Sailor Moon "Anime Characters With Symbols On Their Chest"

Sailor Moon "Anime Characters With Symbols On Their Chest"

"I am the Pretty Guardian who Fights for Beloved and for Justice. I am Sailor Moon! And now In the proper name of the moon, I will punish yous!" — Sailor Moon'due south catchphrase

Usagi Tsukino (月野 うさぎ, Tsukino Usagi) is the civilian identity of the Sailor Guardian of Love and Justice, Sailor Moon (セーラームーン, Seeraa Muun). Originally from a prosperous civilization on the Moon known as the Moon Kingdom, she was reborn on World and re-awoke every bit the leader of the Sailor Senshi.

Contents

• 1 Nomenclature & Etymology
  • i.1 Etymology
  • ane.2 Nomenclature
• 2 Appearance
  • 2.one Civilian
  • 2.2 Sailor Senshi
• iii Personality
• four Data
  • 4.1 Crewman Moon (Flavor 1)
  • 4.2 Sailor Moon R (Makai Tree arc)
  • four.3 Crewman Moon R (Black Moon arc)
  • four.4 Crewman Moon South
  • 4.5 Sailor Moon SuperS
  • 4.half dozen Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (Nehellenia arc)
  • four.7 Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (Stars arc)
• 5 Crewman Senshi Info
  • 5.1 Phrases
  • 5.two Attacks
  • 5.3 Items and Weapons
• 6 Development
• 7 Gallery
• eight Trivia
• nine References
• x References

Classification & Etymology

Etymology

Usagi is written in the hiragana spelling of the Japanese word for "rabbit" (うさぎ, Usagi)

Tsukino, The kanji of Tsuki (月) translates to "moon" while the kanji for no (野) translates to "field" or "civilian". The syllable no (の) also indicates possession, then while the literal translation of her family name could be "moon field" or "moon civilian", others may translate information technology as "of the moon."

Her total name, when said in the Japanese naming-order, Tsukino Usagi, gives two additional puns: No-Usagi (野うさぎ), pregnant "wild rabbit"; and Tsuki no Usagi (月のうさぎ), pregnant "Rabbit of the Moon". The latter derives from an Asian folktale well-nigh a rabbit that is said to reside on the Moon.

Nomenclature

Naoko Takeuchi included many occultist arts to finely detail each graphic symbol. For Usagi, these things include:

• Birthstone(s):
  • Pearl - Purity, humility, and innocence.
  • Alexandrite - Believed to strengthen intuition, help creativity and inspire imagination.
  • Moonstone - Love, passion, fertility and great luck.
• Zodiac Sign: Cancer - Tenacious, highly imaginative, loyal, emotional, sympathetic, persuasive; Moody, pessimistic, suspicious, manipulative, insecure.

Advent

Civilian

Usagi has blue optics and long blonde hair that she wears in odango.

The outfit that Usagi usually wears is a light blueish middle school uniform (which later became her iconic everyday outfit), which has a blue crewman collar with two white stripes. She has a nighttime pink ribbon on the front end of her uniform, which she ties her magical locket to. She has a white school summit with blueish sleeves that accept white stripes on, like the collar. In the summertime, she wears a white top with short puffy sleeves. She has a blue pleated skirt with a blue ribbon on the back. She ordinarily wears white socks and black cross-strap Mary Jane shoes.

Her primary coincidental outfit is usually seen until the end of the third season where she was seen wearing a light blue denim blazer with 2 chest pockets in each sides, a light greenish long sleeved push-up shirt, a pale pink long pleated skirt, light bluish socks and white and brown dress shoes. Her odango hairstyle has a matching two pale pinkish bows in each sides. In the 4th season, her primary outfit has a modest colour alter; 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.

In Sailor Stars, she at present wears a standard Azabu Juban senior high schoolhouse uniform (due to her at present being in loftier school) as her crewman collar, ribbon, pleated skirt and back ribbon are dark bluish and the two stripes are red.

