By all accounts, it's a silly shoujo anime for little girls. Watch even a few episodes of this series, though, and you'll be hooked as well. Sailor Moon is the story of a rather ditzy 14 year old girl named Serena, who along with her four friends, Ami, Mina, Rei, and Lita, transform into Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Venus, Sailor Mars, and Sailor Jupiter, respectively, to fight the evil forces of the Dark Kingdom. Each of the five sailors has their own special power they use when fighting. Serena uses her tiara like a magic frisbee, and later uses the Crescent Moon Wand.
Fire is Mars' specialty.
Ami uses bubbles and ice. Lita uses various forms of lighting. And Venus has her Crescent beam, and other energy type attacks. I know it all sounds terribly cliched, and well, it is, but this is a very silly and fun series, that's not without its touching moments, either. Perhaps its appeal comes from the fact that the five heroines are far from perfect.