Sailor Moon

Usagi Tsukino is the titular main protagonist of the Sailor Moon franchise. She is 14 at the beginning of the series and is the couch potato who hates school until she meets a black cat named Luna. When it comes to food, she prefers to eat sweets and even she despises carrots, she holds one to see if it is not corrupted or darkened. Sometimes when she wears casual outfits, her bunned pigtails can be decorated with different colors of bows.
In the original English release of the manga by TokyoPop (fomerly Mixx), she was known as Bunny Tsukino, while the original English dub from DiC Entertainment and Cloverway International, she was renamed to Serena Tsukino.
In the Japanese version, she is voiced by Kotono Mitsuishi (who also does the voice of Chibi Chibi, Mai Shiranui from the SNK Universe, Boa Hancock in One Piece and Mei Mei from Jujutsu Kaisen) and Kae Araki, who was a temporary stand-in for the former in the first anime. In the English version for the DIC dub, she was initially voiced by Tracy Moore, but was later replaced by Terri Hawkes for the last 57 episodes of Sailor Moon. In the Cloverway dub, she was voiced by Linda Ballantyne. Sailor Moon's current English voice actress for Viz Media (and Netflix dub for both Eternal and Cosmos) in both the redub of the first anime and the entire Sailor Moon Crystal series reboot is Stephanie Sheh, who other than also does the English voice of Chibi-Chibi is also notably the English voice of Hinata Hyūga in Naruto, Lady Guan in Dynasty Warriors series, Renée Honda in Barbie series, Mikuru Asahina in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Katana in DC Super Hero Girls, and Orihime Inoue in Bleach.
==Profile==
When Usagi Tsukino fights evil as Sailor Moon in the beginning of the story, she is portrayed as a "reluctant heroine", who is unwilling to fight and flees from her enemies, because she has a hard time fighting villains, monsters, and evil aliens and she doesn't want to end up as a damsel in distress just like all the other fictional girls in peril, often having to be bailed out or rescued by others, especially by Tuxedo Mask. Throughout the series, Usagi begins to develop into a mature, confident, and reliable woman, but has her crybaby moments now and then.
==Appearance==
===Usagi Tsukino===
Usagi has blue eyes and long blonde hair that she wears in odango. 
The outfit that Usagi usually wears is a light blue middle school uniform (which later became her iconic everyday outfit), which has a blue sailor collar with two white stripes. She has a dark pink ribbon on the front of her uniform, which she ties her magical locket to. She has a white school top with blue sleeves that have white stripes on, like the collar. In the summer, she wears a white top with short puffy sleeves. She has a blue pleated skirt with a blue ribbon on the back. She usually wears white socks and black cross-strap Mary Jane shoes.
Her primary casual outfit is usually seen until the end of the third season where she was seen wearing a light blue denim blazer with two chest pockets in each sides, a light green long sleeved button-up shirt, a pale pink long pleated skirt, light blue socks and white and brown dress shoes. Her odango hairstyle has a matching two pale pink bows in each sides. In the fourth season, her primary outfit has a minor color change; her denim blazer becomes blue, her button-up shirt and socks are green and both her two small bows and her long pleated skirt are off-white. For sleep wear she usually wears either a full or half sleeves pink shirt with pink pajamas. In Sailor Stars, they become green.
===Sailor Moon===
Sailor Moon's original uniform consists of a white leotard with a blue-collar that has two stripes on it, white gloves with three red arm fittings that reach just below her elbows, shoulder pads, and a pleated blue skirt with a puffy white belt sat above it, along with chest armor with a dark pink bow on top and at the back of her belt. She also wore a pair of dark pink knee-high boots with a white border at the triangular top pointing upwards with crescent moons, pearl dangle earrings with a crescent moon beneath, white-bordered red circular hairpieces (one on each odango), a choker with a gold crescent moon on it and a tiara with a red gem in the center. Her brooch is worn in the middle of her chest bow.
