Kilyle: Not sure which trope to put this under, but when a certain enemy attacks the team, Luna shouts out "He knows that the Princess is probably Sailor V!" Well, yeah, even if he didn't know it before you said that....

The Precision F Strikes really doesn't belong here. This was in the era when TV-Nihon liked through in "Fuck" for the sake of it. So really, if we're going to have irt here, may as well add it to every other show they subbed in that time...

And for the sake of it, the line could have easily translated to "Don't mess with me!" or something along those lines.

Do we have a trope for disconcerting scene switches in which you're like, "Hey, how did that last scene end? I'd really, really like to know!" We have some trope around for missed opportunities in general, but I'm not sure it's the same thing.

In this show, often enough to be annoying, they'll give a major revelation, such as the identity of a character, and then cut to the team doing something that seems like it ought to have been included in a continuation of that scene, only for some reason they moved to a different area. And sometimes a character (such as, often, Tuxedo Kamen) has mysteriously vanished meanwhile, so that we don't get to see the reaction he would've had to the events.

Honestly, it almost feels like those tropes about "let's make him leave the room so we don't have to deal with his reaction" only they're doing it off screen.

Holy cow... I was just going over the colors of the Shitennou (white, red, yellow, and black), and I realized: They're the important colors in Alchemy.

John Granger's book The Hidden Key to Harry Potter goes into this in some detail. Black for the base material, white for the refined; red and yellow are two of the ingredients used to transform black on its road to white. I forget what they represented (sulfur and something? white was also quicksilver, or mercury), but I'm pretty sure I got the right colors there.

You don't suppose this was a deliberate motif used by the makers of this show, do you? I mean, it's even a little clearer if you consider personalities: Zoicite the first to embrace his memories, Kunzite to reject them utterly; Nephrite hot-blooded and unstable... wish I could recall the attributes for the yellow. Hmm.

Removing this bit of natter...

• Not true. She's only presented as an adult in the English dub (where she's given a very British nanny-esque voice) The manga's creator described her as being one year younger than Usagi when in human form. She's just more mature.
• Well, she at least looked like an adult/teen in the anime and manga, not a 10 year old.

While Luna's dub voice and characterization is lots more mature than her Japanese voice, her human manga form looks like an adult, and she does assume the adult, mentor role of the group. Besides, she's Really Seven Hundred Years Old - the senshi got reincarnated while she "took the long way" from past to present, so even if she was younger than Serenity, in the present day she's way older than Usagi.

Removing these two entries for now...

• Acceptable Targets: American actress Alisa Dubrow is cast as Mio Queen Beryl's shadow come to life...
• Evil Foreigner, But Not Too Foreign: Kuroki Mio is played by half-Japanese actress Alisa Durbrow. Did we mention she's the only major character who isn't played by someone who looks full-blooded Japanese?

I'm not really seeing it. Mio is just one of the six major Dark Kingdom villains, and five of them look completely Japanese; there aren't any implications or targeting going on with her character that don't also apply to the rest of the villains, and the story never presents Mio herself as being a foreigner. And though the senshi don't have a Token Minority on their side, Caucasian actors do serve in minor, benevolent roles, such as the priest at Rei's school or the American doctor Ami was working for in the epilogue (or that hilariously non-British-sounding voice that invited Mamoru to breakfast when he was living in England, but that's another story...).