Characters / Sailor Moon Juuban Municipal Junior High School

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 students and staff of Juuban Municipal Junior High School in Sailor Moon.

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In General

• Ascended Extra: At least for the first half of the first anime season compared to the manga. Since the anime took its time introducing the other Sailor Guardians, Usagi's school life and classmates was given more focus.
• 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.
• Cast Herd: Usagi and her class form a cast herd that gets a lot of focus early on, mostly Naru, Umino, and Haruna, with Yumiko, Kuri, and a bunch of background students to fill it out. Usagi, Naru, and Umino are a sub-herd in the form of Two Guys and a Girl. In later episodes, it was reduced to just Naru and Umino as Those Two Guys and a minor Official Couple.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Gradually, everyone at this school except Usagi, Ami, and Makoto vanished. In Haruna's case, it's justified (see below), and many fans assume that Naru and Umino went to a different high school, but there's no explanation for what happened to students who didn't appear after the first season.
• Demoted to Extra: It's more noticeable in the '90s anime where Usagi's class appeared much more in early episodes, but they all started appearing less and less as the other Sailor Guardians joined Usagi. Naru and Umino made it to the fourth season, but only made sporadic appearances starting in the Black Moon arc.
• Designated Victim: In the early episodes, enemy plots tended to involved at least one person from Usagi's school, whether directly or indirectly.
• Dub Name Change: Juuban Junior High School is called "Crossroads Junior High School" in the DIC English Dub.
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: None of the Sailor Guardians mourn their other friends 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.
• Four-Girl Ensemble: Usagi and her non-Sailor girlfriends form one at the start of the series before her teammates show up. Usagi is the sweetly naïve one, Yumiko is the pretty, fashionable one, Kuri is the masculine one, and Naru is the wise and admirable one.
• Four-Man Band: The four (original) main characters in Usagi's class fit the roles pretty well during the first anime season.
  • Only Sane Man: Naru (levelheaded, serves as a foil to her class' antics).
  • The Smart Guy: Umino (Know-Nothing Know-It-All nerd who flaunts his top grades).
  • Casanova Wannabe: Haruna (obsessed with finding a husband).
  • Butt-Monkey: Usagi (clumsy and ditzy Loser Protagonist).
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Usagi and her girlfriends:
  • Sanguine: Usagi (cheerful, energetic, fun-loving).
  • Choleric: Yumiko (blunt and passionate).
  • Melancholic: Kuri (studious and critical).
  • Phlegmatic: Naru (kind, thoughtful, easy to get along with).
• Junior High: It says so in the name. The school covers grade seven though nine, the norm for Asian countries like Japan.
• Muggles: Three of the school's students are Sailor Guardians, but, other than three temporary students who only appeared in the '90s anime (Ail, An, and Ryo), the rest of the students and teachers have no magic powers at all.
• Out of Focus: Around midway through the first season, the characters at Usagi's school were used less and less, despite how important Usagi's school life seemed to be to the story early on, and even despite the fact that two of her new teammates went to the same junior high.
• Sailor Fuku: The girl's uniform at this school. In fact, Sailor Moon's outfit is basically a modified version of this particular sailor fuku's design.
• Social Circle Filler: Usagi's class mostly exists to show that she's got a lot of friends at the start of the series before the others show up. However, Naru, Umino, and Haruna were given a fair bit of focus and development in the original anime.
• Town Girls: Short-haired, casually-dressed Kuri is butch, long-haired, fashion-loving Yumiko is femme, and average Nice Girl Naru is neither.
• Two-Teacher School: Haruna is Usagi's teacher and... that's all we ever see. Unless you count a one-shot first anime-exclusive home economics teacher.

Students — manga and anime

Naru Osaka

Naru Osaka (Molly Baker)

^{Click to see her in the 90s anime} 

Voiced by: Shino Kakinuma (original series), Satomi Sato (Crystal) (JP), Mary Long (DiC and Cloverway), Danielle Judovits (under Danielle Nicole) (Viz) (EN) ^{Foreign VAs}  Cristina Camargo (LatAm), Cristina Cavalinhos (PT), Melise de Winter (NL)
Portrayed in PGSM by: Chieco Kawabe
Portrayed in the musicals by: Yuka Yamauchi

Usagi's original friend from her junior high school who is friendly, sweet and always by Usagi's side. She is featured more in the '90s anime than in the manga, given new character arcs that weren't in the manga, such as falling in love with Nephrite. She is also very popular in school with the students because her mother owns a jewellery shop, but her friendship with Usagi drifts away and becomes closer friends with Umino, before being written out of the story completely.