Sailor Senshi

Sailor Moon'due south original compatible consists of a white leotard with a blue-collar that has 3 stripes on it, white gloves, light xanthous shoulder pads, and a blue brim, along with a dark pink bow on the breast and at the back. She also wore a pair of dark pink knee-high boots with a white border at the triangular pinnacle and crescent moons, gold earrings consisting of stars with a crescent moon beneath, white-bordered red round hairpieces (one on each odango), feather barrettes in her hair, and a choker with a aureate crescent moon on information technology with a clip that is similar to her transformation brooch attached to it. Her brooch is worn in the eye of her chest bow, along with a mask that disappeared in Act sixteen.

Her tiara has changed a few times in the manga; at starting time, it was a aureate tiara with a red jewel in its center. It later disappeared after she threw it at Jadeite in Act 3. A new i appeared in Act 4 which looked like the quondam 1, but the gem in the center was bigger. Subsequently she met Crewman Venus in Act 8 the tiara changed into a crescent moon with a gem in the middle.

As Super Crewman Moon, her uniform almost completely inverse; she has two fly-like barrettes in her hair, her earrings are no longer dangling moons, but only crescent moons affixed to her ears. Her choker is xanthous with a red heart in the center. The stripes on her neckband change from white to yellow and her shoulder pads are translucent and more than wing-like in shape. Her front bow changes to carmine and the back waist bow becomes long, white and billowy with a yellow chugalug effectually her waist. However, the most obvious change is her brim; it is now white with a yellow and blue edge at the lesser. Her knee-loftier boots with crescent moons also became reddish. In the manga, there were more noticeable changes; her neckband is blue in front and xanthous in the back, the colors blended into each other over her shoulders. Instead of two dissimilar-colored stripes at the bottom of her skirt, the colors seem to alloy into each other, creating a subtle transition from yellow to blue. In Super Southward, she retains this outfit but the ribbons from her back waist bow has been shortened that reaches beneath the knee.

In this form, her uniform underwent the nigh radical changes; she no longer wears a tiara and instead has a gold crescent moon on her forehead, her earrings have a star at the bottom of each crescent moon. The choker is red with a nighttime yellowish-orange heart and a gold crescent moon under it while wearing the same white wing barrettes in her hair. The collar itself is like her old one simply is dark blue with three aureate stripes and in place of her shoulder pads are short solid pink bubble-similar sleeves with a red band at the cease. In the place of her front end bow is a gold heart with a crescent moon at the lesser, with what appears to be four angel wings coming out of information technology. Her gloves are the same as before, but with a red five-shape border along with a golden star. Her skirt is attached to her top in a red 5-shape with a crescent in the center of the v along with three layers on it; the top layer is yellow, the middle layer is cerise and the bottom layer is blueish. Her dorsum bow is replaced with a huge gear up of affections wings and two very long, thin red ribbons trailing downward from them. Her boots are now articulatio genus length with v-shape borders with a crescent moon on them.

Principal Page: Princess Serenity

Princess Tranquillity was the previous life of Usagi Tsukino/Sailor Moon. While Usagi is shown to accept abundant powers every bit Sailor Moon and her future cocky, Neo-Queen Quiet, Princess Tranquillity did non have any significant powers.

Main Folio: Neo-Queen Tranquility

Neo-Queen Serenity is Usagi Tsukino's future self; she is the Queen of Crystal Tokyo and of the Earth, she has been shown to have stiff powers. Eternal Crewman Moon is closest to this form.

Personality

Usagi is kind and gentle, she is also considered helpful in school. and she is smart but not a nerd, she loves cooking, she loves her friends, she never let's them down and she doesn't want to run across anyone hurt.

Withal, it was shown that she cares very securely for her friends and family. She is very trusting and believes that anybody has a meliorate nature. This could be seen as both a character strength and a graphic symbol flaw at times. She did not believe in killing innocent humans, even when they had been transformed into barbarous monsters, and always sought means to heal them instead. And she does have astringent problems fighting monsters and villains.

