Meet Sailor Jupiter: Thunder

Sailor Moon Scout Guide #4

by Kodansha

Printed in Japan. This is a Nakayosi Media Books. Paperback is a Pretty Soldiers Official Fan Books. 88 page Comic In Japanese Text.

Genres: Manga, Young Adult, Graphic Novels, Comics

92 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]

Supreme Thunder!!!


ESSENTIAL TO ANY SAILOR JUPITER FAN

This is the fourth 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 fourth sailor to be called, Sailor Jupiter aka Lita Kino (Makoto in the Japanese version).

After Sailor Moon, my right next favorite sailor scout is Sailor Jupiter.

Lita is the tallest and strongest of all the sailor scout, but as any well balance in nature, she is also the most fragile inside, since her outside fierce and imposing image had made to her quite difficult to make real friends, and she had been living a very solitary life, until she met Serena and the rest of the sailors. Lita is also a wonderful cook and she love to make food boxes for her friends.

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 Jupiter, like her cooking skills, her romantic relationships, her thunderous 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]

I didn't often see Lita as being soft until reading this. Now I can't unsee it. I just never connected the dots. And I didn't realize she was an orphan (sad)! With the exception of being a bit boy-crazy she is actually a very well balanced character! Although her guardian star power items listed don't add up to anything I've seen her wear/use. I liked a few of her best episodes shared. Although I found the random facts to be too basic, commonly known.

[Ikayuro · Rating 3 out of 5]

I picked this up on a whim because why wouldn't I? It's Sailor Jupiter!!

Overall, it's a nice little guidebook on everything about her- including facts, trivia, and accompanying screenshots of the anime. However, it keeps flipping on Usagi's name- sometimes calling her Bunny, and sometimes Serena- which while they're all canon, please just... pick one.

All in all, a cute book for a fan of Sailor Jupiter, but nothing incredibly special.

[Becky · Rating 3 out of 5]

Unfortunately this has the pitfalls as the other guides do. They are confusing and a mess