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• Academic Athlete: According to Usagi, she is smart (known to get above-average grades in school) and she also seems to have some athletic ability. The original anime shows playing tennis with her Cool Big Sis Rui, but the albums say that volleyball is her sport of choice.
• Accent Adaptation: Her original English dub counterpart "Molly" has a thick New York accent.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: The dynamic with Nephrite and Naru in The '90s anime. Naru knows he isn't a good person and is aware that he has tried to use her, particularly since he tells her as much. Yet she admits to a worried Usagi that she can't help loving him. Then Nephrite turns out to not be a monster... only to die in her arms.
• Ascended Extra: In the first season of the '90s anime and the live-action, she has a bigger role than in the manga.
• Badass Normal: Despite how often she gets targeted by the villains, Naru has quite a number of achievements listed in the "Moments of Awesome" page.
• Beta Couple: With Umino during the first two seasons once they get together. After that, Haruka and Michiru displace them in the role as they get Demoted to Extra.
• Beware the Nice Ones: She's a very nice person, but she can be pushed too far when it comes to Umino's thoughtlessness. Also, she has attempted to protect both of her love interests from enemy attacks.
• Big "NO!": Lets out a few of these when Nephrite dies.
• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The redhead to Usagi's blonde and Umino's brunet.
• Break the Cutie: The deal with Nephrite sends her into an Heroic BSoD and it takes her a while to get better.
• Bridal Carry: In the first anime, the villain Nephrite does this with Naru after he rescues her from Zoisite, which is what starts his Heel–Face Turn.
• Butt-Monkey: Of the Designated Victim variety. In her case, it's not played for laughs, especially considering how her storyline with Nephrite turned out.
• The Cameo: In the manga and Crystal, after the end of the Dark Kingdom arc, her appearances tended to be minor cameos.
• Character Development: Happens twice:
  • She Took a Level in Badass to tell off the Sailor Guardians for not having faith in her belief in Nephrite's goodness, and managed to get him to reform voluntarily. Later, after grieving, she managed to move on from him.
  • Naru starts dating Umino without the Nephrite angst and concludes on her own that Usagi is involved with the week's happenings. Instead of confronting Usagi about it, she reassures her they'll see each other at school the next day after a huge battle with the Black Moon clan.
• Cosmic Plaything: In the original anime. Fans have theorized that she has some kind of innate ability to attract trouble. If it's not enough that she's the Weirdness Magnet and the Designated Victim, right after she finds love with Nephrite, he gets killed. Nephrite even concludes that she attracts youma because of her bond with Sailor Moon. And when the other girls show up, they gradually push Naru out of Usagi's life. In fact, the only reason she stops being a victim later on is that their longtime friendship is torn apart and keeps her out of the way. It's almost as if the universe was toying with her to get her away from Usagi.
• Damsel in Distress: She needs to be saved from a Monster of the Week attack fairly regularly.
• A Day in the Limelight: Although she is Demoted to Extra in the Black Moon arc, she does get two focus episodes later:
  • The sixth episode of the third season focuses on Naru and Umino's relationship problems and has them enter and win a couples contest to prove their love for each other.
  • In the fourth episode of the fourth season, Tiger's Eye targets Naru for her Dream Mirror and causes more problems in her relationship with Umino.
• Demoted to Extra: Ever since the end of the Alien arc of season R. And she and Umino were still luckier than Yumiko and Kuri, who never made it past the original series. Averted in the live-action; it's as if she knew that she was gonna be replaced as Usagi's BFF and struggled not to let that happen.
• Designated Victim: She always seems to attract a Monster of the Week within minutes of appearing on screen, probably because she is one of Usagi's only non-superpowered friends. The very first episode of Sailor Moon R even had Luna and Artemis Breaking the Fourth Wall to comment on the frequency of her being attacked by monsters.
• Does Not Like Spam: Lemons. Thanks to the Nakayoshi Anime Albums, she and Haruna are the only civilians who get the same level of All There in the Manual stats as the heroines.
• Dub Name Change: The original English dub of the original anime names her Molly Baker.
• Expy: Of Hikaru from Codename: Sailor V. Both are the Muggle Best Friend of the main character.
• Fiery Redhead: Subverted, she's more of The Cutie, though she did have two or three moments.
• Four-Girl Ensemble: A part of one with Usagi, Yumiko and Kuri early on. She appears to be the wisest and most admirable one of the group.
• From Dress to Dressing: After Nephrite is attacked in the '90s anime, she uses a piece of her pajamas to make a bandage for him. After he dies and disappears, she keeps the bandage until giving it to Umino, symbolizing how she is moving on to him.
• Genre Savvy: Poor Naru gets attacked so many times that by season two, she seems to have figured out that her role in the story is being the Designated Victim. She's actually wary when she gets invited to an audition. And rightfully so because she got attacked again.
• The Ghost: In the musicals. She did not appear at all in the musicals' original run, although she was mentioned in the first musical by Nephrite regarding his love for her. Finally averted as of 2018 when she finally appears onstage in the Nogizaka46 musical.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: She's mostly the girly girl to Usagi's tomboy, but also has some tomboyish traits like playing tennis and occasional Tsundere moments.
• Go Through Me: Usagi once tried to use her tiara attack against Nephrite but had to stop the attack when Naru put herself between them because of her love for him.
• Heroic BSoD: Goes through a bit of one in episode 22 because he shows her both affection and coldness and doesn't know whether or not his feelings are genuine.
• Heroic Bystander: In both the first series and S, trying to get the energy-sucking plant out of Nephrite despite being affected by them herself and then trying to protect Umino from a Monster of the Week which was after his Pure Heart.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Usagi, before she gets Demoted to Extra.
• Hollywood Tone-Deaf: In the seventh episode of the original anime, she and Usagi sing the theme song, but are badly off-key.
• Horrifying the Horror: The Plant Sisters attack Nephrite and run him through with electrified barbs in his chest. Naru grabs two of them with her bare hands trying to pull them out. Nephrite and the Plant Sisters are all horrified when they start coming out, despite Naru only being a human. It's not enough to save Nephrite, sadly.
• Human Shield: Tries to act like one for Nephrite when Sailor Moon tries to attack him.
• In Spite of a Nail: At the end of the first season after everything is reset, Naru and Umino still became a couple without the Nephrite arc.
• Invisible Parents: The only reason we know her father exists is that Naruru mentions using his credit card in "Chibi-Usa's Picture Diary".
• Joisey: She speaks with a heavy New Yorker/Jersey Accent in the first English Dub.
• The Lancer: To Usagi at the start, since she is initially her closest friend and foil.
• Lightning Glare: She and Usagi do this to each other in one episode of the original anime.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Doesn't know of Usagi's identity as Sailor Moon, though she may have become aware of it in the R season. At the very least, she knows she is part of something important and that Usagi doesn't want Naru to ask what. Which Naru accepts.
• Morality Pet: In the '90s anime, she becomes one for Nephrite, triggering his Redemption Equals Death.
• Muggle Best Friend: To Usagi. They have been best friends for some time before Usagi awakens as Sailor Moon, and Naru has no magic powers.
• Nice Girl: She is very sweet, kind and caring to all of her friends.
• Official Couple: In the '90s anime with Umino, once they get their Relationship Upgrade.
• Only Sane Woman: Seems to be the most normal and well-adjusted member of her social circle. It's not that hard to be this when your two closest friends are Cloudcuckoolanders.
• Orange/Blue Contrast: Whether it's her orange hair contrasting against her eyes, bow and school uniform or her casual clothes with an orange top against a blue skirt and leggings, this is her color combination most of the time.
• Or Was It a Dream?: At the end of the first episode, Naru tells Usagi all about the "dream" she had about being saved from a monster by a beautiful warrior.
• Out of Focus: Pretty much all the civilian cast went this route, but Naru probably got hit the hardest. In the early episodes of the first anime, she was a semi-major character, as Usagi's best friend, but by the second season, she almost disappeared once Usagi started hanging out with the Sailor Guardians and she lost her importance.
• Pajama-Clad Hero: In the episode "Naru's Tears: Nephrite Dies for Love" Naru/Molly is kidnapped at night while she was sleeping. For the remainder of the episode, she is stuck in her pajamas and barefoot. Once she is rescued by Nephrite, she notices his arm is injured. To help him, she rips off part of her pajama shirt and ties it around his arm.
• Personality Blood Types: Type AB. Like a lot of characters with this type, she's very rational and sociable, but her personality is a bit hard to pin down (though in her case it's partly because she's so out of focus and underdeveloped).
• Plucky Girl: Becomes one whenever things get serious about her friends, even if it means she might get hurt. And since Naru is a muggle, it's all the more epic when she does it. For example, she refuses to back down from her Cool Big Sis Rui the tennis player when Rui's acting all aggressive and threatening from Nephrite's spell.
• Proper Tights with a Skirt: Worn as her casual clothes in the '90s anime.
• Say My Name: Cries out Nephrite's name as he dies in episode 24 .
• Second Love: For Umino once he gets over his unrequited crush on Usagi, who was also her second love after what happened to Nephrite.
• Secret-Keeper: In Crystal, it's all but stated that she knows it and the Sailor Guardians know she knows, as Mamoru tells them to deal with a Daimon in her presence.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: It is heavily implied during R/the Black Moon arc that Naru had figured out Usagi's identity as Sailor Moon since she knows that Usagi is part of something unusual and important, but that Usagi doesn't want her to ask about it, so she complies as to not put pressure on her.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Chibi-Usa's Picture Diary introduces her elementary school sister Naruru, a flashy and tanned Cosplay Otaku Gyaru Girl who's rather popular with boys. This is entirely in contrast with Naru, who's a rather plain girl and more conservatively dressed.
• Signature Headgear: Always wears her trademark hairbow.
• Significant Birth Date: She was born on New Year's Day. Contrast Usagi who was born midway through the year.
• Social Circle Filler: In the manga and Crystal mostly where she serves to give Usagi a best friend before the other Sailor Guardians come along. Less so in the '90s anime and the live-action where her role is increased and lengthened.