Over the course of the series, Usagi matured a dandy bargain although she was still prone to some childish beliefs and bouts of silliness; she became a capable young woman.

Data

Usagi was the oldest of two siblings and lived with her parents, Kenji and Ikuko Tsukino, and her younger brother, Shingo Tsukino. She lived an average life with her friends, Naru, Umino, Yumiko, and Kuri.

Sailor Moon (Flavor ane)

After rushing to school because she overslept, she spots some kids tormenting a blackness true cat; putting ring-aids on the true cat'south forehead. Later on Usagi chases the boys away, she removes the band-aids to reveal a crescent moon on the cat's forehead.

Afterward, Usagi received a poor grade on her exam and tries to toss information technology away. The crumpled up paper hit a man on the head, named Mamoru Chiba, who then began taunting her throughout the first half of the season.

It was later on that night that the cat, named Luna, spoke to Usagi most the new enemy attacking Earth; the Dark Kingdom. To prove that it was not a dream, Luna gave her a magic brooch that allowed Usagi to become Sailor Moon. It was on her get-go mission where she met the mysterious Tuxedo Mask and had crushes on him from and so on.

For a while, Usagi struggled on with school, too every bit the fight against the Night Kingdom on her own -with the help of Tuxedo Mask. Somewhen, she was joined by school genius Ami Mizuno; a classmate of Usagi's who Luna suspected might be a youma. Ami was later revealed to be Crewman Mercury.

Usagi and Ami then proceed to fight the Dark Kingdom's minions. And so, Usagi meets Rei Hino, a teenage shrine priestess who went to a private school. Similar Ami, she was a Sailor Senshi. The Guardian of Fire and Passion, Sailor Mars. They began hanging out together and Rei joins Ami and Usagi as they continued to fight against the Dark Kingdom.

Sometimes, Usagi would argue with Rei. The arguments would center around Usagi's laid-back attitude towards responsibilities or the rivalry of Tuxedo Mask's affection.

1 24-hour interval, 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 Crewman Senshi of Lightning and Backbone: Crewman Jupiter; and joined the iii of the other Crewman Senshi.

Soon after being introduced to Sailor Venus, Usagi is once more confronted by Mamoru. He apologizes to her for all the times he fabricated 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'due south life; who and so revealed himself to be Tuxedo Mask. After he was seriously injured in a sneak-attack past Zoisite, Crewman Moon gained the Legendary Silvery Crystal and was revealed to be Princess Quiet.

Tuxedo Mask was then kidnapped by the Night Kingdom and Usagi savage 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 salvage him. After disappointment many of the Night Kingdom'south attempts to capture the Silver Crystal, Usagi and the Sailor Senshi traveled to the North Pole. They aimed for a identify known every bit D-Point, to defeat Queen Beryl and save Tuxedo Mask.

On their mode across the tundra, one by one Usagi'south friends were forced to sacrifice themselves to assistance her reach the base. Afterward 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 agree over him, merely to have him die in her artillery when he was protecting her.

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

The next morning, Usagi woke up in bed, rushing to school with no retentiveness of her time equally Sailor Moon. The other Crewman Senshi and Mamoru are alive as well and too have lost their memories about their powers.

Sailor Moon R (Makai Tree arc)

During this story arc, two aliens arrive on Earth from a mysterious tree, which provides them with sap they need to stay alive. Notwithstanding, it must be fed energy, and the 2 somewhen decide to steal free energy from humans. Luna is forced to reawaken Usagi as Sailor Moon to stop an attacking Cardian. Crewman Moon somewhen loses the power to use Moon Tiara Action, as her tiara stops spinning mid-assault. During the story arc, Usagi's brooch is destroyed by a Cardian, and she de-transforms; eventually she realizes this is because her resolve to fight was weakened by her desire to be normal (which too caused her tiara to no longer function). She encounters Queen Repose, who repairs her brooch, transforming it into a new ane. She also acquires a new transformation phrase, and gains a new assault, which she uses for the residuum of R to defeat enemies.

