flirtatious. She may not have...

This fall, a new Firefly miniseries returns the franchise to its space Western roots. The show was conceived as a “space Western,” telling stories of outlaws and other outcasts on the frontier of a distant solar system. These themes resonated with fans, and helped the show grow into a bona fide cult classic despite only airing a handful of episodes. Now, Boom! Studios is taking Firefly back to its roots in The Fall Guys!

Boom! has revealed more details of the new book, which will be written by Sam Humphries, drawn by Jordi Perez and colored by Francesco Segala. Titled Firefly: The Fall Guys, the six-issue limited series stars the show’s original crew and while it is not stated, it is implied to take place before the events of Serenity. In a press release, Boom offered a brief synopsis for the book: “

The crew is broke and out of luck.

Writing for one or two main characters can be difficult, but when your TV show or film has an ensemble cast playing lead roles, it is infinitely more challenging to balance them all. Joss Whedon has had to do that more than once. Whedon, of course, is responsible for projects like "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" "Angel," "Cabin in the Woods," "Firefly," its sequel, "Serenity," and "The Avengers." 

Even for a writer whose ensemble work has been praised (and reexamined as on-set standards are reevaluated and allegations about his behavior emerge), making sure each character gets their due and plays a role was a difficult prospect. Whedon spoke about this in an interview with Den of Geek back in 2012, right before the release of both "The Avengers" and "Cabin in the Woods." He called balancing this sort of thing a "nightmare," and it's easy to see why that might be. 

Particularly...

With early reviews for HBO's The Last of Us series already looking extremely positive, it's yet more proof that not every video game adaptation for the screen has to be tacky and unfaithful to the source material. With television and video games having a closer relationship than ever, it raises the question of which shows could make for interesting video games.

With The Expanse: A Telltale Series set to be released this year, it already looks as if the science fiction genre could be the best source of adaptations for video games. Shows like Westworld and Star Trek are some of the most creative on TV and that makes them perfect for an endlessly creative and interactive medium in the form of video games.

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It is in the order of celebration for Selling Tampa star Sharelle Rosado and Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson, as they have taken their relationship a step further by officially getting engaged. Just a year ago, the pair welcomed their daughter Serenity less than two years after they revealed details about their relationship on Selling Tampa's debut season. The pair have been going strong since the time Sharelle acknowledged sparking things up between them, after she sent the former NFL player a Dm with heart eyes and he responded to her. However, during the past two years, the couple has maintained a semi-distant relationship.

To take their relationship a step further, Chad proposed to Sharelle over the weekend, as confirmed by People. Even though the pair have been referring to each other as "fiancé" for some time, an official engagement means Chad and Sharelle will be walking down the aisle soon. The...