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6* Whenever enemies got attacked by the rainbow moon spinning heart ache, they sign "love" in ASL when the heart crashes through them.
7* Rei is the daughter of an influential politician, likely a member of the Japanese Diet, and a member of its ruling party (the Democratic Liberal Party is a not so subtle reference to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Democratic_Party_(Japan) Liberal Democratic Party]], a right-wing organization that has ruled Japan almost completely since 1955). In almost any other story with the child, especially daughter, of such a political figure, the focus would likely be on that relationship and possibly being used as a figurine to draw in interest in the politician's plans. But Rei is nearly completely detached from such pulls in ''Sailor Moon'' and she gets the chance to focus almost entirely on her friendship with the other Senshi, her shrine, and her dreams and desires.
8* Sailor Ceres is often regarded the leader of Chibiusa's guardians, putting her in a position analogous to Minako. Taking this into consideration, it would then make sense as to why Ceres looks visually similar to Chibi Moon, because it would be her job to act as a decoy for the princess just as Minako did for Usagi.
9* Tuxedo Mask isn't dressed like a gentleman at a formal event, he's really dressed like a shout out to classic stage magicians. He even acts like one, using a mask and cape to add to his stage presence. And what does a magician pull out of his top hat? Flowers (his ability to summon roses), and rabbits (connecting him to Usagi). His cane also extends like a trick wand does. Sailor V's version of Tuxedo Mask, Ace, represents the type of magician that uses card tricks.
10* Minako, during her starter days as Sailor V, had attacks that resembled Sailor Moon's: she used her Crescent Compact in an attack called Crescent Boomerang like Sailor Moon's Moon Tiara Boomerang; she had Venus Power, Love Crescent Shower that purified people and an area like Moon Healing Escalation; she had Venus Ten Billion Volt Rock N' Rouge which was a sound based attack much like the supersonic waves Sailor Moon used when she first transformed. At first it makes sense since the planet Venus has a crescent phase like the Moon and Minako and Usagi already resemble each other which allows Minako to disguise herself as the princess... Until you realize that Minako had these attacks FIRST since Sailor Moon didn't exist in the past era and didn't exist while Minako was Sailor V, so Moon was essentially imitating Sailor V, her idol. Which is even funnier when you remember that Usagi was an expy of Minako.
11* Throwing objects has been the key factor in some of the important plot developments, especially for Season 1:
12** It's natural that Sailor Moon's first attack would involve throwing a tiara. First, she hasn't accepted the fact that she is Princess Serenity reincarnated. Second, she realizes that it is simply a tool that a Princess can use when needed. The Moon Stick as well, which she used it once as a blunt tool to break open a piggy bank.
13** As for Tuxedo Mask, not only is he good as Sailor Moon at throwing objects, he uses his signature rose (one of the many symbols of love) to defend the one he loves.
14** The few happy accidents where that Usagi tosses something (e.g her shoe or crumpled test sheet), it lands on Mamoru, the one true love she's looking for. No matter what she throws, it always on the mark.
15** Queen Beryl also takes a pot shot with a crystal once Usagi break the spell on Mamoru. It ended up killing Mamoru while being fatally wounded herself. History then repeats itself.
16* Zoycite is [[ShesAManInJapan a man in Japan]], but in the [=DiC=] dub is a woman. This may come off as a poor puritan change, however, [=DiC=] didn't truly censor Zoycite, they managed to keep the [=LGBT=] factor of Zoycite by simply using a different element (transgenderism) of it.
17* Why do Ail and An act like such jerkasses, dragging themselves into a plot that could have been avoided immediately after arriving on Earth? Why, because not only are they the last of their kind, but they matured ''after'' the rest of their species already died out. Heck, they didn't even know their own cultural legacy, and thought the Doom Tree was just an energy source. Growing up alone, they never had a chance to socialize and empathize with anyone except themselves until they met the Sailors.
18* The MindScrew ending to the anime of ''Sailor Stars'', the final season of ''Anime/SailorMoon'', tends to be confusing as sin if you watch it without guidance. Sailor Galaxia got corrupted by having Chaos sealed within her, so she sent out her Star Seed, which is like a soul but not quite. Star Seeds can recreate physical bodies, too. Galaxia's Star Seed took the form of Chibi Chibi who, never being really human, was a little girl who could only repeat what other people said for awhile. When the final battle came and the Senshi all died or surrendered to Galaxia, Chibi Chibi used her considerable power to give Sailor Moon a power boost. But even that wasn't enough as Sailor Moon realized that Galaxia had the same loneliness as her, mirroring their final battle in the manga. Finally, Galaxia shattered the Silver Moon Crystal, fulfilling Chaos' goals. In desperation, Galaxia's soul, which was asleep but not yet extinguished, got back in touch with her Star Seed, and this power was able to give Sailor Moon the strength to keep fighting. However, Galaxia insisted the only answer was to kill her with the Sword of Sealing, the weapon which Galaxia initially used to seal Chaos, which Eternal Sailor Moon refused to do. She instead reached out to touch Galaxia, whose own image of the Sword shattered. ESM's strength of will to save Galaxia is what reversed Galaxia's actions. Once that happened, the Star Seeds regained their power, and Usagi's friends were restored. The ending was probably meant to be a 'it makes sense if your heart is true' kind of thing, though.
