According to the booklet from the Sailor Moon Memorial Song Box,[4] the letter "R" stands for the word "Romance", "Return" or "Rose".

[8] The season was licensed and heavily edited for a dubbed broadcast and VHS/DVD release in English by DIC Entertainment.

Later, ADV Films re-released the series in an uncut, albeit subtitle-only, DVD box set, which also omitted episode 67 from the release.

On December 29, 1993, Bandai published Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon R for Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

[10] On April 22, 1994, Angel, a subsidiary company of Bandai, developed and published Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon R for Game Boy.

The film debuted in Japanese theaters on December 5, 1993 and Pioneer Entertainment released it in the United States on February 8, 2000.

The events portrayed in this film seem to take place somewhere in the very end of the series, as Chibiusa knows about the identities of the Sailor Guardians, the characters are in the present rather than the future, and Mamoru and Usagi are back together.

The film centers on the arrival of an alien named Fiore on Earth, who has a past with Mamoru and wishes to reunite with him.