History Recap / SailorMoonCrystalEp01UsagiSailorMoon

* InTheNameOfTheMoon: In a mild deviation from the manga, (but in line with TheNineties anime) Sailor Moon premieres her trademark challenge[=/=]{{catchphrase}} here. In the manga, she doesn't get beyond her on-the-fly self-introduction, and perfects the speech in Act 2.

* MakeMeWannaShout: Usagi has always been a crybaby. As Sailor Moon, her crying is now ''weaponized''.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: While still monstrous, Morga is far less horrifying than she was in the manga or first anime and looks more like a villain from an 80s Saturday morning cartoon. Here, she has gray skin, pink hair, pointed teeth, large light red eyes with purple irises, and most strangely, offscreen ClothingDamage that grants full view of her ''cleavage.'' In the first anime she looked like a ''corpse'' with shriveled brown skin, {{Black Eyes|OfEvil}} with yellow irises, and had a tendency to twist her head around 180 degrees like [[Film/TheExorcist Linda Blair]], while the manga made her similarly cadaverous.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Usagi's mother tells her not to bother coming home if she gets low test scores, and kicks her out of the house. (Granted, she's let back in later.)

* RealityEnsues: Usagi gets kicked out of her house by Ikuko after showing her the test grades.

* ClothingDamage: Before Sailor Moon even arrives, MonsterOfTheDay Morga has somehow managed to tear her dress bodice down the middle offscreen in such a way that the audience gets a view of her inexplicably braless cleavage; quite the visual since she's also got her GameFace on.

* GirlyRun: In Sailor Moon's public debut, she yells at MonsterOfTheDay Morga assertively, but then enters the scene with arms upraised and unsteady gait, along with the SloMo effect usually reserved for an UnflinchingWalk. It underscores that, while Usagi's heart's in the right place, she's ''really'' green at the MagicalGirlWarrior thing.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: The jewelry store customers under the thrall of the MonsterOfTheDay Morga's {{Hypno Trinket}}s have glowing {{Red|EyesTakeWarning}} MindControlEyes when she summons them as a BrainwashedAndCrazy army to attack Sailor Moon

* RedEyesTakeWarning: MonsterOfTheDay Morga has light red sclera, and her BrainwashedAndCrazy human minions have red {{glowing|EyesOfDoom}} MindControlEyes until knocked unconscious.

* SpoiledSweet: Naru is intelligent, popular, and has wealthy parents, and she's nice and down to Earth.

* EarlyBirdCameo: The first episode, which covers the events of Act 1 of the manga, ends with a brief appearance from Ami Mizuno as she runs to get out of the rain. In the original ''Manga/SailorMoon'' manga, she doesn't appear until Act 2, and the [[Anime/SailorMoon original anime]] decompresses the plot enough that she doesn't appear until episode 8.

* HowDoIShotWeb[=/=]RealityEnsues: Even more prominent in this version. Usagi fumbles into the fight scene completely unprepared. She doesn't even know how to introduce herself, and, (as in the manga) needs some prompting from Luna meowing at the moon to establish her LineOfSightName. When she transforms her tiara into the Moon Tiara Boomerang, for the next few seconds she just stands dumbfounded as it floats above her hand, unsure what to do with it. Her first battle, also, is portrayed less comically than the Nineties anime.

* RealityEnsues: Usagi gets kicked out of the house by Ikuko when she shows her low test score.

Usagi Tsukino is a slightly below-average schoolgirl: consistently late, [[BigEater really hungry]] and a bit lazy. However, she finds her life turned around dramatically when she rescues a talking cat, Luna. Luna tells Usagi she is destined to become Sailor Moon, on of the Sailor Senshi who guard the Moon Princess. Her goal? To find her allies, find the Moon Princess, and defeat the enemy!

* CrossPoppingVeins: A thick red set show up on an angry, nonverbal Luna as she [[HumanHummingbird rapidly scratches]] Usagi's face in retaliation for her [[{{Kissgusting}} upsetting]] apology kiss.