Characters / Sailor Moon Families of the Sailor Guardians

Sailor Moon Main Character Index
Main Cast: Usagi Tsukino | Ami Mizuno | Rei Hino | Makoto Kino | Minako Aino
Allies: Supporting Cast | Families of the Sailor Guardians | Juuban Municipal Junior High School | Others
Villains: Dark Kingdom | Black Moon Clan | Death Busters | Dead Moon Circus | Shadow Galactica
Other media: Musical-Only Characters | Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon

This page covers the families of the Sailor Guardians in Sailor Moon.

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In General

• Adapted Out: All of them are absent from the musicals.
• Ambiguously Absent Parent:
  • Haruka, Michiru, and Setsuna's parents are never referred to. Haruka and Michiru are minors who apparently live by themselves in a life of luxury, and while they admit that they have a benefactor who makes it possible, they never say who it is. Setsuna may or may not actually have parents in her current life depending on how she was reborn.
  • The original anime goes into less detail about the family situations of the Inners. Some things carry over from the manga, such as the fact that Ami lives with just her mother and that Rei has been raised by her grandfather, while other things aren't discussed, such as why Makoto lives alone.
• Back from the Dead: This apparently happens to everyone in the Milky Way Galaxy after Galaxia is finally defeated and all of the Star Seeds that were taken are gradually returned to their rightful owners, although we don't actually get to see them afterwards.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: The only family member of a Sailor Guardian who continues to appear as late as the final arc is Ikuko. The rest are entirely absent by the time Stars begins.
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: None of the Sailor Guardians mourn their families when everyone on Earth gets their Star Seeds taken. Granted, they're busy with their enemy, and everyone does get better after Galaxia is defeated and the Star Seeds are returned, but even Usagi doesn't shed a single tear before that.
• Good Parents: Except for Mr. Hino and Mrs. Aino, who are Jerkasses, they all seem to be typical, supportive parents to the girls. Although some are dead and are only to be assumed to be this from what the girls say.
• Invisible Parents: All of them are never seen in at least one continuity. Special mention to the musicals where none of the Sailor Guardians' family members appear once.
• Muggle Foster Parents: Averted. They are Muggles while their daughters are magical girls due to their birthright, but because the girls were reincarnated, they have two biological parentages (one magical, one muggle), so it becomes a case of Mage Born of Muggles.
• Nice Mean And In Between: Of the Sailor Guardians' three living mothers, Saeko is kind, polite, and understanding (nice), Mrs. Aino is nagging and condescending to her own family (mean), and Ikuko is a loving and supportive if somewhat pushy Education Mama (in-between).
• Out of Focus: When the Black Moon Clan arc starts, Rei's grandfather and the Tsukino family start to get used less and less. Ami's parents are kept out of focus for almost all of the series' run (each only appears once), while Minako's parents only appear in Codename: Sailor V and are only mentioned in the main series.
• Parental Abandonment: Many of the Sailor Guardians's parents are either dead or not a part of their daughters' lives anymore.
• Parental Obliviousness: None of them really question what the girls get up to when they disappear suddenly while the Sailor Guardians show up. It's later implied at one point that both Ikuko and Rei's grandfather have their suspicions about the girls being involved in something greater, though neither really knows what that is.
• Satellite Character: In the manga and Crystal, all of them are mainly defined by how they are related to the girls and don't have much focus. However, Adaptation Expansion averts this for some of them in the original anime and/or live-action.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Most of the girls look just like their mothers. The exceptions are Usagi and Minako.
• Unnamed Parent: Most of them in the anime and manga, though some got Named by the Adaptation in the live-action.

The Tsukino family

In General

• Ascended Extra: Ikuko and Shingo end up playing much more important roles in the '90s anime and the live-action than in the manga. Kenji appears more in the early anime too, but he still gets the least focus of his family and disappears partway through the second season, and he doesn't appear at all in the live-action until the finale.
• Back for the Finale: The Tsukino family returns in Sailor Moon Cosmos, which serves as a Grand Finale for the Continuity Reboot.
• Cain and Abel and Seth: Originally, Usagi and Shingo had a petty but caring relationship, but when Chibi-Usa comes along, she becomes the "Seth" to completely change the family dynamic.
• Cast Herd: The Tsukino family form a herd that gets the focus whenever Usagi's homelife is featured. Most of Shingo, Ikuko, and Kenji's interactions in the series are with Usagi and each other. Chibi-Usa later joins this herd as a Sixth Ranger.
• A Day in the Limelight: A few episodes have the Tsukino family play a larger role than usual:
  • Shingo gets three episodes that put a lot of focus on him: the episode where he tries to adopt a Chanela due to his fear of cats, an episode that deals with tension between him and his best friend, and a Beach Episode where he gets a crush on Ami and stands up to the monster that attacks her.
  • Ikuko has one where she is targeted by Hawk's Eye early in the fourth season.
  • Kenji never gets an episode to himself, but he does share the limelight with his family in two episodes: one where the Tsukinos went to a hot spring resort, and one where he and Shingo teamed up to take on a VR game center.
• Demoted to Extra: All three have diminished roles once the Black Moon Clan comes along, with Kenji not appearing at all after the second season except in photographs.
• Dinner and a Show: In more than one episode, the parents are forced to watch the kids' antics while they sit down to a meal.
• Dysfunctional Family: Averted; they do have some of the usual character tropes you'd expect from this, but they're downplayed, so the family manages to be loving and stable in spite of their faults, and any rifts or challenges are just normal family problems.
• Family Portrait of Characterization: A photograph of Usagi, Chibi-Usa, Shingo, Ikuko, and Kenji shows just what kind of family they are: happy and loving. Their clothes and body language in the photo reflect what kind of people they are, like fact that Ikuko's a housewife, Shingo's a Sailor Moon/Sailor V fanboy, etc.
• Four-Philosophy Ensemble:
  • The Cynic: Shingo. A smart Deadpan Snarker who's annoyed by the nonsense around him.
  • The Optimist: Usagi. Cheerful, naïve, fun-loving, always tries to do the right thing, and sees the good in people.
  • The Realist: Ikuko. She understands both of her children's perspectives and tries to moderate between them.
  • The Apathetic: Kenji. A Satellite Character who is often less opinionated and too busy with his job.
  • The Conflicted: Chibi-Usa. Though she acts like a Bratty Half-Pint, deep down she's desperate and worried about her mother and the villains after her while also dealing with a Broken Pedestal.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble:
  • Sanguine: Usagi. A perky and optimistic Genki Girl.
  • Choleric: Kenji. Driven and practical, puts most of his focus on his career.
  • Melancholic: Shingo. Smart and studious but critical and prone to moodiness.
  • Phlegmatic: Ikuko. Calm, patient, and understanding (as long as you don't show her a bad grade).
• "Friends" Rent Control: In the first anime, their household, in the particularly expensive Tokyo district of Juuban, is kept afloat by a news photographer (although later it seems he's been promoted to editor, and in the manga, and live-action television series, he's instead highly respected and well-known photojournalist).
• Gender-Equal Ensemble: Two females (Usagi and Ikuko) and two males (Shingo and Kenji). Later subverted when Chibi-Usa comes along, and even more so when Kenji stops appearing.
• Hollywood Genetics:
  • Usagi has blonde hair and blue eyes, and she is the daughter of a blue-haired mother and a father with both black hair and black eyes. At least her brother is blonde like her in the manga and Crystal, but he has green eyes, and The '90s anime colored his hair brown for more confusion.
  • Chibi-Usa generated a ton of fan theories back in the day because her coloration (pink hair, red eyes) was so different from that of her parents (blonde, blue-eyed Usagi and black haired, dark blue-eyed Mamoru). According to Word of God, her coloration was meant to make her resemble a baby rabbit to match her Punny Name. Also, hair colors in the manga weren't static — sometimes her mother Usagi was depicted with silver hair and even pink hair in her original design, and sometimes her grandmother Ikuko was illustrated with pink hair like her.
• Melting-Pot Nomenclature: Due to the name changes In the DiC adaptation, Kenji and Ikuko, two people with names of Japanese origin, have two children with names of English origin: Serena and Sammy.
• Multigenerational Household: Technically becomes a three-generation family when Chibi-Usa moves in, although the rest of Usagi's family doesn't know it.
• Nephewism: Subverted. This is Chibi-Usa's explanation about why she lives with the Tsukinos. She hypnotizes them into thinking she's Ikuko and Kenji's niece, and they ignore Usagi when she claims that they don't have any cousins. Who the Tsukinos think her parents are is never discussed. When she turns out to be Usagi's Kid from the Future (which actually makes her Shingo's niece), Usagi is a lot more understanding about the lie.
• Nice Mean And In Between: Of the Tsukino children, Usagi is Nice (a friendly girl who wants to help people out), Chibi-Usa is Mean (a Bratty Half-Pint who belittles Usagi), and Shingo is In-Between (an Annoying Younger Sibling towards Usagi who does love her deep down).
• Nuclear Family: Mother, father, son, daughter.
• Out of Focus: In the beginning, they are a very important emotional anchor that just kind of fade away the longer the story went on. Maybe this is why so many fanfic writers like to ship Shingo with Hotaru/Sailor Saturn.
• The Power of Family: The Tsukinos are a loving family who are always there for each other. They are even willing to protect or save each other whether they have magical powers or not. And even though Usagi's parents and brother don't know her identity, they still manage to support her as Sailor Moon by giving her a loving family and a normal life.
• Tuckerization: Usagi's family is named after (and based on) Naoko Takeuchi's real-life family: her parents Ikuko and Kenji and younger brother Shingo.

