"Sailor Moon" is adapted from the 52 chapters of the series which was published in "Nakayoshi" from 1991–97. The first season is directed by Junichi Satō with Kazuko Tadano as a character designer. For the second season, Sato directed the "Makai Tree" arc while Kunihiko Ikuhara directed the "Black Moon" arc. The third and fourth seasons are directed by Ikuhara with Ikuko Itoh taking the role of character designer starting from the third season. The fifth and final season was directed by Takuya Igarashi and Katsumi Tamegai is the next person to be the character designer. It premiered in Japan on TV Asahi on March 7, 1992, taking over the timeslot previously held by "Goldfish Warning!", and ran for 200 episodes until its conclusion on February 8 five years later.