On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, James Nutley wrote:

However, Makato (Sailor Jupiter) is attracted to Haruka (sp?) (Sailor
Uranus)
when they first meet (see Hitoshi Doi's On line Sailor Moon
Encyclopedia),

Not really.  It certainly *looks* that way, for everyone from the Inner
Senshi to the viewers, but, as Mako-chan kind of explains at the end of
the episode, it was more of a hero-worship sort of thing.  At the
beginning of the episode, Makoto's been acting a bit down and embarassed
about the fact that she doesn't think she's very feminine.  (She's big,
strong, and tomboyish, and works really hard on cooking because it's one 
of the few 'feminine' things she can do well.)  The she meets up with
Haruka (all right, so Haruka almost runs over her) and realizes that
Haruka is a lot of things - strong, friendly, charming, competent, caring,
self-confident, understanding - but feminine is most certainly not one of
them, and Haruka doesn't mind a bit.  From that point on, she starts
looking up to Haruka as a role model and a bit of an idol - she has the
best traits that Makoto wants to have, and makes Makoto feel good about
being herself.  All the humor comes out of the fact that this is hard to
tell from her usual state of 'He looks just like my old sempai,' of
course. :-)

so the short answer to Andrew's question could be "Yes, all Outers are."

Well, even if we grant Makoto is (and really, she's either straight or bi
- consider her one-time possible crush on Haruka vs. her consistent-to-the-
point-of-running-gags crushes on various boys), I'd have to say we really
know nothing about Setsuna's orientation, and even in her more mature
form, Hotaru's just barely a little young to be thinking seriously about
boys *or* girls.  (Though I'd expect that with Michiru-mama and
Haruka-papa as foster parents and role models, she'll at least be failry
open-minded. :-)) Give Setsuna a chance to get away from guarding the
gates of time and find someone special, and Hotaru a few years to grow up
and start dating, and then we'll see. :-)

And in response to the original question about the division of the Senshi
- Jupiter, despite lying beyond the asteroid belt, is considered an Inner
Senshi simply because she works with the other Inner Senshi.  (The groups
that usually team together are the Inner Senshi (Moon, Mercury, Mars,
Jupiter, Venus, and sometimes Chibi-Moon and Tuxedo Kamen), the Outer
Senshi (Uranus, Neptune, Saturn, and Pluto), the Sailor Star Lights
(Sailor Star Fighter, Sailor Star Maker, and Sailor Star Healer, found
only in the Sailor Stars series), and, in the manga, the Asteroid Senshi
(Pallas, Vesta, Juno, and Ceres, though they only get a brief role).

Perhaps Hitomi or Marisa or someone else familier with the manga can
answer 
in more detail. 

Of course, bear in mind that things aren't always the same in the manga
and the anime, and sometimes aren't even close.  The anime had a lot more
filler, but some of that filler expanded on a number of things (from the
first season, for instance, the relationship between Naru and Nephrite,
and between Zoicite and Kunzite, were purely anime inventions.  So were
the nijizuishou (rainbow crystals) and a number of details of the ending.
And the final ends of the series were *quite* different).

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