• Straight Man: Often plays the sensible and serious one to balance out the goofy antics of Usagi and Umino.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Naru inherited a lot of her features, such as her hair and eye colors, from her mother.
• Those Two Guys: She and Umino become this after the other Sailor Guardians start showing up.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly girl to Usagi's tomboy, despite Usagi not being that boyish.
• Too Good to Be True: She says this in the first episode. Her mother is oddly into selling the store's expensive jewelry at high discounts. Good for business but odd. It turns out that Morga replaced her mother and the real jewels with clever fakes that steal the customers' energy.
• Town Girls: The neither to Kuri's butch and Yumiko's femme.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Stewed food, according to the Nakayoshi Anime Albums.
• Troubled Fetal Position: Naru is seen twice like this. The first time she's sitting on the bottom of a slide on such a position, as she and Usagi discuss Sanjoin/Nephrite's actions against Naru. The second, she's cutrling up in her bedroom after Nephrite's Redemption Equals Death as Usagi and Umino try to comfort her.
• True Blue Femininity: In the first anime, she is no more or less likely to wear blue than any average teen (she only wears it often because of her school uniform), but Crystal settled on a blue hairbow for her rather than switching colors all the time.
• Tsundere: Very light Type B, towards Umino after they become a couple.
• Two Girls and a Guy: With Usagi and Umino before Usagi stops hanging out with them.
• Unexplained Accent: It's never clear why a girl who lives in Tokyo would have a New York accent.
• Unfazed Everyman: Being best friends with Sailor Moon and a victim or witness of so many attacks, she has become this regarding the Sailor Guardians and youma.
• Weirdness Magnet: She is the victim of more enemy attacks than any other civilian.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: After being attacked so many times, Nephrite was the one good thing that came out of her being Sailor Moon's Muggle Best Friend, but he gets killed shortly afterwards. At least her next relationship worked out much better.

Gurio Umino

Gurio Umino (Melvin Butlers)

^{Click to see him in the 90s anime} 

Voiced by: Keiichi Nanba (original series), Daiki Yamashita (Crystal) (JP), Roland Parliament (DiC and Cloverway), Ben Diskin (Viz) (EN) ^{Foreign VAs}  Isabel Wolmar (PT), Genaro Vásquez (LatAm)
Portrayed in the musicals by: Marina Tanoue

He's the tousle-haired friend of Usagi and Naru who is a student at their junior high school. He is a bespectacled nerd who is a goofball and a clever student with excellent grades. He nursed a crush on Usagi at first, and tried several ways to impress her (such as memorably trying to be a bad boy), but then grew out of it much later.

