manga | sailormoonsub

Ooooooh, I love this question! I could talk about this for pages upon pages, but I will keep it brief. I’ve looked through the artbooks in passing, and I am always struck by how stylistically soft and loose the art is. I especially love the ones where the characters are literally dressed like runway models. I’d love to someday take an in-depth look at all of them. Here are my top five off the top of my head!

Honorable Mention: This one has been my phone wallpaper for a long time, and it will therefore be the last thing I see when my phone finally gives up in exhaustion after playing too much Sailor Moon Drops.

5. Michiru I understand that you need to maintain your “aesthetic” but this is absolutely not the proper care and keeping of a cello.

4. This whole image is just “list of things Audrey is a sucker for.” Her silhouetted shadow is composed of negatives of newspaper clippings. The city skyline is encompassed in her bright canvas of a cape. The harsh red is being cut with the pastel colors that represent her friends. Usagi is in a mask. It features at least one cat. This image couldn’t possibly appeal to me more.

3. I want to own all of these dresses; much like the sailor uniforms themselves, they are more or less the same style, but they have some notable differences that make them personalized. It’s like ten thin individual monochrome pieces put together into one place; this page is its own museum. The knotwork and illuminated letters at the top are both very art nouveau and very Middle English poetry and I have been well documented to enjoy both of these things.

2. Naoko. What were you thinking. This is too much objective attractiveness in one place. They’re simply too pretty. You need to take it down a notch immediately.

1. What the fuck is going on here?

From the background, I’d guess that Chibiusa is visiting the Neo-Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, which is now made entirely out of candy and is hosting a fundraiser barbecue out front. I can infer that this is supposed to be a celebration of some kind, based on the balloons and toys, but Chibiusa doesn’t look happy at all. Yet, she is not upset either. Those eyes scream emotional emptiness. Maybe it’s the tiny 1:4 scale clown dancing to her side. Maybe it’s the jellyfish alien nonchalantly wrapping a single pastalike tendril around her leg. She might just be overstimulated.

Anyway this is my favorite piece of Sailor Moon artwork of all time.