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I know that some changes were made to Sailor Moon when it was translated into
English, like that Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune are changed from lovers to
cousins. What other changes were made?

I'm not asking about name changes, only plot and character changes.


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How does the English version of Sailor Moon differ from the original?


Besides the points you made yourself... I do not believe "some" is a word I
would use. I actually watched Sailor Moon with Dutch dubs (based on the
English version so I got double the misery) and saw the Japanese version after
that and got so confused about it. The Japanese and the English version have
the same name but that is about the only thing these two have in common. So
no, to me "some" does not even come close.

Each episode was different from the original Japanese version: any form of
violence, nudity, death, swearing and gay relationships or gay behaviour was
taken out.

Even the main theme of love was not as highly present in the English as in the
Japanese. The English theme song is a superhero song:

> I'm sorry I'm not straightforward,  
>  I can say it in my dreams  
>  My thoughts are about to short circuit,  
>  I want to see you right now

versus...

> Fighting evil by moonlight,  
>  Winning love by daylight,  
>  Never running from a real fight,  
>  She is the one named Sailor Moon

People actually die in the Japanese version. Something that surprised me even
more since I was still used to it being a naive censored version.

You are not the first to ask this and there is a website dedicated to the
differences called
[smuncensored](http://www.smuncensored.com/season.php?season=1). It has an
episode-by-episode color-coded review of all the differences. Looking at
[episode 1](http://www.smuncensored.com/comparison.php?episodeid=1) I stopped
counting at 50 differences in plot and story line. [Episode
2](http://www.smuncensored.com/comparison.php?episodeid=2) was skipped
completely... and at [episode
46](http://www.smuncensored.com/comparison.php?episodeid=46) you can see that
a total of 6 episodes got skipped.


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