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• Adaptational Attractiveness:
  • While still the short guy with Spiky Hair and Opaque Nerd Glasses, his face shape and haircut look more akin to the standard character designs of the other characters than to the more cartoonish, round-faced messy-haired kid he is in the manga and 90's anime.
  • In the Nogizaka46 Musical, Umino, as portrayed by Marina Tanoue, forgoes the Opaque Nerd Glasses for standard Nerd Glasses and has a more Endearingly Dorky look to him compared to his drawn counterparts.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: Both anime series give him brown hair. It's blonde in the manga.
• Adapted Out: Does not appear in the live-action.
• Amusing Injuries: He receives a lot of these in the original anime. For example, after he insensitively brings up Naru's lost love, Usagi punches him in the head and knocks him right to the floor. He immediately gets up unscathed.
• Ascended Extra: Like Naru, his role is somewhat bigger in the '90s anime.
• Beautiful All Along: In the manga, the Sailor Guardians wonder if this trope would apply to Umino if he removed his specs, complete with a Bishōnen Umino Imagine Spot. According to Naoko Takeuchi, the trope does indeed apply to Umino too.
• Beta Couple: With Naru during the first two seasons once they get together. After that, Haruka and Michiru displace them in the role as they get Demoted to Extra.
• The B Grade: In the first episode/act, he reveals that he only got a 95 on a test, which to him is a big disappointment.
• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The brunet to Usagi's blonde and Naru's redhead.
• Book Smart: Despite his annoying and goofy personality, he gets excellent grades.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: The second episode of the original anime had a youma disguised as a fortune teller cast a spell on him that makes him go crazy with love and do things even he wouldn't dare do.
• Brainy Brunette: Has brown hair in both anime series and is a brainy nerd.
• Butt-Monkey: His friends and classmates tend to treat him this way in earlier episodes because they find him so annoying.
• The Cameo: In the manga and Crystal, after the end of the Dark Kingdom arc, his appearances tended to be minor cameos.
• Chivalrous Pervert: At least before he gets a girlfriend. He fantasizes about the women in his life, is not above hitting on them, but seems to genuinely care about them and wouldn't hurt them on purpose. The only time he ever crosses a line is the skirt-flipping incident with Haruna and that only happened while he was under an evil spell.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Is undoubtedly the strangest of Usagi's non-Sailor friends. He says and does some pretty odd things, like describing getting his hand caught in a leather purse as him being bitten by an alligator.
• Coat, Hat, Mask: His attempt at imitating Tuxedo Mask. It counts because his Opaque Nerd Glasses cover his eyes the same way as any mask would.
• Composite Character:
  • Possibly in the original English manga releases. Chibi-Usa's nerdy classmate Sorano was also called Melvin (they share the same given name in the Japanese version, but the translators likely didn't know that because he was only ever called Sorano in the manga itself). Aside from a difference in height, the two look almost identical in the manga, so it was easy enough to pass them off as the same character.
  • With Motoki in the live-action. He didn't appear in that series, so his role as the awkward and comical friend was given to Motoki.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: After he starts dating Naru, he acts this way about her to a mild extent.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He may act like a goofy Cloudcuckoolander in his everyday life, but when the chips are down, he will do anything to protect the one he loves.
• A Day in the Limelight: Although he is Demoted to Extra in the Black Moon arc, he and Naru become the focus of one Death Busters episode where they enter a couples contest and he is targeted for his Pure Heart Crystal.
• Demoted to Extra: Along with Naru after the first season. They start as Usagi's closest friends, only to be sidelined and reduced to Those Two Guys when the other Sailor Guardians show up.
• Distressed Dude: Is one of the victims of the week in the third season targeted for his Pure Heart Crystal.
• Ditzy Genius: Gets almost perfect grades in school without really trying, yet when it comes to anything outside of school, he rarely shows any common sense.
• Diving Save: Does this for Naru in episode 26 of the first season, then jumps in the way to protect her again in S (after which she gets in the way, trying to protect him).
• Dogged Nice Guy: For Usagi. By the time he falls for Naru though, he drops the most annoying traits.
• Dragged into Drag: Naru convinces him to wear a pink dress for their talent act in the seventh episode of the '90s anime.
• Drowning My Sorrows: Parodied in Super S, when he attempts it with milkshakes. Chibi-Usa's grossed out face says all.
• Drunk on Milk: When Naru gets manipulated into dating Tiger's Eye, he tries this with a bunch of milkshakes. Chibi-Usa is grossed out and lampshades the whole thing, even pointing out that typically, people drown their sorrows on sake.
• Dub Name Change: The original English dub of the original anime names him Melvin Butlers.
• Expy: In the forerunner series, Codename: Sailor V, Minako had an otaku pal named Amano who is identical to him, though Amano is much more proactive and able to aide Sailor V on several occasions.
  • He has an in-universe example as he is the Gender-Flipped body double of Princess D.
• Everyone Has Standards: He may hit on girls, but Umino is mortified to learn that he committed sexual harassment and vandalism when he was brainwashed.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Early on, the girls only tolerate his annoying ways, though they let him hang around with them anyway. In the '90s anime, they warm up to him a little once he starts dating Naru. Played straight in the Manga and Crystal, every time he shows up onscreen has at least one person getting angry at his mere presence.
• The Glasses Gotta Go: After Usagi sees how attractive Princess D is without her glasses, she wonders (correctly) if the same would hold true for Umino.
• Gossipy Hens: Male version. He'll often gossip along with his female friends about new arrivals and events in town.
• Heroic Bystander: In both the first series and S, he tries to defend Naru from a Monster of the Week. The second time, the monster was specifically targeting him.
• Heroic Wannabe: Tries to emulate Tuxedo Mask by dressing like him and calling himself Tuxedo Umino Mask in order to protect Naru. While he's no match for the monster, you gotta admire his spirit about it.
