Artsy Moon



The Moon is shown in a bizarre or altered way - either because of actual physical changes, or simple Artistic License. Subtrope of Weird Moon, related to The Man in the Moon, Deface of the Moon and Bad Moon Rising.

If the moon is different because you're looking at an Alien Sky, you're in the wrong trope. For that, go to the generic Weird Moon page. The differentiating factor here is the "Artsy" part. If the Moon is depicted in a weird way for artistic value, then it belongs here. It it's just weird, or because it's clearly not our Moon, then it doesn't belong.

Anime and Manga

 * Bleach: For no apparent reason, the moon shows up as a very unlikely crescent.
 * Soul Eater has a crescent moon with a maniacally grinning face and hooked nose. It also has an Artsy Sun.
 * In Cowboy Bebop a third of the Moon has blown up into a giant Asteroid Thicket ring around the Earth, essentially leaving it as physically crescent.
 * Gankutsuou: Somewhat justified by the fact that it is colonized, thus having its surface altered, the moon sports a creepy skull-like face.
 * In Shuna's Journey, the moon is flat, looking more like an alien spaceship than a moon. It sets to the west, where instead of going beneath the horizon, it lands and deposits resources in an ominous Eldritch Abomination.
 * In The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, The "artsy" part of "Artsy Moon" comes from size. In some shots of the film, notably the last one before the credits, the Moon takes up over half of the screen. The shot is made more weird by the lack of saturation when compared to the rest of the film, and the moon feels more "artsy" due to the film's rough and simplistic art style.

Film

 * Hancock
 * In Treasure Planet, what appears to be a crescent moon in the sky is actually a bustling spaceport shaped like a crescent.

Literature

 * Little Wolf

Music

 * Hey Diddle Diddle

Newspaper Comics

 * Krazy Kat, the comic strip, tended to show crescent moons. With a 3d-like representation.

Video Games

 * Kingdom Hearts
 * Majoras Mask
 * Persona 3
 * In Earth Eternal, Earth's moon has had chunks blown out if it, with a Sickly Green Glow coming from between the pieces.

Web Animation

 * The moon of Remnant in RWBY is shattered into a dozen or more pieces.

Web Comics

 * Our Little Adventure: The moon has a face. Justified by the fact that it's actually a moon goddess.

Western Animation

 * Coraline: Towards the end of the movie, the other world's moon starts slowly being eclipsed by a button-shaped shadow.
 * One Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoon has Casper decide to visit the Man in the Moon. Being a ghost, he has no trouble flying to the Moon, but as he gets closer, the smiling cartoon face on the moon slowly fades into just being a bleak pattern of craters, and he arrives bitterly disappointed. Fortunately, the place turns out to be inhabited by little Lilliputian guys, so he makes some friends after all.