Meet Sailor Mars: Fire

Sailor Moon Scout Guide #3

by Kodansha, Joel Baral, K.J. Karvonen

Introduces Sailor Mars, a companion of Sailor Moon, and one of a group of teenage girls who transform into superheroes to defeat the forces of evil.

Genres: Manga, Comics, Young Adult, Graphic Novels

93 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Kodansha Ltd. (Japanese: 株式会社講談社, Hepburn: Kabushiki-gaisha Kōdansha) is a Japanese privately-held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha is the largest Japanese publishing company, and it produces the manga magazines Nakayoshi, Afternoon, Evening, Weekly Shōnen Magazine and Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine, as well as the more literary magazines Gunzō, Shūkan Gendai, and the Japanese dictionary Nihongo Daijiten. Kodansha was founded by Seiji Noma in 1909, and members of his family continue as its owners either directly or through the Noma Cultural Foundation.

Reviews

[Alejandro · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fire soul!


ESSENTIAL TO ANY SAILOR MARS FAN

This is the third of five reference book published to tie-in with the premiere of Sailor Moon TV show in the US television.

Each book of this series of five, is focused in one of the Sailor Scouts, where here is obvious that it's about the third sailor to be called, Sailor Mars aka Raye Hino (Rei in the Japanese version).

Raye is the most temperamental of all the Sailor Scouts, no wonder she her element is Fire, and she is always arguing with Serena, but that doesn't mean that they aren't good friends. Since while Raye likes to project an image of a cranky person, she has a good heart at the bottom. Raye is also a shrine maiden at the Shinto Shrine where her grandfather is the High Priest. So, along with her powers as sailor scout, Raye has an extra advantage of knowing how to chant protective charms against evil beings.

This reference book is a wonderful collector's item, since not only you're able to read it all since it's on English, but also is full color in prestige paper and with a massive amount of information focused on Sailor Mars, like her family, her duties as Shinto maiden, powers, etc...

Obviously, if you're fan of the Sailor Moon anime series, I recommend to get all the five books. (I was able to get four of them at the same time, I had to wait like a year to be able to get the one about Sailor Venus, but happily I completed them finally).

[Jamie · Rating 3 out of 5]

So at first I was bored. Too much time on character intro and basic stuff. I mean the things anyone who has seen even just an episode or 2 would get. Although the pictures that Sailor Moon picks out to show off cracked me up as you can see their rivalry through her eyes. There were a few things I got though. Like the crows we see are actually named pets or that Chads parents are rich and that her least favorite food is canned asparagus. I loved all the random details!

[Sarah Morgan Sandquist · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ultimately these books contained very little clear information. I would've preferred if they'd padded it with character design info, rather than several pages of badly written poetry and snapshots with confusingly narrated captions.

[Becky · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read my reviews for the other scout guides. This book is really disappointing. Why does this one have no shiny cover and back cover? Strange? I felt this one is the worst of all the 5 books.

[Aprillya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love it