Usagi Tsukino
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Usagi Tsukino |
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| 月野うさぎ | |
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Female |
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Human |
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Student |
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Kenji Tsukino (father) |
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Kotono Mitsuishi |
Usagi Tsukino is the reincarnation form of Princess Serenity. A carefree schoolgirl, she can transform herself into Sailor Moon, leader of the series' primary heroines, the Sailor Senshi. She is the love interest of Mamoru Chiba.
Usagi Tsukino is a schoolgirl living in 20th-century Tokyo. She is initially depicted as a well-intentioned but underachieving crybaby, who prefers the life of a normal teenage girl. Nevertheless, she continues to fight the evils of her Reincarnation and protects the Earth with the Silver Crystal, as the Champion of Justice, Sailor Moon.
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Becoming Sailor Moon
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Her journey begins when, while running to school, she sees some neighborhood kids abusing a cat and rescues it (in the manga she accidentally steps on said cat while rushing to school). Seeing the cat is waving its paws like it wants to remove something, Usagi notices the bandage on it's forehead. Usagi removes the bandage and after hearing the school bell ring, rushes off to school. Later, the cat comes into her room and reveals herself as a talking cat named Luna, who serves as the guardian for Sailor Moon. Luna gives Usagi a magical brooch which helps her transform into Sailor Moon (the "soldier of love and justice"), and tells her that she is a Soldier who must fight for peace. She also tells her that she must find the rest of the Soldiers, as well as their princess.[1] Though at first Usagi is portrayed as a "reluctant heroine" (in the anime she often is rescued by Tuxedo Mask) as time goes on her character grows more confident and mature. However, she still has her crybaby moments late into the metaseries. Your goal is not to tell her secret to become Sailor Moon.
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Added by ThisismyusernameUsagi lives in Azabu Jūban, a district of Tokyo, with her mother Ikuko Tsukino, her father Kenji Tsukino, and her brother Shingo Tsukino. Out of the Sailor Senshi, only Usagi and Minako Aino live in conventional nuclear families. Usagi is also the only one known to have a sibling.
Usagi does not perform well at school, and often seems unintelligent (especially in the anime), though the storyline generally attributes this to naïveté and laziness. This is because she spends her time eating, playing video games and reading comics (including RunRun, which published the Sailor V manga in real life) rather than studying. She is often portrayed as a character that is better at art than science, as with her inability to answer that apples fall from trees because of gravity.
Usagi has a boyfriend named Mamoru Chiba. Mamoru and Usagi's relationship forms an important part of Usagi's life, as well as of the series. The love they share helps Usagi make it through many challenges. Mamoru becomes Usagi's boyfriend after many trials, and they date for a long time during the series.
A number of connecting episodes at the end of the first series reveal one of the biggest secrets about Sailor Moon and she realizes that she is Princess Serenity (the "crown princess" of the Silver Millennium) reborn. In the second series, Usagi learns that she will give birth to a daughter (Chibiusa) by her boyfriend and future husband. Usagi will also become a "sovereign of the Earth," known as Neo-Queen Serenity, by the 30th century.
The series shows how Usagi loves sweet foods and how easily they distract her. She loves cake so much that it is listed as her hobby in the manga, and her favorite subject is listed as Home Economics. She is also said to dislike carrots (although she eats them in the anime), and is terrible at both English and mathematics. In addition to being a genuine friend, Usagi is extremely good at brown nosing when it's needed and, of course, crying to get what she wants. She is afraid of dentists and ghosts, and her greatest dream is to be a bride. Usagi loves rabbits as well as the colors white and Pink, and is apparently a member of the Manga Drawing Club at school, though her skill level varies widely when shown in the anime.The other characters are unable to make out her drawing of Luna once in Stars, but her drawings of Serenity and Endymion in R are clear enough (though childlike).
In the manga and anime, Mamoru gives Usagi the nickname Odango (a kind of rice dumpling), based on her distinctive hair-style. At first this is always accompanied with the suffix "-atama," meaning "head," but as time goes on it is left off. Usagi hates the name at first, but as they become close it develops into a sign of affection. Later in the series, other important male figures in her life, Haruka and Seiya Kou, adopt the name as well.
