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Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.

“Love is sweet. Love is sad. Love is painful. Oh love, love, love! Mako, you gotta go for love with courage! As for me, In the Name of the Moon, I'll punish you!”
Usagi Tsukino

(DIC Episode: "Food Fetish")

Makoto becomes convinced that Seijuro is the Desert Night Hero Moonlight Knight and tries to win his heart through his stomach. Though she unintentionally earns the wrath of his "sister" with a malicious meal of her own design.


Tropes in this episode include:

  • Aliens Love Human Food: Seijuro devours Makoto's lunch after tasting how good it is.
  • Ash Face: Moon and Mercury get burnt to a crisp when Mars uses Fire Soul to free them from a trap.
  • Call-Back: Venus uses Crescent Beam Shower to attack the Makaiju Aliens.
  • Chick Magnet: Seijuro ends up receiving an army of girl admirers thanks to his romantic flute music.
  • Clingy Jealous Girl:
    • Natsumi is repulsed by her brother eating Makoto's lunch and decides to attack her at the park.
    • Usagi also turns out to be this as she insists that Seijuro only likes "her" and decides to see him and Makoto at the park.
  • Commonality Connection: According to Ami, Seijuro transferred to their school around the same time the Moonlight Knight made his debut.
  • Does Not Like Spam: Naru has a quiet disdain for tempura shrimp since it's the only thing Umino makes for her.
  • Doing Research: During her lunch break, Ami uses a computer to determine whether Seijuro is the Moonlight Knight only to learn from her data that they're not the same person.
  • Dub Name Change:
    • Jupiter's new power "Supreme Thunder Dragon" is called "Jupiter Thunder Dragon"
    • Utonberino is named "Mophead"
  • Food Eats You: The Takeout Cardian, Utonberino, has sushi features for her design and uses different Japanese ingredients to attack.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: Miss Haruna isn't very comfortable seeing all the lovey dovey couples in her school.
  • Hypocritical Humor: Sailor Moon chastises An for ruining Makoto's date by saying only a "big, huge, over-sized, ginormous pest" would do something so despicable.
    Luna: Says the person who was just about to do the same thing.
  • Inhuman Emotion: Seijuro doesn't understand that his admirers wanted him to eat their food to show that they're in love with him.
  • Mess on a Plate: Ail tries to show his love for An by making her a delicious meal. As disgusting as it looks, both of them are more confused as to what they're supposed to do with it.
  • Mid-Season Upgrade: Sailor Jupiter is able to turn her Supreme Thunder attack into the ephemeral Supreme Thunder Dragon.
  • Mistaken Identity: Makoto decides to pursue Seijuro under the assumption that he's the romantic Desert Night Hero.
  • New Powers as the Plot Demands: Ail manages to subdue Sailor Moon, Makoto and Ami with miniature vortexes while he talks things over with An.
  • The Power of Friendship: After hearing the Moonlight Knight's speech, Sailor Jupiter decides to put her life on the line to save her cherished friends which leads to her new attack.
  • Running Gag: Usagi spends most of the episode trying, and failing, to find herself some lunch.
  • Shaping Your Attacks: Jupiter turns her thunder into a ferocious dragon that defeats Utonberino.
  • Something Only They Would Say: Jupiter accepts that Seijuro isn't the Moonlight Knight after hearing the latter's speech on true love, something that Seijuro had difficulty with understanding.
  • The Spook: Ami openly questions who the Moonlight Knight is and tries to do research on who he truly is.
  • Through His Stomach: Ami brings up how making food for a romantic partner has been a popular trend as of late. This would give Makoto the idea to make her own bento box for Seijuro.
  • Wheel o' Feet: Makoto kicks it into high gear to reach Seijuro when she sees him on the school roof.
  • You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: The Sailor Guardians fall down in disbelief after Jupiter states that the Moonlight Knight still reminds her of her old senpai.
  • You Remind Me of X: Makoto becomes enamored with Moonlight Knight by saying that she reminds him of the senpai who broke her heart.
  • Your Favorite: Umino constantly offers fried shrimp for his beloved Naru, even though she secretly dislikes it.

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