Line #2 Recap/SailorMoonCrystalEp01UsagiSailorMoon


1	Usagi Tsukino is a slightly below-average schoolgirl: consistently late, [[BigEater really hungry]] and a bit lazy. However, she finds her life turned around dramatically when she rescues a talking cat, Luna. Luna tells Usagi she is destined to become Sailor Moon, one of the Sailor Senshi who guard the Moon Princess. Her goal? To find her allies, find the Moon Princess, and defeat the enemy!
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3	!!Tropes used in this episode:
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5	* AdaptationalAttractiveness: While still monstrous, Morga is far less horrifying than she was in the manga or first anime and looks more like a villain from an 80s Saturday morning cartoon. Here, she has gray skin, pink hair, pointed teeth, large light red eyes with purple irises, and most strangely, offscreen ClothingDamage that grants full view of her ''cleavage.'' In the original anime she looked ''[[{{Gonk}} as ugly as sin]]'', resembling a ''corpse'' with shriveled brown skin, {{Black Eyes\|OfEvil}} with yellow irises, and had a tendency to levitate, stretch her arms to outrageous lengths, and twist her head around 180 degrees like [[Film/TheExorcist Linda Blair]], while the manga made her similarly cadaverous.
6	* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: The first episode, which covers the events of Act 1 of the manga, ends with a brief appearance from Ami Mizuno as she runs to get out of the rain. In the original ''Manga/SailorMoon'' manga, she doesn't appear until Act 2, and the [[Anime/SailorMoon original anime]] decompresses the plot enough that she doesn't appear until episode 8.
7	* AlmostKiss[=/=]KissingDiscretionShot: In the ColdOpen, Usagi's DreamingOfTimesGoneBy is interrupted by a wakeful FadeToWhite and her alarm clock, right as the music swells and the dream prince and princess lean in for a kiss.
8	* AmusingInjuries: Realistically, Usagi should have broken Luna's spine, stepping on her like that. Luna's scratches on Usagi's face also seem to disappear awfully fast.
9	* AudibleGleam: Chimes accompany the BishieSparkle that Sailor Moon sees on a departing Tuxedo Mask.
10	* BishieSparkle: Sailor Moon sees these and a preponderance of LoveBubbles framing Tuxedo Mask, as he introduces himself while making his exit.
11	* BlankWhiteEyes: Usagi exhibits these briefly while suffering AgonyOfTheFeet, after her "Sailor V Kick" meant for her AnnoyingYoungerSibling Shingo instead hits their shutting front door.
12	* {{Chiaroscuro}}: In the ColdOpen when Usagi is DreamingOfTimesGoneBy, the prince and princess move to embrace and kiss, and their bodies and background are bright, but their facial features are so shadowed as to be just barely visible.
13	* ClarkKenting: As per usual for Mamoru, who wears sunglasses when Usagi first encounters him as himself and his traditional domino mask as Tuxedo Mask. On the other hand, he also wears full evening dress in the middle of the afternoon for no apparent reason, which Usagi lampshades.
14	* ClothingDamage: Before Sailor Moon even arrives, MonsterOfTheWeek Morga has somehow managed to tear her dress bodice down the middle offscreen in such a way that the audience gets a view of her inexplicably braless cleavage; quite the visual since she's also got her GameFace on.
15	* CrossPoppingVeins: A thick red set show up on an angry, nonverbal Luna as she [[HumanHummingbird rapidly scratches]] Usagi's face in retaliation for her upsetting apology kiss.
16	* DisproportionateRetribution: True to the manga, Usagi's mother tells her not to bother coming home if she gets low test scores, and kicks her out of the house. (Granted, she's let back in later.)
17	* DreamingOfTimesGoneBy:
18	** The ColdOpen depicts Usagi's DreamSequence watching a princess running to meet her prince, that unbeknownst to Usagi, is a memory of a former life.
19	** When Usagi falls asleep in the evening, she begins to dream of ''being'' the princess, HoldingHands with the prince charging to battle, until the dream narrative suddenly becomes muddled with Sailor V videogame imagery.
20	* FadeToWhite: In the ColdOpen, Usagi's DreamingOfTimesGoneBy is interrupted by this as she wakes up, right as the music swells and the dream prince and princess AlmostKiss.
21	* GaussianGirl: When Usagi and Mamoru first really look at each other, it suddenly becomes a mutual HeldGaze in soft focus, with a few LoveBubbles appearing as they stare at each other. The filter dissipates as Usagi realizes the moment's awkwardness.
