Sailor Moon

Usagi, as Sailor Moon.

### Likes

Sweets, Video Games, Comics/Manga, Boys, Sleeping, Being a hero, her friends, Tuxedo Mask

### Dislikes

Math, English class, dentists, thunder, lightning, carrots, Rei's meanness, her enemies, Queen Beryl, Sailor Galaxia

## Powers and Abilities

### Ability Type

Sailor Moon

**Usagi Tsukino**, also known as **Serena** as her birth name and her heroine name **Sailor Moon**, is the main protagonist of the *Sailor Moon* franchise between the mangas and animes, especially the video games.

## History

### **Origins**

Usagi was once a young child, named Serena, of Queen Serenity from the Moon Kingdom. However, a evil force came and wreck things up in the process. Queen Serenity sends her and her comrades, the Sailor Senshi, to Earth and let them get reincarnated, while she also orders Luna and Artemis to get them back into superheroes as they can. Afterwards, Serenity dies in her broken home.

### **Sailor Moon**

While reincarnated as a new person and having a new family in Tokyo, Japan, 14 year old Usagi is shown to be selfish, lazy, jealous and very clumsy. She is bad at school (and hates school), likes boys and plays video games, although she can be a bad sport at times.

When Usagi encountered Luna while reincarnated, she viewed her as a simple cat but Luna tries to confess her to get herself together and fight crime. Therefore, Luna grants Usagi the power of Sailor Moon to fight crime, even though she can be defenseless at times.

### **Throughout the series**

One day, Usagi was running late for school when she accidentally ran into a group of guys who began to pick on her. She was rescued by a new transfer student, Makoto Kino. While other students avoided Makoto, due to her history of violence in her previous school, Usagi kindly introduced herself, and Makoto shared her food with her. Makoto was revealed to be the Sailor Senshi of Lightning and Courage: Sailor Jupiter; and joined the three of the other Sailor Senshi.

Shortly after being introduced to Sailor Venus, Usagi is once again confronted by Mamoru. He apologizes to her for all the times he made fun of her. Seeing that he was injured, Usagi becomes concerned and follows him into a Dark Kingdom trap. Usagi was forced to transform into Sailor Moon to save her and Mamoru's life; who then revealed himself to be Tuxedo Mask. After he was seriously injured in a sneak-attack by Zoisite, Sailor Moon gained the Legendary Silver Crystal and was revealed to be Princess Serenity.

Tuxedo Mask was then kidnapped by the Dark Kingdom and Usagi fell into a depressed state; worrying about him. Once he was revealed to be alive but under the control of the Dark Kingdom, Usagi gained back her determination to save him. After thwarting many of the Dark Kingdom's attempts to capture the Silver Crystal, Usagi and the Sailor Senshi traveled to the North Pole. They aimed for a place known as D-Point, to defeat Queen Beryl and save Tuxedo Mask.

On their way across the tundra, one by one Usagi's friends were forced to sacrifice themselves to help her reach the base. After finally arriving at the Dark Kingdom headquarters, she had to fight against Mamoru, who was still under the enemy's control. Eventually, Usagi was able to break the hold over him, only to have him die in her arms when he was protecting her.

In the final battle, she faced off against the leader of the Dark Kingdom; using up all her strength and destroying it. She collapsed and the blast spread throughout the entire area, consuming everyone.

The next morning, Usagi woke up in bed, rushing to school with no memory of her time as Sailor Moon. The other Sailor Senshi and Mamoru are alive as well and have no memories of being Sailor Senshi as well. What happens to her afterward is unknown but it's presumed she went on with her normal life.

## Sailor Senshi

Usagi can transform into a "Sailor Soldier" by wearing a special device (usually a brooch) and shouting a special command that activates the device. Her original transformation command is "Moon Prism Power, Make Up!" (ムーンプリズムパワー、メイクアップ, Muun Purizumu Pawaa, Meiku Appu). She gains a new basic transformation sequence for each of the five major story arcs.

In the fifth arc of the manga, she becomes Eternal Sailor Moon with "Silver Moon Crystal Power, Make Up!" instead of "Moon Eternal, Make Up!"