19* In the manga, while fighting the Amazones Quartet, Saturn repeatedly tells them to wake up. They nearly join her before being trapped in stones by Zirconia. Later on, she rescues the stones and prompts Princess Serenity to use her powers to free them, revealing Sailor Senshi. The themes sleep, dreams, and nightmares were constantly used throughout the Super S arc, to the point where the Dead Moon Circus has been defeated and one character states that "the long nightmare is finally over". However when a Sailor Senshi comes in to her power she is referred to as having AWAKENED! Saturn wasn't just telling the quartet to free themselves from the control of the Dead Moon Circus, she was telling them to become their senshi selves!
20* The Saturn symbol (♄) looks like the letter "h", the first letter in Hotaru's name in Latin script.
21* As a Senshi assigned to protect Chibi Moon and an equivalent to the Sailor team, Cere Cere's hair and eye color -- pink and red, respectively -- make sense. Why? Because she resembles Chibi Moon to the same extent that Sailor Venus resembles Sailor Moon.
22* Mina's English voice actress is named Stephanie Morgenstern. The surname "Morgenstern" means "morning star," and the morning star is the planet Venus when it's visible in the morning sky.
23* In one anime episode we find out that Minako is quite fluent in English, possibly even more than Ami, but can't talk with the English gentlemen at a party. She lived in London for a while and stayed with the police, but not the higher-class Englishmen. She just had nothing to speak of with the gentlemen at the party, while Ami, being of an higher social class, had it (and Rei too, probably, but she wasn't as fluent as the other two).
24* The personality clash between Lead Crow and Aluminum Siren makes even more sense if one thinks about the metals they're named after. Aluminum is a very lightweight metal, and Siren is a rather ditzy, "air-headed" character. Lead Crow is the more serious one of the two, and "lead" is highly associated with gravity and weight, not only in a literal way, but in the figurative sense of being serious and solemn. Also, Lead Crow wears red, and her name could be romanized as "Red Crow," which the Stars manga accidentally did in the initial English translation. Iron Mouse and Tin Nyanko don't really have personalities that are associated with their metal names. though.
25* Queen Nehellenia's manga counterpart is a ''really'' subtle invocation of TheFairFolk. PointyEars, and HellishPupils are by no means limited to evil fairies, but what about the Dead Moon Circus's creepy playfulness? Or her backstory being a specific reference to the evil fairy from ''Sleeping Beauty''? Using dreams and illusions as her main weapons? Kidnapping children specifically, the Sailor Asteroids to keep as playthings? It's also possible that Nehellenia's RapidAging before her death wasn't from NoImmortalInertia, but GlamourFailure once she became too weak to maintain the illusion.
26* The other Senshi took to battle easily, while Usagi [[RookieRedRanger struggles every season]]. Usagi's just a FishOutOfWater. She was never supposed to be a Senshi. She was the Princess, so she was trained for politics and manners. The Senshi, on the other hand, were trained to protect her and the galaxy.
27** Also, each of the girls displays some special trait in their ordinary lives: Mercury is super smart, Mars is psychic, Jupiter is super strong and Venus is crazy unstoppable. What trait does Sailor Moon show? The ability to make a connection with anyone she talks to! She easily befriends the other girls despite them being shunned by everyone else, she makes quick friends with the victims of the week, she's well liked by her peers and even several of the villains end up bonding with her.
28* Why is [=ChibiUsa=] training to be the next Sailor Moon? Because she absorbed the Silver Crystal into her body.
29* In the ''S'' finale, Mistress 9 says that the Holy Grail is the purest heart of all, and now the only way to save the world is to produce a purer one. Cue Sailor Moon producing her pure heart (with the powers of all the Senshi to this point) and evidently dealing pretty heavy damage to Pharaoh 90. It's perfectly possible that the crystal wasn't hers alone, but was the combined purity of all the senshi, or even just hers alone. [[BrokeTheRatingScale Which was more pure than the purest.]]
