Anime & Manga - All things Sailor Moon #2: Champion of justice - Page 19

**Arrakis** · 01-03-2022, 09:22 AM

Also bunny's soul mother queen serenity died.

**canflam** · 01-03-2022, 05:29 PM

Oh. Darn it. I'm not familiar with ''Bunny'' yet.

**MsPerfectionist** · 01-03-2022, 09:39 PM

i vaguely remember the anime mentioned Rei and Makoto's backstories. it wasn't very elaborate. Venus had a whole episode on her backstory but the episode was cut from the Dic English dubbed version.

For the list of cut episodes, go to:
https://www.smuncensored.com/epconv.php

**Arrakis** · 01-04-2022, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by canflam (View Post)

Oh. Darn it. I'm not familiar with ''Bunny'' yet.

Bunny is usagi aka sailor moon.

**canflam** · 01-04-2022, 10:18 AM

When has been called "Bunny" then?

**Arrakis** · 01-05-2022, 07:51 PM

Actually usagi gets called bunny most of the time in the old anime. At least in the german dub the other girls always use her nickname for her. Possibly in the english version they always call her usagi.

Edit, I looked it up, Usagi is the japanese word for bunny. So i guess in the german dumb they went with bunny as her name most of the time, at least when called by her friends, so that kids would understand the meaning of the name (since most kids know at least a few english words here but definitely not japanese words).

**canflam** · 01-06-2022, 03:39 PM

Oh interesting. I did not know that, but I haven't watched that German dubbed version at this time.

**Arrakis** · 01-07-2022, 09:32 AM

Yeah I didn't know either her name is literally bunny in japanese too.

Chibiusa means little bunny.

LindaL100 · 01-07-2022, 09:59 AM

and Mamoru often calls Usagi "Usako", it's an endearing nickname he gave her which literally means "bunny child" in japanese.

Another fun fact is that each of the Sailor senshis civilian names in Japanese literally has their corresponding elements, for example Sailor Moon's civilian name "Tsukino Usagi", the word "tsuki" in "Tsukino" literally means moon in Japanese, and in Japanese mythology it is said that a bunny lives on the moon, hence Usagi's name literally means "bunny of the moon" in Japanese. While Sailor Mercury's civilian name 'Mizuno Ami', the word "mizu" in "Mizuno" literally means water in Japanese, and Sailor Mercury's element is water, because the planet Mercury is literally called the "Water star" in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Same with Sailor Mars, her name 'Hino Rei' the word "hi" in "Hino" literally means fire in japanese and Mars element is fire while the planet Mars is called the "fire star", and so on, so all their names are very literal to their planetary names and elements, at least that's how it is for the inner senshis and Sailor Chibi Moon, I'm not sure about the outer senshis though.