Sailor Moon began as a Japanese manga series in the early 1990s and became a hugely popular anime about schoolgirl Usagi Tsukino and her fellow Sailor Guardians, whose magical transformations and battles made the series a global touchstone for the magical-girl genre. Short clips from the show have long circulated on soundboards, in fan edits and on social video, where the familiar audio instantly signals nostalgia, sparkle and heroic confidence to viewers who grew up with the series.