Usagi Tsukino (月野 うさぎ, Tsukino Usagi) is the Sailor Guardian of love and justice: Sailor Moon (セーラームーン, Seeraa Muun). She is the reincarnation of Princess Serenity (プリンセス・セレニティ, Purinsesu Sereniti) and the protagonist of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal.
Nomenclature & 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, so while the literal translation of her family name could be "moon field" or "moon civilian", others may translate it as "of the moon."
Her full name, when said in the Japanese naming-order, Tsukino Usagi, gives two additional puns: No-Usagi (野うさぎ), meaning "wild rabbit"; and Tsuki no Usagi (月のうさぎ), meaning "Rabbit of the Moon". The latter derives from an Asian folktale about a rabbit that is said to reside on the Moon.
Nomenclature[]
Naoko Takeuchi provided many additional details on Usagi which include:
- Blood Type: 0[1][3]
- Zodiac Sign: Cancer[1][3] - Ruled by the Moon
- Birthstone: Pearl[3][4]
Appearance[]
Civilian[]
Usagi has blue eyes and long golden hair that she wears in odango.
The outfit that Usagi usually wears is a light blue middle school uniform (which later became her iconic everyday outfit), which has a blue sailor collar with two white stripes. She has a red ribbon on the front of her uniform, which she ties her magical locket to. She has a white school top with blue sleeves that have white stripes on, like the collar. In the summer, she wears a white top with short puffy sleeves. She has a blue pleated skirt with a blue ribbon on the back. She usually wears white socks and black cross-strap Mary Jane shoes.
Sailor Moon[]
Sailor Moon’s original uniform consists of a white leotard with a blue-collar that has three stripes on it, white gloves, light yellow shoulder pads, and a blue skirt, along with a red bow on the chest and at the back. She also wore a pair of red knee-high boots with a white border at the triangular top and crescent moons, gold earrings consisting of stars with a crescent moon beneath, white-bordered red circular hairpieces (one on each odango), feather barrettes in her hair, and a choker with a golden crescent moon on it with a clip that is similar to her transformation brooch attached to it. Her brooch is worn in the middle of her chest bow, along with a mask that disappeared in Act 16.
Her tiara has changed a few times as it did in the manga; at first, it was a golden tiara with a red gem in its center. It later disappeared after she threw it at Jadeite in Act 3. A new one appeared in Act 4 which looked like the old one, but the gem in the center was bigger. After she met Sailor Venus in Act 8, the tiara changed into a crescent moon with a gem in the middle.
Super Sailor Moon[]
As Super Sailor Moon, her uniform almost completely changed; she has two wing-like barrettes in her hair, her earrings are no longer dangling moons, but simply crescent moons affixed to her ears. Her choker is yellow with a red heart in the center. The stripes on her collar change from white to yellow and her shoulder pads are translucent and more wing-like in shape. The back waist bow becomes long, white and billowy with a yellow belt around her waist. However, the most obvious change is her skirt; it is now white with a yellow and blue border at the bottom. In the manga, there were more noticeable changes; her collar is blue in front and yellow in the back, the colors blended into each other over her shoulders. Instead of two different-colored stripes at the bottom of her skirt, the colors seem to blend into each other, creating a subtle transition from yellow to blue.
Eternal Sailor Moon[]
As Eternal Sailor Moon, she has white feathered wings.
Princess Serenity[]
Usagi occasionally takes the form of her past-life: Princess Serenity. In this form, Usagi wore a white flowing gown with white shoulder pieces disconnected from her dress, an intricately decorated bodice with gold hoops, with the bust defined by a row of golden beads. Trailing at the back, was a white gauzy bow with long fluttery ribbons. Under the dress she wore white stiletto high heel shoes. She also wore golden spiral earrings and a six round hairpins, three on each side, similar to her Sailor forms. Unlike her past self (in Sailor Moon Eternal), her hair is yellow instead of white.
Neo-Queen Serenity[]
At the end of Season 3 and Sailor Moon Eternal, Usagi takes a form resembling her future self: Neo-Queen Serenity. Compared to her Princess form, the bow at her back is much larger. Her dress is longer and the ribbons from it are longer as well. She carries her Spiral Heart Moon Rod in Season 3, and her Eternal Tiare in Sailor Moon Eternal. Unlike her future self, her hair is still blonde and she does not wear a crown.