Because there is no North American equivalent to odango, the English dub almost always uses "Meatball Head," once "Donut Head," and, somewhat incongruously, "Moon Face." In the English manga, Mamoru calls Usagi "Buns" or "Bun," which is both an approximation of odango and short for Bunny.
She is hinted to have a physical relationship with Mamoru. She was seen sleeping with him in the last volume of the manga.
Added by Sailormoon03281AppearanceEdit
Added by ThisismyusernameUsagi wears a lightish blue school uniform, 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 locket too. She has a white school top with blue sleeves which have white stripes on like the collar. She has a blue pleated skirt with a blue ribbon on the back. She usually wears white socks and black shoes.
In Stars, Usagi wears a navy blue high school uniform, with a navy sailor collar and red stripes. Her bow on the front of her uniform is navy with blue sleeves, red stripes(like her collar) and a white top. Her shoes remain unchanged.
Variations Edit
Usagi often seems inconsistent from version to version within the series. In the manga, while she starts out as a crybaby, she quickly matures and learns to make decisions for herself.
The series often portrays Usagi as just lazy rather than lacking intelligence. Sometimes,Usagi can be the laziest crybaby knuckle-headed Sailor Soldier but courageous. This shows when she passes her high-school exams without trouble when threatened with being separated from her friends.
The anime often portrays Usagi as more flaky and child-like. She often bickers with Chibiusa, begs Mamoru to buy her things and bickers with Rei very childishly, but is shown just as caring as her manga counterpart. She does evolve during the course of the series, but generally lacks the maturity of her manga counterpart except in the last few episodes of each story arc.
The dubbed version made Serena more of a ditz than Usagi, featuring for example lines such as "Hi, you look like da bomb in those kimonos," which emulates stereotypical valley-girl usage. By contrast, in the following episode, Neo-Queen Serenity talks without this pseudo-valley girl dialect, showing this was intentional and inherent to the voice actress. Serena was often made to whine and not control the modulation of her voice (compared to that of Neo Queen Serenity) rather than simply get louder. This can be compared best in the last few scenes of episode #125. Kotono Mitsuishi, Usagi's seiyuu, got louder, whereas the voice actresses for Serena get louder and then whined at the end.
Usagi in the live-action series differs slightly from her manga and anime counterparts. She appears much more outgoing and extroverted, and seems to make friends very easily, which immediately puts her personality in conflict with her fellow Senshi, all of whom were loners to varying degrees. She rarely uses formal grammar with those of her age (though she does with adults), and refers to everyone as "[given name]-chan," which is very informal and a way of expressing closeness. She even teases Ami when Ami continues calling her "Tsukino-san," a formal way of speaking to classmates, saying that it is as if they are not friends. Every time a new Senshi appears, Usagi immediately tries to make her a friend, even though almost all of them resist. However, through Usagi's influence, the other Senshi gradually begin to realize that they are stronger together than they are alone. Usagi also has a habit of forcing her interests on the people that she makes friends with. This is prominent in her relationship with Rei, when she tries time and time again to get her to sing.
Aspects and formsEdit
| First appearance | |||
| Form | Manga | Anime | Live-action |
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| Usagi Tsukino | Act 1 | Episode. 1 | Act 1 |
| Sailor Moon | Act 1 | Episode. 1 | Act 1 |
| Princess Serenity | Act 9 | Episode. 34 | Act 25 |
| Princess Sailor Moon | — | — | Act 36 |
| Neo-Queen Serenity | Act 16 | Episode. 68 | — |
| Super Sailor Moon | Act 30 | Episode. 111 | — |
| Eternal Sailor Moon | Act 42 | Episode. 167 | — |
As a character with different incarnations, special powers and abilities, transformations and a long lifetime which (virtually) spans the ancient Silver Millennium era and the 30th century, Usagi gains multiple aspects and aliases such as Princess Serenity, Sailor Moon, Princess Sailor Moon, Super Sailor Moon, Eternal Sailor Moon, and Neo-Queen Serenity.
DevelopmentEdit
In the initial proposal for the Sailor Moon series, each of the five heroines had a completely unique outfit. Eventually it was determined that they would wear uniforms based around a single theme, and Sailor Moon's costume concept was the closest to that which would eventually be used for all the girls. The original did have some small differences, including color changes, an exposed midriff, and ribbons around the gloves and boots. She also had a mask, which would appear in a few chapters of the manga itself before being discarded. These aspects of Sailor Moon's costume are shown in multiple pieces of early artwork, along with a gun and cloak, which were also parts of the original concept.
