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Ikuko Tsukino is Usagi Tsukino's mother in the present age.

Nomenclature & Etymology[]

Etymology[]

The name Ikuko means "education" (育) (iku) and "child" (子) (ko). Ikuko's surname Tsukino means "moon" (月) (tsuki) and "field, wilderness" (野) (no).

Appearance[]

Just like Usagi's father, she doesn't have the same kind of hair as Usagi or Shingo. Instead, she has long dark blue and curly hair which she wears in a half loose ponytail and short bangs similar to her daughters. She is always wearing the same outfit with the same apron.

Information[]

She is completely unaware that her daughter is Sailor Moon and she proves to be a very impassioned, if not authoritarian parent, at certain times. In the first act of the manga, she kicks her daughter out of the house when Usagi brings home 30%, in an attempt to make her study. Despite her occasional anger, Ikuko is a very nurturing, caring person who only wants Usagi to make it out of middle/high school, but she never realized that Usagi transforms into Sailor Moon and lives out there fighting evil (as Usagi hides her secret from her mother, father, and brother).

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • In the manga, Usagi Tsukino notes that "in all her 36 years, Ikuko-mama has never gotten a cavity". This confirms that Ikuko's age is 36 (towards the end of the manga). In the beginning, she was probably 34–35 years old.[1]
    • This means Ikuko was probably about 20 or 21 when she gave birth to Usagi.
  • In the manga, Ikuko's hair has been shown colored with three different colors:
    • Blue: In the 90s anime and some artbook art.
    • Brown: Colored page of the rerelease manga.
    • Pink: Some artbook art.

References[]

  1. Chibiusa's Picture Diary - Beware of Cavities, page 8
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