Shingo Tsukino

Shingo Tsukino (Sammy Tsukino)

^{Click to see him in the 90s anime}

Voiced by: Chiyoko Kawashima (original series), Seira Liu (Crystal) (JP), Julie Lemieux (DiC and Cloverway), Nicolas Roye (Viz) (EN) ^{Foreign VAs} Rogério Jacques (PT), Ana María Grey (LatAm)
Portrayed in PGSM by: Naoki Takeshi

Usagi's little brother who loves to tease and annoy his big sister. Although he seems like an ignorant child sometimes (such as tactlessly kicking Luna across the room when he disliked cats), he can be much smarter than Usagi, due to his better exam results and his good behavior. Shingo also seems to keep up with the latest trends in his age range, which often gets him into trouble with the typical Sailor Moon villains, leaving it up to his dumb sister as Sailor Moon to save him, who he secretly fanboys over.

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• Academic Athlete: The athlete part is only implied, since he's never actually seen or described as playing sports, but he does keep a soccer ball in his room. You can see it by his door in the Chanela episode.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: In Crystal, he is given a cleaner, more tidily-combed hairstyle, rather than like previously where his hair was kind of messy, and is made to look more like your standard adorably youthful boy.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: In the '90s anime, his hair is light brown. In the manga he's a blonde like Usagi, giving them more of a family resemblance. Crystal compromised by keeping his hair blonde but still rather sandy compared to his sister.
• Adaptation Personality Change: While he's a very snarky Annoying Younger Sibling in every incarnation, his personality changes quite a bit for the '90s anime. Like Rei and Chibi-Usa, he becomes much more obnoxious in that series, a bit cocky, and more likely to interact with people and let his emotions show. In other versions, he's a rather quiet, aloof individual who is still frustrated with Usagi, but he mostly deals with her by keeping to himself instead of mouthing off at her.
• Adorably Precocious Child: Can slip into this sometimes when he's not being an Annoying Younger Sibling, and don't think he won't if it works to his advantage. He's highly intelligent, much more mature than his sister, and manages to charm quite a few ladies over the course of the series (both older and younger than him).
• Advertised Extra: In the manga. He made only a handful of appearances, and didn't appear at in the manga proper after the Black Moon Arc, but he continued to appear in supplementary artwork alongside his parents. Averted in the 90s anime and the live-action where was an Ascended Extra.
• Alliterative Family: The original English dubs call him Sammy and his sister Serena.
• Aloof Big Brother: Inverted. He is smart, gets good grades, and does his chores, in contrast to his borderline Loser Protagonist of an older sister whom he often messes with and acts sarcastic to. That being said, he does love his sister deep down.
• Amusing Injuries: In the episode revolving around him and his best friend, Usagi pounds him on the head to try and knock some sense into him, but he's fine afterwards.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: Milder version. He can be annoying and nagging, but otherwise is less whiny than other kids like him. Mostly because his sister is more than whiny enough for the both of them and it's often him who's exasperated with her.
• Art Evolution: One of the few characters to visibly age in the '90s anime. The first season drew him the way most children appear in anime. In later appearances he looks more (appropriately) like a preteen and has had something of a growth spurt. This was probably done to make him look older than Chibi-Usa but still younger than Usagi.
• Ascended Extra: Somewhat in the '90s anime, where he appears in many episodes and gets multiple days in the limelight.
• Audience Surrogate:
  • In the original anime: Because of his status as Fan Boy of the Sailor Guardians and his nerdy love for modern pop culture, he's like a stand-in for the Peripheral Demographic of Sailor Moon.
  • In the live-action: Part of his appeal is that he shares the audience's awareness of just how crazy the other characters' antics are and that viewers can empathize with him over having to put up with it. We all know what it's like to feel like the Only Sane Man.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Usagi and Shingo have this going on. Like most siblings, their Sibling Rivalry and familial love go hand in hand. When Shingo's having a problem with his best friend, Usagi's the only one who is there for him, and when she goes missing, he makes every effort to find her and regrets how he acted earlier.
• Badass Normal: Though he doesn't have magic powers like his sister or future niece, he still manages to stand up to the enemy who targets his crush Ami for her Dream Mirror, which buys the Sailor Guardians enough time to show up and save Ami. It's pointed out that the enemy might have succeeded if he didn't step in.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: At first, he's reluctant to act as the girls' "bodyguard" at the beach, but because Ami was (in the Cloverway dub) the only one of his sister's friends who treated him as a more than just a kid, he embraces the role and even falls in love with Ami.
• Berserk Button: Cats are his at first, until Usagi convinced him to give Luna a chance.
• Big Brother Instinct: Stands up for Chibi-Usa when Usagi picks on her. He also tries to protect girls he cares about from enemy attacks.
• Big Eater: Nowhere near to the extent of his sister, but he is sometimes said to be this too, which makes sense since at his age he's got some growth spurts to fuel (one of which appears to begin at the start of the second season).
• Big Little Brother: He often acts more mature than Usagi, and in the second season, he starts catching up to her in height. By the fourth season he's almost as tall as her, implying that he will be the taller one when they're adults.
• Big Sister Worship: Unintentionally. He regularly criticizes and irritates Usagi as herself, but idolizes her as Sailor Moon. Imagine how he'd react if he found out Usagi and Sailor Moon were the same person.
• Book Smart: He effortlessly gets good grades in school, in contrast to his Book Dumb sister.
• Brainy Brunette: He's very intelligent and in the '90s anime, he has sandy brown hair.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Gets good grades with zero effort and spends the rest of his time playing video games, reading comics, and messing with his sister.
• Brutal Honesty: Generally he will speak his mind or tell it like it is, and can be pretty tactless about it. Usually at Usagi's expense.
• Butt-Monkey: Not to his sister's degree, but he does have his moments, usually whenever Usagi trolls with him.
• The Cameo: In the manga, he makes a brief one in Chibi-Usa's Picture Diary, one of his only manga appearances (aside from supplementary artwork) after her introduction.
• Character Development: At first, he seems like a typical Annoying Younger Sibling who is only interested in video games and teasing his sister. As the first season progresses, he and Usagi are shown to genuinely love each other and look out for each other, though they're still prone to disagreements, and he becomes less obnoxious over the course of the first season. While Chibi-Usa is a Bratty Half-Pint, Shingo knows where to draw the line. He also develops a protective side towards people he cares about, Usagi included.
• Chick Magnet: He's popular with his female classmates, and in Another Story, Usagi says Shingo is lucky to be surrounded by such pretty girls who are fond of him (namely her teammates).
• Child Prodigy: As indicated above, he gets good grades without any trouble, and he's only about eleven at the start of the series.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: In the manga, and by extension Crystal, shortly after Chibi-Usa is introduced. Apparently, there was only room for one Annoying Younger Sibling. He made his final appearances in Act 23 and the first part of Chibi-Usa's Picture Diary. In the 90s anime, though, it was his father who disappeared around this time while he continued to make occasional appearances until mid-season 4 before disappearing.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Sometimes acted like one of these to his mother in the live-action.
• Comfort Food: In one episode, when Shingo is upset over what's been happening with Mika, Usagi comforts him with a glass of orange juice.
• Cool Shades: In the episode where he accompanies the girls to the beach, he wears a pair to make himself look like a tough guy protecting his women.