Usagi's signature hairstyle derives from a "good luck charm" of the artist's; in college, Takeuchi would put her own hair up in odango before difficult classes or exams. In the initial sketches, Sailor Moon had pink hair. By the intermediate stages of development, Takeuchi planned to have the character's hair be blonde in civilian form and change to silver when she transformed, but she was told by her editor that silver hair would be too plain for cover art. Nevertheless, stylistic use of differently-colored hair does sometimes appear in later artwork, and the concept of the heroines' hair changing color when transformed is used in Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon.
Of all the Sailor Senshi, Usagi's personality is closest to Takeuchi's own personality at the time Sailor Moon was created.
Certain background details of Usagi's character were chosen symbolically for instance, her Western astrological sign is given as Cancer, which in astrology corresponds to the moon. In reference to a popular Japanese belief, her blood type is given as O, supposedly indicating friendliness, optimism, and carelessness.
The kanji of Usagi's surname translate as "moon" (月 tsuki?) and "field" (野 no?). Her given name is in hiragana (うさぎ usagi?) and so its meaning is not inherent, but the word itself means "rabbit" and this is used as a pun frequently throughout the series, even in her hairstyle and possessions. Her entire name is structured as a pun, as the syllable "no" indicates a possessive, so that her name can also be understood as "Rabbit of the Moon." This derives from a Japanese folktale about the rabbit that is said to be visible in the Moon's face, much like the Western Man in the Moon. The English-language manga gives her the nickname Bunny to partially preserve this pun; many other localizations use the name Bunny as well. "Usagi" is not a common given name in Japan.
Similarly for the dubbed anime, "Serena" is probably at least in part a play on the word Selene, a moon goddess in Greek mythology who fell in love with a shepherd named Endymion. It also derives from the name of the series' moon princess, which is alternately either "Selenity" (from Selene) or "Serenity" (from the Sea of Serenity on the moon).
Sera MyuEdit
In the stage musicals, Usagi has been played by four actresses: Anza Ōyama, Fumina Hara, Miyuki Kanbe who played the character with a "cute and high voice", and Marina Kuroki. The numerous musicals are frequently grouped into "stages" according to which of these actresses was currently playing Sailor Moon.
Trivia Edit
- In the English manga she is mostly called by the nickname Bunny, which is the literal meaning of Usagi. Her boyfriend for most of the series, Mamoru Chiba, calls her by the affectionate nickname "Usako" or "Meatball Head" in the English dub due to her round hair buns and love of rabbits.
- Also, in some of the forgein dubs of the anime, such as the French dub, she is named "Bunny".
- Kotono Mitsuishi, the actress who played Usagi in the anime, was sick during the production of episodes 44 through 50, and during that time the character was instead voiced by Kae Araki who later voiced Chibiusa/Sailor Chibi Moon.
- In Act Zero of the live-action series Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (PGSM), before she discovered her identity as Sailor Moon, Usagi cosplayed as "Sailor Rabbit" to fight against jewelry thieves.
- Usagi was the only character to appear in all 200 episodes of the anime, all 52 acts of the manga, and all episodes of the live-action series.
- The fact that Usagi disliked carrots was mentioned in the live-action, anime, and manga versions of the series.
- In early promotional videos for the English dub of the anime presented by DiC, Usagi was called "Victoria." On Kodansha's English website, she was originally referred to as "Celeste."
- Her civilian given name (うさぎ; Usagi) means "Rabbit," and her family name (月野; Tsukino) is as a homophone of the phrase "of the moon" (月の).
- Her name was "Annie" in the Swedish Dub (or "Anni").
- Usagi was born on June 30th, her birthstone is the Moonstone, her blood type is O and she is a Cancer as stated by "Sailor Moon: Scout Guide."
- Usagi's family take their names from the real family members of the metaseries' creator, Naoko Takeuchi.
- In the manga, she is kissed by Mamoru Chiba, Prince Diamond, Seiya Kou and Haruka Tenoh (twice).