• Innocently Insensitive: For example, when Usagi and Umino went to visit Naru after Nephrite's death, Umino casually said, "I thought you didn't go to school because you were sick, but I see it was just heartbreak," resulting in Usagi hitting him. Once they gone out, he didn't take (or didn't seem anyway) into consideration Naru's feelings. Later on, however, he hinted to have felt bad because of this trope. Thanks to Character Development, he became a bit less of this trope later on. In the same scene, he tried to comfort Naru... by mentioning Nephrite's disappearance.
• In Spite of a Nail: At the end of the first season after everything is reset, Naru and Umino still became a couple without the Nephrite arc.
• Insufferable Genius: One of the top students in his class, he isn't above flaunting his grades to his friends.
• In Touch with His Feminine Side: A nerdy/bespectacled/non-athletic guy whose close friends all seem to be girls. He's into things like gossip, doesn't hide his romantic notions and at one point in the '90s anime he even dons a pink dress.
• Keet: He's pretty excitable in telling his buddies about stuff he's experienced, much to their annoyance. Even after he gets a Relationship Upgrade with Naru, he still doesn't give up his excitable ways.
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All: He is an academic genius, but he often acts like he also knows a lot more outside of school than he really does, and he tries to keep his friends up to date about things whether they want to hear it or not.
• Large Ham: His Viz dubs voice actor Ben Diskin is known for playing these.
• Last-Name Basis: Umino is his surname, but that's what everyone calls him.
• Messy Hair: Not like bedhead-messy, but his hair doesn't seem to lay down.
• Mind-Control Eyes: Glowing yellow ones, from the first time he was a victim to the monster of the week.
• Mr. Exposition: Early on, he would often be the one to talk about new events, people and places that would turn out to be related to the adventure of the week.
• Muggle Best Friend: To a lesser extent than Naru, but he does sometimes share this role with her for Usagi.
• My God, What Have I Done?: After being saved from being brainwashed in the second episode, he feels pretty bad about what he did while brainwashed, even though he wasn't in control of himself.
• Mythology Gag:
  • When Viz redubbed episode 7, while crossdressing, Umino talks like DiC's "Molly", Brooklyn accent and all.
  • In the other episode 7 (Crystal), when Umino tells Usagi, Ami, and Makoto that he was going to catch Sailor Moon, he's blacked out into a silhouette, leaving only his eyes and mouth glowing yellow. This is much like how Professor Souichi Tomoe appeared in the third season of the first Sailor Moon series.
• Negated Moment of Awesome: The time where he tries to protect Naru as Tuxedo Melvin, he gets tossed aside easily by the monster.
• Nerds Are Sexy: Although he is a more stereotypical nerd, his glasses hide just how attractive he really is.
• Nice Guy: His Innocently Insensitive moments aside, Umino is generally a very decent guy.
• Official Couple: In the '90s anime with Naru, once they get their Relationship Upgrade.
• The One Guy: Of Usagi's circle of friends at the start of the series.
• One of the Girls: Umino practically always pals around with girls and is not a very masculine guy. The only male friend he is known to have is Kurume Suri, and he only appears in one of the specials/side stories.
• Opaque Nerd Glasses: His glasses look like a pair of large discs with spiral patterns that engulf the entire top-half of his face.
• Otaku: He's called this several times by other characters.
• Plucky Comic Relief: Provides much of the humor in Usagi's everyday life due to his nerdiness, cloudcuckoolander tendencies and the way he annoys his friends, at least during the first season. Because he was Demoted to Extra, the role of comic relief later shifted more to characters like Minako and Chibi-Usa.
• Poor Man's Substitute: In-Universe in episode 32 of season 1 when he misinterprets Usagi's advice and appears as "Tuxedo Umino Mask" to protect Naru from the youma. He is the least efficient "super hero" in the world and gets immediately be beaten up within seconds without accomplishing anything.
• Readings Are Off the Scale: According to Umino in the Viz dub, Ami's IQ is over 9000.
• Second Love: For Naru, who also was his second love, since Umino had a crush on Usagi at first.
• Secret-Keeper: In Crystal it's all but stated that he knows who Sailor Guardians are and they know he knows, as Mamoru tells them to deal with a Daimon in his presence. How and when he found out remains unknown.
• Shoo Out the Clowns: In the manga, the first few acts are a bit more humorous than the rest of the series. Umino, who provides much of the comic relief in the franchise, is practically nonexistent for the rest of the manga.
• The Smart Guy: Of his group of friends. At least in terms of schoolwork where he's one of the top students in their class. Outside of school, though, he's a major subversion.
• Social Circle Filler: Like Naru, he ends up being this in the manga and Crystal to show that Usagi has friends even before she meets the other Guardians.
• Stereotypical Nerd: Smart, academically-focused, wears giant Opaque Nerd Glasses, has messy unkept hair, is a Hopeless Suitor to Usagi, and even amongst his friends he's often considered an annoyance. His genuine excitability and Cloudcuckoolander tendencies, however make him a more sympathetic take on the usual trope.
• Sweetheart Sipping: Usagi, his original crush, does this with him at one point in the first season.
• Teacher/Student Romance: The "hot for teacher" one-sided variant. He was under a spell at the time, but goes through a moment of this towards Haruna and even flips her skirt. Two episodes later, the photos he took at a gym suggest that it might hold true even when he isn't being brainwashed.
• Teen Genius: Fourteen years old at the start of the series, he gets amazing grades without even trying. In fact, when he only gets a 95 on a test, he's actually upset.
• Those Two Guys: He and Naru become this after the other Sailor Guardians start showing up.
• Took a Level in Kindness: He starts out as an Innocently Insensitive Casanova Wannabe, but gradually outgrew this after Nephrite died and Naru started dating him and he became more thoughtful and less annoying toward others.
• Trademark Favorite Food: He especially loves fried shrimp.
• Two Girls and a Guy: With Usagi and Naru before Usagi stops hanging out with them.
• Unfazed Everyman: To a somewhat lesser extent than Naru, but like she, he's gotten accustomed to Sailor Guardian-related weirdness.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With the girls in his class. He's a little Innocently Insensitive to them and they don't try to hide how annoying they think he is, but they still seem to consider each other friends.