• Cool Uncle: To Chibi-Usa, although he thinks they're cousins. She often seems to like him better than her mother, and he stands up for her when Usagi turns Big Sister Bully. It's occasionally hinted that she even finds him attractive.
• Cross Player: He loves playing as the heroines of the Sailor V and Sailor Moon video games even though they're girls and he's a boy.
• Crush Blush: When he develops a crush on Ami, he blushes at the sight of her in a swimsuit, and then a few more times in the episode.
• Cuteness Proximity: Normally blunt, snarky and irritable, but cute things seem to bring out a sweet and nurturing side in him. His first major episode has the villains exploit this trope over him and many other people with the perfume-scented bunny-like Chanela pets.
• The Cynic: One of the more cynical characters in general, but especially in the live-action.
• Deadpan Snarker: He often walks away with some of the best lines when he shows up.
• Declaration of Protection: While he seems initially reluctant to play bodyguard to the girls during a beach trip, he jumps into the role with both feet when his crush Ami is threatened and even stands up to a monster that tries to take her dream mirror.
• Demoted to Extra: He gets a few focus episodes in the first season, but appears a lot less starting in the Black Moon arc.
• Distressed Dude: In Sailor Moon: Another Story, the enemy takes Shingo hostage and demands the Silver Crystal as ransom.
• Dub Name Change: The original English dub of the original anime names him Sammy Tsukino.
• Endearingly Dorky: Shingo's a geek who's obsessed with video games and gets a bit awkward with girls he likes, but he's popular in school and a lot of his female classmates find his behavior cute.
• Everyone's Baby Brother: He's on good terms with all of the Inner Guardians, and when he's in trouble, they save him as a team. After rescuing him in Another Story, they agree that he's like a little brother to all of them.
• Everyone Has Standards: He may consider Usagi to be a Disappointing Older Sibling, but he doesn't like it when a villain calls Usagi a bad sister.
• Eyelid Pull Taunt: Pulls this off to Usagi in the first episode of both anime series. In the original anime, he does it in a comical fashion, while in Crystal, his expression is more subtle and deadpan.
• Fanboy: More exactly, he's a Sailor Moon fanboy.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The responsible to Usagi's foolish. Much more intelligent than her, he knows how to take charge of his own life and do well in school. The roles reverse when he accidentally breaks his best friend's doll and doesn't have the courage to apologize; Usagi has to smack him and tell him to shape up and gives advice that if Mika isn't talking to him, to bring a present as a peace offering.
• Friendly Rivalry: While it can escalate on occasion, most of his Sibling Rivalry with Usagi just amounts to friendly teasing and he does love her.
• Geek: He's really into video games, often tuning the world out so he can focus on them. When the Tsukinos go for a vacation to a hot springs resort, the first thing he asks is where the arcade is (the resort doesn't have one).
• Giftedly Bad: When he tries to make an Apology Gift doll for Mika, Usagi mentions that it looks like a pig. Shingo retorts it's supposed to be Sailor Moon. When Mika is cured of her brainwashing, she sees it in pieces and remembers that Shingo tried to save her from a youma. She then makes a better Sailor Moon doll for him, showing all is forgiven.
• Gleeful and Grumpy Pairing: With Usagi. He tends to be more serious and moody than his ditzy and fun-loving sister.
• Go Through Me: In episode 144, he does this when the monster of the weak targets his crush Ami. While he's unable to fight the monster off, he buys the Sailor Guardians a little more time to get there in time to save the day.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: He often tends to lose his patience with Usagi's antics.
• Heroic Bystander: For a preteen, Shingo has some serious cojones. Aside from his brief fear of cats, he rarely loses his head when he ends up in the middle of weirdness Usagi attracts, and once even tried to fight a villain head on to protect Ami, buying enough time for the rest of the Sailor Guardians to find them.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: He won't show it often, but he does love Usagi deep down and is genuinely concerned when she goes missing.
• Hypocritical Heartwarming: He teases and complains about Usagi, but when the video game villain Sin badmouths her, he won't stand for it. Since he doesn't mind when Chibi-Usa does it or when Ikuko punishes Usagi, it could be that he thinks only family has the right to do things like that.
• Implausible Hair Color: In the original anime, none of the Tsukino family have the same color. In the manga and Crystal, he's a blonde like his sister, but either way, his hair color doesn't match either of his parents.
• Incest Subtext: The first time he sees Sailor Moon, he calls her cute like Sailor V. He has no way of knowing who she really is, but the subtext is there.
• Insufferable Genius: He's a great student, his sister is a Book Dumb Ditz and he won't let her forget it.
• In the Name of the Moon: A somewhat parody of one where he imitates the Sailor Guardians at a virtual reality arcade, calling himself "Sneakers Shingo" ("Super Sammy" in the English dub) and even quoting Sailor Moon's phrase "In the name of the moon, I will punish you!"
• Jerkass Has a Point: Much like Sailor Mars, when Shingo makes a harsh criticism towards Usagi regarding her grades and laziness, he's generally right. For example, when he claims why his sister wouldn't make it as a model, their mother admits that he's right about that.
• Jerkass to One: He genuinely gets along with his peers and family, but he loves to get under Usagi's skin and make snide quips at her expense. Downplayed, as he never gets malicious in his teasing and he clearly does love his sister.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He may be snarky and ruffle Usagi's feathers, but don't think for a minute that he doesn't care. In one episode, when Usagi goes missing, he regrets how he acted towards her and makes every effort to find her, and in Another Story, he stands up for her when Sin calls her a bad sister. He also cares a lot about his other family and friends.
• Kid-Appeal Character: In the early episodes. For many viewers, he was more likable than Chibi-Usa because he was less annoying and never overused.
• Killer Rabbit: He tends to fall for these.
  • He tries to adopt a Chanela, a rabbit-like pet with a perfume scent in one episode, but it turns out to be a scheme to hypnotize people and drain them of energy.
  • In Sailor Moon: Another Story, a similar thing happens with Kishar, Anshar's pet. A cute, vaguely catlike Cartoon Creature with a more terrifying form, Kishar is used as bait to capture Shingo.
  • Luna is a subversion. He sees her this way because of his ailurophobia, but he gets over it and becomes friends with her.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: A double-subversion with Luna. He starts out terrified of Luna and treats her badly, but after some influence from his newfound heroine, he finishes out the episode cuddling and feeding her. Two episodes later, he shows concern for her when he hears Usagi and Naru's bad singing.
• Likes Older Women: Rei suggests that Shingo might be this trope. Besides his crush on Ami mentioned below, he thinks Sailor V and Sailor Moon are pretty cute (not knowing the latter is his sister).
• Loves My Alter Ego: Sometimes it seems like an actual crush (an unknowingly Brother–Sister Incest one), while at other times it's pure admiration. Either way, he adores Sailor Moon but doesn't get along with Usagi.
• Maybe Ever After: His Ship Tease with Ami ends more positively than most ship teases for the Inners, since he doesn't leave, die, break Ami's heart or give her hives, and the two are seen enjoying the fireworks together at the end.
• Men Can't Keep House: Averted. Whenever we see his bedroom, it always looks unusually neat and tidy for a boy his age.
• Middle Child Syndrome: Subverted. He's stuck between a pretty and popular teen and an adorable little girl, gets shoved into the background after Chibi-Usa comes along and has the kind of personality you might expect from someone in this role. However, he never complains about being in the middle, his parents don't play favorites and he doesn't even seem to care that much about getting attention (if anything, he's the one who'd rather be left alone).
• Mind-Control Eyes: Opaque green eyes while Scaled Up under a youma's control.