Usagi is also frequently saved by a mysterious hero resembling Tuxedo Mask, known as the Moonlight Knight.

Throughout the series, Ail develops a crush on Usagi, although his feelings are unreciprocated. Usagi continues trying to become closer to Mamoru through the arc and help his memories return. At the end of the arc, Usagi and the other Inner Senshi are led into Ail and An'due south flat, where they encounter the Makai Tree. Usagi is eventually able to teach Ail and An the value of true dearest after showing her devotion to protecting Mamoru multiple times from the Makai Tree's barbarous assaults, and his reciprocal efforts to protect her in plow. Mamoru realizes he loves Usagi, and it'due south revealed that the Moonlight Knight was a psychic projection of Mamoru born out of a want to protect Sailor Moon. As he has at present rediscovered his feelings for her, the Moonlight Knight rejoins his body, causing him to once again consciously fall in love with Usagi. Upon Ail and An'south request, Crewman Moon uses Moon Princess Halation to cleanse the Makai Tree, causing information technology to exist reborn into a seedling. Ail and An leave World to start anew with the sapling Makai Tree on a peaceful planet, ending the story arc.

Sailor Moon R (Black Moon arc)

Afterwards Mamoru regained his memories, he and Usagi began dating. One of their dates was interrupted by a piddling girl, Chibiusa, who was searching for the Silver Crystal. Along with her, a new enemy appeared, the Blackness Moon Clan, who were searching for Chibiusa. Usagi made a vow to protect Chibiusa following their attempts to runway her down. Shortly later on their arrival, Mamoru began having visions of Usagi in danger in the future, and broke up with her to avert causing her pain or death, but left Usagi heartbroken. While fighting the Blackness Moon Clan, Usagi and the Inner Senshi learned Chibiusa was from the future and needed help to awaken her mother from a deep slumber. Eventually, the Ayakashi Sisters began to regret working for Rubeus, and Sailor Moon used Moon Crystal Power to reform them, assuasive them to settle into present solar day Tokyo as normal humans. Shortly afterwards, Chibiusa stole the Silver Crystal from Usagi and, while searching for her, the other Crewman Senshi were abducted by Rubeus, who held them equally leverage against Sailor Moon. Crewman Moon arrived, followed by Chibiusa, and the two were taken aboard Rubeus's transport. Sailor Moon fought Rubeus, struggling against the environment that the ship's crystal created and manipulated, until Chibiusa destroyed the ship's crystal, freeing the other Senshi and causing the ship to become unstable. The Senshi and Chibiusa teleported off of the ship shortly earlier it exploded, killing Rubeus who was still aboard it.

