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Usagi's birthday is on June 30th. The Sailor Senshi were originally going to die at the end of the Dark Kingdom arc in the manga. Chibiusa is popular among Japanese fans. However, many fans in the west aren't really fond of her. Haruka and Michiru were loosely based off of actors from the Takarazuka Revue. Megumi Ogata, Sailor Uranus's voice actress in the anime, has voiced many popular characters. Kurama from YuYu Hakusho, Shinji Ikari from Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Yugi Mutou from Yu-Gi-Oh are some of her most popular roles. IGN listed Usagi Tsukino as their top 9th anime character on their "Top 25 Anime Characters of All Time" list. Naoko Takeuchi is married to fellow mangaka Yoshihiro Togashi. YuYu Hakusho and Hunter × Hunter are some of his most popular works. Both of those series have referenced Sailor Moon, while the latter series was referenced in Chapter 3 - Rei's and Minako's Girls School Battle?. Usagi appears in every chapter of the manga and every episode of the anime. Sailor Saturn is the only member of the Sailor Senshi who didn't have a transformation in the first anime. Ptilol was the only member of the Witches 5 who was never in the musicals. Naoko Takeuchi originally used the codename "Mysterious 2098 Face" for Tuxedo Mask. In the original proposal for a Codename: Sailor V anime, there was a character called Mamoru Chino, who was the leader of female street gang and a smoker. This character later became Makoto Kino. "Moonlight Legend", the opening to the first four seasons of the Sailor Moon anime, was said to be based off of the cha-cha song "Sayonara wa Dance no Ato Ni". Also, some people have said that it sounds like "Omoide no Kujukuri-hama" ("Memories of 99 Beach"), a song by the Japanese girl group Mi-Ke. Coincidentally, "Omoide no Kujukuri-hama" was released a year before "Moonlight Legend" was. The first fourteen seconds of Sailor Venus's theme in the Sailor Moon video game for the Super Famicom sound exactly like the first fourteen seconds of Bananarama's version of the song "Venus", which was originally by Shocking Blue. It is rumored that Aya Hisakawa was assigned to voice Usagi Tsukino/Sailor Moon during the first audition of the Sailor Moon anime. Minako Aino's birthday is on October 22nd. Minako once made a reference to the series "Candy Candy" in the third Exam Battle story, "Chapter 3 - Rei's and Minako's Girls School Battle?." Naoko Takeuchi, the creator of Sailor Moon, is a fan the series. Before the first anime was dubbed by DiC Entertainment, Toon Makers created a pilot and a short music video for a Western-animated version of the series. While Usagi is the only known member of the Sailor Senshi to have a child, children of the Inner Sailor Senshi appear in the Materials Collection exclusive story "Parallel Sailor Moon". [ Refresh for another fact] 