• Mistaken for Romance: Everyone around them keeps thinking he and Mika a couple and it's ship teased as much an episode can, but they don't call each other anything but friends. Shingo really hates it when people call them a couple and always denies it.
• Modesty Towel: For some reason, he wears it like a girl in the Hot Springs Episode of the series. And he's pretty embarrassed about the situation. When Usagi teases him about it, he steals hers.
• Mood-Swinger: In The '90s anime, his moods can go all over the place and it often doesn't take much to set them off. Mood swings are common for kids going through puberty.
• My God, What Have I Done?: When he realizes how much he's hurt his best friend, he sinks into depression and needs his sister's help to snap him out of it. In a later episode, when said sister goes missing while they're on vacation, he's full of regret over how he treated her.
• Oblivious Younger Sibling: He sees his sister a well-meaning Nice Girl but also a clumsy crybaby, so he never makes the connection that she is the all-powerful heroine he worships. But you'd think he'd get a clue from the events in Another Story when the villains try to use him to get to his sister and steal Sailor Moon's crystal.
• The One Guy: When Kenji stops appearing in the original anime and is mostly absent from the live-action, he becomes this to the Tsukino family.
• Only Sane Man: Mainly in the live-action where he lives in a house of wacky or strange females and knows it, while he's very serious, cynical and mature for an eleven-year-old. Though he's still one of the more levelheaded characters in every version.
• Ordered Apology: He is given one by Usagi in Episode 18, when he inadvertently humiliates Mika. He refuses at first, but decides to go through with it after she threatens to tell on him.
• Pair the Smart Ones: Out of all of Usagi's friends, it's Ami that he gets a crush on. Both get excellent grades without even trying.
• Parent-Child Team: In the R episode that takes place at the VR center, he and Kenji work as a team to beat the game.
• Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Played straight in the Modesty Towel scene, but usually averted; pink is frequently his sister's color, but in the franchise overall, he seems to favor green.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With the '90s anime-only character Mika. They're childhood best friends with a lot affection, but Ship Tease aside, there's no actual romance between them and it irks Shingo when people think there is.
• The Prankster: Towards Usagi, leading the pair into a war of pranks around their house.
• Precocious Crush: Has a huge crush on Ami in one episode of the '90s anime.
• Puppy Love: If one takes his relationship Mika as a budding romance (it's left kinda… ambiguous), it's this at best. They're only in the fifth grade.
• The Quiet One: In Crystal, he appears to be the quietest member of his family, often just silently hanging around in the background.
• Real Men Wear Pink: In The '90s anime. He's got a protective streak, plenty of courage and a gutsy attitude that says "don't get on my badside", but he also fanboys over magical girls, likes cute pets, wears his Modesty Towel female-style and fondles over a porcelain doll of his heroine.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to his sister's red. Not so much in the 90s anime where he's kind of like red and blue mixed into one.
• Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: To his sister Usagi. He's studious and mature in contrast to Usagi, a Genki Girl who tends to be overemotional.
• Scaled Up: While under a youma's influence, he and a bunch of other people grow claws and scaley blue skin to match the youma. Fortunately, Sailor Moon's tiara restores them all to normal.
• Secret-Keeper: In the live-action, he finds out his sister's plushie can talk. Shingo wisely decides to pretend he didn't see that.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The sensitive to his father's manly (as tough and jerky as he acts in the '90s anime, his focus episodes show that he's really the more sensitive of the two).
• Ship Tease: He and his best friend Mika get this in the two episodes they appear together, but we never see it go beyond that. A later episode is one big ship tease involving Shingo's crush on Ami.
• Shower Shy: In the Hot Springs Episode, his family enjoys a hot spring as a group, but Shingo is really uncomfortable with being in the water with all four of them naked, even if it's only his family, and doesn't want to get in take off his Modesty Towel.
• Sibling Rivalry: Although he and Usagi do care about each other, they regularly get on each other's nerves, bicker and exchange rude remarks, like a typical sibling relationship. Averted with Chibi-Usa, with whom he generally gets along very well.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Usagi is a sweet and cheerful idealist, very outgoing and surrounds herself with friends, but she's also totally unfocused, naïve and a terrible student. Shingo is a sensible kid with top grades, but often moody, snarky and cynical, and he seems to enjoy his own company. About the only common bond they have is a fondness for video games. Both get better, though.
• Significant Birth Date: We don't know exactly when his birthday is (the math puts it in August), but he was born on the day Usagi and Mamoru met for the first time. It comes up as a plot point in the first movie.
• The Smart Guy: Of the Tsukino family. In school, he aces all his classes with ease and acts pretty clever in his everyday life too.
• Smart Jerk and Nice Moron: Smart Jerk to Usagi's Nice Moron. He's a good student and likes to tease Usagi for being Book Dumb. Meanwhile, as lazy and irresponsible Usagi is, she's a dim but sweet All-Loving Hero.
• Stepford Snarker: He'd rather make wisecracks than show his inner feelings. Any time he stops acting like a smart alec, it's usually to show that there's more to him than meets the eye. His first day in the limelight reveals that he's been dealing with trauma since he was a baby (ouch!), while his later ones show how he can turn into a mess of regret and insecurity when he's wronged someone close to him.
• Strong Girl, Smart Guy: Smart Guy to Usagi's Strong Girl. Usagi is an Action Girl who ends up rescuing her brother a few times, while Shingo gets good grades and makes fun of Usagi for being Book Dumb.
• Surprise Incest: Shingo develops a crush on Sailor Moon when he sees her for the first time, unaware that she is really his sister.
• Surrounded by Idiots: How he feels having a lazy, ditzy crybaby of a sister with Usagi.
• Terrible Artist: His attempt at creating a ceramic Sailor Moon doll shows this. Apparently, terrible artistry runs in the family.
• Tiny Schoolboy: Was the (sort of) nice guy and dorky type, before he grew.
• Took a Level in Kindness: A bit less of a jerk to Usagi later on. Possibly because both of them are growing up.
• Tough Love: Certain materials suggest that he's hard on Usagi simply because that's just his job as her little brother, and he's trying to toughen her up to not be such a crybaby.
• Troll: He has his moments of being this to Usagi by poking fun at her clumsiness or bad grades, although it never goes beyond harmless sibling teasing.
• Vague Age: His age can fluctuate between two and four years younger than Usagi depending on what version of the series.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: His relationship with his sister, just like most siblings. They bicker and annoy each other on a regular basis, but when things get serious, they worry about each other and will do whatever they can for one another. The original anime plays this trope up. Their arguments appear more in that series, but so does their close and caring relationship.
• Vocal Dissonance: In the Viz dub, was is voiced by Nicolas Roye, who was in his late 30s at the time, and sounds more like a teen than a preteen. It's a bit less noticeable in his later episodes when puberty kicks in and he goes through his growth spurts, but Roye voices him again in Crystal despite how young he looks in that series.
• Wacky Parent, Serious Child: The serious child to Ikuko's wacky parent in the live-action. In this series, Ikuko became a total Cloudcuckoolander with a wild imagination, even more than Usagi, instead of a wise Education Mama like in the anime. Shingo, though very smart in every series, is now a serious, mature and cynical Only Sane Man.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Is terrified of cats in the '90s anime, due to an traumatic incident when he was a toddler. As a result, a whole first season episode is dedicated to Usagi trying to get Luna in his good graces, and after that it's never mentioned again.
• Wise Beyond Their Years: Often acts more mature and responsible than his older sister and seems pretty in touch with the world for a preteen.