Yumiko and Kuri

Yumiko and Kuri (Yumi And Kari)

Yumiko on the left, Kuri on the right

Yumiko voiced by: Mayumi Seto and Chieko Nanba (original series), Hyang-Ri Kim (Crystal) (JP), Stephanie Morgenstern (DiC and Cloverway), Michelle Ruff (Viz) (EN)
Kuri voiced by: Masami Kamiyama and Etsuko Nishimoto (original series), Yukiko Morashita (Crystal) (JP), Katie Griffin (DiC and Cloverway), Julie Ann Taylor (Viz) (EN)

Two girls who are friends and classmates of Usagi and Naru. While the four often hang out at the start of the series, these two mainly serve as Social Circle Filler until the debut of the Sailor Guardians. Yumiko fills her time with typical teen girl interests, while Kuri is more studious.

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• Adaptational Attractiveness: Downplayed, but in their first two incarnations, they were both just generically pretty girls, while Crystal plays up their attractiveness a little by simply putting more detail into their design.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: In Crystal, Kuri's hair is sort of purplish-brown.
• Adaptational Name Change: Possibly in the live-action. Two girls named Kanami Abe and Momoko Kimura who don't appear in any other versions of the series occupy similar roles to Yumiko and Kuri. Based on their appearance, Kanami would be Yumiko, and Momoko would be Kuri.
• Adapted Out: In the live-action, unless you consider Kanami and Momoko the same characters renamed.
• All of the Other Reindeer: Like many other people, they assume that Ami is an Insufferable Genius, Rei is a freak to avoid, and Makoto is a dangerous troublemaker before Usagi befriends them, and so take an initial dislike to them.
• Ambiguously Gay: Yumiko in Crystal. In Act 5, when the girls fantasize about being brides, there's an Imagine Spot that looks kind of like a wedding between her and Usagi. (Usagi is a different trope.) In the manga, Yumiko shares Naru and Usagi's dreams of being a bride, but aside from a certain annoying nerd that she can't stand, she spends all her times around other girls, so Crystal apparently rolled with this.
• Barely-Changed Dub Name: In the original English releases, Yumiko's name is shorted to Yumi, and Kuri is changed to Kari.
• Bit Character: Never featured majorly, never even got A Day in the Limelight, so their roles are often limited to just one or two scenes.
• Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: Their act in a talent show in one episode of the original anime, with Yumiko as the boke (the funny one who says stupid things or makes bad jokes) and Kuri as the tsukkomi (the serious straight man).
• Boyish Short Hair: Kuri has much shorter hair than her friends. Crystal makes her hairstyle look even more boyish than usual.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Even earlier than most other supporting characters. Though in Crystal, they appear as late as the final Dark Kingdom episode.
• Curtains Match the Window: In Crystal, Kuri's dull purple hair is the same color as her eyes.
• Cute Bookworm: Kuri. When she's not hanging out with her friends for their typical girl activities, she's busy hitting the books and cramming for school.
• Cuteness Proximity: When the Dark Kingdom exploits this in one of their plans, Yumiko and Kuri are among those who get caught up in the chanela craze and become obsessed with these small furry creatures.
• The Dividual: In The '90s anime. While they can appear separately, they seem to only differ visually. Averted in the manga and Crystal where they are still Those Two Guys but are treated as individuals with their own personalities.
• Dub Name Change: The original English releases renamed them Yumi and Kari respectively.
• The Fashionista: Yumiko loves shopping for clothes or jewelry. When she sees a beautiful outfit for sale, she imagines herself wearing one like it, and she tends to dress better than her friends in her street clothes.
• Flanderization: In all appearances, they are Those Two Guys who would make remarks about new people, places, or events in town and be suspicious about the wrong people, but that was pretty much everything about their characters that made it into the '90s anime adaptation. In the manga and Crystal, Kuri was also a diligent student who went to the same cram school as Ami, while Yumiko was a typical teen girl who was all about shopping, clothes, and romance. The '90s anime did away with these distinct personalities, turning them into The Dividual.
• Four-Girl Ensemble: They form one with Usagi and Naru early on. Kuri's the somewhat mannish one, while Yumiko's more traditionally pretty and feminine.
• Girliness Upgrade: Iin The '90s anime, Kuri got a slightly girlier look and was as likely to gossip as Yumiko. Crystal gave her back her manga personality.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Yumiko doesn't seem to mind playing sports with her classmates at recess.
• Goofy Print Underwear: In the '90s anime, Yumiko owns at least one pair of strawberry-print panties. She isn't seen wearing it, but she does use for a gag when she and Kuri try their hand at being stand-up comediennes.
• Gossipy Hens: Mainly Yumiko, who tends to gossip about anyone or anything new she's heard about. Though in anime, Kuri has her moments.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With each other. They are best friends who spend most of their time together.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Not only do they assume that Ami, Rei, and Makoto are terrible or troublesome people, they never once suspect the people who really are involved with the Dark Kingdom, so they end up falling for their evil plans.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: They are initially suspicious and unaccepting of the Sailor Guardians, but they genuinely believe the rumors about them and don't want their friends to have any trouble from them. They also only act this way until people get to know the Guardians.
• Loners Are Freaks: They seem to genuinely believe this, as they initially critical and suspicious of Ami, Rei, and Makoto. Maybe this is why the two are rarely separated.
• Long Hair Is Feminine: Yumiko's well-below-shoulder-length hair shows this.
• Lovable Alpha Bitch: Yumiko is a mild example. She's a typical girly girl, all about clothes and shopping, who is critical of people she is thinks are freaks or weirdos, although she does warm up to people easily, and she seems to be the dominant one of the pair.
• Mirror Character: Despite their outlook of the Inner Guardians before they get to know them, they mirror two of them: Makoto and Ami.
  • Yumiko loves shopping for clothes and dreams of being a bride, just like Makoto, and their friendships with Kuri and Ami respectively parallel each other. However, Yumiko is already a true Girly Girl, while Makoto tries to be one but has some tomboyish traits to overcome.
  • Kuri and Ami both have Boyish Short Hair, go to Cram School together, and are the most studious girls in their respective groups of friends. The only real difference is that Kuri lacks Ami's shyness and is much more sociable.
  • Both pairs of girls have a strong bond with each other despite their differences, and all four all act as Usagi's entourage of close friends.
• Ms. Exposition: On occasions when Umino's not doling out info on anything new in town, one of them is likely to do it.
• Named by the Adaptation: Possibly in the live-action. They never got official last names in any version, but their live-action counterparts did. Going by that, if you consider them the same characters with different names and take their surnames as canon, that would make them Yumiko Abe and Kuri Kimura.
• Only One Name: Their surnames are never given in the manga, either anime series, or even the Materials Collection.
• Pink Means Feminine: Yumiko in The '90s anime. Her only appearance out of her school fuku is an all-pink outfit.
• Ship Tease: In Crystal, Yumiko gets a moment of this with Usagi. In Act 5, when the girls discuss being brides, Usagi and Yumiko share an Imagine Spot of the two of them standing side by side in wedding dresses surrounded by red roses with no grooms in sight.
• The Smart Guy: Kuri somewhat shares the role with Umino in their group, since she seems to care more about her grades than the other girls do.
• Social Circle Filler: They hang out regularly with Usagi until the other Sailors show up and are then promptly forgotten.
• Teens Love Shopping: Yumiko is a shopaholic who enjoys looking for new clothes or jewelry. Her friends enjoy their group shopping trips too, but not to the same extent.
• Those Two Guys: To Usagi, Naru, and Umino, before Naru and Umino became this themselves.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Kuri has Boyish Short Hair, is more bookish and studious than Yumiko (she even goes to Cram School with Ami), and dresses somewhat more boyishly than her friends when out of school uniform. Yumiko has long hair, wears girly outfits, acts like a gossipy teen, and dreams of being a bride.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Kuri isn't that masculine, just more so than Naru or Yumiko, and she still shares their love for some girly things like sparkly jewelry.
• Took a Level in Kindness: While they start out dismissive of Usagi's new friends, they do warm up them once they find out that the rumors about them aren't true. In episode 27, they're seen playing ball with Ami and Makoto.
• Town Girls: Kuri is the butch and Yumiko is the femme to Naru's neither.
• True Blue Femininity: Kuri in the first anime (as part of her Girliness Upgrade), Yumiko in Crystal (to show she's the Girly Girl of the two). Technically, their whole class wears blue because of the uniform (bright blue for the girls, dark blue for the boys), but here, it extends to their street clothes.

Students — anime only

Usagi's Fat Friend

"Usagi's Fat Friend" (Loraine)

Voiced by: Mayumi Seto (JP), Kathleen Laskey (DiC), Colleen O'Shaughnessey (Viz) (EN) ^{Foreign VAs}  Belinda Martinez (LatAm)

Another girl in Usagi's class. Distinguished by being chubbier than most girls in the series (hence why she's called Usagi's Fat Friend in the credits). Despite being a recurring character, the writers never gave her a name, apart from the original English dubs.

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• Bit Character: Even more so than Yumiko and Kuri. She doesn't even have a proper name! The credits listed her as "Usagi's Fat Friend".
• Canon Foreigner: Created specifically for The '90s anime.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: And it means she probably won’t every appear again because she was only created for the first adaptation. Though unlike Yumiko or Kuri, she wasn't quite limited to the first season; her last appearance is a brief crowd scene cameo in the second season premier.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": She's always referred to as "Usagi's Fat Friend" in the credits. Averted in the Canadian dub where she's named Loraine in the credits.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: She's Usagi's friend and she's fat.
• Fat and Skinny: She is typically seen alongside her skinnier friend "Brandy".
• Gonk: Averted. She's chubby but not in any way ugly, being the more cute-looking variety of chubbiness.
• Named by the Dub: Didn't get a name in the original Japanese version. The original English dub named her "Loraine".
• No Name Given: Not even the credits give her one. Except in some dubs, Usagi's Fat Friend is all she is ever known as.
• Only One Female Mold: Averted in her case due to her being chubbier than the other girls, but other than her, there's very little difference in build for any of the other girls except height.
• Social Circle Filler: Along with Yumiko and Kuri, she only serves as Usagi's friend until her teammates come along.
• Those Two Guys: With a nameless friend and classmate of hers, Usagi's and Naru's (called Brandy in the DiC dubs) in a few appearances.
• Weight Woe: She's not that much fatter than the rest of the girls, but still noticeably so and is a bit insecure about it. She seems to have been designed that way because her debut episode revolved around this trope.

Usagi's Skinny Friend

"Usagi's Skinny Friend" (Brandy)

Voiced by: Naoko Nakamura (JP); Stephanie Morgenstern (DiC), Julie Ann Taylor (Viz) (EN)

Another friend of Usagi's at the start of the series. Made to be a counterpart to Usagi's Fat Friend (hence why she's called Usagi's Skinny Friend), she doesn't seem to do much beyond hanging out with her friends. She appears in only three episodes.

