Sailor Moon (character)
Sailor Moon is a female anime and manga character who features in Sailor Moon.
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Biography
Origin
Princess Serenity (Japanese: プリンセス・セレニティ, Hepburn: Purinsesu Sereniti) was a female inhabitant of the Silver Millennium where she was the daughter of Queen Serenity (クイン・セレニティ, Kuin Sereniti).
Princess Serenity was the Princess of the Moon and would often sneak down to Earth where she had met and fallen madly in love with Prince Endymion. When the war escalated between the two kingdoms, Endymion swore to aid Queen Serenity to defend her kingdom and people from the evil invasion from Queen Beryl, who was working with the evil universal force, Metalia. Sadly, Serenity was murdered along with Endymion. After Queen Serenity utilized the full strength of the Silver Crystal to seal way Queen Metalia, she also had Serenity, the Sailor Senshi, and her lover reincarnated on Earth to live happy lives.
Sailor Moon
Usagi and her younger brother Shingo lived in a Tokyo home with their parents Kenji and Ikuko Tsukino. She lead an average life in Tokyo's Azabu-Juban district and attended middle school with her friends Naru, Umino, Yumiko, and Kuri.
One morning she sleeps in and was late for school. She accidentally steps on a black cat, Luna, while en route. To apologize, she kissed the cat and removed a bandage on her forehead but receives a scratch and strange look in response. It was not a good day at school. She tried to throw her test paper with a 30% grade away but hit a highschooler, Mamoru Chiba, who tells her to study harder next time. Ikuko was not happy about the test result either. Eventually, Usagi goes to her room to study but takes a nap and dreams she is like the great Sailor V instead. Luna wakes her and started speaking but Usagi did not believe it and didn't listen until the feline gave her a brooch and told her to say "Moon Prism Power, Make Up". This transforms her into a Sailor Guardian like Sailor V: Sailor Moon. Her new outfit and mask allows her to see her friend Naru being attacked by a monster targeting her and others for their energy. Luna informs Usagi it is her job to save her. Sailor Moon defeats the monster through her crying and Luna's directions. With the people saved, the handsome Tuxedo Mask appears and introduces himself before dissapearing into the night leaving Usagi enamored. Luna tells Usagi it is her mission to find the Princess and her fellow Guardians as she returns to her normal life. One day after school, Luna jumps on the cute school genius Ami Mizuno prompting Usagi to speak with her. She tries to befriend Ami, hoping she can help with her academics, by taking her to Crown Game Center and playing the Sailor V game. Usagi does not do well, but Ami sets a high score winning a pen while Usagi brute forces a pen of her own. Ami leaves to head to the Crystal Seminar to study. Over the next few days, Luna and Usagi learn the Seminar is another front of their enemy and is brainwashing students into looking for a Silver Crystal and stealing their energy. Usagi heads there to save Ami and the other students and in the process of killing the monster has another encounter with Tuxedo Mask and witnesses Ami awaken as fellow Guardian: Sailor Mercury.
Whilst on a bus, Usagi spies a pretty girl, Rei Hino, getting off and follows her to Hikawa Shrine. She befriends the girl after a misunderstanding and learns of people going missing after catching a 6 pm bus. Mamoru Chiba catches Luna speaking again while she and Usagi return to the Shrine to investigate. They see Rei get abducted on a bus which disappears into another dimension. Sailor Moon and Sailor Mercury follow and see Rei awaken into Sailor Mars as all three work together to defeat Jadeite. All three Senshi investigate a Masquerade being held by Kingdom D suspecting their treasure may be the Silver Crystal. Their enemies had the same idea and plan to crash the party and possess Princess D and steal the treasure. During the party, Usagi encounters Tuxedo Mask again and after their enemies attack he saves her. Sailor Moon gains a new tiara and saves the Princess with Moon Twilight Flash. They find the treasure was not the Silver Crystal. While walking to school and talking to Luna, Usagi stops paying attention and affectionately thinks about Tuxedo Mask. She walks in front of traffic and is saved by Makoto Kino. Makoto is a new transfer student that everyone else tries to stay away from but Usagi spends lunchtime with her and invites her to the arcade with Ami. They talk about a rumour of a Ghost Bride Usagi had heard earlier with Naru, Yumiko, and Kuri which curses people. All three head to Hikawa Shrine to talk to Rei about it. That night, the Ghost Bride targets Motoki and Makoto. While Usagi is asleep, Tuxedo Mask arrives at her window, wakes her up, and leads her to the Youma. Makoto awakens as Sailor Jupiter and she and the other three Senshi take down the Ghost Bride and Nephrite who was controlling the bride and had posessed Princess D at the Masquerade. With four Sailor Guardians, Luna gives Usagi the Moon Stick and tells her she is the leader and it's her duty to protect the Silver Crystal and the Moon Princess.