Ikuko Tsukino

Ikuko Tsukino

^{Click to see her in Crystal Season 1}

^{Click to see her in the 90s anime}

Voiced by: Sanae Takagi (original series), Yuko Mizutani (Crystal), Wakana Yamazaki (Cosmos) (JP), Barbara Radecki (DiC and Cloverway), Tara Platt (Viz) (EN) ^{Foreign VAs} Cristina Cavalinhos (PT), Alejandra de la Rosa and Ruth Toscano (LatAm)
Portrayed in PGSM by: Kaori Moriwaka

Usagi and Shingo's mother and a typical housewife. Generally a kind and supportive woman to her children, she nevertheless gets frustrated over her daughter constantly bringing home bad test scores. Although mostly the voice of reason to balance out the antics between the Tsukino children, she has a tendency to get brainwashed by magical little girls and take them in as her own.

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• Actually Pretty Funny: At the start of Ami's introduction episode, Usagi is laughing her head off at a comic book. Her mother scolds her for the noise, but then Usagi shows her the comic — and she bursts out laughing too.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: Her hair in the manga is either bright pink or bluish-purple. Both anime series settled on the latter.
• Adaptation Personality Change: Undergoes a Younger and Hipper Cloudcuckoolander change for the live-action.
• Berserk Button: As an Education Mama, bringing home a school assignment or test with a failing mark is this for her. When Usagi brings one home in the first act/episode, Ikuko gets mad and throws her out of the house.
• Beware the Nice Ones: She is a sweet, caring and nurturing mother, but she can sometimes go ballistic when Usagi is being The Slacker. In the first episode, she throws her out of the house for a few hours after learning she had failed a school test (though in some dubs, she just forces her to go to the library to go study).
• "Blind Idiot" Translation: In the re-released manga, Kenji and Ikuko refer to each other as papa and mama. To be fair, in some older anime and manga, parents refer to each other not by their names but by their positions in the family (e.g., Kyo's parents in The King of Fighters: KYO and Haruto's parents in Haunted Junction.) The joke went Lost in Translation.
• Cloudcuckoolander: In the live-action, she fits this even better than her daughter does, becoming much more quirky, imaginative and outgoing character and often getting involved in some pretty odd stuff.
• Disproportionate Retribution: In the first episode, Usagi's mother tells her not to bother coming home if she gets low test scores and kicks her out of the house.
• Education Mama: While nowhere near as bad as Minako's mother in Codename: Sailor V, to the point that Minako lists her "hag of a mom" as one of her dislikes, she's still this, and it's a Justified Trope when you remember how completely unmotivated Usagi is when it comes to school work; of course Ikuko's going to be mad when her eldest daughter is always bringing home 35s and 20s (equivalent to an "F" grade) on her tests. In the first act of the manga, she kicks her daughter out of the house when Usagi brings home a 30%, in an attempt to make her study.
• Expy: Of Mrs. Aino. They look a lot alike (except that Ikuko wears her hair down instead of in a ponytail) and are both Education Mamas who are strict with their daughers, though Ikuko tends to be more caring and understanding.
• Good Parents: She and Kenji don't have a big role, but they are portrayed as typical loving parents to their children.
• Happily Married: She and her husband are very happy and contented together and are never shown to have any issues in their marriage.
• House Wife: Classic example. Indeed, she is always wearing the same outfit with the same apron, and she stays home, cooks and keeps house while her husband is the sole breadwinner.
• Inconsistent Coloring: Her hair color switches between pink and blue in the manga. The first chapter depicted her with light brown hair. The '90s anime depicted her with dark blue hair while Sailor Moon Crystal originally opted for light purple in season 1 before also switching her to dark blue.
• Let Her Grow Up, Dear: Whereas Kenji is overprotective of their daughter, Ikuko is quite all right with her having a boyfriend to bring over for a meal.
• Muggle Foster Parents: Averted. Usagi was reincarnated, so the Tsukinos are her biological family.
• Nice Girl: Very nice and caring to everyone she interacts with and is welcoming whenever someone comes over to their house for a visit.
• Only Sane Woman: In The '90s anime, compared to her ditzy daughter, troubled son and irrational husband, she often serves this role in the Tsukino family. The only time she gets unhinged is if her daughter shows her a failing grade.
• Open-Minded Parent: In relationship subjects. Unlike Kenji, she has no problems with whom Usagi dates, namely Mamoru.
• Parental Favoritism: Subverted. Usagi sometimes thinks she likes Chibi-Usa more than her, but it's more complicated than that. Ikuko dotes on Chibi-Usa, is tough on Usagi, and mostly leaves Shingo to his own devices, but she loves them all equally. Different kinds of children need different kinds of parenting and she knows who needs what.
• Parental Substitute: To Chibi-Usa whenever she comes to the past.
• Parents in Distress: Was attacked by Hawk's Eye in SuperS.
• Pink Girl, Blue Boy: In their separate beds, the bed coverings are pink for Ikuko and blue for Kenji.
• Pink Means Feminine/True Blue Femininity: Besides her blue hair, her normal at-home outfit in Crystal includes a blue skirt, a light pink top and an apron with dark pink trim to show how she is a traditionally feminine House Wife with a very maternal personality.
• Put on a Bus: Despite making an appearance in all five major arcs of the series, she's notably absent in the third season of the 90s anime.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: The manga drops a hint of this towards the end. When Usagi leaves (to battle Sailor Galaxia, but obviously she can't say that), Ikuko says that she has a feeling that Usagi may not come back, as she looks up to the sky cradling Luna in her arms.
• Shared Family Quirks: The DiC dub has Serena try and give an excuse for her lack of concentration through Inelegant Blubbering. Ikuko merely responds "That's the same tired old excuse I used on my parents".
• Shipper on Deck: She thinks Mamoru is an excellent catch for her daughter.
• Sleeping Single: She and her husband sleep in separate beds.
• Supreme Chef: Is a fantastic cook in all versions of the series. Which is fortunate, since her husband and daughter are terrible cooks. In the live-action, she enjoys experimenting with new recipes.
• Team Mom: Since the other Guardians' mothers are distant or dead, she seems to pick up this role when the girls come over.
• Tough Love: Ikuko chides Usagi over low grades and once locked her out of the house for a failing mark, but it's only because she wants her daughter to do better in school. She still shows a lot of love and support for her.
• Unnamed Parent: Canadian dubs only, where she is merely identified as "Serena's mom". Later subverted when the Cloverway dub once refers to her as Ikuko.
• Wacky Parent, Serious Child: The wacky parent to Shingo's serious child in the live-action. In this series, Ikuko became a total Cloudcuckoolander with a wild imagination, even more than Usagi, instead of a wise Education Mama like in the anime. Shingo, though very smart in every series, is now a serious, mature and cynical Only Sane Man.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: The last time she's seen in the manga, Usagi leaves the injured cats in her care. Galaxia has members of Shadow Galactica collect the cats off panel and kill them to try and bring Usagi down further. It's unknown if she and the rest of the family were caught up in this or left alone.
• Women Are Wiser: She tends to be more levelheaded and down-to-earth than her husband, who is prone to overreacting and jumping to conclusions. Their children somewhat invert this, though. Averted in the live-action where she acts as silly and childish as her daughter, while Shingo is the most mature of the family.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: Though more tempery than the standard, she is hinted to have Kenji-papa very whipped in The '90s anime.
• Younger and Hipper: The live-action portrays her this way compared to other incarnations.

Kenji Tsukino

Kenji Tsukino

^{Click to see him in the 90s anime}

Voiced by: Yuuji Machi (original series), Mitsuaki Madono (Crystal) (JP), David Huband (DiC and Cloverway), Keith Silverstein (Viz) (EN) ^{Foreign VAs} António Semedo (PT), Carlos Becerril (LatAm)
Portrayed in PGSM by: Ryuuta Tasaki

The salaryman husband of Ikuko and the father of Usagi and Shingo who works as a photographer, and later the editor, of a magazine. Though he's the least seen and least developed member of the Tsukino family, he's shown to be a typical loving father, but he can be a little possessive of his daughter. He secretly worries that Usagi is growing up and doesn't like the idea of her dating a man a few years older than her.