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• Canon Foreigner: Didn't appear in the manga.
• Fat and Skinny: She is typically seen alongside her fatter friend "Loraine".
• Living Prop: After her debut in the weight loss episode, she briefly reappears in episodes 17 and 36 but doesn't do much besides just standing there with the group, and we don't know anything about her, not even her name.
• Named by the Adaptation: Like her friend "Loraine", she is Brandy in the DiC dub.
• No Name Given: Even worse than Usagi's fat friend, the series doesn't give fans anything to call her. She's just credited as "Female". "Usagi's skinny friend" comes from appearing with and contrasting "Usagi's fat friend".
• The Quiet One: Probably the least talkative of Usagi's non-Sailor Guardian friends.
• Social Circle Filler: Emphasis on the word filler. All she does is add another person to the group.
• Those Two Guys: With Usagi's fat friend. She never appears without her (although the latter can appear without this character).
• Youthful Freckles: A middle school student and a rare case of a Sailor Moon character having freckles.

Rui Saionji

Rui Saionji: (Katie Sandler)

Voiced by: Satoko Kitou (JP), Nadine Rabinovitch (DiC), Colleen O'Shaughnessey (Viz) (EN)

A famous tennis player and a childhood friend and an honorary big sister to Naru. She began the trend of enemies targeting a single individual for their wants.

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• Big Sister Instinct: A flashback shows that she was always protective of Naru, who is a year younger than her, when other kids picked on her.
• Canon Foreigner: Only appears in the 90s anime.
• Cool Big Sis: To Naru. Naru calls Rui her "big sister", which confuses Usagi at first because Naru's mother didn't have any kids before Naru.
• Childhood Friend: She and Naru are childhood friends because their mothers are friends.
• Dub Name Change: Katie Sandler in the DiC dub.
• Lovable Jock: Female example. She goes to the same school as Usagi and the girls, a grade above them, and is the star of the school tennis club.
• One-Shot Character: Only appears in one episode and is never mentioned again.
• Passionate Sports Girl: She's a famous tennis player who is very enthusiastic about her career and even introduced Naru to the sport when Naru was little.
• Tomboyish Ponytail: A sporty girl who wears a ponytail.
• Victim of the Week: She was effectively the first true example in the series. Before her, Jadeite would just attack random groups instead of targeting a specific person like Nephrite did starting with Rui.

Ryo Urawa

Ryo Urawa (Greg)

Voiced by: Shinichirou Ohta (JP), Eric Kimmel (DiC), Vic Mignogna (Viz) (EN) ^{Foreign VAs}  Yamil Atala (LatAm)

A temporary student at Juuban Municipal Junior High School and the only student known to beat Ami on a test. He has precognition, so he already knew that he's the reincarnation of Bunbo, one of the Seven Great Youma. Although there was some romantic chemistry between him and Ami in their two episodes together, he always seems to end up leaving her.

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• Adorably Precocious Child: Pulls this off despite being 14 already. He's very intelligent and still has a boyishly youthful look for his age.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: Most characters have very thin eyebrows, but his are quite thick by comparison.
• Boy of the Week: He serves as a brief love interest to Ami in the two episodes he appears in, and they even go on at least one date, but he promptly vanishes before they become an official couple.
• Brainy Brunette: Has dark brown hair and is the only student known to score higher on a test than Ami.
• The Bus Came Back: In the anime, he only appears a couple of times in the first season before moving away, but he returns for Another Story.
• Canon Foreigner: Created specifically for The '90s anime.
• Dogged Nice Guy: To Ami, though not as pushy as other examples of the trope. It's mainly because she's shy and has trouble with romance in general, though they do go on one date.
• Dub Name Change: The original English dub of the original anime names him Greg.
• Enemy Within: Bunbo, one of the Seven Great Youma.
• The Fatalist: Mainly because he can see into the future. If it makes him see something bad happening, he pretty much accepts it to be true.
• Forgotten Phlebotinum: He gets to keep his precognitive powers after he loses his Rainbow Crystal and turns back into a human. A lot of later problems could have been averted if the Sailor Guardians relied on his abilities more, but he's forgotten after his second episode.
• Heroic Suicide: Forewarned by his precognitive visions that the Dark Kingdom is coming to extract the Yellow Rainbow Crystal from him and transform him into one of the Seven Great Youma, he plans to die to keep that from happening. When Ami finds out about his plan, she's very displeased, and ultimately manages to talk him out of his plan.
• Last-Name Basis: Often referred to as Urawa instead of Ryo.
• Living MacGuffin: He turns out to be Bunbo, one of the Seven Great Youma, and the carrier of the Yellow Rainbow Crystal.
• Long-Lost Uncle Aesop: He shows up as a Victim of the Week who learns not to be fatalistic or cheat on tests just because he can see the future with perfect accuracy; he's one of the rare few to get a second appearance, but after that, he drops off the face of the earth.
• Military Brat: He is implied to be one of these, hence why he's not around for very long. He moves around a lot because his father gets transferred often.
• Pair the Smart Ones: He's a top-grade student just like Ami.
• Psychic Powers: More exactly, Precognition.
• Put on a Bus: Or better said, on a train. He comes back in the Video Game, Sailor Moon Another Story.
• Reincarnation: The reincarnation of one of the Seven Great Youma.
• Secret-Keeper: One of the few people who know the Sailor Guardians' identities.
• Shrinking Violet: Very shy and insecure.
• Temporary Love Interest: To Ami. There's a mutual attraction while he's around, and they go on at least one date, but he only lasts two episodes before moving away again. Ami doesn't seem bothered by his absence after that.
• Train-Station Goodbye: Ami says goodbye to Ryo this way when he leaves on a train.
• Twice Shy: When he meets the similarly shy genius Ami, only the intervention of Ami's friends (and her saving him from his inner great monster) gets them on a date in one episode.

Teachers

Haruna Sakurada

Haruna Sakurada (Patricia Haruna)

^{Click to see her in the 90s anime} 

Voiced by: Chiyoko Kawashima (original series), Akemi Kanda (Crystal) (JP), Nadine Rabinovitch (DiC and Cloverway), Julie Ann Taylor (under Cricket Brown) (Viz) (EN) ^{Foreign VAs}  Cristina Cavalinhos (PT), Monica Ward (IT)
Portrayed in PGSM by: Tomoko Otakara
Portrayed in the musicals by: Kasumi Hyuuga, Kiho Seishi

The homeroom teacher of Usagi and her friends. She's reached the point in her life where she feels that she needs to find a husband quickly, which causes her to fall for the Dark Kingdom's schemes a number of times. Her behavior flips between mature and childish, often in the same episode: she does her job with precision, to the point of often cracking down on students like Usagi, but she also tries to preserve her youth by acting more like one of the teenage girls in her class.