Later Chibiusa ended up trapped in a nightmare, Usagi met Sailor Pluto through Luna-P, who assisted in helping let the Senshi to enter Chibiusa'southward dream and wake her. As they continued to fight the Black Moon Clan, Usagi discovered that Mamoru was having nightmares of her dying. Usagi confronted him on this and they made a pact to go dorsum together and face up the hereafter together. She and the others ended up going to Crystal Tokyo, where they met Rex Endymion. He told them about the Black Moon Clan, and that Chibiusa is Usagi and Mamoru's future girl. Usagi is abducted by Prince Demande, the leader of the Black Moon Clan, just is rescued later by Mamoru. She and the others later establish Chibiusa had been taken past the Blackness Moon Clan and been brainwashed to exist their new commander, Black Lady. Sailor Moon tried to restore her memories a few times, only her efforts were thwarted by Wiseman. Saphir tells the Sailor Senshi and Demande about the plot Wiseman had to accept the Dark Gate opened. Unfortunately, he is killed past Wiseman before he tin fully explicate his plan to Demande. When exploring the Nighttime Crystal structure, Sailor Moon is again taken past Demande, who tried to brainwash her, but she resisted his efforts and she tried to explain the love that humans feel. Demande eventually began to realize the fault of his ways, but they were interrupted past Wiseman attacking Demande. Prince Demande died protecting Sailor Moon after realizing his ways were wrong, and Usagi was reunited with her friends. Usagi tries to revert Chibiusa back to her normal self, but she is unsuccessful, equally Wiseman has imbued her memories with feelings of resent and animosity towards Usagi. Crewman Moon somewhen faces off against Black Lady as the Dark Gate begins to open, and Usagi transforms into Neo-Queen Placidity. She is eventually successful in healing Chibiusa, who helps her fight off Wiseman. The Silvery Crystal of the hereafter emerges from Chibiusa'due south torso, and combined with the power of the nowadays Argent Crystal, Tuxedo Mask, and the Inner Senshi, Wiseman is overwhelmed and killed and the Dark Gate is destroyed, along with the Evil Black Crystal. Usagi and Chibiusa accept a heartfelt goodbye as Chibiusa returns home to the futurity, and Mamoru comforts Usagi.

Sailor Moon South

Sailor Moon SuperS

Sailor Moon Crewman Stars (Nehellenia arc)

Crewman Moon Sailor Stars (Stars arc)

Crewman Senshi Info

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 Ability, Brand Upwards!" (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 5 major story arcs.

In the fifth arc of the manga, she becomes Eternal Sailor Moon with "Silver Moon Crystal Ability, Brand Up!" instead of "Moon Eternal, Brand Upwards!"

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

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

Phrases

• Moon Prism Ability, Brand Upward
• Moon Power, modify me into a...
• Moon Crystal Ability, Brand Upwards
• Moon Cosmic Power, Make Up
• Crisis, Brand Upward
• Moon Crisis, Make Up
• Moon Eternal, Brand Upwardly

Attacks

• Moon Tiara Activeness
• Moon Tiara Stardust
• Moon Prism Power
• Moon Healing Escalation
• Moon Crystal Power
• Moon Princess Halation
• Moon Screw Heart Set on
• Rainbow Moon Heartache
• Moon Cosmic Ability
• Moon Crunch Power
• Moon Gorgeous Meditation
• Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss
• Silvery Moon Crystal Ability Osculation

Items and Weapons

• Transformation Brooch
• Tiara
• Moon Stick
• Disguise Pen
• Crystal Star
• Cutie Moon Rod
• Cosmic Heart Compact
• Spiral Middle Moon Rod
• Silverish Crystal
• Holy Grail
• Crisis Moon Compact
• Moon Kaleido Scope
• Eternal Moon Commodity
• Eternal Tiare
• Holy Moon Chalice
• Moon Ability Tiare

Evolution

Usagi's signature hairstyle derives from a "skillful luck charm" of the artist'south. In college, Naoko Takeuchi would put her own hair upwardly in odango before difficult class exams.^[1] By the intermediate stages of development, Takeuchi planned to have the character's hair be blonde in civilian class and change to silver when she transformed, just she was told by her editor that silver hair would be besides plainly for embrace art. Stylistic use of differently-colored hair does sometimes appear in later on artwork. Out of all the Crewman Senshi, Usagi'southward personality is closest to Takeuchi's ain personality at the time that the series was created.^[ii]

Certain groundwork details of Usagi'southward character were chosen symbolically. For instance, her Western astrological sign is given every bit Cancer, which in astrology corresponds to the moon. In reference to a popular Japanese belief, Usagi'due south blood blazon O, supposedly indicates friendliness, optimism, and carelessness.

Gallery

Usagi in the first opening

Sailor Moon's commencement transformation pose

Moon Healing Escalation

Surprised afterward the transformation

Sailor Moon introduces herself to Balm in episode two.

