- (DiC Episode: "Shutter Bugged")
A photography student at the boys' school adjacent to Rei's school becomes Nephrite's victim, causing him to obsess over finding new models for him to photograph. Usagi and Rei both seem interested until they realize that he is under enemy influence.
Tropes:
- Adaptational Context Change: In the 90s dub, Serena's argument with Darien results in the latter talking about how difficult the modeling industry is (and that Serena is unfit for how rigorous and cutthroat it can be). The original scene is Mamoru expressing his distaste for people who only appreciate surface beauty.
- Bowdlerise: The Thai version put a heavy blur filter over the swimsuits.
- Clothing Damage: Much to Usagi’s dismay, her one swimsuit has a hole in it.
- Cultural Translation: In the original Japanese, Usagi recites a tongue twister that goes "namamugi, namagome, namatamago"note . The Viz English dub uses "She sells sea shells by the sea shore".
- Dub-Induced Plotline Change: In the original and Viz dubs, Mamoru is critical of Usagi’s model aspirations as part of his standard Jerkass-ery. In the DiC dub, Darien was a model himself as a younger teen and tries to warn Serena away from how cutthroat the industry can be.
- Dub Name Change: The photographer is “Peter Fisher” in the DIC dub
- Hypocritical Humor: When Usagi and Naru try to get an autograph from Kijin Shinokawa, Rei shows up out of nowhere to lecture them about only being interested just because he's popular. With it being largely implied she was there for the same reason.
- I'm Melting!: Sailor Moon gets Cameran to take a photo of herself, timing a jump so Cameran's beam reflects off a window and hits her. Instead of being trapped in a photo, this causes Cameran's body to partially melt.
- Irony: Motoki comments to Mamoru how he argues with Usagi too much. Mamoru expresses that it's probably a sign that him and Usagi would never get along, let alone become a couple.
- Sanity Slippage: Unlike Nephrite's other targets, Shinokawa immediately goes completely off the deep end and spends most of the episode borderline insane compared to the others who tended to just become nasty and aggressive.
