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The Sailor Senshi (セーラー戦士 sērā senshi, prob. from セーラー服 sērā-fuku, girls' uniform + 戦士 senshi, warrior/soldier) are the group of heroines from the metaseries Sailor Moon. They are known in the English translations as the Sailor Scouts or Sailor Soldiers.
In Japanese, senshi is a word meaning "soldier" or "warrior"; however, Sailor Moon is so well-known amongst English speaking anime fans that to them, absent other context, it invariably refers to the Sailor Senshi (despite the term's use in other anime such as Fushigi Yūgi). Contrariwise, usage of the terms "Scouts" or "Soldiers" (with or without "Sailor" prefixed) to denote the Senshi is comparatively rare. (The "Guardian" in the title of the live-action TV series Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon is also presumably a translation of Senshi, but this is otherwise unheard.)
The term "Sailor Senshi" in the Japanese anime and manga is used descriptively for all Sailors; the group from our solar system is officially called the "Sailor Team". Tuxedo Kamen (Tuxedo Mask) is also described as a senshi in the series, although according to creator Naoko Takeuchi a male cannot be a Sailor Senshi. A person with a Sailor Crystal is automatically a Sailor Senshi. The anime plays with this convention: the Sailor Starlights are male when in civilian form, but female after they have transformed into Sailor Senshi. Whether or not they are dual-gendered by nature is not revealed. They are always female in the manga, although disguised by male clothing in their civilian forms. In the manga, Tuxedo Mask also has powers similar to the other senshi; in both the anime and manga he has a true star seed of a senshi with his planetary domain being Earth.
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