Sailor Moon with a cut on her face

Sailor Moon facepalms

Usagi in her swimsuit

Sailor Moon, Mercury, and Mars subsequently Nephrite's death

Crewman Moon offers the dislocated Shakoukai coffee.

Sailor Moon and the spirit of Queen Serenity

Crewman Moon being attacked past Evil Endymion

Crewman Moon's second pose

Moon Princess Halation

Holding Mamoru'south paw

Sailor Moon trapped in her nightmares

Sailor Moon holding the dying Prince Demande

Crewman Moon using the Silver Crystal

Sailor Moon's third pose

Super Crewman Moon's solo pose

Moon Spiral Center Attack

Rainbow Moon Heartache

Season'due south eye-take hold of

Super Sailor Moon

Sailor Moon later on destroying Pharoah ninety, holding a reborn Hotaru

Super Sailor Moon posed with Sailor Chibi Moon

Crewman Moon after switching her historic period with Sailor Chibi Moon

Sailor Moon attacked past Zirconia

Eternal Crewman Moon in the opening

Eternal Sailor Moon pose

Usagi hugging Luna in a consolation

Sailor Moon and Luna on the cover of laserdisc 4 of the beginning series

Sailor Moon and Tuxedo mask on the embrace of laserdisc 10 of the first series

Sailor Moon, Ail and An on the comprehend of laserdisc 3 of the R series

Sailor Moon on the cover of laserdisc 1 of the S series

Sailor Moon, Sailor Chibi Moon, the inner senshi, Crewman Neptune and Sailor Uranus on the comprehend of the laserdisc for the SuperS specials

Sailor Moon on Volume 1 of the Sailor Moon R DVD collection

Sailor Moon on the comprehend of the first installment of the Talk Box series released on 2011

Usagi and Sailor Moon from the 1994 calendar

Sailor Moon on the embrace of an official school calendar

Sailor Moon and others on the official Sailor Moon calendar for 1995.

Super Crewman Moon and others on the official Sailor Moon calendar for 1996.

Eternal Crewman Moon and others on the official Sailor Moon calendar for 1997

Sailor Moon on the back of her R unmarried

Crewman Moon on a Brazilian DVD promo carte du jour

Crewman Moon and others on an ad for Sailor Moon merchandise

Super Sailor Moon with Pure Centre Crystals on official anime merchandise

Art of Usagi with bunny ears

Fine art by Marco Albiero

Trivia

• In the original DiC English dub, Usagi is named "Serena" as "Serena" is very shut in spelling and pronunciation to "Serenity".
• In early on promotional videos, DiC used the proper noun "Victoria"; and on Kodansha's English website, she was at get-go referred to as "Celeste".
• Usagi was the only ane out of the Inner Senshi who was not part of the 3 Lights fan social club in the anime.
• Kotono Mitsuishi, the actress who played Usagi in the anime, was ill during the production of episodes 44 through l; during that fourth dimension the graphic symbol was instead voiced past Kae Araki who later voiced Chibiusa.
• Usagi has mistaken alcohol for dial and gotten accidentally boozer on 2 occasions: the first was in Episode 22 and the 2nd in Episode 108.
• Usagi is the only grapheme to appear in all 200 episodes and in all three movies.
• According to a translation of an anime fanbook, Usagi hopes to i day go to the Palace of Versailles.^[three]
• In episode iv, Naru noted that she wasn't very skillful at swimming.
• In episode 122, Usagi also noted that her best subjects are "napping and lunchtime."
• Her lunar symbol is the crescent moon (☽) and is seen on various brooches, wands, rods, clothing, etc. represented past Luna, the Roman goddess/Selene, the Greek goddess.
  • In alchemy, silver is represented by ☽.

References

1. ↑ From Bishoujo Senshi Crewman Moon Shinsouban Volume 3.
2. ↑ Sailor Games - Interview of Naoko Takeuchi at the San Diego Comic-con
3. ↑ Translation of Usagi's anime profile from Dies Gaudii

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