Template:InfoboxSongMoonlight Legend is the original opening theme of the Sailor Moon anime series. Most of the anime seasons used this song for the opening theme. It was one of the series' most popular songs, and the song is about Usagi and Mamoru's love for each other.
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"Moonlight Legend" was first performed by DALI as the opening theme for the first two series in the anime, and then by Moon Lips for the third and fourth. The song was then replaced by the Sailor Star Song for the fifth season's opening, but Moonlight Legend returned as the ending for the 200th episodes.
"Moonlight Legend" has been covered and remixed many times by artists such as the punk supergroup Osaka Popstar, and other Japanese singers like Kitade Nana and Tsuji Nozomi, along with popular voice actors like Megumi Ogata, the voice actress of Haruka Ten'ou/Sailor Uranus. It is believed that the song's melody was inspired by "Sayonara wa Dance no Ato ni (Goodbye at the End of the Dance)," performed in the 1960s by Chieko Baisho. It has also been noted that the songs melody sounds similar to "Omoide-no Kujukuri-hama (Memories of Kujukuri Beach)," a song performed be Mi-Ke that was released in 1991, one year before "Moonlight Legend" was released.
The song has been translated and sung into many other languages, with a lot of them being used for other language dubs of the anime, such as the Tagalog and Korean dubs. The English dub, however, uses the same melody with different lyrics.
Lyrics
ゴメンね 素直じゃなくて
夢の中なら云える
思考回路はショート寸前
今すぐ 会いたいよ
泣きたくなるよなmoonlight
電話も出来ないmidnight
だって純情 どうしよう
ハートは万華鏡
月の光に 導かれ
何度も 巡り会
星座の瞬き数え 占う恋の行方
同じ地球に生まれたの ミラクル・ロマンス
も一度 ふたりでweekend
神様 かなえてhappy-end
現在・過去・未来も
あなたに首ったけ
出会った時の なつかしい
まなざし 忘れない
幾千万の星から あなたを見つけられる
偶然もチャンスに換える 生き方が好きよ
不思議な奇跡クロスして
何度も 巡り会う
星座の瞬き数え 占う恋の行方
同じ地球に生まれたの ミラクル・ロマンス
Gomen ne sunao janakute
Yume no naka nara ieru
Shikou kairo wa shooto sunzen
Ima sugu aitai yo
Nakitaku naru you na moonlight
Denwa mo dekinai midnight
Datte junjou doushiyou
Haato wa mangekyou
Tsuki no hikari ni michibikare
Nando mo meguriau
Seiza no matataki kazoe uranau koi no yukue
Onaji kuni ni umareta no mirakuru romansu
Moichido futari de weekend
Kamisama kanaete happy-end
Genzai kako mirai mo
Anata ni kubittake
Deatta toki no natsukashii
Manazashi wasurenai
Ikusenman no hoshi kara anata wo mitsukerareru
Guuzen mo chansu ni kaeru ikikata ga suki yo
Fushigi na kiseki kurosu shite
Nando mo meguri au
Seiza no matataki kazoe uranau koi no yukue
Onaji kuni ni umareta no mirakuru romansu
Shinjite iru no mirakuru romansu
Ikaw ang lagi kong hinahanap
Kasama kang lagi sa pangarap,
Nais ko'y lagi kang nakikita,
Marahil nga ay mahal kita,
Liwanag ng buwan sa kalawakan,
Hinahatid ka sa'king isipan,
Paano ba kita makakausap?,
Ikaw sa akin ang lahat,
Sana bawat saglit laging kapiling ka,
Pag-ibig ko sana'y madama,
Basta't kasama kita sa pangarap,
Nadarama'y wala ngang katulad,
Ligayang dulot nito sa aking puso,
Sana ay di na magwakas,
Trivia
- The RPG video game "Sailor Moon: Another Story" has, as its title theme, a remixed version of Moonlight Legend.