Personality[]
Usagi's is very much a crybaby and very emotional. She is also considered lazy, clumsy, as well as an academic-underachiever. She was also a terrible cook, as shown several times during the series. She was also shown to be easily made jealous and possessive of Mamoru.
However, it was shown that she cared very deeply for her friends and family. She is very trusting, and believes that everyone has a better true nature; this could be seen as both a character strength and a character flaw at times. She did not believe in killing humans, even when they had been transformed into vicious monsters, and always sought ways to heal them instead.
Throughout the series, Usagi matured a great deal although she was still prone to some childish behavior and bouts of silliness; she became a capable young woman.
Information[]
Background[]
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.
Season 1[]
In the 1st episode, 14-year-old Usagi is first seen sound asleep and dreaming of a princess and a prince. Her slumber is disturbed, however, as she is woken up by an alarm clock.
She realizes that she is late and hurries to get ready and leave. After leaving her home, she hurries to school and accidentally steps on a black cat. She picks it up and peels off the band-aids on its forehead. Usagi stares at the cat until she hears the school bell and leaves.
Season 2[]
At the beginning of the 2nd season, Usagi enjoys her first real date with Mamoru but is pushed aside by the collision of a young girl with bubblegum pink hair who "kisses" her boyfriend instead.
She is even more shocked when the girl introduces herself as "Usagi" and demands that she hand over the Silver Crystal she has in her possession. Before she can get any more answers out of her, the girl runs off. In the end, she later finds that the girl is Chibiusa and she is from the future to try to save her mother.
Season 3[]
In the beginning, Usagi meets Haruka Tenou and sees Michiru Kaiou together with Mamoru. When numerous attacks are leading to Mugen Academy, she later learns of the Outer Sailor Guardians' different duties. She aids all Sailor Guardians to defeat the enemy.
Sailor Moon Eternal[]
Part I[]
Where the end of Season 3 left off, Usagi, Chibiusa, Diana, and Mamoru hear a bell and they suddenly receive a vision from a pegasus asking for their help. They see the Dead Moon Circus arrive on a flagship during the height of the eclipse and their bombastic entrance disappears as the light returns.
Mamoru tells Chibiusa the park has too many people for Chibiusa to use her Space-Time Key to go home, so they explore town instead. There they notice "Dead Moon Circus" signs and the two girls guilt Mamoru into buying them matching Kalideoscopes. The park is still full so they decide to wait until tomorrow morning for Chibiusa to go back to the future and have a sleepover at Mamoru's Home. During it, Chibiusa and Usagi disagree and wish they had opposite ages.
That night, Mamoru and Usagi share a dream of Chibiusa riding that Pegasus and wake up to find Chibiusa left a letter saying she intends to head back alone. They head to the park and find a barrier is keeping Chibiusa and Diana from returning to the 30th century and she says and she wants to help Helios as he appears again. The group along with Luna, and Artemis head for the command center under Game Center Crown.
A news report shows a tiger running amuck in Azabu-Juban so Usagi and Chibiusa leave and attempt to stop the tiger. They find themselves unable to transform and run. While hiding, their Holy Grails appear and their brooches transform to upgraded forms, allowing them to transform into Super Sailor Moon and Super Sailor Chibi Moon once again but without weapons. VesVes and PallaPalla then arrive; VesVes sends the tiger back to the circus and PallaPalla summons nightmare creatures called Lemures to attack Sailor Moon and Sailor Chibi Moon. Sailor Chibi Moon summons Helios with the Crystal Carillon to ask for weapons and he transforms their kaleidoscopes into their new magic weapons: the Moon Kaleido Scope and Chibi Moon Kaleido Scope. These weapons enable them to use Moon Gorgeous Meditation to destroy the Lemures and PallaPalla's Amazon Stone as the two enemies retreat.
After Mamoru faints from another stabbing pain in his chest, PallaPalla and VesVes are unsure what to make of their new foes. PallaPalla uses a mirror to read Usagi and Chibiusa's thoughts and switches their ages, while Zirconia's eyeball servant, Zircon, spies on them.
Minako, Ami, Rei, and Makoto meet the girls who have brought Mamoru to the Hospital. Mamoru's doctor is Ami's Mother. Mamoru heads home to rest as Usagi and Chibiusa are still age swapped.