30* In the anime, Minako once in a while pulls something that should be impossible for an unpowered human, like jumping on Usagi's balcony from the street and total stillness, not fainting immediately after having her Pure Heart Crystal extracted but still having the strength to ''outrun a car'', or ''breaking the Dead Moon Circus' shackles after having Hawk's Eye and Tiger's Eye rummage through her Dream Mirror'', and yet none truly surprised the other Senshi (aside for Haruka and Michiru with the Pure Heart one, but they aren't near Minako as often as the others), Chibiusa and the Moon Cats (Artemis was scared when Minako pulled the shackles' one, but the fact he had just told her to do it implies he was scared because Minako was ''pissed'', not for that). The question is: ''just how often does she do things like those?''
31* Usagi didn't realize that Mamoru is Tuxedo Mask because Mamoru pisses her off, while Tuxedo Mask is her wonderful hero. Being a 14-year-old girl, she doesn't want to admit they can be the same guy; she hates Mamoru until the Big Reveal. In the anime. [[Manga/SailorMoon In the manga]], it becomes apparent much, much earlier. Given that they were [[StarCrossedLovers doomed lovers from a past life]], though, some of that may be playing into the seemingly dumb. And in the [[Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon live-action]], given that Princess Serenity destroyed the world when Endymion died, maybe she's keeping Usagi from Mamoru for that very reason, by not letting her figure things out until it's blindingly obvious. Then again, Usagi's a 14-year-old girl. They tend to be dense.
32** Also, at least some of it was lost in translation. Granted, "Tsukino Usagi" (meaning "rabbit from the Moon") is a name that can be connected with the Moon, but it would require the characters to actually notice the meaning behind the name. In the Creator/DiC dub, on the other hand, the main character is stuck with the name "Serena", which is so similar to "Serenity" that one would have to be blind not to suspect anything. And as for Mamoru not being associated with Tuxedo Mask, there is a pretty simple explanation - you normally don't try to match masked vigilantes with people you had met on the street, and even if you do, you start with their personalities and behaviour, which in case of Tuxedo Mask and Mamoru, did appear to be completely different.
33** People seem to act like it's obvious that Sailor Moon is the princess due to her soldier name and theme, but it would actually make little sense for her to be the princess if not for the Stars arc which explains why this is the way it is. What kind of royal family would put [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething their only heir in the frontlines]]? It would actually make more sense for Sailor Moon to be the princess' royal attendant or main bodyguard, again, ''Stars'' explains why this is but, early on, in the first two arcs, we don't have this information.
34* Manga and anime tends to associate Jadeite and Nephrite more closely than with the other Shitennous (they are in a rather good relationship in the manga, and in the anime they have a relatively friendly rivalry and more cunning methods than their colleagues). They are named after the same ornamental rock: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade jade]], that only in the 19th century was determined to be two different minerals with extremely similar characteristics.
35* Artemis is normally shown as more competent in combat and training his charge than Luna. In the Silver Millennium, Luna was the assistant of Queen Serenity, while Artemis was the aide of Sailor Venus, the ''commander-in-chief'' of the military and a veritable badass in her own right. Of course he's more competent than Luna, he's a soldier while she's a court lady.
36** On the same hand, Luna is probably more competent at politics and administration than Artemis, but never got the chance to show it.
37* Jadeite in the original anime is a misogynistic asshole, seeing women as easy to manipulate and choosing lovesick teenagers and women as his target groups and making a sexist remark to the Guardians in his final episode. Yet he's completely subservient to Beryl, treating her with utmost reverence, and is quite respectful to most of his youma, who happen to be female. Jadeite doesn't hold contempt for the female gender as a whole, but for "normal" women such as the Guardians and his victims. It's a form of ethnocentrism on his end.
38* Haruka and Michiru derided Usagi for being too idealistic and believing everything would be all right in the end, but since she has defeated major threats before, has the ''power'' to make things all right, and has friends to support her, she would have every reason to be idealistic. Uranus and Neptune do not. Their weak point is the inability to work with others which makes a lot of sense when you remember how isolated they were in their previous lives. They never met each other, but were aware of the other's existence and the fact that they shared the same duty. This wasn't mentioned in the anime, but when the Moon Kingdom fell, the Outers were forced to stay at their posts and watch the Silver Millennium be destroyed from afar. If they had seen what the viewers did, they had to stand by and watch how Queen Serenity had to use up all her energy and sacrifice herself to defeat Metallia and send the others to be reborn in the future. This helplessness coupled with their seclusion makes one understand the reasoning behind their cynical, aloof behavior in the S season and their belief that making sacrifices would ultimately be for the best.
