Anna Daniels
Centuries passed until the souls of the Silver Millennium found a home in modern-day Japan. Though they all took root near Tokyo’s Azabu-Juban district, their lives varied wildly: Sailor Mars became a reserved keeper of her family’s ancestral Shinto shrine, Sailor Mercury was raised by her elegant single mother, Sailor Jupiter was orphaned at an early age, and Sailor Venus led a pre-series life as the vigilante Sailor V.
What life was Princess Serenity reborn into? A remarkably normal one, especially when compared to her friends: as Usagi Tsukino, she became one of two children born to Ikuko, a housewife, and Kenji, a magazine editor. She is, at the story’s outset, a cheerful girl with many beloved friends, still very much the bright-eyed princess she’d been. But she is also, as her very own internal narration reveals within the first few pages of the series, “kind of a crybaby,” a lazy student, and a bit of an all-around brat. Her heart, of course, is pure in all the ways that matter — she might drag her feet on the way to a challenge, but she’ll show her mettle once she’s there — but one is better off not asking after her most recent test scores. In this sense, she was very much still the girl she’d been thousands of years in the past: kind, silly, and more than a little prone to pursuing her heart, no matter where it might lead.
Written by: Looper
