The cultural impact of Sailor Moon: How a 90s Japanese anime inspired generations of fans and spun into a global merchandising empire worth billions INSIDER 10 hrs ago jwong@businessinsider.com (Dana Givens) Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon first debuted in 1992 on TV Asahi in Japan.
Longtime fans use its influence to create their own projects and express their love of the anime.
Weekday afternoons were a sacred time growing up.
After school, in the late 1990s, I would rush to the nearest television and turn on Toonami to watch my favorite shows. Japanese anime was a huge portion of my media consumption growing up, and I had become enamored with a 14-year-old Japanese blond girl who fought against evil in the name of the moon - Sailor Moon.