39** Also, aside from the series being an [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism idealistic]] one, one reason why Uranus and Neptune's methods hadn't worked could've been because they, two recently awakened and inexperienced guardians, ignored Sailor Moon who is an experienced soldier who has already fought two major threats (three, if you count Ail and An). Said experience could be why she knew everything would be all right at end: When Mamoru had been turned evil by the Dark Kingdom, forcing her to fight him, she knew the real him was still in there and was able to free him from their control by purging Metallia's evil from him, and when facing off against [[FusionDance Super Beryl]] at the end of season 1, the spirits of the Inner Soldiers joined together to lend her (as [[PrettyPrincessPowerhouse Princess Serenity]]) their powers so she could defeat her. When Chibiusa was brainwashed into becoming Black Lady, she and Tuxedo Mask were able to save her and restore her true self by purging Wiseman's evil from her, and when she faced off against [[EldritchAbomination Wiseman/Death Phantom]] at the end of season 2, the Inner Soldiers joined together to lend her (as [[TheHighQueen Neo Queen Serenity]]) their powers so she could defeat him. And what happened near the end of the conflict with Pharaoh 90? Sailor Moon had insisted that Hotaru still remained even after Mistress 9 took over her body. And she was right. Hotaru was able to purge Mistress 9's evil from her own body and Sailor Saturn soon awoke to face Pharaoh 90, and [[HistoryRepeats the Inner Soldiers, and even Uranus and Neptune, lent their powers to Sailor Moon so she could defeat him with Saturn.]] Sailor Moon wasn't being idealistic, she was TaughtByExperience.
40* Galaxia is the only villain to have a VillainSong, she's also the only one with a subordinate in some way associated with singing (Sailor Aluminum Siren: she's named after a mythological creature whose shtick is singing so well she can lure sailors to their death).
41** Also, [[FallenHero she's still a Sailor Senshi]], and all the other Sailor Senshi have at least one image song.
42* Many people consider Michiru/Neptune to be a SatelliteCharacter for Haruka/Uranus. The planet Neptune's existence was first posited due to it's effects on the planet Uranus.
43* Sailor Venus is the fifth Sailor Senshi to appear in the main series, and used to go by Sailor V. Also, in the anime, she stayed in London for a while when using the Sailor V identity.
44* In the eleventh chapter of ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'', Artemis gets upset at Minako's wish to get a pet cat and overhearing her saying that "He's not that great of a cat". In the following chapter, Minako calls him "My brother-in-law" in public. She utterly dismissed him him as a pet cat... Because she already considered him ''better'' than that, a friend and a peer. And he had no idea...
45* Sailor Pluto having powers over time makes a degree of sense, as Pluto itself can change if its the eighth or ninth planet in orbit because of how it goes around the sun, and due to moving itself closer than Uranus, it is effectively altering its speed around the sun.
46* In the anime Serena and Darien go from hating each other to starting to bond and then realizing their past lives' love for each other within within two episodes. What was the big change that happened? Sailor Venus showed up! What is Venus the goddess of again? Love.
47* In one infamous occasion, Minako tried to get Yaten to go watch a ''porn movie'' with her. She knows first hand [[ObliviousToLove how much people can be dense when it comes to love]], and was trying to drop a hint that ''nobody'' could miss (and going overboard as usual).
48* The girls shouting "Make up" when they transform may sound random, but it starts to make more sense when you realize that most of the Moon-related transformation items are compact mirrors and almost every item used was sold as a make up related toy at some point.
49* The amount of plot points/power-ups that revolve around Sailor Moon gaining power through AllYourPowersCombined makes perfect sense because the moon reflects the light of other celestial bodies to produce what we see as moonlight.
50* Sailor Venus' transformations all involve streams of five-pointed stars. A symbol of Venus, dating back to the sixth century BC, is a five-pointed star.
51* In the anime, Sailor Jupiter's ice-skating prowess (said to be as good as Princess Serenity) is appropriate considering that [[TheMoonsOfJupiter Jupiter's moon Europa]] is entirely covered in ''ice''.
52* In the anime, Minako's origin episode explains she already knew Alan from before Sailor V's London period. She actually spent large parts of her childhood abroad, likely in London, due her father's job for a trading company-and all of sudden, her prowess in English in spite of being in London for about half a year makes sense.
53** The manga also hints at this (more subtly, most notably in ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'' when she was to go on a vacation abroad and knew perfectly both how to use the airport and her parents' habit of buying things in the airport shops because they spend less there). This explains both her {{Malaprop|er}}ism (present in the manga too, just not to the extent of the anime), poor social skills (for Japan), eventual isolation at school, and even poor grades in English: she spent so much of her childhood outside Japan she doesn't have a good hold of the finer nuances of the Japanese language and picked up manners more suitable to Western countries, living in the period where repatriated children are only starting to be valued for their language skills many see her as a bother and drop her once she starts giving up her sportive interests in favor of being a better Sailor Soldier (with Hikaru and Amano eventually falling to peer pressure), and Japanese repatriated children who grew up in English-speaking countries actually have trouble with the way English is taught in Japanese schools (it's based purely on rote memorization and has little space for actual language skills).