Ami resists an attack by Fish Eye and calls Usagi for help. Usagi and Chibiusa arrive rush to Ami's Home and transform, regaining their original ages in the process, and destroy Fish Eye with Moon Gorgeous Meditation.
Sailor Chibi Moon tells Helios she thinks the maiden he seeks is Sailor Moon. Helios then learns Sailor Moon is Princess Serenity. Chibiusa she runs away and Usagi and the others look for her and find her in a park.
A few days later when the Dead Moon Circus opens, everyone comes and split into groups to check it out. Rei later meets the others and tells them about the enemy attacked her during the circus. Mamoru is still very sick, and hides the cause from Usagi trying to prevent her from worrying about him. He tells her to leave when she arrives bringing groceries.
Usagi gets Chibiusa to visit Mamoru and check on him as she waits outside scared he'll tell her to stay away again. On their way home, Chibiusa and Usagi see Super Sailor Jupiter just defeated another enemy and they soon notice Mamoru is in danger and they all rush to his home to save him.
There they find Helios trying to protect Mamoru. After Super Sailor Moon and Super Sailor Chibi Moon destroy the Lemures, Mamoru coughs up blood revealing the sickness he was trying to hide. Helios then reveals that he is priest of Elysion, and tells everyone his background and about the Dead Moon. Helios says Sailor Moon must save Elysion with the Silver and Golden Crystals, and disappears. Mamoru wants to avoid Sailor Moon for fear of infecting her but she tells him they will get through this together.
The curse passes to Usagi.
Part II[]
As the Outer Senshi fight the Amazoness Quartet at the Dead Moon Circus, Chibiusa and Usagi sense the Outer Guardians have returned. Chibiusa rushes to their side after using Submarine Mirror to return the Deep Aqua Mirror to Michiru and follows it to the Circus. Usagi tries to follow despite her illness and meets Mamoru on the way as he is doing the same.
Once they arrive, Zirconia appears, and taunts the Senshi and mortally wounds Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask using the curse causing them to de-transform and turn younger. Helios appears before them and teleports Usagi and Mamoru away to save their lives leaving the others behind.
Usagi has a dream where she and Mamoru are young children and he is doting on her. Making her breakfast, doing her homework, and wanting to do nothing but spend time with and marry her, but Usagi doesn't believe it as the real Mamoru has ambition and wakes up to find that it really was a dream. She and Mamoru are now in Elysion, restored to their true ages through what little purification power Elysion has left. Elysion has been turned into a land of nightmares by Nehelenia. Helios, astral projecting in human form, leads Usagi and Mamoru to a shrine where the only two other inhabitants of Elysion, two priestesses called the Maenads, are encased in purifying crystal to protect them from the curse. Helios tells them Princess Serenity and Prince Endymion shared the duty of protecting the Earth with their Silver and Golden Crystals and fell in love. Helios is looking for the maiden who has the power to release the Golden Crystal. He has no idea where it is but thinks Usagi is the key to finding it. Usagi realizes it is inside Mamoru like the Silver Crystal was inside her telling him he isn't just holding her back but has always used its power to help her. Helios leads them to his caged body and then Nehelenia notices them and confronts them from inside her mirror. Helios sends Usagi and Mamoru back to the surface.
Upon their return to the other Sailor Guardians, Usagi and Mamoru transform again. Zirconia re-appears after speaking to her Queen and conjures a hot, suffocating dark fog around the Sailor Guardians and Tuxedo Mask. They all start passing out and succumbing to it. Helios uses the last of his power to help them but Zirconia then traps the Sailor Guardians and Tuxedo Mask in a nightmare. Tuxedo Mask breaks free on his own and snaps the Sailor Guardians out of it. Usagi's Guardians combine their power to use Sailor Planet Power Meditation to injure Zirconia who retreats into a circus tent. Sailor Moon follows Zirconia into Nehelenia's mirror, which then blocks Sailor Venus and the others from following.
Inside the mirror, Nehelenia traps Sailor Moon inside a dome conjured from the two shards of glass. Sailor Moon destroys it with Moon Gorgeous Meditation, releasing Sailor Chibi Moon and Sailor Saturn. Sailor Moon and Sailor Chibi Moon try to use Moon Gorgeous Meditation on Nehelenia, but it turns out to be an illusion behind a glass screen. Sailor Mercury and Sailor Jupiter break the mirror from the outside with Mercury Aqua Rhapsody and Jupiter Oak Evolution which kills Nehelenia inside and makes the world in there unstable. Sailor Moon, Sailor Chibi Moon, and Sailor Saturn escape from the mirror.
