How to play the Sailor Moon timeline game

The deck gathers Sailor Moon in all its forms: the manga, the anime seasons and films, a live-action show, the reboot, and the long-running stage musicals. Each card notes the format and a detail, such as the arc it adapts or who played the lead on stage. You're ordering them by the year each premiered in Japan. One card starts on the line with its year; the rest arrive one by one. Right placements show the year. Wrong ones still find their real spot, but each costs a life, and three lost lives end the run.

The original anime seasons and their companion films came quickly, one after another, so story knowledge carries you a long way there. The musicals are much harder: they ran for years under changing casts, and the actress named on the card is the main clue to which production it was. The reboot adapts the same arcs the original did, so a familiar villain on a card doesn't settle which era it comes from. Expect a quiet middle stretch and then a burst of anniversary projects.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 23 of the 23 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

Codename: Sailor V Manga, Minako fights crime on her own
Sailor Moon (manga) Manga, Naoko Takeuchi in Nakayoshi
Sailor Moon (TV series) TV series, Usagi meets Luna
Sailor Moon R TV series, Chibiusa and the Black Moon Clan
Sailor Moon R: The Movie Film, Fiore and the Kisenian flower
Sailor Moon S TV series, Uranus, Neptune and the Death Busters
Sailor Moon S: The Movie Film, Princess Snow Kaguya and Luna in love
Sailor Moon SuperS TV series, Pegasus and the Dead Moon Circus
Sailor Moon SuperS: The Movie Film, the Black Dream Hole steals children
Ami-chan no Hatsukoi Short film, Ami and a mystery test rival
Sailor Moon Sailor Stars TV series, the Sailor Starlights and Galaxia
Sera Myu: Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen Stage musical, Anza Ohyama as Sailor Moon
Sera Myu: Kaguya Shima Densetsu Stage musical, Fumina Hara as Sailor Moon
Sera Myu: Mugen Gakuen, Mistress Labyrinth Stage musical, Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Live-action TV series, Miyuu Sawai as Usagi
Sera Myu: La Reconquista Stage musical, Satomi Okubo as Sailor Moon
Sera Myu: Petite Étrangère Stage musical adapting the Sailor Moon R story
Sera Myu: Amour Eternal Stage musical adapting the Dream arc
Sailor Moon Crystal: Dark Kingdom Web series, Crystal adapts Queen Beryl's arc
Sailor Moon Crystal: Black Moon Web series, Crystal adapts the Black Moon arc
Sailor Moon Crystal: Death Busters TV series, Crystal adapts the Infinity arc
Sailor Moon Eternal Two-part film, the Dead Moon Circus
Sailor Moon Cosmos Two-part film, Sailor Galaxia and the Stars arc