54** Having grown up abroad also explains Minako's picture-perfect Savate kicks: while finding a Savate gym in Japan may be rather hard, they're relatively easy to find all around Europe, all it would take would be her deciding to practice martial arts and preferring to kick.
55* In the anime Sailor Venus relies almost exclusively on the Crescent Beam, her first attack, until she upgrades to the Venus Love and Beauty Shock late in ''Super S'', while the others all used the second one almost exclusively after getting it. Sailor Venus' second attack, the Venus Love Me Chain, has limited offensive potential, and she had a lot of time to master her Crescent Beam even before meeting the others, having no reason to abandon it before getting the Love and Beauty Shock.
56* In episode 4, Usagi tries desperately to lose weight but ends up heavier than before. She didn't get fatter, Luna took a leaf from Artemis' book and tricked her into putting up ''muscles'' (Artemis did a similar thing to Minako in ''Manga/CodenameSailorV''. They were even dealing with similar evil plans...).
57* Both manga and anime establish [[{{Tomboy}} Minako]] as being the best of the Inner Senshi when it comes to cut and dress hair. Her hair is very long and her mother isn't the kind of person willing to help taking care of it, so she had to learn how to do it herself. As for the others, Ami has very short hair that doesn't need much care, Makoto doesn't have that much hair and keeps a simple hairstyle, Rei is rich and can just go to the hairdresser whenever she wants, and Usagi can count on her mother's help.
58* In the manga, it might seem a little unoriginal that every villain seems to have some interest in the Silver Crystal...until the last arc of the manga where it's revealed that all the previous villains are incarnations of the final villain, Chaos. This would explain why they shared a common interest in the Silver Crystal.
59* Ami, Rei, Makoto and Minako being [[LonerTurnedFriend Loners-Turned-Friends]] and then suddenly growing so attached to Usagi make sense when one considers they would be heavily discriminated against by default in Japan (Ami's parents are divorced and [[https://www.tuxedounmasked.com/2017/11/09/how-rich-is-ami-mizuno/ infidelity is implied to be the cause]], Rei lost her mother and is strange enough to be mistaken for a youkai tamer, Makoto is an orphan, and Minako is implied to have grown up abroad and is completely unwilling to conform)-and yet Usagi, a perfectly normal girl by that standard, went out and befriended them, even against her other friends' advice. That would strike a chord-especially for Minako, as she ''had'' a few friends in Japan yet they've apparently disappeared too.
60** Usagi calls herself a perfectly average girl, when she's actually from the upper middle class. While it's obviously evidence she doesn't really know how things are, compared to the other Sailor Senshi (and Mamoru) she ''is'': Ami, Rei, Makoto and Minako were detailed above, Mamoru is another orphan, WordOfGod says that Setsuna is [[ButNotTooForeign half]]-[[UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} Romani]], Hotaru lost her mother and her father is a MadScientist expelled from the scientific community (and that's before he dies too and she [[AdoptivePeerParent gets raised by three women]], and [[MysteriousPast Haruka and Michiru are mysterious just like that]].
61* Minako in the various games is associated to the song "Venus", but not the more famous [[CoveredUp cover]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4-1ASpdT1Y version]] by Music/Bananarama, but rather [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPEhQugz-Ew the Shocking Blue original]] (to the point [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkYdad35qyo Minako's own voice actress covered it]]). Considering Minako's character, she ''would'' have checked the background of the song-and tracked down the original as soon as she found out it was a cover.
62* Nehelenia actually showing up during the Silver Millenium could be seen as just a last-minute addition to the chronological history of the Moon Kingdom to show off how much of a threat she was in the present. Her being the first incarnation of Chaos to chronologically arrive at the Moon Kingdom is actually an appropriate decision. Of all of the incarnations of Chaos, Nehelenia was not only the most humanoid, but also bore a resemblance to Queen Serenity herself. In other words, Chaos’s first go at obtaining the power of the Silver Crystal was an (albeit rather twisted) attempt to present the Queen with [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith a more familiar form]] that didn’t immediately appear as threatening as a more [[EldritchAbomination abstract incarnation]] would’ve appeared. To add on this, after Queen Serenity put Nehelenia out of commission by sealing her in a mirror, which incarnation makes the next move? Queen Metalia. It almost reads as if Chaos didn’t take kindly to Queen Serenity rejecting its warped idea of extending the olive branch, so it sent the incarnation that resembles it the most in revenge.
63* Makoto/Jupiter being the strongest one out the Inner Senshi makes sense considering Jupiter is often said to be Earth's protector (it destroys anything coming near it).
64** Also, she's one of the more responsible members of the things. Who better to protect the Earth (well, outside of the leader of its celestial satelitte) than the leader of its so-called protector.
