Anime: Lita is the tallest of the Sailor Scouts and is described as being the most ample. There is a long-running joke amongst anime fans about this. There is an episode where the girls argue over who gets to play Snow White. Lita says she should because she has the most talent. The original script calls for her to say it is because she has the biggest breasts. They didn’t change her motioning to her chest for the dub, so that’s what anime fans now refer to as “talent.” She is a brunette, wearing her hair in a high ponytail held with a green scrunchy. She often wears pants. Even though she attends the same middle school as Serena and Ami, her uniform is different. It is said that it is because the school didn’t have a uniform in her size. It consists of a white tie up shirt and a brown skirt. Her mode of transformation is a green pen with the Jupiter symbol on top. As it spins out, lightning surrounds her and forms her uniform. Her skirt is green and her bows are pink. She wears green ankle boots.
Live action: Makoto is the tallest of the Sailor Scouts and doesn’t consider herself feminine. When others compliment her, she is often surprised. She has brown hair and brown eyes. Her school uniform is different from the others, recreating the anime’s. When she isn’t in her uniform, she often wears pants and sporty outfits. Her mode of transformation is a bracelet with a green stone. Her outfit is a recreation of the one from the anime, with a belt added. Her hair becomes lighter, almost red and put into the ponytail.
POWERS
Anime: Lita derives her powers from thunder and lightning. Her first power is “Jupiter Thunderclap Crash” which hurls lightning at her enemy. Otherwise, she can also do hand-to-hand combat.
Live-action: Makoto has the same powers as Lita. Though once she is awakened as a Senshi, she gains more powers that show up every so often. And like Sailors Mercury and Mars, she has her own tambourine to play and shoot down enemies.
PERSONALITY
Anime: When we first meet Lita, she is the transfer student in Ami and Serena’s school. The others are gossiping about her, saying she was kicked out of her old school for fighting. But Serena soon learns that Lita isn’t the bad girl everyone thinks she is. She is a cheerful person who is loyal to her friends, who also likes to cook. She is a tough girl and will beat you up if you hurt her friends, though. As for Sailor Jupiter, she is one of the toughest fighters and usually one of the first ones to jump into the action. Like Sailor Mars, this can either help or hinder her. While she can easily get captured, she can also easily land some strategic blows to the monster.
Live action: Like Lita, Makoto starts out as the transfer student in Usagi and Ami’s school. Like Lita, she is subject to the same rumors. Usagi befriends her and Makoto soon becomes attached to the young girl. Especially since both like Minako. Makoto also befriends Motoki, the young man who works at Crown Karaoke. As Sailor Jupiter, she is often the first one to dive into a fight. She will fight with all her heart and is willing to sacrifice herself at one point to protect the earth. Makoto is the one who accepts her past life as destiny in her current one. However, she overcomes this belief and fights for her the future, not the past.
RELATIONSHIPS
Anime: Lita is an orphan after her parents died in a plane crash. She lives by herself and is fully independent. She is used to being by herself, but welcomes the other girls in wholeheartedly. In a sense, they become her family.
On the romance front, there is a running gag in the series. All the guys Lita spots remind her of her old boyfriend, Freddy. However, the true story is a bit more heartbreaking and turns this running gag into a case of obsession. Freddy was an older student whom Lita had a crush on, but who broke her heart by going out with another girl. The only person she could rely on was her friend, Ken. He was there for her during the heartbreak and she’s there when he needs her…for an episode, then we hardly see him again.
Live action: Makoto is an orphan after her parents died…somehow. She lives alone and is fully independent. She is used to being by herself and even says that it was determined in the past life, which is why she is okay with it. The girls end up being like family to her, and she takes care of them when need be—when Ami is sick, when Rei and Ami run away, etc.
On the romance front, Makoto is pursued by Motoki. At first, she doesn’t return his feelings but just views him as a friend. As they spend more time together, she grows to love him as well. She eventually reveals to Motoki that she is Sailor Jupiter and he takes it pretty well. She even wears a good luck charm he bought her and he realizes he has a chance.
PLOT CHANGES
If the creator of Sailor Moon made the live-action series tone down Makoto’s obsession with her sempai, praise the Lord! I also like the romance between Motoki and Makoto, which gives you someone else to root for besides Usagi and Mamoru. And they are adorable.
Lita/Sailor Jupiter
Makoto/Sailor Jupiter
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