Black Moon Clan
| Black Moon Clan | |
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The Black Moon Clan. Down left side: Veneti, Aquatici, Chiral, Achiral. Center square, from top left: Blue Saphir, Prince Demand, Green Esmeraude, Crimson Rubeus. Right: Wiseman. Bottom line, from left: Kōan, Berthier, Calaveras, Petz.
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Kodansha |
| First appearance | Sailor Moon chapter #14: Black Moon Koan – Sailor Mars (July 1993) |
| Created by | Naoko Takeuchi |
| In-story information | |
| Base(s) | Planet Nemesis |
| Leader(s) |
Prince Demand Wiseman |
| Member(s) |
Crimson Rubeus Green Esmeraude Blue Saphir Black Lady Ayakashi Sisters Boule Brothers |
The Black Moon Clan (ブラックムーン一族 Burakku Mūn Ichizoku?) is a group of fictional characters who serve as villains in the Sailor Moon manga series by Naoko Takeuchi. It comprises the villains of the second major story arc, which is called the "Black Moon" arc in the manga and which fills most of its Sailor Moon R anime adaptation. They are first introduced in chapter #14 "Black Moon Koan – Sailor Mars", originally published in Japan on July 6, 1993. In the DIC English adaptation, their name is changed to the "Negamoon Family".
Members of the Black Moon Clan come from Planet Nemesis (宿敵 Shukuteki?), a fictional tenth planet of the Solar System. It is described as a planet of "negative energy," having the ability to vanish from sight, but remained traceable by X-Rays. All members of the Black Moon Clan have black, upside-down crescents on their foreheads (the inverse of the marking of Silver Millennium). They wear earrings which, according to the Materials Collection, are made of Black Crystal and allow them to teleport. The Black Moon Clan are descendants of criminals and traitors who hate Crystal Tokyo because they felt its people are corrupt and that their long lifespans, thanks to the power of the Silver Crystal, are blasphemous.
Series creator Naoko Takeuchi originally intended Sailor Moon to last one season, but due to its popularity, Toei Animation asked her to keep drawing the manga series. Takeuchi stated she had difficulty developing a story for the second arc, and the whole idea of Sailor Moon's daughter coming from a future attacked by the Black Moon Clan came from her editor, Fumio Osano. To give Takeuchi enough time to develop the second arc, Toei introduced in the anime the Hell Tree aliens, thus the Black Moon Clan does not feature in the first thirteen episodes of Sailor Moon R. In the DIC English adaptation of the anime, the Black Moon Clan is called "Negamoon Family". The term "Nega-" was also used for the "Negaverse" (the Dark Kingdom) in this adaptation, implying that the Black Moon Clan is related in some way to Queen Beryl and her cause, since the Dark Kingdom members use the term "Nega-" as a common prefix (e.g. "negapower", "negahistory" or "negamonsters").
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