65* Why are Uranus and Neptune so cold and distant and don't necessarily [[IWorkAlone work well]] with the other Guardians? Both planets are the furthest planets from the Sun, and thus are among the coldest.
66* Why is Makoto localized with some seemingly random name like "Lita" in the first English Dub? Lita sounds similar to "Light" or "Lightning", which is her [[ShockAndAwe power]] of course. but also Lita sounds like "Leda", one of Planet Jupiter's numerous ''moons''.
67* Why are Usagi's cries are so [[CuteButCacophonic damn "ear-piercing"]] that they're considered a weapon? Rabbits in real life when they're in distress or in their death throes have a bloodcurdling scream.
68* Minako's dream is to be an idol, but she had to abandon it to be a Sailor Soldier and spends most of the manga and the ''entirety'' of the original anime [[StepfordSmiler hiding her emotional pain behind a goofy facade]] and [[BrokenAce the image of the ideal warrior]]... Precisely how idols have to uphold their ContractualPurity.
69* In a season 2 anime episode, Minako is so late for school she has to outrun ''Usagi'' in spite of living in a completely different area of Minato and going to a different junior high school (Minako and her school are in Shiba Koen, Usagi and the others live in Azabu-Juban, on the other side of the ward). Minako is also an athlete with a monstrous stamina and the second fastest runner of the Sailor Senshi (only Haruka is faster) - she almost certainly woke up early, went for a run across the ward... And then realized she was late.
70** Minako's athleticism also explains how ''Rei'' in season 5 was able to run from Roppongi (where her high school is) to Azabu-Juban (where everyone else's goes) in the whistle scene and possibly every day: they spend a lot of time together off-screen and Rei had to improve her own athleticism to keep up. But not being as experienced as Minako, Rei doesn't have either a similar stamina or the ability to pace herself, or both.
71* The long, thin ponytails the Starlights all have make their heads look like shooting stars, fitting with what they call themselves in their introduction speeches.
72* Minako's image song ''Route Venus'' exists in-universe, though it's only sung by Minako herself. She likely wrote and composed the song herself, partly as a holdover to her dream of becoming an idol, partly to help cope with having made the choice to abandon love for her mission (the song's theme).
73** Minako's other image song, ''Setsunakute Ii'' (It's Ok if It Hurts) has as a theme a major heart break and moving on from it. If it exists in-universe, Minako wrote it to help cope with how Alan unwittingly broke her heart, with the lyrics even referencing how their relationship was before he fell for Catarina.
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77* Dream mirrors allow people who expose them, in this case the Amazon Trio, to look into them. All they really do is look inside them to see if Pegasus is in there, which is basically looking deep into their hearts, learning everything about them, including their deepest, darkest, most private secrets and desires. It's the spiritual equivalent of a strip search, and when they're corrupted and left to die, it's described as assault bordering on rape.
78* Chibiusa looks and acts so much like a 9-year-old, it's easy to forget that she's been waiting approximately 892 years to grow up. Her visits to the fourth dimension may have been forbidden, but if it weren't for Sailor Pluto's kindness, Chibiusa would have gone insane. Cue Wiseman offering to grant a wish she's had for centuries...
79* Usagi has barely any government experience when she becomes Neo-Queen Serenity. And Usagi was a ''terrible'' student. Can't you just ''imagine'' her trying to respond to questions about foreign policy or what she thought about certain branches of scientific research? Thankfully she has Mamoru and the other Senshi to help her.
80** There's also Usagi's lack of motivation to do schoolwork. In both the manga and the anime, it is implied that she becomes Neo-Queen Serenity after having matured quite a bit.
81* What happens if you interpret the Senshi´s powers more literally? Such as Sailor Mercury having command over water in all its forms to do as she wills it. Mammals like humans are made of about two thirds water including your eyeballs, brain, organs, blood, intestines, so, if you freeze or boil it all, well, that is not going to be pretty. She could even plausibly blow up most things made with concrete given the water that remains in it if she boils or freezes it instantly. She could freeze a cloud out of the sky, or boil a lake.
82** While Minako was Sailor V, she used Venus Sulphur Smoke on low power, but on high power, that would be a load of carbon dioxide and sulphur at 460 degrees Celsius at 93 times the pressure of the Earth's atmosphere, so she has command over poison gas too, an extremely dangerous and horrifying form of it.
83* The manga contains two scenes involving [[NightmareFuel graphic deaths]] of the heroes reminiscent to the [[ImMelting face melting scene]] in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''. The instance in which Usagi/the Senshi "die" from an enemy attack in the [=SuperS=] arc was, undoubtedly, a nightmare. While Mamoru's face-melting in the first arc initially appears to be a nightmare, since we see Usagi roused from her sleep, crying at the thought of his death, one of the Four Generals earlier had recalled that when they sold their souls to the Dark Kingdom, their "flesh was changed." In other words, Mamoru's horrific decay might ''have actually happened.''