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• Actually Pretty Funny: At the end of the radio episode, Usagi is writing a love letter to Tuxedo Mask — which Naru snatches off her. Miss Haruna comes into the room and — rather than scolding Usagi for doing it during class — chases the two around the room, just as excited to read the latter as Naru. The English dub changes this to Serena lying that it's homework — which Haruna is still excited to see as Serena's notoriously lazy.
• Adapted Out: Averted in all adaptations. She even appears in the first two musicals, making her the only civilian to appear in every version of the series before Naru and Umino appeared in the Nogizaka46 musical.
• Adaptation Personality Change: While she's a stern rule-enforcer in all continuities, the '90s anime made her much more temperamental, whereas in other versions of the series, her attitude is more controlled.
• Ascended Extra: When you think about it, she had a much bigger role early in The '90s anime than in the manga. Then after the Alien Arc of R, she was Put on a Bus. She has a valid reason for disappearing once the girls moved on to 9th grade.
• Brainy Brunette: Light brown in the Crystal anime and she is a teacher, after all.
• Butt-Monkey: Frequently laments her inability to find a husband. And even beyond that, there's the incident where she thinks she is Defiled Forever.
• Cloudcuckoolander: She has her moments in the live-action.
• Cool Teacher: She's this in the live-action series, albeit a bit downplayed; she is much more laid-back and friendly, but will assign After-School Cleaning Duty if necessary.
• Damsel in Distress: Like Naru, she was a frequent victim of attacks by the Dark Kingdom during the first season.
• Defiled Forever: This is what she believes when the second episode of The '90s anime had Umino (under a monster's influence) flip her skirt up revealing her smiley face panties. She started crying that she wouldn't be able to get married now.
• Designated Victim: A frequent youma victim alongside Naru. Her obsession with finding a husband made her an easy target.
• Does Not Like Spam: Snapping turtle. Thanks to the Nakayoshi Anime Albums, she and Naru are the only civilians who get the same level of All There in the Manual stats as the heroines.
• Dub Name Change: The original English dub of the original anime names him her Patricia Haruna. Yes, her original given name became her dub surname, possibly over confusion by her being called Haruna-sensei.
• Fiery Redhead: Has auburn hair in the 90s anime with a temper to match.
• First-Name Basis: Her students call her Haruna-sensei. The first English dub switched it to make Haruna her last name, though.
• Genki Girl: A rare adult example, but she is a rather excitable woman when not lecturing her students.
• Goofy Print Underwear: The above incident revealed a smiley face on it.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Very strict and known to blow her top if her students do poorly or break rules, but cares for all of them and just wants them to succeed.
• Kick the Dog: In the Season 2 premiere. Usagi was used to Standing in the Hall, and the bucket thing was something that was done in Japanese schools at the time, but she definitely thought her warning Ami away from her was pushing it.
• Large Ham: Whether she's acting overly strict with her students or behaving like an overgrown teenager, Haruna loves chewing the scenery. Her Viz voice actor takes full advantage of this.
• Marilyn Maneuver: In the second episode of the original anime, a brainwashed Umino magically lifts up her skirt from the back, and while she's pulls down the front, the back is raised and her pink panties with a smiley face on the rear are seen.
• Old Maid: And how. She's in a hurry to find a husband, which makes her an easy target for the Dark Kingdom.
• Out-of-Character Alert: Ms. Haruna arrives late for class, tells the kids that they have a free period, and falls asleep. Naru and Umino note that it's very weird and they get worried after the ambulance comes.
• Personality Blood Types: She's type O, fitting her desirous and determined nature (which manifests itself as a search for love), but also her aggressive temperament.
• Pink Means Feminine: Wears pink pretty often, reflecting her vivid personality, romantic side and traditionally feminine vocation.
• Sensei-chan: Frequently acts young for her age and engages in doing rather childish things.
• Skewed Priorities: Haruna nearly has a breakdown when a brainwashed Umino flips her skirt. She laments she won't be able to live it down. A more competent teacher would have kicked Umino out for the day.
• Stern Teacher: Was very exigent towards Usagi, but genuinely cared for her and her friends.
• Temporal Theme Naming: Meta-example. Naoko Takeuchi's other series Codename: Sailor V, The Cherry Project and P.Q. Angels have characters named Natsuna Sakurada, Akina Sakurada and Fuyuna Sakurada. Collectively, they are named after the four seasons.
• Tough Love: She's quite hard on Usagi most of the time, but that's only to help prepare Usagi for her future. Otherwise, she is on good terms with Usagi outside of school hours.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Peaches, according to the Nakayoshi Anime Albums.
• Two-Teacher School: She's basically the one teacher we get to meet during her run in the series.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: The Materials Collection reveals that Haruna is afraid of snakes.
• Womanchild: As stated above, she is shown to be just as childish as Usagi, especially with her boy-crazy tendencies.

Higure Akiyama

Higure Akiyama (Helen Lambert)

Voiced by: Yuko Mita (JP), Maria Ricossa (DiC), G.K. Bowes (Viz) (EN)

Usagi, Ami, and Naru's home economics teacher. Though she is engaged to be married in her episode, she initially lacks the confidence to deal with it. After spending her episode as one of Nephrite's targets, she gets to have her happily ever after.

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• Bouquet Toss: At her wedding, when she tosses a bouquet, Usagi, Rei, and Haruna all jump for it, but it bounces off all their hands and into the arms of Ami. Everyone is surprised by this.
• Canon Foreigner: Only appears in the '90s anime.
• Dub Name Change: Helen Lambert in the DiC dub.
• Fairytale Wedding Dress: Gets to wear one to her wedding.
• Happily Married: Marries her fiancé at the end of her episode.
• Hot Librarian: She's attractive, but because she lacks confidence, she always wears large glasses, dresses modestly, and keeps her hair up in a bun. When she tosses aside this behavior, it's the first hint that something's wrong with her.
• Old Maid: She is seen this way by other people, since it's pointed out that she's 34 years old and still unmarried. However, she gets married in the same episode that introduces her.
• One-Shot Character: Only appears in one episode of the anime.
• Prim and Proper Bun: Usually wears her hair this way.
• Shy Blue-Haired Girl: She has dark blue hair and is pretty timid, so she dresses rather modestly and intellectually.
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: She stands about a head taller than her short, stout fiancé.
• Two-Teacher School: She exists to show that Haruna Sakurada is not the only teacher working Juuban Municipal Junior High School, although she's still the only other teacher seen. She's Usagi, Naru, and Ami's home economics teacher.
• Victim of the Week: She is Nephrite's target in her episode. This causes her to stop acting like her usual self, suddenly acting more assertive and dressing sexily with heavy makeup.

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