美少女戦士セーラームーンS. Ten volumes. Toei Video / Toei Laser Disc. LSTD-1198 through LSTD-1207. April 1995 through late 1995. ¥5,200 per volume. Four episodes per disc. The final volume (LSTD-1207, Vol.10) carries two episodes and is priced at ¥4,000. An outer slipcase holds the complete set. Series Director: 幾原邦彦 Kunihiko Ikuhara. Art Designer (Character Design): 伊藤百世 Ikuko Itoh. Original story: 武内直子 Naoko Takeuchi. Music: 有澤孝紀 Takanori Arisawa. Studio: 東映動画 Toei Animation.
Each disc's jacket front is a newly commissioned Ikuko Itoh character illustration printed under the PRETTY SOLDIER SAILOR MOON S title. The subjects rotate through the series' cast in narrative order. Vol.1 covers the complete Inner Senshi assembled; Vol.2 pairs Sailor Mars and Mercury; Vol.3 pairs Sailor Mars and Venus; Vol.4 features Sailor Chibi Moon alone; Vol.5 pairs Sailor Neptune and Uranus; Vol.6 shows Super Sailor Moon following her power-up arc; Vol.7 centers on a dark antagonist figure with Chibi Moon — the series' only villain-centric jacket; Vol.8 assembles all three Outer Senshi; Vol.9 gives Sailor Saturn a solo cover; Vol.10 gathers the complete final-act cast. The outer slipcase front assembles the full series cast across both Inner and Outer Senshi.
Sailor Moon S ran 38 episodes on TV Asahi from March 1994 to February 1995. It was the third season of the franchise and Ikuhara's final as series director — he left the production in late 1995 before the fourth season aired, to develop 少女革命ウテナ Revolutionary Girl Utena. Ikuko Itoh served as character designer and chief animation director for all three seasons through S; this is the last season she held both roles simultaneously. The season introduced the Outer Senshi — Uranus, Neptune, Saturn — who had no equivalent in the earlier seasons, and whose presence shifted the series' visual and tonal register considerably from Vol.5 onward.
Toei Laser Disc
Ten volumes, each containing four episodes of the TV broadcast, with the final disc carrying two. The Toei Laser Disc imprint ran through the 1990s as Toei's primary LD distribution label — the cat-silhouette logo appears on the back of every disc in the series. Credits appear in small vertical type at right on the slipcase back: original story 武内直子 Naoko Takeuchi; screenplay 只野菜摘 Natsumi Tadano; series director 幾原邦彦 Kunihiko Ikuhara; art designer 伊藤百世 Ikuko Itoh. Each individual disc back carries the full per-episode staff and cast in the same format.
Outer slipcase back — Sailor Moon and Sailor Chibi Moon floating within a crescent moon circle. Series staff credits in small vertical type at upper left. TOEI Laser Disc logo with the Toei cat silhouette, lower left. White background, spare layout.
Vol.1 (LSTD-1198) jacket front — Sailor Moon large in center, full series cast visible below and behind. Blue-green starfield background. Sailor Moon S logo lower right. Illustrated by IKUKO ITOH. Episodes 90–93.
Vol.1 back — LSTD-1198, ¥5,200, CLV. STORY section with synopses for episodes 90–93. CHAPTER TRACK listing in a colored oval: named chapter stops for each of the four episodes, two sides. Staff and cast credits at right. Toei Animation copyright.
Vol.2 (LSTD-1199) jacket front — Sailor Mars and Sailor Mercury in portrait close-up. Mars left, Mercury right, both in standard S-season costumes against a dark starfield. Episodes 94–97.
Vol.2 back — LSTD-1199, ¥5,200. Story synopses for episodes 94–97. Chapter track oval. Staff and cast. Same back-cover format as all subsequent volumes.
Vol.3 (LSTD-1200) jacket front — Sailor Mars and Sailor Venus in close profile, facing each other. Warm red-pink palette. Vol.3's pairing overlaps with the Mars appearance on Vol.2 — two Mars covers across two consecutive volumes.
Vol.3 back — LSTD-1200, ¥5,200. Episodes 98–101. Story synopses and chapter track. Format indicators: COLOR, CLV.
The Jacket System
Each jacket front is a commissioned Ikuko Itoh illustration for that volume's specific character assignment — not promotional art adapted from broadcast materials, but drawings made for the disc jackets. The backs follow a consistent format across all ten volumes: STORY text in the left column (four episode synopses with stills), a colored oval carrying the CHAPTER TRACK, staff and cast at right. The chapter track oval changes color slightly per volume — it's the one element of the back that visually distinguishes each disc from the others when they're shelved together.