84** From what is known of their future, they have gained immortality which brings several [[WhoWantsToLiveForever problems]] to mind. Since all the inhabitants that were there at the time also gained immortality (save for newborns), there could very well be a birth control policy even stricter than the one of China to avoid overpopulation and shortage of food. If not, this could even lead to an even greater degree of war and murder from extremists to regulate population's growth (Which in the end, could make it even worse than how the villains wanted to make Crystal Tokyo)... So much for an utopian Crystal Tokyo.
85* In the manga, Sailor Animates all sold themselves to Shadow Galatica and betrayed their original planets and killed said planet's Guardian Senshi in exchange for senshi power themselves. A different kind of FridgeHorror, you know...
86* It's mentioned that many of the different plots to gain energy are plans that went on for weeks in a few cases. The real horror is how often the heroes lucked into a plot because a victim was acting weird. If any plot had been just a little less ambitious, they could have gotten all the energy they needed without drawing any attention at all.
87* In the anime, the Amazon Trio restrain their targets to a board and then stick their heads in their dream mirrors - these targets include teenagers and, at one point, an eight year old boy. As one Website/YouTube commenter put it:
88--> ''"These guys aren't a circus - they're freaking SEXUAL PREDATORS!"''
89* Just how long ''was'' the Dead Moon Circus active? Just imagine how many people they probably {{mind rape}}d before Japan. Furthermore, raises a lot of questions on how many magical eclipses happened between Queen Serenity's seal, the corruption of the Amazoness Quartet, and their awakening in the present day.
90* The first season ends with all of the inner senshi dying wiping out the Dark Kingdom, with Sailor Moon's last wish altering the timeline so that they can return to a normal life without a Dark Kingdom to ruin it. Now, looking back at that sentence: "altering the timeline." How do you imagine things turned out in the (projected) original timeline? The world wouldn't last two years. Either Fiore would destroy Earth in a rage when he realized Mamoru was dead, or the ice comet would freeze everything, or if we ignore the movies completely the Death Busters would eventually overcome Uranus and Neptune before they all realized that one of the Talismans ''did not exist on Earth'', and then the Dead Moon Circus would reawaken and take over with no one left to stop them.
91** Perhaps this explains why Chibi-Usa doesn't arrive until she does. In the original timeline for the first arc, her parents die (and the world ends) long before she's able to exist. In the anime, she doesn't arrive until Sailor Moon has proven herself against Ail and Ann. In the manga, she arrives more or less right when the senshi awaken again. No wonder Pluto isn't allowed to leave the Time Gate...
92* Uranus and Neptune had clearly been active for a long time before the inner senshi first encountered a Daimon, and Dr. Tomoe was obviously possessed for years. That means that the initial skirmishes between the outers and the proto-Daimons happened ''during'' the timeframe of the first and R seasons. And yet they somehow missed each other...
93** It was heavily implied by an episode in the ''S'' season that Haruka and Michiru's awakenings and the Death Busters becoming active happened shortly after the final battle with the Black Moon Clan since they were both middle school students and in the ''S'' season, they're in their first year of high school.
94* In the manga, [[LoveGoddess people around Minako tend to be driven to find love]], either by some random event or them finally finding the courage to do so, with the only exceptions being the other Sailor Senshi and their enemies. Or, in other terms, [[EldritchAbomination Minako's very presence subtly alters reality and causes]] MindRape in the name of love, with only equally powerful creatures being immune to this effect. And she seems unaware of it, meaning she ''isn't doing it on purpose''.
95* Artemis and Luna are two perverts who are into bestiality. Their true form is that of a cat, yet we've seen Luna fancying a human in a manga chapter adapted into a movie, and Artemis has been seen showing attraction to Minako and even spying her under the shower (manga only. Thankfully, he did nothing more) and fancying what he believed a female ''dog'' (actually a youma in disguise, and a male at that). Not a magic dog, not an alien who looks like a dog, a ''normal dog''.
96* In the final batch of ''[=SuperS=]'' it's revealed that all the Lemures are actually Nehellenia's subjects who she's taken their Dream Mirrors away from, making Super Sailor Moon a ''mass murderer''.
97** From the other POV, the Dead Moon Circus went belly-up because a meatball-headed maniac kept killing all the acts. No wonder they kept getting weirder as the season went on, they had to keep digging deeper into the tent.
98* While Ail and An ended up being mostly a case of TheUnfought, in their final arc episode they engaged all five girls at once. And the Moonlight Knight. It was established that neither of them were at their full strength and were slowly dying, especially An. They almost effortlessly defeated them all and deflected or interrupted every one of their attacks easily. Only the Makai Tree's intervention saved everyone and set things right. Raises a lot of questions about their powers.
