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(Minako was actually already active as Sailor V before Sailor Moon even came along, and Cress had likewise being carrying on her surveillance and searching for Princess Selene well before Cinder knew her true identity.) Winter - Sailor Saturn (with a little Pluto) Minako trains to be Sailor V by playing a video game of the same name, and Ami is later shown to be very proficient at the Sailor V game. Also, Cress enjoys video games and is very good at them from all her time spent playing them alone in her satellite.
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Cress’s hair starts off being very long and blonde (like Minako’s) but then is cut off short (like Ami’s). And the orange tutu that Cress wears to infiltrate the palace in Winter gave me a little giggle as I recalled Venus’s orange skirt.Ī few more characteristics also indicate Ami and Minako.
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Venus actually has several attacks using the word “Crescent,” which is part of Cress’s full name Crescent Moon. She loves to sing, and I can see her dreaming of being a J-pop idol, same as Minako.
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As I said above, she is the first of the team to meet Cinder, and her geekiness with computer hacking skills, plus the way she experiences the real world through media, are very much like the shy, bookish Ami.īut there’s also another side to Cress shown in her effervescent crush on Thorne that reminds me of Minako, aka Sailor Venus, Guardian of Love and Beauty. To me, Cress is a mash-up of Sailor Mercury with a little bit of Venus thrown in. Rei is the second of the Sailor Senshi to be discovered by Sailor Moon Scarlet is the second of the Lunar team that Cinder meets (Cress is the first, though only via vid link). They also share an affinity for shooting Scarlet carries a gun her grandmother gave her, and Rei is an archer, which even features in some of her Sailor Mars attacks. They both have limited contact with their parents, instead living with a grandparent. Scarlet is also the oldest of the group at 18, and her womanly independence and maturity reminds me a lot of Rei. (Though I do think Scarlet’s physicality is also a bit like Sailor Jupiter.) Sailor Mars wields fire, and as I mentioned in my review post, the bold and brash Scarlet fits the “fiery redhead” mold perfectly. Her signature color, red, aligns perfectly with both Rei and the Martian planet that inspired her. Scarlet was the next easiest to pin down she is Sailor Mars through and through. Random side note: I actually tend to think of Cinder looking like Princess Garnet from Final Fantasy IX. ( Meyer has actually said that Cinder is more like her favorite, Sailor Jupiter: “ tough on the outside, but soft and sensitive on the inside.”) In terms of personality and looks, Cinder and Usagi don’t have too much in common, though sometimes Cinder’s ill-fitting prosthetics can make her as clumsy as Usagi. (All these names have meanings related to the moon). Even her birth name Selene sounds similar to Sailor Moon’s other identities Princess Serenity and Serena (used instead of Usagi the Sailor Moon dub). She is the heir to the Lunar kingdom, but has ended up on Earth (specifically in Asia) with no memory of her royal past. Our protagonist Cinder is clearly the Sailor Moon equivalent of this story. Mild spoilers ahead for all the Lunar Chronicles books. As I was reading, I had a lot of fun pairing up characters with the Sailor Senshi that they seemed similar to.
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It’s definitely a classic shoujo manga for a reason.Īs the Lunar Chronicles series progresses, Cinder picks up companions on her quest, eventually assembling a team that reminded me greatly of the Sailor Scouts, or Senshi: four girls all with Lunar heritage (and one very excitable android). But I’ve since read the manga and seen a few episodes of the dub and Sailor Moon Crystal. I can’t say that I’m as obsessed with Sailor Moon as other girls my age ( including Meyer!) because I was never able to watch it when it was first broadcast in the US. What I did not know was that it was also partly inspired by Sailor Moon! When I started reading Cinder, the first book in the Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer, I knew that it was a sci-fi take on the Cinderella tale.