Luna had never told them they were protecting a Moon Princess from a Moon Kingdom and that she was from that Kingdom herself. Their enemies brainwash the populace, including Usagi, to look for the Silver Crystal. When Zoisite realizes nobody can find it he drains the energy of everyone mind-controlled. Tuxedo Mask finds Usagi collapsed in the street and wakes her up to tell her to transform into Sailor Moon and save Tokyo. Her new Moon Stick appears in her hand and she uses it like Sailor V did in the arcade game which restores everyone drained by Zoisite. Usagi faints from exhaustion and Tuxedo Mask carries her off and she feels something familiar. She awakens in Mamoru's bed and finds a broken pocket watch. She learns Mamoru is Tuxedo Mask and he's looking for the Silver Crystal for a clue of his lost memory. Despite Luna's warnings she wants to trust him. As she is leaving, she accidentally takes the watch and he calls her "Usako" while Usagi decides to call him "Mamo-chan" and to keep the encounter secret. The Senshi find a wave of brainwashing videotapes that are coming from rental stores and people across the city are searching for Sailor Moon. The other Senshi and the enemy were impressed by the regenerative power Usagi gave off with her Moon Stick. They get a hold of one of the movies and bring it to the Sailor V game for analysis. The game appears broken before Sailor V appears on screen to order Usagi to take action since people's lives are in danger. Sailor Moon uses her Moon Stick to heal the brainwashed crowds of people but Zoisite appears and grabs her. Sailor Mars and Sailor Jupiter fail to save her and just before he kills her Artemis and Sailor Venus attack and destroy Zoisite.
Artemis introduces Sailor V as 'Princess Serenity' the heir of the Silver Millennium who has a secret identity Minako Aino who is a fellow middle schooler. Kunzite of the Dark Kingdom targets all of Tokyo and the Senshi battle him at Tokyo Tower. Sailor Moon throws herself in front of an attack to protect the "Princess" and Tuxedo Mask does the same for her taking the fatal blow. In Usagi's grief, the Silver Crystal becomes unsealed, she remembers her past life, and takes the form of Princess Serenity. Queen Beryl and Kunzite kidnap Mamoru. Sailor Venus reveals she is the true leader of Serenity's Protectors and had been acting as a decoy princess until the other Senshi regained their memories. To learn more about the Dark Kingdom and Silver Crystal they head to the Moon.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Sailor Moon was a human Japanese female teenager with a slender, highly agile build and fair skin. She possessed exceptionally long, vibrant blonde hair that she wore intricately styled in a trademark, symmetrical odango arrangement—featuring two circular buns secured at the top of her head with trailing twin tails that fell past her knees—paired with large, prominent blue eyes and highly expressive facial features. Her specialized combat uniform consisted of a highly stylized, traditional white sailor-style leotard combined with a short, pleated blue mini-skirt. The uniform featured a structured white collar trimmed with double blue stripes, a large hot-pink ribbon fastened across the chest to house her magical transformation brooch, and a matching hot-pink ribbon secured to her lower back. She wore red knee-high leather boots adorned with white borders and crescent moon motifs, white gloves with red borders extending past her elbows, and a thin red choker around her neck featuring a golden crescent moon. She did not utilize heavy military plate armor, tactical helmets, or a traditional facial mask, maintaining a highly polished, vibrant, and magical schoolgirl presentation throughout her introduction to the team. On Earth, she lived unaware of her past and went by the name of Usagi Tsukino (月野 うさぎ, Tsukino Usagi). As one of the Sailor Soldiers, she came to be known as the superheroine known as Sailor Moon (セーラームーン, Sērā Mūn).
Although well-meaning, she was an underachieving, accident-prone crybaby.
Powers and abilities
Usagi Tsukino was born a member of the human race but was later biologically and mystically awakened through a celestial blood pact, granting her an exceptional supernatural status as the reincarnated Princess of the Moon Kingdom. On a basic feats level, her newly acquired Sailor Guardian physiology replaced her standard human limitations, gifting her with enhanced physical speed, reflexes, and environmental durability far surpassing standard human limits, allowing her to survive extreme blunt-force impacts and leap vast distances without sustaining lasting tissue trauma. She was an exceptional member of her species due to her access to cosmic energy matrices, which linked her directly to the mystical power of the Silver Millennium.
Her primary power was magical energy manipulation, which enabled her to tap into ambient lunar forces to project destructive force blasts, generate protective barriers, and purify corrupted entities. By detaching and charging the golden tiara mounted on her forehead, she could execute her signature attack, "Moon Twilight Flash," transforming the piece of jewelry into a high-velocity, razor-sharp circular projectile capable of slicing through solid structural materials and permanently neutralizing supernatural entities. Additionally, her unique physiology featured a specialized biological trait where her extreme emotional distress, grief, or psychological shock could manifest as high-amplitude ultrasonic crying waves capable of cracking solid stone structures and paralyzing hostile targets, ensuring her defense while she gathered her tactical focus.
The names for Sailor Moon's attacks center around mythology of the Moon, love, healing, and light. She eventually becomes the most powerful Sailor Guardian in the galaxy, but her capacity for caring for others is shown to be more powerful still. As the reincarnation of Princess Serenity, Sailor Moon also wields the immensely powerful Silver Crystal. The origin of the Silver Crystal is inconsistently depicted in the series, described as a family heirloom early on, and later described as a fundamental part of Sailor Moon as a Sailor Guardian. The Silver Crystal is coveted by many of the series' villains for its limitless abilities, and Sailor Moon often uses it throughout the series to defeat the most difficult of villains, typically at the cost of her own vitality.
Notes
- Sailor Moon was created by Naoko Takeuchi where she featured in the setting of the Sailor Moon universe.
In other media
Television
Musicals
Appearances
- Sailor Moon:
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