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• Adaptational Attractiveness: While in the manga is as handsome as any other male in the show, he is designed with a more mature looking appearance: Thick glasses, eyes with little shine and a simple comb over that lacks detail. In Crystal much effort is done to make him look younger and more bishie, complete with fashionable glasses, a trendy cut and a softer, youthful voice.
• Badass Normal: Once, when his family was under attack, he jumped to their rescue and tried to fight off the enemy.
• "Blind Idiot" Translation: Mild version: In the recently re-released manga, Kenji and Ikuko refer to each other as papa and mama (although sometimes Truth in Television as once they become parents couples may often find themselves calling each another "Mom" and "Dad" or some variation).
• Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: He nearly drives off the road on learning that Usagi is dating. And this is before he learns of the age difference.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Although Usagi's entire family was Demoted to Extra, her mother and brother still made token appearances later in the series, but her father's last appearance was only in the second season.
• Curtains Match the Window: He has black hair and black eyes.
• Dads Can't Cook: He's a father of two, and it's said that he can't cook and leaves that to his wife, although he's never actually seen trying, so we only know this through Word of God.
• Doesn't Know Their Own Child: Played for Laughs; in the Princess Di episode, he tells Usagi that she can't come with him to the ball since it's for work purposes. Then he sees the "Princess of Ivanova" all dolled-up in formalwear and starts taking photographs, wondering if his daughter would look like that when she's grown up. It is Usagi, who used her Disguise Pen to sneak in without getting busted.
• Establishing Character Moment: When he's picking up groceries in the second episode. After he and Usagi talk, he wonders why she's out this late and says they should head home before Ikuko frets. Then when he sees Luna, he doesn't offer to take her home (which we find out later is because Usagi's brother Shingo has ailurophobia). All in all, it shows a well-rounded character.
• Freak Out: He has a panic attack when he first learns that Usagi might have a boyfriend and almost drives his family off the road because of it.
• Good Parents: He and Ikuko don't have a big role, but they are portrayed as typical loving parents to their children.
• Happily Married: He and his wife are very happy and contented together and are never shown to have any issues in their marriage.
• Henpecked Husband: In The '90s anime, by his own admission.
• Heroic Bystander: In the Hot Springs Episode when the Tsukinos are on vacation, he attempts to defend his family against the Monster of the Week.
• He Who Must Not Be Seen: Live-action only. In the main series, the closest he gets to an appearance is when he's being spoken to over the phone, and when he shows up at last, he even has his face obscured by a camera at Usagi's wedding.
• Lethal Chef: It's hinted that he's the one Usagi got her cooking skills from.
• Like Parent, Like Child: Usagi gets her goofy qualities from him. He can be Endearingly Dorky, and thinks that getting more sleep would be great through a sleeping sickness.
• Like Parent, Like Spouse: Though he doesn't seem to like Mamoru, the two appear to be quite similar in many respects. In fact, Usagi considers her ideal man someone who is that much like her father.
• Men Can't Keep House: He tries to help out where he can, but things like cooking he cannot even do.
• Muggle Foster Parents: Averted. Usagi was reincarnated, so the Tsukinos are her biological family.
• Open-Minded Parent: Played straight in Crystal. When Usagi told her father she had a boyfriend, he gets shocked for a minute, then just happily accepted that she was growing up rather than freaking out. Averted in the original anime when he has multiple freakouts over her relationship with Mamoru.
• Papa Wolf: The few times he was under attack, he immediately leapt to his family's defense.
• Parental Substitute: To Chibi-Usa whenever she comes to the past.
• Parent-Child Team: In the R episode that takes place at the VR center, he and Shingo work as a team to beat the game.
• Pink Girl, Blue Boy: In their separate beds, the bed coverings are pink for Ikuko and blue for Kenji.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: He's like this around Usagi. When he saw her wandering around the Juuban shopping district, he told her to come home with him since it was late and so her mother wouldn't worry. Later, when she begs to come with him for Princess Di's ball, he tells him she can't because it's a work function but promises to tell her all about it and show the pictures he'll be taking when he comes home.
• Salaryman: In most continuities, his job leaves him plenty time for his family, but in the live-action, he has such a busy, salaryman-like work life that he only even appears once.
• Satellite Character: To his family. Not once does he play a significant role without interacting with them, and he seems to get the least character development. This may be why he was dropped partway through the second season and was largely absent from the live-action.
• Second Episode Introduction: Unlike his wife and son, he makes his first appearance in the second episode of the original anime, although he appears in the first manga chapter.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The manly to his son's sensitive. Tall, Dark, and Handsome Kenji is all about protecting his loved ones and he cannot cook. Adorably Precocious Child Shingo is nerdier, and he has been seen enjoying things like cuddly pets and dolls (not that he likes to admit it).
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Often wears a suit and tie, even at home, due to his salaryman lifestyle.
• Shipper on Deck: He ships Umino and Usagi, even after Umino already has a girlfriend. Kenji is one of the only characters who likes Umino from the start and thinks Umino's a better match for his daughter than Mamoru.
• Sleeping Single: He and his wife sleep in separate beds.
• Standard '50s Father: Doesn't display all the standard traits, but he is one nonetheless. He's a fair and reasonable man with a clean-cut look, happily married to his wife, and loving to his children. He's also the sole breadwinner in the family.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: He towers over most other characters, has dark hair, and is good-looking, although much more subdued than most examples. His wife does use these exact words to describe him when he was younger, though.
• Toast of Tardiness: In one episode, he leaves the house with toast in his mouth while running to work. Like father, like daughter.
• Unnamed Parent: Canadian dubs only, where he is merely identified as "Serena's dad".
• Weight Woe: In one of the short stories in the manga (when Usagi and Chibi-Usa get cavities), Kenji is saddened to learn he's been gaining weight from his wife's cooking.

The Mizuno family

Dr. Saeko Mizuno

Dr. Saeko Mizuno

Voiced by: Naomi Shindo (Eternal) (JP)

Portrayed in PGSM by: Mariko Tsutsui

Ami's mother, a physician who is almost never seen because her job takes up so much of her time. Still, she and Ami appear to be close from the way Ami idolizes her and wants to follow in her footsteps. She and Ami's father divorced some time before the series begins, which is something of a point of contention between the Mizunos.

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• Amicable Exes: She seems to bear no ill feelings toward her ex-husband, but this has never stopped Ami herself from angsting about it.
• Boyish Short Hair: Like her daughter, she has a short haircut to highlight her intelligence and her work in a science-related field.
• Curtains Match the Window: Like Ami, she has both blue hair and blue eyes. This is officially confirmed in Eternal when we finally see her face in color.
• Education Mama: In most versions, Ami focues on studies and aspires to be a doctor for reasons beyond this, but in the live-action, it is mainly out of pressure from Saeko.
• Good Parents: She may not have much time for Ami, but in what time she does have, she tries to be the best mother she can.
• The Faceless: Her only on-screen appearance in the original anime is a brief cameo in the third movie when she is only seen from behind. Fully appears in Eternal.
• Hospital Hottie: She's a very beautiful woman, whether she's wearing her doctor's outfit or not.
• Invisible Parents: Spent three whole arcs as The Ghost in the manga until she finally pops up early in Super S. In the anime, we only see her back in the OP for the Super S movie. Averted in the live-action, which only covers the first arc but includes her as a character. She also pops up for a single panel of the Sailor V manga talking to Ami, who's merely there to fill a foreshadowing cameo quota. Finally appears in Eternal.
• Letting Her Hair Down: She is a doctor, and the first time we see her in Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon is at the hospital with her hair in a bun. This coincides with a plot where she wants Ami to transfer schools because her grades are slipping^note She misses cram school because of her duties as a Sailor Soldier. At the end of the episode when the two have worked things out, we see Mama with her hair down and she looks like a different person.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Being a short-haired career-oriented doctor, she is implied to have had this relationship with her artist ex-husband.
• Named by the Adaptation: Never got a first name in the anime or manga, but the live-action gives her first name as Saeko.
• Nice Girl: When she finally shows up in the manga, she appears to be a very pleasant woman, unsurprising given her job of caring for people's well-being.
• Non-Idle Rich: She is fairly wealthy, yet she still works full-time.
• The Ojou: Older version. She's at least in her thirties, but has the wealth, wisdom and ladylike mannerisms that come with the role.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted. She shares the name Saeko with one of Kunzite's one-shot anime targets, a skier named Saeko Yamamoto.
• Parents as People: She truly cares for Ami, lamenting how her work kept her away from her girl. Ami might be a Lonely Rich Kid but she generally doesn't hold it against her mom, and it's because of Mizuno-sensei's example that she wants to be a doctor when she grows up.
• Prim and Proper Bun: In the live-action, her hair is longer, so she wears a bun when she's working.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: Occasionally sports a pair in the live-action.
• Strong Family Resemblance: When she finally does appear, she looks like an older version of Ami.
• When You Coming Home, Dad?: It's her job that keeps her so busy that she has little time for Ami. Saeko does wish they had more time for each other, but her commitment to long work hours makes this hard.
• Workaholic: Her devotion to her job is the main reason why she rarely appears and has so little time for her daughter.

Ami's father

Ami's father

Ami's father, a traveling artist. He barely sees his daughter because of his work and because he and Saeko are divorced, but he and Ami keep in touch.

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• Amicable Exes: His ex-wife seems to bear no ill feelings toward him, but this has never stopped Ami herself from angsting about it.
• Disappeared Dad: After he and Saeko divorced, he left Ami to focus on his life as a traveling painter, and Ami only hears him when he sends birthday cards.
• The Faceless: In the manga, he is only seen with his face at an angle that is obscured, with his hat and glasses making it even harder to see him. Averted in Eternal where his face is directly seen.
• Invisible Parents: Unlike Saeko, who appears at least once in each continuity except the musicals, he never appears in the '90s anime and is only mentioned in an episode of SuperS when he sends her a picture.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: An artist, he's hinted to have had this relationship with his short-haired, career-oriented doctor ex-wife.
• Parents as People: He and Ami love each other, but they're not close because he's busy with his life as a traveling artist and because Ami resents him for divorcing her mother. Still, he's a positive influence on Ami because he taught her swimming and chess.
• Took the Wife's Name: It's implied that he took his ex-wife's surname during their marriage, since both she and their daughter still go by the same surname after their divorce.
• Unnamed Parent: He never receives a name. It's heavily implied that the name Mizuno comes from his ex-wife's side of the family, so calling him Mr. Mizuno wouldn't be accurate.
• The Voiceless: In his only appearance in the manga and Eternal, he doesn't speak.

