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(3.83/5)There's a few potential stumbling blocks with this series. The fantasy vocab will likely all be new to you, since it's stuff that certainly isn't taught in textbooks. The primary villains talk in Typical Anime Villain speech, which is archaic and, again, not taught in textbooks. But other than that, it's not all that difficult, and all kanji do have furigana.
To get the most benefit, I recommend watching the Sailor Moon Crystal anime alongside it. Because the new anime follows the manga so clos
If you like physical manga at all, definitely buy the physical ones! They're bigger than the usual B6 size, with high quality paper, and seeing the color illustrations is worth it alone (the covers look way more beautiful too)
It's been about 9 months since I read this, and I just read vol 5. While I vaguely remember this volume feeling kind of chaotic and shallow, it gets better in later volumes. Definitely worth sticking out!
I have to disagree about this being a good first manga, unless you
Perfect as your first native manga
This is the first full volume of manga that I've read without quitting. It was a nice trek down memory lane too, as I grew up in the 90s and Sailor Moon was one of the first anime series I've ever watched.
The vocabulary is simple and pertains to everyday activities, many words are spelled using hiragana instead of their kanji forms and all kanji have furigana. Still, I had to look up a lot of words and made around ~300 Anki cards, so on average that's around a card per page.
It's a very sol