Sailor Moon: Crossfire
Forward and Notes by the Author
What makes me, a fully matured adult male, want to write a story about Sailor Moon, a children's anime targeted at girls? Well, I would say it's partly a desire to reconcile the sanitized image of life it presents with some of the grit and dirt of the real world. Sailor Moon uses the struggle between good and evil as a backdrop for the dramas that commonly confront children in the early years of adolescents; problems with school, friends, bullies, and their early attempts at relationships are all featured in certain ways. What it doesn't show are some of the nastier sides to life, like crime and violence, substance abuse, depression, suicide, teenage pregnancy. Though there have been deaths in Sailor Moon, such depiction's are more major points in the story line and are treated in an extremely dramatic way.
However, mostly this story is being written because it's been hammering on the office door of my creative muse for months now and this is just a way to quieten it. As in real life, persistence does pay up in the end.
A few important points to keep in mind whilst reading this. I much prefer the original Japanese version of the show to DiC's dubbed version. Because of this, the Sailor Moon characters featured carry their original Japanese names instead of their anglicized ones. However they will be in the traditional western format of given name followed by family name. Some more common Japanese words may be used to maintain the correct cultural flavour, particularly in multilingual situations. It's setting is a general point in time after the end of the second season, when the original inner senshi's are established in their roles, but before the introduction of the outer senshi's (mainly because I haven't seen from the third season onwards), so much of the story from that point is going to be rewritten.
I can't give any promises about the regularity of updates as they will depend heavily on my real life schedule and studies, so please have a little patience.
Also please keep in mind that, as I am Australian, this was written with the proper english spelling of many words and may look a bit funny to American readers.
Characters
A short list of the characters so people can keep track of who is who and for those more familiar with the anglicized version.
Sailor Moon Characters
Usagi Tsukino/Sailor Moon
Ami Mizuno/Sailor Mercury
Rei Hino/Sailor Mars
Makoto Kino/Sailor Jupiter
Minako Aino/Sailor Venus
Yuuichirou Kamada (Chad in the English version)
Original Characters
David Kawakami: Detective with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police. Concentrates mainly on organized crime.
Hiroko Yamada: Detective recently partnered with David Kawakami.
Kenji Takeda: Captain of the Juban Junior High soccer team. Is interested in Minako.
Jon Winters: A westerner who performs contract hits and is extremely interested in a new
high energy physics lab.
Forward and Notes by the Author
What makes me, a fully matured adult male, want to write a story about Sailor Moon, a children's anime targeted at girls? Well, I would say it's partly a desire to reconcile the sanitized image of life it presents with some of the grit and dirt of the real world. Sailor Moon uses the struggle between good and evil as a backdrop for the dramas that commonly confront children in the early years of adolescents; problems with school, friends, bullies, and their early attempts at relationships are all featured in certain ways. What it doesn't show are some of the nastier sides to life, like crime and violence, substance abuse, depression, suicide, teenage pregnancy. Though there have been deaths in Sailor Moon, such depiction's are more major points in the story line and are treated in an extremely dramatic way.
However, mostly this story is being written because it's been hammering on the office door of my creative muse for months now and this is just a way to quieten it. As in real life, persistence does pay up in the end.
A few important points to keep in mind whilst reading this. I much prefer the original Japanese version of the show to DiC's dubbed version. Because of this, the Sailor Moon characters featured carry their original Japanese names instead of their anglicized ones. However they will be in the traditional western format of given name followed by family name. Some more common Japanese words may be used to maintain the correct cultural flavour, particularly in multilingual situations. It's setting is a general point in time after the end of the second season, when the original inner senshi's are established in their roles, but before the introduction of the outer senshi's (mainly because I haven't seen from the third season onwards), so much of the story from that point is going to be rewritten.
I can't give any promises about the regularity of updates as they will depend heavily on my real life schedule and studies, so please have a little patience.
Also please keep in mind that, as I am Australian, this was written with the proper english spelling of many words and may look a bit funny to American readers.
Characters
A short list of the characters so people can keep track of who is who and for those more familiar with the anglicized version.
Sailor Moon Characters
Usagi Tsukino/Sailor Moon
Ami Mizuno/Sailor Mercury
Rei Hino/Sailor Mars
Makoto Kino/Sailor Jupiter
Minako Aino/Sailor Venus
Yuuichirou Kamada (Chad in the English version)
Original Characters
David Kawakami: Detective with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police. Concentrates mainly on organized crime.
Hiroko Yamada: Detective recently partnered with David Kawakami.
Kenji Takeda: Captain of the Juban Junior High soccer team. Is interested in Minako.
Jon Winters: A westerner who performs contract hits and is extremely interested in a new
high energy physics lab.