99* During Mimete's OneWingedAngel moment, Telulu reveals that the machine that Mimete is using has one weakness - a power failure while it is used will leave the user in AndIMustScream situation. We then see she's right when she unplugs the machine and leaves Mimete to her fate. The question is, ''how did Telulu know this in the first place''? Unless Eudial (who made the machine) decided to test it with unwilling victims first...
100* Everything about Sailor Cosmos, at least in the manga. The future incarnation of Sailor Moon who's been fighting Chaos for so long that she's forgotten why she ever bothered in the first place returns to the past to remind herself why she fights. She comes back, but comes back alone, and the thing that gives her back her inspiration to fight is seeing her past self fighting alongside her loved ones. That's great and all, but considering that the Silver Crystal is what makes it possible for the Senshi to be reborn over and over, it's most likely that when Cosmos realized that the battle against Chaos can never truly be won, she didn't wish them back for the millionth time. The Crystal responds to her wishes, and it's natural that after so many centuries, even millennia, of fighting, she would deeply wish for the battle to be over and for her friends to stop suffering, but deep down she'd be unable to abandon the cause herself. The only way to grant both of those wishes is for the Senshi to stay dead and in a peaceful afterlife once they die, while Cosmos lives to fight another day... and another... and another... by herself.
101* When Usagi is captured by Prince Diamond, who has a creepy crush on her, she wakes up to find herself on a bed and wearing an outfit resembling her Neo Queen Serenity outfit. Let's hope this doesn't mean that Diamond undressed her and put her into the dress himself...
102* What happened to Reika in episode 41. From an outsider's perceptive she disappeared in Africa and then reappeared in Japan. And that's not even factoring in the fact that she was kidnapped by her boyfriend's best friend. She probably got some sort of help after all this as she's fine in her next appearance, but still.
103* Makoto's fear of airplane engines implies she was on the same plane whose crash killed her parents-and it's heavily implied the flight was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_123 Japan Airlines Flight 123]].
104* If Usagi's wish at the end of the first season ''hadn't'' been granted, the girls and Mamoru would be classified as missing persons that would obviously never be found, leaving their family, friends and loved ones wondering what happened to them for the rest of their lives.
105* The [=DIC=]/[=CWi=] dub gave us a few:
106** It tries its hardest to skirt around the deaths of the Inner Senshi near the end of the Dark Kingdom arc, but their ghosts still come to Usagi's/Serena's aid in the finale--meaning that ''they really did die'', and Usagi is in denial over them not actually being "captured".
107** ''Queen Beryl is still alive at the end'', and may not have de-fused from Metallia; based on some of Ail and An's dialogue early in the Doom Tree arc, she continues to actively manipulate things from the depths of the "Negaverse".
108* One of the main differences between the manga and anime versions of Minako is that the latter isn't a StepfordSmiler... Except the one time she takes part in an idol audition (her ''dream'') she had to all but be ''ordered'' to do so by Usagi, and once she passes the first round she throws away the letter because knowing she could was enough for the time being. She's still a StepfordSmiler, she just choose a different act and didn't stumble in the event that exposed her and forced her to deal with her problems.
109** We actually see her act slip a few times, most notably the debacle about her Pure Heart Crystal and the sheer amount of murderous anger she showed after realizing she had double-timed Hawk's Eye and Tiger's Eye... But between how rare these slip-ups are and her general weirdo act, the others didn't realize. Good thing she actually dropped the act in front of Usagi during the first season, or there would have been nobody to tell her to follow her dreams.
110* Crystal Tokyo is [[CrystalSpiresAndTogas an amazing city with crystal-like buildings]], especially the royal palace, itself the size of a small town... Built over Azabu-Juban, with the rest of the city spreading over Minato and possibly the rest of modern day Tokyo. Considering Usagi isn't one to just kick people out of their homes to build hers over them (especially as said people would include her friends and family, with Rei's place being named as one of the places for the foundations of the palace) and that everything we know about the birth of Crystal Tokyo and Neo Queen Serenity's rise to power, this raises a lot of questions about what exactly destroyed a large part of Tokyo.
111** The scary part is that we have actually ''two'' possible culprits: Death Phantom is explicitly said to have turned at least part of Crystal Tokyo into a place of crime and ruin before being caught and banished, and the original generation of the Black Moon Clan (not Demando and his group, but their ancestors) were explicitly religious terrorists. Either or both could have caused so much damage that knocking over everything remaining and building a new city would have been the merciful thing to do.
112* Chibi Usa never mentions having grandparents or an uncle in Crystal Tokyo; this implies that Usagi's Earth family - Kenji, Ikuko and Shingo - are all dead and did not live to see Usagi become Neo Queen Serenity!
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