Sailor Moon (1992)

Creator(s): Naoko Takeuchi
Air Dates: March 7th, 1992 - February 8th 1997 (Japanese); 1995 -1997 (English dub)
Seasons: 5
Episodes: 200
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Sailor Moon is a magical girl anime about young girls that gain magical abilities (an cool costumes) and fight villains and monsters. It started out as a manga written by Naoko Takeuchi, and was given an anime that ran alongside it. I will be using the English names, with the Japanese names in parenthesis in this blog. I will mostly be talking about the original anime because I haven't seen the new Sailor Moon Crystal yet.

Sailor Moon is about a young schoolgirl named Serena (Usagi), who was just going about who normal life when a strange talking black cat named Luna. The cat gives her a locket that allows her to transform into Sailor Moon, and her job is to fight evil and find the Moon Princess and the Silver Crystal. She soon meets other girls who join her and become Sailor Scouts (Sailor Senshi), and she later meets Luna's partner Artemis. They also have an ally in Tuxedo Mask, a mysterious man who helps them out whenever they need help during battle.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (2010)

Creator(s): Lauren Faust/Hasbro, Inc.
Air Dates: October 10, 2010
Seasons: 6
Episodes: 119 (plus 24 more to come)
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My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is a part of the fourth generation of the My Little Pony franchise. With the success of the Transformers movies, Hasbro wanted to revamp some of their other properties. So, Lauren Faust was hired to develop the new My Little Pony cartoon.

The Little Mermaid TV Series (1992)

Creator(s): Walt Disney Television
Air Dates: September 11th, 1992 - November 26th, 1994
Seasons: 3
Episodes: 31
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The Little Mermaid TV Series was a show based off of Disney's The Little Mermaid. It takes place about a year or two before the movie happened. The episodes typically feature Ariel and her under sea friends going on adventures and finding treasures. It was the first television spin-off of one of Disney's movies.

Digimon Adventure (1999)

Creator(s): Hiroyuki Kakudo (Director), Keisuke Okuda (Producer), Satoru Nishizono (Writer)
Air Dates: March 7th, 1999 - March 26th, 2000
Seasons: 1 (2 if you count Digimon Adventure Zero Two)
Episodes: 54
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Digimon is a series that is very special to me. It's an action/adventure anime series about children getting paired up with digital monsters called Digimon.

There are currently eight series of Digimon: Digimon Adventure (THE original), Digimon Adventure Zero Two (the sequel season), Digimon Tamers, Digimon Frontier, Digimon Savers/Digimon Data Squad, Digimon Xros Wars/Digimon Fusion.

Besides the first two, these feature a different set of characters and have their own universes. I will be focusing on Digimon Adventure while also mentioning some of the others.

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1993)

Creator(s): Haim Saban and Shuki Levy
Air Dates: August 28, 1993 - November 27, 1995
Seasons: 3
Episodes: 145
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Power Rangers was a live-action children's series about "teenagers with attitude" who can transform into heroes with super powers. They change into colorful suits that cover their whole bodies and they fight monsters and other villains trying to take over Earth. It is based off of the Japanese show called Super Sentai, and it shares some of the same footage, but the American version is rewritten with different story lines.  The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was the first installment of the series that ran in the early 90s.

The Powerpuff Girls (1998)

Creator: Craig McCracken

Air Dates: November 18th, 1998 - March 25th, 2005 (7 years)
Seasons: 6
Episodes: 78 (136 segments)
Episode Time: 22 minutes (two 11 minute segments) 

The Powerpuff Girls was a cartoon that ran on Cartoon Network during the late 90s and early 2000s. It was created by Craig McCracken while he was attending California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), but it was originally called "The Whoop-Ass Girls". Of course, he had to change the name when Cartoon Network wanted to put it on the air.