22	* GirlyRun: In Sailor Moon's public debut, she yells at MonsterOfTheWeek Morga assertively, but then enters the scene with arms upraised and unsteady gait, along with the SloMo effect usually reserved for an UnflinchingWalk. It underscores that, while Usagi's heart's in the right place, she's ''really'' green at the MagicalGirlWarrior thing.
23	* GlowingEyesOfDoom: The jewelry store customers under the thrall of the MonsterOfTheWeek Morga's {{Hypno Trinket}}s have glowing {{Red\|EyesTakeWarning}} MindControlEyes when she summons them as a BrainwashedAndCrazy army to attack Sailor Moon
24	* HeldGaze: After sniping at each other without really meeting eyes, Usagi pulls her test paper away from her face to further chastise Mamoru for mocking her low score, only to gasp as they both stare open mouthed, the scene turns mutually {{Gaussian\|Girl}} and LoveBubbles appear. Usagi breaks the gaze and makes an awkward retreat, acutely aware that she finds the nameless boy attractive.
25	* HoldingHands: In Usagi's second recurring dream of a romance between a prince and princess, her view of the dream princess changes to a first-person perspective, in which she sees herself running while holding tight to the sword-wielding prince.
26	* HowDoIShotWeb: Even more prominent in this version. Usagi fumbles into the fight scene completely unprepared. She doesn't even know how to introduce herself, and, (as in the manga) needs some prompting from Luna meowing at the moon to establish her LineOfSightName. When she transforms her tiara into the Moon Tiara Boomerang, for the next few seconds she just stands dumbfounded as it floats above her hand, unsure what to do with it. Her first battle, also, is portrayed less comically than the Nineties anime.
27	* IWasHavingSuchANiceDream: In the ColdOpen, both Usagi and the audience are cheated out her dream's romantic climax, as a prince and princess embrace, the music swells, they lean in for a [[KissingDiscretionShot kiss]], and...FadeToWhite as Usagi's alarm clock goes off.
28	* ImOkay: {{Subverted\|TRope}}, after Usagi's extended {{Pratfall}} StaircaseTumble down her household stairs and an OffScreenCrash
29	-->'''Usagi's Mother:''' Are you alright?
30	--> '''Usagi:''' yelling offscreen I'm ''not'' alright! Enters rubbing rear. Ouuuuuch.
31	* InTheNameOfTheMoon: In a mild deviation from the manga, (but in line with TheNineties anime) Sailor Moon premieres her trademark challenge[=/=]CharacterCatchphrase here. In the manga, she doesn't get beyond her on-the-fly self-introduction, and perfects the speech in Act 2.
32	* LoveBubbles:
33	** Appear in frame with Usagi along with a {{Gaussian\|Girl}} filter as she and Mamoru share a sudden, lengthy HeldGaze on first meeting. After awkwardly breaking eye contact, she mentally notes her heart is still pounding.
34	** As Sailor Moon, she sees many LoveBubbles and BishieSparkle framing Tuxedo Mask, as he introduces himself while making his exit...but does not make the connection to her [[ClarkKenting prior encounter]] with a boy in white-tie and tails.
35	* MassHypnosis: The MonsterOfTheWeek uses enchanted jewelry to control a crowd of women and sic them on Sailor Moon.
36	* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: After she transforms, Usagi's iconic hair buns can light up and tune into people calling for help.
37	* OffScreenCrash: Marks Usagi's impact at the foot of the stairs after an extended {{pratfall}} StaircaseTumble, accompanied by a ScreenShake while her mother winces.
38	* ThePratfall: Usagi's status as TheKlutz is cemented when she manages to take a StaircaseTumble by losing her footing and falling on her rear down the last eight steps to her house's first floor, finishing with an OffScreenCrash.
39	* RedEyesTakeWarning: MonsterOfTheWeek Morga has light red sclera, and her BrainwashedAndCrazy human minions have red {{glowing\|EyesOfDoom}} MindControlEyes until knocked unconscious.
40	* ScreenShake: The scene of Usagi's mother Ikuko at the table shudders in a {{False Camera Effect\|s}} during Usagi's OffScreenCrash after a protracted StaircaseTumble.
41	* StaircaseTumble: PlayedForLaughs as Usagi, frantic at being LateForSchool, loses her footing halfway down and performs an extended [[ThePratfall Pratfall]] the rest of the way, finishing with an OffscreenCrash.
42	* SuperScream: Usagi has always been a crybaby. As Sailor Moon, her crying is now ''weaponized''.
43	* TalkingIsAFreeAction: While the manga's panel blocking is ambiguous, ''Crystal'' has Tuxedo Mask fully introducing himself and assuring Sailor Moon he'll remember her in ''mid jump,'' while looking over his shoulder at her, almost suggesting full power of {{Flight}}.
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