3. Sailormoon
LOVES it! If you're unfamiliar, check out the manga! You can find it pretty much ANYWHERE online.
I'm going to give a manga story synopsis for people unfamiliar, to see if it interested them into checking it out. There are very, very few spoilers; in fact the only spoilers are probably the fact that certain characters survive to be mentioned in the next arc synopsis!
A clumsy girl in 8th grade, Usagi, who almost flunks out of school, is forced to mature because she is the reincarnation of a princess who committed suicide, and as Sailor Moon must fight the reincarnation of a woman, Beryl, in the present (Beryl killed her lover and caused her suicide in the past). Another girl, Minako, is revived as the warrior Sailor V(enus) because she can wield the sword that killed Beryl in the past and must protect Usagi and prevent her from repeating the past. Usagi's friends, Ami, Mako and Rei, are revived as her guardians, Mercury, Jupiter and Mars, with the duty to protect her, as in the past, they fell at the hand of Beryl.
Then once that's all said and done, Usagi's future daughter Small Lady arrives from the future to try to get Usagi to fight the evils in the future that killed the future Usagi and her husband Mamoru. The enemies from the future attack the world of our present, disguising themselves as regular people by killing others through supernatural means (i.e. spontaneous combustion) and taking over their bodies, ultimately kidnapping Mars, Mercury and Jupiter (Venus narrowly escapes). We find out Usagi and Mamoru are the future King and Queen of the new world kingdom, and Sailor Pluto, a woman with unrequited love for Mamoru who guards the Gate of Time alone, has to die in order to save everything, but is reborn. Small Lady awakens as the future Sailor Moon during this arc.
In the Infinity arc, an alien possesses a wealthy genetic engineer, Tomoe, and his daughter, Hotaru. With their wealth he builds a prestigous academy in order to attract the best and brightest students from around the world. These students' souls, their Hoste, will be used as energy to cause Pharaoh 90, an alien demension, to take over this dimension using Earth as its base; the students are sometimes transformed into aliens, but those who fail to transform become vessels for the genetic regressions. Haruka (an all-star athlete) and Michiru (a talented artist/violinist) enroll and are accepted to the academy; they signed up in order to investigate the mysterious auras around the land. They are the reincarnated soldiers, Uranus and Neptune, and are in quite possibly the most well-known and open lesbian relationship in animation of its time. They, with Pluto, have the power of their talismans to fight the aliens, but if their talismans are gathered together and resonate, they awaken Sailor Saturn, who is only summoned to annihilate the current world so things can begin again. Meanwhile, Small Lady has become friends with Hotaru, who is revealed to be the daughter of the man who runs the Mugen Academy, which is presumed to be the enemy headquarters.
The next arc is the Dream arc. Small Lady has matured a lot, and she and Usagi are singled out by Helios of Elysion to awaken the Golden Crystal because they both possess the Silver Crystal (although of different eras). This arc is pretty much the final story of the Sailor Team, and we get to see how they each individually mature and progress through high school to prepare for the real world. Dead Moon, from the Black Side of the Moon, is ruled by the jealous Nehellania who hates that Usagi has survived her death curse from her infancy. She seeks the power of the Golden Crystal and uses Helios as a means to acquire it. Her minions, the Amazones Quartet, have an interesting past about them as well. Usagi learns about the tragedies that occurred before the fall of her kingdom from the past in this arc, and Hotaru also returns.
In the final arc, Stars, alien sailor soldiers "Starlights": Star Fighter, Healer and Maker, come to Earth because their world was destroyed by another Sailor Soldier, Galaxia, who has been possessed by the most basic form of evil of the galaxy, Chaos. Their princess, Kakyuu, had escaped the destruction of their planet, so the Starlights look for her on Earth. Mamoru goes to college in the USA, but before his plane leaves, he is murdered in front of Usagi right after he gives her an engagement ring; Usagi represses the memory of his death. Small Lady also returns to the future. At this point in the story the girls are "grown up" and only have one year of high school left, but Mercury and Jupiter are killed in front of Usagi, who is helpless to prevent it. Usagi falls into severe depression; it takes the deaths of Venus and Mars (this all happens very early in the arc, so it's not really a spoiler) to cause Usagi to ultimately snap and remember that Mamoru was killed in front of her. Usagi then learns that she is Galaxia's final target, and feels at fault for the deaths of her friends and her fiancee. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto return to the outer rim of the Solar System to investigate the origin of the attacks; out of the original team, only Hotaru and Usagi are left on Earth. Meanwhile, Star Fighter (Seiya) is falling in love with Usagi, because she reminds her (yes, Seiya is a woman) of Kakyuu. He realizes she is Sailor Moon early on and gives her warnings and messages about what really happened to Mamoru, since he was one of the only witnesses of his death. To make things more confusing, another little girl appears from the future, who looks like Small Lady and is also a Sailor Soldier, and goes by "Chibi-Chibi" with Small Lady's nickname being "Chibi-Usa". A long and very bloody battle ensues, with transformations, much shorter skirts and much longer legs and larger breasts (as if it was possible); Small Lady (Chibi-usa) returns much older (presumably as Sailor Moon at that point) to join the fight as well.
I hope this got a couple of ya interested; haven't watched/read it in quite a while, but the stories and artwork are excellent. I'm also drunk which is probably why I care enough to write the friggin essay about Sailormoon lol