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In _Sailor Moon_ , there are two cats, Luna and Artemis, who I believe act as
advisers for Sailor Moon's mother, the queen.

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6bTOF.jpg)

It's been a while since I've seen the anime, but were there any other sentient
cats in _Sailor Moon_? Or were these two the only ones?


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Were Luna and Artemis the only (sentient) cats in Sailor Moon?


There is also Diana, who was born on Earth. She first appears in episode 126
or 133 (English and Japanese dub respectively) of the anime and is revealed to
be the daughter of Artemis and Luna. In the manga, she first appears in Act
18. She comes from the future and so when Luma first sees her (in the anime)
she is confused because Diana refers to Artemis as Daddy. She is the advisor
to Chibiusa, as Artemis and Luna are Usagi's advisors.


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Yes, **Diana** is Artemis and Luna's daughter, but she is _not_ the only other
sentient cat. In addition to this trio:

in the original manga, Luna and Artemis are natives of the cat-themed
**[planet Mau](http://sailormoon.wikia.com/wiki/Mau), which is in the same
galaxy but is outside of the solar system** (how this aligns with the cats
serving Queen Serenity in the Moon Kingdom is not explained; apparently Luna
and Artemis immigrated to the Moon at some point). Mau is the same planet that
Sailor Tin Nyanko comes from. Sailor Tin Nyanko was not originally a real
sailor soldier according to manga canon; rather, she killed the planet's true
sailor guardian, Sailor Mau, in order to gain synthetic soldier abilities. All
sailor soldiers and other special beings who likewise possess true star seeds
(such as Tuxedo Kamen, Luna, Artemis, and Diana), who died by having their
true star seeds removed, after Chaos was defeated, received their star seeds
back and came back to life. Thus, living on Mau at the end of the manga
series, there are 1) a resurrected Sailor Mau (implied to be humanoid, simply
on the basis that all sailor soldiers we've met have been humanoid, but since
she was not specifically shown or described beyond her name, it is **not
_impossible_ that Sailor Mau could be a sentient cat herself**... especially
considering that Luna, Artemis, and Diana each have a humanoid form that they
can transform into), 2) other humanoids (like Tin Nyanko), and 3) the
implication of **other sentient cats as the regular residents of the planet
Mau**.

(Diana is the only sentient cat who is not a native of Mau, since she was born
on Earth in the 30th-century Crystal Tokyo.)

(Note that the _Sera Myu_ musicals follow the manga with Tin Nyanko as Sailor
Mau's assassin, but the anime canon differs, in which Sailor Tin Nyanko is a
true sailor soldier who was originally good but got brainwashed by Sailor
Galaxia's bracelets, and there is no mention of Mau or of Luna and Artemis'
further backstory.)


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