Michiru Kaiou

**Michiru Kaiou** is the civilian identity and present-day incarnation of Sailor Neptune. This is the original depiction of the manga character created by Naoko Takeuchi.

## Profile

Elegant, sophisticated, though sometimes cold and capable of sharp anger, she has been described by Usagi Tsukino as 'the ideal princess'.

Michiru attends Mugen Gakuen with Haruka Tenou and the younger Hotaru Tomoe. She is patient and caring, almost always offering a smile or laugh to a situation. While polite and calm to a fault, she is not the most social person, but when she does become close with someone it is because she truly wants to. She dislikes being patronized and will not indulge others.

This can make her look like a snob, and her seeming perfection at everything does not help this perception of her. She is a genuinely intelligent young woman, a prodigal violinist and artist, already famous for her endeavors. Her intelligence is also apparent through her acceptance to Mugen Gakuen, a school with a very high acceptance threshold; only geniuses of some field are permitted enrollment.

### Appearance

Michiru is an extremely beautiful and delicate-looking girl of slim stature and average height, with deep blue eyes and wavy teal hair that falls just past her shoulders. The epitome of elegance and femininity, she has an excellent sense of fashion, being always dressed smartly, and applying makeup or perfectly made up already. Usagi and Minako were both utterly dazzled by her beauty when they first saw her, and Usagi has gone as far as saying that Michiru is exactly what a fairy tale princess would be like.

## Powers and Abilities

Michiru can use her talisman to predict events of a close future.

## Sailor Neptune

Sailor Neptune is one of the four Outer Senshi of the Solar System, and was the ninth Sailor Senshi to be introduced in the manga. Her civilian identity is Michiru Kaioh. Her attacks are based around the ocean or sea, precognition, and powers granted by her mirror. This is the original depiction of the character created by Naoko Takeuchi.

## Appearance

Sailor Neptune's fuku consisted of a white leotard with a sea-green skirt, a navy-blue front bow, and a navy-blue back bow. The collar on her leotard was sea green and it did not have any stripes on it, and her shoulder pads had three layers. Her gloves were white with sea-green wrist fittings. Her shoes were lace up loose sea green boots. Her accessories were a gold tiara with a sea-green gem in the middle, her earrings were white studs and had some kind of planetary object surrounded by a ring dangling from them, and a sea-green choker with a sea-green gem with golden accents attached to it.
During the Silver Millennium, Sailor Neptune was also the Princess of her home planet and was among those given the duty of protecting the solar system from outside invasion. As Princess Neptune, she wore a sea-green gown with the symbol of Neptune on her forehead. She dwelt in Triton castle.

## Powers

### Transformation Phrases and Items

* **Neptune Planet Power, Make Up**
* **Neptune Crystal Power, Make Up**

* **Neptune Crystal**

### Weapons and Items

* **Deep Aqua Mirror**
* **Lip Rod**

### Attacks

* **Deep Submerge**
* **Submarine Reflection**
* **Submarine Violon Tide**
* **Galactica Violon Tide**
* **Sea Serpent Strangle**
* **Tidal Wave**
* **Dolphin Wave**
* **Dragon Rise**
* **Splash Edge**
* **Galactica Planet Attack**

## TMNT X Pokemon

She can use the Talismans to predict future events.

## Trivia

* Michiru owns her own helicopter that she calls the Kaio Maru.
* Michiru is capable of using the Deep Aqua Mirror without needing to become Sailor Neptune.
* Michiru's apartment number in the Infinity arc is "1306". If one removes the "1", they will get "306", the numbers of her birthday. (Michiru's birthday is March 6, or 3-06)
* As with the other members of the Outer Senshi, her surname is also the name of a rail line in Tokyo.

* In a 1996 interview with *Animerica* magazine, Naoko Takeuchi stated that while "Sailor Moon is closest to me in terms of personality; Sailor Neptune is the opposite."
* While not named, she was able to use her violin to create an unpleasant sound as an attack on the Senshi.
* In Greek and Roman mythology, Neptune is the god of the sea.
* Sailor Neptune's planetary symbol (♆) stands for the **trident**of the Greek and Roman god.
	+ Her planetary symbol shows on the back of one of the Talismans, the hand mirror.
		- It is not known, why Sailor Venus did **not**get the hand mirror, as it represents her home planet and Roman goddess, but Sailor Neptune.
	+ Neptunium is **not**symbolized by ♆, since in alchemy this planet was not known yet. It only carries the name of the planet.
* She, along with the other Outer Senshi, possess one of the Talismans needed to summon the Holy Grailand awaken Sailor Saturn.
* Sailor Neptune is one of the only Senshi (besides Sailor Mars) who possesses exceptionally strong psychic abilities and the only Outer Senshi who has such powers.
* Sailor Neptune and Sailor Uranus are the only members of the Sailor Senshi who's backstory of *becoming*a Sailor Senshi had never been revealed in the manga.
* Super Sailor Neptune is eliminated and given bracelets from Galaxia in the manga. But in the anime's fifth and last season, she voluntary sells her own heart and soul to Galaxia, and is given her mind-controlling bracelets.
* Eternal Sailor Neptune is on the cover art of volume eight of the reprinted manga. On the kanzenban manga, Sailor Neptune appears on the cover of volume 6 along with Sailor Uranus.