As the protagonist and leader, Usagi has special and stronger powers than any of the other characters in the series. Her physical attacks, usually one-offs and not always successful, include Sailor Moon Kick.

One of her techniques is the "Supersonic Wave" (超音波, Chouonpa), which involves her red hairpieces acting as an amplifier for her wailing.

Some attacks are were changed, added or made exclusive to a certain version of the *Sailor Moon* series. The list below shows the changes as well as the inclusion or exclusion of certain ones.

### **Powers & Abilities**

* Supersonic Waves
* Moon Tiara Action
* Moon Tiara Stardust
* Moon Healing Escalation
* Moon Princess Halation
* Moon Crystal Power
* Moon Spiral Heart Attack
* Rainbow Moon Heartache
* Moon Gorgeous Meditation
* Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss
* Silver Moon Crystal Power Kiss
* Silver Moon Crystal Power

### **Items & Weapons**

* Transformation Brooch
* Tiara
* Disguise Pen
* Crystal Star
* Cutie Moon Rod
* Cosmic Heart Compact
* Spiral Heart Moon Rod
* Silver Crystal
* Holy Grail
* Crisis Moon Compact
* Moon Kaleidoscope
* Eternal Moon Article
* Eternal Tiare
* Holy Moon Chalice
* Moon Power Tiare

## Appearances

* *Sailor Moon* (manga)
* *Sailor Moon* (anime)
* *Sailor Moon R*
* *Sailor Moon S*
* *Sailor Moon SuperS*
* *Sailor Moon: Sailor Stars*
* *Sailor Moon Crystal* (anime reboot)
* *Sailor Moon* films
* *Heroes K.O* (as DLC)

## Trivia

* In the original DiC English dub, Usagi is named "Serena" as "Serena" is very close in spelling and pronunciation to "Serenity".
* In early promotional videos, DiC used the name "Victoria"; and on Kodansha's English website, she was at first referred to as "Celeste".
* Usagi was the only one out of the Inner Senshi who was not part of the Three Lights fan club in the anime.
* Kotono Mitsuishi, the actress who played Usagi in the anime, was sick during the production of episodes 44 through 50; during that time the character was instead voiced by Kae Araki who later voiced Chibiusa.
* Usagi has mistaken alcohol for punch and gotten accidentally drunk on two occasions: the first was in Episode 22 and the second in Episode 108.
* Usagi is the only character to appear in all 200 episodes and in all 3 movies.
* According to a translation of an anime fanbook, Usagi hopes to one day go to the Palace of Versailles.[3]
* In episode 4, it was noted that she wasn't very good at swimming.
* Her lunar symbol is the crescent moon (☽) and is seen on various brooches, wands, rods, clothing, etc. represented by Luna, the Roman goddess/Selene, the Greek goddess.
	+ In alchemy, silver is represented by ☽.
	+ She is the only Sailor Senshi that has changed her Sailor outfit numerous times. This is because she is the leader.

* Sailor Moon makes an playable appearance in *Heroes K.O* as a DLC fighter. She is the third third-party character of the game after Cerebella from *Skullgirls* and Ragna The Bloodedge from *Blazblue*.
	+ She is also the second third-party character to be female.
		- In order to get Sailor Moon as a fighter, players have to either buy her for 3 in-game dollars to unlock her or play the original 1993 SNES game on a beat 'em up genre compilation called The Beat 'em Up Compilation, consisting titles such as *Final Fight*, *Streets of Rage* and *Golden Axe*. However, *Sailor Moon* on SNES has two languages, which are Japanese and French.
	+ Like Cerebella and Ragna, her character design switched from the original design by the creators to look like TRICKSTER R's cartoony character design from *Heroes*.
	+ This marks the third time Sailor Moon appeared in a fighting game. The first and second time she appeared one were fighting games of her own titled "*Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S: Brawl!? Champion Battle*" for the Super Nintendo (Super Famicom in Japan) in 1994 (a year after her beat 'em up game also on the SNES) and "*Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS: True Protagonist Competition [Battle for the True King]*" for the PlayStation 1 and SEGA Saturn in 1996.