When she gains Moon Crystal Power, her brooch changes to the Crystal Star, while retaining all of the same features as her original outfit.
When she gains Moon Cosmic Power, the red gem on her tiara changes to a crescent moon, the crescent moon on her choker changes to a heart, and her brooch becomes the Cosmic Heart Compact.
===Super Sailor Moon===
Her uniform almost completely changed; she has two wing-like barrettes in her hair, her earrings are no longer dangling moons, but simply crescent moons affixed to her ears. Her choker is yellow with a red heart in the center. The stripes on her collar change from white to yellow and her shoulder pads are translucent and more wing-like in shape. Her brooch turns light pink, and her back waist bow becomes long, white and billowy with a golden belt that sits above her usual white belt, and a second Cosmic Heart Compact is attached to the center of her belt. However, the most obvious change is her skirt; it is now white with a yellow, green and blue gradient at the bottom.
In Super S, she retains this outfit, however, the ribbons from her back waist bow has been shortened that reaches below the knee, her brooch becomes the Crisis Moon Compact, and her skirt has yellow and blue stripes instead of a gradient on the bottom.
===Princess Serenity===
Her tiara is replaced by a golden crescent moon and she wears a long flowing white dress.
==Personality==
In the first anime, Usagi was a bit selfish and can be a drama queen. She was too lazy and hated school. Not only that she wasn’t really good at cooking, as shown several times during the series. She is also honorable which can be jealous of Mamoru, as shown in episode 136.
However, despite her flaky and child-like behavior, she shows to care very deeply for her friends and family. She was very trusting, and believed that everyone had a better nature; this could be both a character strength and a character flaw at times. 
She did not believe in killing innocent humans, even when they had been transformed into vicious monsters, and always sought ways to heal them instead.
Over the course of the series, Usagi matured a great deal, and even though she was still prone to some childish behavior and bouts of silliness, she became a capable young woman.
In the manga (and by extension the Crystal anime remake and its later sequels), however, though she starts out slightly immature similar to her original anime counterpart, however in comparison, this version of Usagi is not as immature nor does have any of her original anime counterpart's accident prone or goofy childish behavior. However like her counterpart, this version of Usagi also sees the good within others which her friends do not. Also in the manga, she is less forgiving to those who hurt her loved ones.
==Powers and Abilities==
Fully capable of using the Silver Crystal to heal the sick and wounded, return the dead to life, and even restore the whole planet.
She can also heal those who have been turned into mindless monsters with various wands and scepters. She can also use her powers in conjunction with Sailor Chibi Moon as well, making them much stronger and more effective. 
The same goes for the sacred Holy Grail transformations phrases and items.
==Trivia==
*The name origin for her name in the Japanese version and later English versions from VIZ and Kodansha, Usagi is the Japanese word for rabbit, hence her hairstyle which is intended to resemble rabbit ears. In addition, the name that TokyoPop used in the original English version of the manga is a direct translation of her name from the Japanese version, unlike the original anime dub which used the name Serena instead for both DIC and Cloverway's versions.
**TokyoPop's original English adaptation of the manga for Sailor Moon is the only time that Usagi was given a different English name that is different from the original English dub of the anime that was made by DIC and Cloverway. The other characters in that adaptation used the same names as the original English dub.
*The name origin for her name in the original English dub, Serena, is a nod to her true identity as Serenity as Serena is short for Serenity.
*Sailor Moon's original Japanese voice actress (Kotono Mitsuishi) is notably the only main cast member from the original anime Japanese cast to reprise her role for the second anime series Sailor Moon Crystal, as well the later anime film sequels Sailor Moon Eternal and Sailor Moon Cosmos. She is also the only voice actress in the franchise who was never truly recast (as the English version of the Sailor Moon franchise for example kept getting recast due to being dubbed by different companies).
**This also extends to Chibi Chibi/Sailor Chibi Chibi Moon due to sharing the same voice actress as she was also voiced by Mitsuishi in both the original anime and Sailor Moon Cosmos.
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