Vol.4 (LSTD-1201) jacket front — Sailor Chibi Moon alone. Pink dominant field, head-and-shoulders close-up, direct gaze. The most graphic and concentrated of the ten jacket compositions. Episodes 102–105.
Vol.4 back — LSTD-1201, ¥5,200. Episodes 102–105. Story synopses and chapter track. Cast includes 丸山修子 Noriko Maruyama as Sailor Chibi Moon.
Vol.5 (LSTD-1202) jacket front — Sailor Neptune and Sailor Uranus in close portrait. Neptune (aqua hair, left) and Uranus (short blonde hair, right) almost touching. The Outer Senshi appear for the first time as jacket subjects. Episodes 106–109.
Vol.5 back — LSTD-1202, ¥5,200. Episodes 106–109. Story synopses and chapter track. Cast adds 勝生真沙子 Masako Katsuki (Sailor Uranus) and 深見梨加 Rika Fukami (Sailor Neptune).
Vol.6 (LSTD-1203) jacket front — Super Sailor Moon in the upgraded S-season costume, rainbow-gradient background. The first solo Sailor Moon cover in the series since Vol.1; the costume change marks the mid-season power-up arc. Episodes 110–113.
The Outer Senshi
Vols.5, 8, and 9 are allocated to the characters introduced in Sailor Moon S who had no equivalent in the earlier R season. Sailor Uranus (天王はるか Tenoh Haruka) and Sailor Neptune (海王みちる Kaioh Michiru) appear together on Vol.5 in a composition that reads more like a character study than an action shot — two faces close, no transformation sequence, no attack pose. Vol.8 assembles all three Outers. Vol.9 gives Sailor Saturn a single-figure cover that stands apart from every other volume in the set.
Vol.6 back — LSTD-1203, ¥5,200. Episodes 110–113. Story synopses and chapter track covering the Super Sailor Moon introduction arc.
Vol.7 (LSTD-1204) jacket front — a tall dark-haired antagonist figure in dark formal wear holding Sailor Chibi Moon, red roses filling the background. The series' only villain-centric jacket. Every other volume in the set places a Sailor Soldier as primary subject. Episodes 114–117.
Vol.7 back — LSTD-1204, ¥5,200. Episodes 114–117. Story synopses and chapter track. The STORY header image shows the full senshi group rather than the antagonist figure on the front.
Vol.8 (LSTD-1205) jacket front — the three Outer Senshi assembled: Sailor Pluto (tall, dark green hair, foreground), Sailor Neptune (center), Sailor Uranus (right). Dark blue-green palette. Episodes 118–121.
Vol.8 back — LSTD-1205, ¥5,200. Episodes 118–121. Story synopses and chapter track covering the 土萌ほたる Tomoe Hotaru / Sailor Saturn introduction arc.
Vol.9
Sailor Saturn is the season's late-appearing character — her true identity as a Sailor Soldier was withheld from the broadcast audience until the penultimate arc, and suppressed in early promotional materials. Vol.9's jacket gives her a single-figure cover: dark palette, isolated in frame, no companions. Every other volume in the set pairs or groups characters, or features Sailor Moon's own power-up arc. The solo framing on Vol.9 is the jacket assignment maintaining the same withholding the narrative does — she is present, but set apart.
Vol.9 (LSTD-1206) jacket front — Sailor Saturn in solo portrait. Purple-blue palette, straight-ahead gaze, Silence Glaive visible. The only single-character jacket in the series that is not Sailor Moon or Chibi Moon. Episodes 122–125.
Vol.9 back — LSTD-1206, ¥5,200. Episodes 122–125, covering Saturn's arc. Story synopses and chapter track.
Vol.10 (LSTD-1207) jacket front — Super Sailor Moon at center with Sailor Chibi Moon, Sailor Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus assembled in the final-arc configuration. The complete outer and inner alliance. Warm gradient palette. Episodes 126–127.
Vol.10 back — LSTD-1207, ¥4,000. Two episodes — the season finale. Story synopses for episodes 126–127, with epilogue (エピローグ) noted in the chapter track. The final disc in the series is ¥1,200 less than the preceding nine, carrying half the episode count.
The Toei DVD release of Sailor Moon S (2002 Toei Video) compressed the season onto fewer discs with standard menu navigation. The CHAPTER TRACK structure from the LD release — eight to ten named stops per disc, presented in that colored oval on each back cover — provided per-episode navigation keyed to named moments in the broadcast. The ten Ikuko Itoh jacket illustrations were later reproduced across artbooks, merchandise, and anniversary releases; their original context was the disc jackets, commissioned for the LaserDisc volumes and pressed in the season's first broadcast year.
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