The Dead Moon Circus seemingly disappears, but the darkness remains. All the Sailor Guardians and Tuxedo Mask teleport to Elysion, realizing Nehelenia is there. They meet the Maenads, now free of the purifying crystal, who take them to Helios's cage. Nehelenia's broken mirror appears, and Zircon flies into it before Nehelenia appears inside the mirror. Nehelenia reveals she knew Queen Serenity before restoring the broken glass of her mirror and taunting Usagi. Sailor Moon uses Moon Gorgeous Meditation, but Nehelenia reflects it, trapping all the Sailor Guardians and Tuxedo Mask into a kaleidoscope like dimension and there they see flashback of when Princess Serenity was a newborn.
Queen Nehelenia takes the Silver Crystal from Sailor Moon, de-transforming her, and is ready to kill the Sailor Guardians when Usagi and Tuxedo Mask kiss. This creates a burst of power allowing them to break free of Nehelenia's trap take the Silver Crystal back. She transforms again and while holding the new Holy Moon Chalice above her. Sailor Moon transforms the other Sailor Guardians into their Princess forms and summons Luna, Artemis, and Diana from the command center into their human forms. The Sailor Power Guardians tells Usagi's friends to call upon their Castles to send power to Sailor Moon's Holy Moon Chalice which transforms her into Eternal Sailor Moon. Usagi asks her friends to send power to her Eternal Tiare and they call upon their Sailor Crystals. Tuxedo Mask, using the newly released Golden Crystal, sends power as well. Usagi uses this power in a new attack: Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss. This defeats Nehelenia and makes her appear in a form identical to Zirconia before dying.
With this the curse of the Dead Moon is over freeing Elysion and the surface from darkness. Helios is woken up by Chibiusa and puts the Golden Crystal on a staff and gives it to Tuxedo Mask, who turns into his King Endymion form while Sailor Moon turns into her Neo-Queen Serenity form. The King and Queen send the sand that used to be Nehelenia's mirror into the sun, destroying what remains of the Dead Moon. The cats, Senshi, Helios, and the Maenads watch the coronation of their King and Queen.
Sailor Saturn then has Usagi release the Amazoness Quartet from the orbs in which Zirconia had imprisoned them, revealing them to be the Sailor Quartet. Sailor Ceres, Sailor Pallas, Sailor Juno, and Sailor Vesta are ment to be Chibiusa's guardians and return to sleep. Everyone returns to the surface and Mamoru feels something hot in his heart. He suspects it's the power of the Golden Crystal, but Usagi recalls something Queen Serenity once told her: it is a star shining within him, and as long as he keeps it shining he can make dreams come true and protect those they care about.
Sailor Moon Cosmos[]
Sailor Guardian Info[]
Usagi can transform into a "Sailor Guardian" by wearing a special device (usually a brooch) and shouting a special command that activates the device.
Transformation Phrases[]
- Moon Prism Power, Make Up
- Moon Crystal Power, Make Up
- Moon Cosmic Power, Make Up
- Moon Crisis, Make Up
- Silver Moon Crystal Power, Make Up
Attacks[]
- Supersonic Waves
- Moon Tiara Boomerang
- Moon Twilight Flash
- Moon Healing Escalation
- Moon Princess Halation
- Moon Spiral Heart Attack
- Rainbow Moon Heartache
- Rainbow Double Moon Heartache
- Moon Gorgeous Meditation
- Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss
Items[]
- Transformation Brooch
- Disguise Pen
- Crystal Star
- Cosmic Heart Compact
- Holy Grail
- Crisis Moon Compact
- Holy Moon Chalice
- Eternal Moon Article
- Silver Crystal
Weapons[]
- Red Hair Pieces
- Tiara
- Moon Stick
- Cutie Moon Rod
- Spiral Heart Moon Rod
- Moon Kaleido Scope
- Eternal Tiare
Gallery[]
Season I[]
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Season II[]
Season III[]
Sailor Moon Eternal[]
Sailor Moon Cosmos[]
Misc.[]
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Trivia[]
- Kotono Mitsuishi reprises her role since the original anime.
- In the manga Usagi's hair is light blonde. In both anime series her hair is golden blonde.
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