Mamoru Chiba

Mamoru Chiba, also known as Darien Shields, Tuxedo Mask, Endymion, Moonlight Knight and Mamo-chan, is one of the main characters from the Sailor Moon series.
== Charactah Account ==
Mamoru Chiba is the major romantic interest of Usagi Tsukino. He is often portrayed as stoic, steady and introverted. This may be because when he was young his parents died in a car crash. This blocked his childhood memories of his current lifetime and opened up the memories of his previous life as Prince Endymion. Tuxedo Mask is a disguise Mamoru created for himself in order to hunt for the Silver Crystal incognito and, later, assist the Sailor Senshi in battle.
He is always addressed as Mamo-chan by Usagi throughout the series (Chibiusa also addresses him with this nickname later on). After dating for two years, Mamoru gives Usagi an engagement ring at an airport. The couple eventually gets married. In the future, they become king and queen of Earth and Crystal Tokyo and have a child together whom they name, Small Lady, but is in the majority of the series known as Chibiusa.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
* Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Memorial
* Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon R
* Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon R Movie: Dangerous Flowers
* Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon R: Make Up! Sailor Guardians
* Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
* Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S Movie: Hearts in Ice
* Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS
* Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS Movie: Black Dream Hole
* Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS Plus: Ami's First Love
* Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS Specials
* Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon: Sailor Stars
* Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon: Sailor Stars - Hero Club
=== Manga ===
* Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
=== Video Games ===
* Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
* Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon R
* Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S: Kurukkurin
* Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S: Now It's Puzzle Punishment Time!
* Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S: Out-of-Bounds Brawl!? Protagonist Competition
* Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars: Floating Panic 2
* Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super S: Everyone Participates! Contest for the Leading Role
* Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon: Another Story
== Trivia ==
* He is 16 at the start of the manga and was also planned to be so by Naoko Takeuchi. In the 1st anime, however, he is also confirmed to be a 17-year-old 1st-year University student (equivalent to a beginner college student in America). This is also stated in the anime's drama CDs.
** Usagi starts the series at 14 in her second year of middle school, but ages to 15 by June 30. The Japanese school year begins around April 1, meaning she is not 14 for very long at all; only around a few months.
** Usagi's age at the start of the series is confirmed by both Sailor Moon Crystal Episode 2 (Ami's age is also displayed as "14" at one point) as well as the later Sailor Moon Eternal Edition (2019) of the manga.
* Mamoru has been captured and brainwashed the most throughout the series, probably due to how important he is to Usagi. Instances include:
** In the first season, he was kidnapped and brainwashed by the Dark Kingdom from episodes 35-46.
** In the first arc of the R season (episodes 47-59), Mamoru had lost his memories following the events of the first season, but there were no actions from the antagonists involved directly, but it still took him the longest to regain his memories.
** In the third season, he was kidnapped by Kaolinite in episodes 101-102.
** In the fifth season, he was taken control by Queen Nehellenia from episodes 167-172.
** He was also kidnapped by Fiore in the Sailor Moon R movie.
*** This is to keep the focus on the female protagonists and the importance of the theme. One possibility of such is showing that not only male characters can save the world and that they also need and can depend on women. It is also likely is because of his importance to Usagi.
* In the anime, Mamoru drives a red Alfa Romeo SZ.
* Chiba is a part of the greater Tokyo area.
* In the DiC English dub, Mamoru was named "Darien Shields" (the surname only appeared in the Mixx manga).
** In early promotional videos for the first English dub of the anime presented by DiC, Mamoru was called "Mark."
* Sailor Moon/Usagi loved Tuxedo Mask from the start of the series but initially disliked his civilian form Mamoru because he always called her "Bunhead", a nickname she hates being called by. ("Meatball head" in the original English dub).
* Tuxedo Mask's costume was inspired by the famous musical The Phantom Of The opera which is about a mysterious man in a tuxedo with a mask. In fact, in the Sera Myu musical, Starlights Legend of the Falling Stars, the Phantom of the Opera is referenced a number of times.
* Although his costume inspired by The Phantom of the Opera, it could also based on another "tuxedo wearing" character Arsene Lupin
* A similar character would appear in the anime Medabots. The Phantom Renegade also had a mask and tuxedo, came out at night and whose identity was known to the main character although the Phantom Renegade was a more comical figure.
* The villain Jazz Hands from the American Cartoon series Totally Spies! is the parody version of Tuxedo Mask but having a clown make-up on his face instead of having a mask.
* Tuxedo Mask wasn't originally Usagi's sole crush. Originally, he was one of Usagi's crushes along with Motoki.
* He was the first major protagonist to be turned evil when brainwashed by Queen Beryl. The second would be Chibiusa, who was turned into Black Lady by Wiseman.
* Mamoru is aged up in the original 90's anime.
* Motoki Furuhata has been confirmed to be Mamoru's best friend.
* Both Reika Nishimura and Setsuna Meiou attend the same college as Motoki and Mamoru.
* As demonstrated in the series, Mamoru is an excellent dancer.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Mamoru Chiba / Tuxedo Mask (anime) at Sailor Moon Wiki
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