The Hino family

Rei's Grandfather

Rei's Grandfather

^{Click to see him in the 90s anime}

Voiced by: Tomomichi Nishimura, Hirohiko Kakegawa (Eternal) (JP), David Fraser and John Stocker (DiC and Cloverway), Michael Sorich (Viz) (EN), Todd Haberkorn (Eternal) (EN) ^{Foreign VAs} Rogério Jacques (PT), Herman López and later Jesús Colin (LatAm)

An elderly Shinto priest who runs the Hikawa Shrine. When his daughter, Rei's mother, died, he took Rei in because his son-in-law walked out on her. He seems like an entirely different character between versions, both in appearance and personality, but he always retains his unwavering love for Rei and is shown to be quite protective of both her and their shrine. Rei dreams of taking over for him one day. In the original anime, he's the reincarnation of Jiji, one of the Seven Great Youma.

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• Adaptational Badass: He doesn't really do much in the manga, so we don't know what he's capable of in that continuity. In the '90s anime, he faces down the enemy more than once and survives injuries that should be more serious.
• Adaptation Deviation: Rei's grandfather is an entirely different character in the manga and the Eternal film, compared to The '90s anime. In the manga he's a slightly younger grandfather, taller, and when he is in a story he offers key insight to Rei's history and personality, and also suggests that he knows she's destined to do great things in some way, but not at that shrine.
• Adaptation Origin Connection: Due to him being the reincarnation of one of the Seven Great Youma, he's connected to the Silver Millennium and the Dark Kingdom in the first anime.
• Adaptation Personality Change: A regular, serious Nice Guy in the manga but a perverted comic relief character in the original anime.
• Adaptational Ugliness: He is portrayed as tall and rather attractive in the manga and Eternal. The 90s anime on the other hand made him short and bald.
• Adapted Out: Does not appear in the live-action.
• Amusing Injuries: In the 90s anime, he was a victim of slapstick fairly often.
• Ascended Extra: Somewhat. He doesn't appear much in the manga but shows up fairly often in the early seasons of the anime.
• Badass Normal: After losing his Rainbow Crystal, he's just another old monk, but he manages to go toe-to-toe with a Droid even so. He doesn't win, of course, but he gets a decent showing.
• Badass Preacher: He's a Shinto priest who faces off Zoicite and lives through falling off a roof.
• Beware the Silly Ones: When he's attacked by Zoicite in The '90s anime, this tiny and apparently feeble old man fends him off at first.
• Big Guy, Little Guy: In the '90s anime, he's the little to Yuuichirou's big. One's a Miniature Senior Citizen, and the other's a tall, muscular Hunk.
• A Day in the Limelight: He has a few of them. Any time an episode takes place at his shrine, you can expect him to take a leading role.
• Dirty Old Man: The '90s anime only. He keeps embarrassing Rei whenever he tries to pick up girls and convince them to become Mikos at Hikawa Jinja.
• Dirty Old Monk: He's definitely not above making lewd remarks towards his granddaughter's friends, among others.
• Enemy Within: Jiji, one of the Seven Great Youma.
• Invisible Grandparent:
  • In the live-action, possibly. It's not certain he exists in this continuity, though if he doesn't, that begs the question of who is Rei's guardian and the shrine's priest.
  • In Sailor Moon Crystal, he is sometimes named by his granddaughter and/or her friends, but so far he hasn't appeared on-screen. He finally appears in the Eternal movie where he resembles his manga self.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In the 90s anime. He's a pervert but still a good guy who loves his granddaughter more than anything.
• Living MacGuffin: In the original anime only. He turns out to be Jiji, one of the Seven Great Youma, and the carrier of the Indigo Rainbow Crystal.
• Miniature Senior Citizens: The 90s anime turned him into one, showing him as being extremely short compared to the manga version of him.
• Nice Guy: In the manga and Eternal, he's a regular but more pleasant person than in the original anime.
• Outliving One's Offspring: His daughter (Rei's mom) died before the series takes place while he himself is still alive.
• Papa Wolf: He's willing to do whatever he can to make sure his granddaughter is safe, even trying to fight off evil superbeings.
• Parental Substitute: Raised Rei after his daughter/her mom died of illness.
• Parents in Distress: In the '90s anime, Rei once had to fight her grandfather, who had been transformed into a demon by Zoisite (or more exactly, reverted to the demon form he had in his past life).
• Pervert Dad: He assumes the role of parent to his granddaughter and often makes lewd comments about her friends.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: In the first anime, he is by far one of the shortest characters, but he's shown to be a pretty tough guy. Manages to fend off Zoisite's attack in episode 30 of the 90s anime. Zoisite is appropriately shocked by this: "I thought you were just an old man, but... you're good!" Oh, and he survived falling off the shrine roof.
• Plucky Comic Relief: In the anime.
• Real Men Wear Pink: He's got no problem with wearing pink spandex to a gymnasium.
• Reincarnation: The reincarnation of one of the Seven Great Youma.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: Implied in the manga and Eternal. Watching Rei grow up and from the way she instinctively interacted with Phobos and Deimos, he understands that Rei has some kind of grand destiny ahead of her that doesn't involve him or the shrine.
• Shrines and Temples: He is the priest of his own Shinto shrine where he and his granddaughter live.
• Those Two Guys: With Yuuichirou in the '90s anime. After the latter comes to work for him, it's rare to see one without the other.
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: To his granddaughter, Rei. Not that Rei is that huge (she is 5'3" (160 cm), around average height for a 14-year-old Japanese girl), but she's about one foot taller than her small grandfather.
• Trickster Mentor: To Yuuichirou in the '90s anime. He's pretty goofy, mischievous, and hits on girls, but he still manages to train his apprentice in the ways of the Shinto priesthood.
• Unnamed Parent: He is never named in any version of the series. Despite getting a much bigger role in the '90s anime, the writers still didn't bother to name him.
• Zigzag Paper Tassel: The kind on rods can be found at his shrine. While his granddaughter uses them for fire readings, he uses them for more comedic scenes.

Takashi and Risa Hino

Takashi and Risa Hino

Takashi portrayed in PGSM by: Takeshi Masu

The parents of Rei. Risa died of an unspecified illness years before the start of the series. Takashi is a prominent politician who only cares about his career, so much so that he never even visited his ailing wife in the hospital before she passed, for which his daughter never forgave her, and he left Rei to live with his father-in-law, only visiting her during her birthdays.

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• Adaptational Nice Guy: For what it's worth, in the live-action Takashi makes an effort to mend his bond with Rei when he finds out the police busted her for trespassing. He comes to the temple to chide her, but it's downplayed when he smacks her for saying he didn't love her mother. Then Takashi gets a Jerkass Realization when Rei runs away the next night, and sincerely apologizes to her for abandoning her at the temple when she was a child. While their bond isn't perfect, it's a little better.
• Death by Origin Story: Mrs. Hino died years before the first act of the series takes place.
• Disappeared Dad/Missing Mom: Risa died of her illness when Rei was little, after which Takashi more or less abandoned their daughter in the care of his father-in-law and doesn't involve himself in her life more than once a year.
• Disneyland Dad: Mr. Hino in every version of series. Unusually, he has the full ability to take custody of Rei (as her mother is dead and her poorer grandfather is her current guardian), but he chooses instead to functionally ignore her in favor of his career. However, he sends Rei to the most prestigious school around and she clearly wants for nothing. In the manga especially, Rei's father sends the exact same expensive gift for Rei's birthday every year (chosen by his assistant)—and misses their expensive birthday dinner together pretty often.
• Hate Sink: The manga makes it clear that there is nothing likable about Rei's father because of how apathetic and selfish he is, prioritizing his political career so much he ignored his wife while she was dying and alienated Rei so badly she moved in with her grandfather. Grandpa even admits to the girls that Rei hates her father. Takashi doesn't even make an effort for her birthday dinners and has his assistant pick her gifts for him, while it's clear Rei only goes along with the charade out of a sense of obligation. By the time Rei's gotten to know her friends better, it's implied she's stopped celebrating her birthday with her dad altogether and thus no longer has a reason or any desire to associate with him. Since Takashi's never shown reaching out to Rei on this matter, it's further implied he's more than happy to stop caring.
• Invisible Parents: Anime and manga, though we see an image of Mrs. Hino in the manga. Averted in the live-action, though again Mrs. Hino only appears in a photograph.
• Jerkass: Mr. Hino is so emotionally distanced from his ill wife and his daughter due to his work as a high-class politician, that he doesn't visit the first one single time during her lethal illness, and afterwards he doesn't meet up with the latter unless it's her birthday because she cannot forgive him for his treatment of his dying wife.
• Named by the Adaptation: The live-action gives their first names as Takashi and Risa. Neither the source material nor the other versions of the series gives their first names as anything.
• Non-Idle Rich: Mr. Hino is not only rich but also a high-ranking politician who works in his government job. But he's also neglectful to his daughter and leaves her in the care of his father-in-law.
• Outliving One's Offspring: Rei’s grandfather is Risa’s father, so he outlived her when she died.
• Parents as People: He's definitely not winning Father Of the Year awards in any version, but the live-action shows him acknowledging that. When Rei gets in trouble with the cops, he does the first fatherly thing ever and go to talk to her about it. It doesn't go well; he slaps her, and she runs off crying. After she spends the night in the karaoke center with Ami, the next day Takahi tries to make a peace offering by sincerely admitting he ruined their relationship.
• Posthumous Character: Mrs. Hino died years before the series takes place.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Rei's mom looked like an older Rei, if the manga's to be believed.

Other family members

Mr. and Mrs. Kino

Mr. and Mrs. Kino

The parents of Makoto. Not much is known about them because they both died in a plane crash when their daughter was younger, leaving Makoto an orphan who had to fend for herself at an early age. This is why Makoto is afraid of airplanes. They only appear in photographs.

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• Ambiguous Situation: Their fate in the anime. They weren't explicitly killed off, but Makoto is still said to live by herself. In episode 147, someone calls Usagi after Makoto fails to come home, suggesting her parents are alive after all or that she has some type of guardian.
• Death by Origin Story: Both died in a plane crash before the series takes place. Though, like with Mrs. Hino, a picture of them appears in the manga and later in Stars.
• Disappeared Dad: Mr. Kino died in the plane crash at some point before the series starts.
• The Ghost: The original English Dub, by altering the dialogue, makes it appear they are alive, but they are never seen.
• Missing Mom: Mrs. Kino also died in the plane crash, leaving Makoto an orphan.
• Never Say "Die": The anime never really addresses what happened to them. It's mentioned that Makoto lives on her own, but, given that she's a transfer student, she might just be simply living by herself to be close to the school. Notably, Makoto isn't shown to be afraid of planes in Stars. The DiC/CWi English Dub simply writes out their death completely.
• Posthumous Character: Both died years before the series takes place.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Technically. The first English Dub says they are alive and well simply by altering the dialogue and script by having Lita mention them in passing, even though they are not seen.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Mrs. Kino to Makoto, as her photograph reveals.

Mr. and Mrs. Aino

Mr. and Mrs. Aino

Minako's parents who are the cause of a lot of drama in her life. While Mrs. Aino is described as loving her daughter, she never does anything to show it, only really paying attention to Minako's faults and badmouthing her for them. Mr. Aino, meanwhile, is more of a Nice Guy but is too passive to keep the peace in the family.

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• Bumbling Dad: Mr. Aino. He means well and shows genuine care, but he often struggles to meet the crazy demands of his wife and daughter.
• Closet Geek: In one chapter, Mrs. Aino tells Minako to stop playing a video game and go study. Then after she leaves, she and her husband start playing it.
• Curtains Match the Window: A colored image from the artbook confirms that Mrs. Aino has pink hair and pink eyes, while Mr. Aino appears to have black eyes to match his black hair.
• Education Mama: Mrs. Aino appears to be even more nagging Ikuko, which Minako claims to dislike about her, and the two seem to have an unstable relationship.
• Expy: After Codename: Sailor V became a serial at the end of Sailor Moon, Minako's father was created to be just like Kenji in his looks, his personality, and his salaryman lifestyle. (Mrs. Aino debuted in the first chapter, so she technically predates Ikuko.)
• Good Parents: Word of God says that they are this way, though in Mrs. Aino's case it seems like an Informed Attribute from the way she acts toward Minako.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Mrs. Aino completely loses it if Minako does anything she doesn't approve of.
• Hates My Secret Identity: In one chapter, Mrs. Aino is thrilled at the chance to have her picture taken with Sailor V, but her relationship with her daughter is just one long chain of nagging and berating her without showing any real support.
• Henpecked Husband: Mr. Aino is a pretty nice and sensible guy from what little we see of him, but his wife seems to wear the pants in their relationship, especially when it comes to their daughter.
• Hopeless with Tech: Mr. Aino struggles with modern electronics. He can't play video games very well like his daughter and finds a TV hookup really complicated.
• Hollywood Genetics: For some reason, Minako's parents look nothing like her. She has blonde hair and blue eyes like Usagi. Mrs. Aino looks like Ikuko with a pink ponytail, while Mr. Aino could be Kenji's twin brother.
• House Wife: Mrs. Aino stays home to keep house while her husband goes out to earn money.
• Hypocrite: Mrs. Aino constantly yells at her daughter for wasting her time with video games, having improper manners, and getting bad grades at school. But Mrs. Aino once stayed up all night playing video games herself, has a Hair-Trigger Temper, and is hinted in the manga to have not been such a great student either.
• Informed Attribute: Mrs. Aino's status as a Good Parent, as described under Jerkass.
• Invisible Parents: They do exist, but they only actually appear in Codename: Sailor V.
• It's All About Me: A lot of the tropes listed here imply that Mrs. Aino cares more about how her family makes her look than about how she makes herself look.
• Jerkass: Mrs. Aino supposedly loves her daughter, but all she ever does is berate her flaws and mistakes, yell at her and make her life difficult. She also calls her husband unsuccessful while he's there to hear it.
• Living Prop: Mr. Aino. We know next to nothing about him other than that he's a salaryman, and appart from the scene pictured above, he doesn't seem to do much to draw attention to himself.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Played with. While they follow the traditional gender roles of salaryman and housewife, their personalities qualify as this, with Mrs. Aino being aggressive and fiery, while Mr. Aino is more passive and caring.
• Never My Fault: Mrs. Aino seems to be oblivious to the idea that any of the Ainos' family problems could be her fault. She throws all the blame on her daughter's irresponsibility even though it takes two to make an argument.
• Nice Guy: Unlike his wife, Mr. Aino seems to be a pretty decent guy.
• Not So Above It All: Mrs. Aino tells off Minako for spending too much time gaming instead of something more productive, then goes and stays up all night playing the same game.
• Nuclear Family: The Ainos are a father, a mother, and their daughter Minako.
• Obliquely Obfuscated Occupation: Mr. Aino is described as a salaryman, but that's a catch-all term that doesn't tell us anything specific. It's never revealed what kind of company he works for or what he does for them.
• Only Sane Man: Given the way Mrs. Aino and Minako behave, especially towards each other, Mr. Aino is probably the most rational person in the house.
• Opposites Attract: One is nagging, aggressive, and controlling while the other is calm, warm-hearted, and submits to his wife's demands.
• Out of Focus: They were fairly significant characters in Codename: Sailor V but aren't even seen anywhere else. At best, they might get mentioned in passing in the rest of the franchise.
• Parents in Distress. In Codename: Sailor V, Mrs. Aino was sometimes a Dark Agency victim.
• Quit Your Whining: Mrs. Aino whenever Minako complains about having to study.
• Salaryman: Mr. Aino is a fairly average salaryman, which is why his wife calls him unsuccessful.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: They vanish after Minako decides to team up with the other Guardians.

Keiko Tomoe

Keiko Tomoe

Voiced by: Shino Kakinuma (Crystal) (JP)

Hotaru's late mother who perished in the same fire that Hotaru was caught in when she was little. Like other deceased parents in the series, she's only seen in flashbacks or photographs, and little is known about her.

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• Death by Origin Story: Died in the same fire that seriously injured Hotaru when she was younger.
• Missing Mom: Just like Rei and Makoto's mothers, she died years before her daughter first appears, so she only appears in a flashback.
• Posthumous Character: She died years before the series takes place.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Due to flashbacks, photographs and supplementary materials, we know that she and Hotaru look very much alike.

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