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And why was he set up to meet Makoto first, instead of any of the other Senshi?
 
The story barely touches on canon events; it's primarily about Robu-san's relationships with the Sailor Senshi and their close friends and families. Not that there aren't fight scenes, but those tend to take a back seat to the characters.
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* [[Adaptation Expansion]] and [[Compressed Adaptation]]: Yes, both apply. For legal reasons, the writer cannot simply re-tell the core parts of the original anime, leading to anything that's based on an original episode being compressed. But there are places where the original anime left room to add details, which the writer has taken advantage of to add scenes, [[Original Character|characters]], and entire subplots to the story.
* [[Affectionate Nickname]]: The "[[True Companions]]" version. Robu-san calls Usagi "Bunny-chan".
* [[Alien Sky]]: The first clue where the characters were sent during the "Sent to [[Another Dimension]]" story arc was in the sky.
* [[And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt]]: Minako's souvenir after the "Sent to [[Another Dimension]]" story arc. She wears [[:File:And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt.png|it]] when the Senshi visit the Chess Tower.
* [[Arbitrarily-Large Bank Account]]: Played with during the first chapter in that Robu-san's bank account has an upper limit, but any withdrawal he makes is replenished within a week. It isn't until the second chapter that he learns who's paying his bills.
* [[Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?]]: Downplayed during the "sent to another dimension" story arc, in a discussion about how to get home:
{{quote|"Are you thinking what I'm thinking, {{spoiler|Shario}}?"
"I think so, Rob, but where are we going to find a {{spoiler|dimensional transit meister}} at this time of night?"}}
* [[Ascended Extra]] / [[OC Stand-In]]: There's more to Urawa Ryou (who appeared in two episodes in canon) in this story than just "precog who likes Ami".
* [[Asian Gal with White Guy]]: Makoto and Robu-san. Race isn't a factor in their mutual attraction, but the fact that Robu-san was a ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' fan before being transplanted into their world certainly helped.
* [[Battle Couple]]: Robu-san and Makoto start becoming one during Chapter S.
* [[Beach Episode]]: During the third chapter, when Robu-san, Ryou, Makoto, and Ami were Sent to [[Another Dimension]]. They went to the beach for Robu-san's birthday. Ami and Makoto wore bikinis; nobody noticed what Robu-san wore.
* [[The Big Damn Kiss]]: Makoto and Robu-san, just before the Senshi take the battle to the Dark Kingdom. Bittersweet because she knows from him that she probably isn't coming back... and it's her [[First Kiss]], too.
* [[Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs]]: Conversed. "Zoicite. Sewers. Rats. Zoicite covered in sewer rats."
* [[Bruce Wayne Held Hostage]]: Kooan threatens to kill Rei Hino unless Sailor Mars shows herself.
* [[Cliff Hanger]]: The end of the second chapter.
* [[Call Back]]: Chapter S begins with two of the more aggressive members of the Sailor Team asking for "asymmetric plot escalation" against the Death Busters, since they know who and where their opponents are. Chapter S ends with the Sailor Team carrying out that asymmetric plot escalation.
* [[Canon Welding]]: While the story primarily follows the '90s anime timeline, elements from the manga, ''[[Codename: Sailor V]]'', ''[[Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: Crystal]]'', the live-action ''[[Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon]]'' and even Naoko Takeuchi's earlier manga ''[[The Cherry Project]]'' have ended up in the story — some [[lampshaded]], some not.
* [[Chick Magnet]]: In one scene in the fifth chapter, most of the group convinces {{spoiler|Ryou}} that he is one.
* [[Chosen Family]]: By the end of the fourth chapter, many of the Sailor Senshi considered themselves to be closer than siblings — to the point that the characters who had no living parents were either informally or officially adopted into Sailor Mercury's family.
* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: [[Defied Trope|Defied]] for {{spoiler|Osaka Naru}}, but played straight for {{spoiler|Umino Gurio}}.
* [[Class Trip]]: Made up out of whole cloth, since the senior-year trip was never shown in the canon anime.
{{quote|"Why are school trips always to Kyoto?" I asked.}}
* [[Cliff Hanger]]: The end of the second and fifth chapters.
* [[Cloning Blues]]: The "robot doubles" subtype, played with. Two of the synthetic-intelligence characters introduced late in the third chapter remember being the biological people that they were based on... complete with remembering volunteering to have their memories copied.
* [[Cool Sword]]: {{spoiler|Naru Osaka}} develops the metahuman ability to ''make'' swords in seconds when needed, but only if the raw materials are available. Since carbon is usually available, the swords often have diamond blades. Eventually the intimidation factor of making a sword out of "thin air" doesn't work against an opponent, and the character needs to actually learn how to fight with a sword.
* [[CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable]]: Two-thirds averted in Chapter S; it's neither clean nor pretty. And the only reason it's reliable is because either it's augmented by magical healing or it happens literally in a hospital parking lot.
* [[Crane Game Gag]]: In order to take his mind off of being [[Trapped in Another World]], Robu-san plays the crane game at the arcade, using a ridiculously-small amount of money to win a full set (at the time) of ''Sailor Moon'' dolls. It's only after the fact that he realizes that he must have been using some sort of power to win.
* [[Crash Into Hello]]: How Robu-san met Makoto.
* [[Crystal Prison]]: {{spoiler|Naru}}'s only attack when she was a youma was to put Robu-san into one of these, with no way to breathe. Luckily for Robu-san, she's defeated quickly.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]:
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: The events of the ''Sailor V'' manga are included in the backstory of ''Isekai by Moonlight''... which means that, unlike in the canon anime, Minako has blood on her hands.
** Some of the events of [[Codename: Sailor V|the ''Sailor V'' manga]] are included in the backstory of ''Isekai by Moonlight''... which means that, unlike in the canon anime, Minako has blood on her hands.
** In the fourth chapter, where in anime canon the Ayakashi Sisters are purged of their Dark Energy, ''Isekai by Moonlight'' runs closer to manga canon and the Ayakashi Sisters do not survive. The reasons vary: {{spoiler|Sailor Mars is unable to save Kooan}}, {{spoiler|Sailor Mercury lets Berthier decide whether to live or die by her own hand}}, {{spoiler|Sailor Jupiter ends up killing Petz during a [[Curb Stomp Battle|duel]]}}, and {{spoiler|Sailor Venus accidentally kills Calaveras in combat}}.
* [[Doorstopper]]: ''Isekai by Moonlight'' has 252,237 words as of the end of Chapter 6, which corresponds in anime terms to the end of the ''S'' season excluding the ''S'' movie.
* [[Duel to the Death]]: Sailor Jupiter did her best to avoid one with {{spoiler|the Ayakashi Sister Petz}}, but her opponent insisted. Unfortunately for said opponent, this was Jupiter's first one-on-one battle after being sent to another dimension, receiving training, and returning, so what the challenger expected to be a fair fight was actually a [[Curb Stomp Battle]].
* [[Everything's Better with Sparkles]]: Becomes a [[Discussed Trope]] when the Sailor Senshi watch an episode of their own anime.
{{quote|"Wow, that's a sparkly transformation sequence," Bunny-chan said.
Rei-san asked, "Would you rather people saw pictures of you naked?"
"Sparkly is good."}}
* [[Exact Words]]: After the Talismans are revealed in Chapter S, Robu-san says, "Eudial, we need you to die for us". {{spoiler|Nothing is said about Arimura Yuko, the woman who Eudial possessed, dying, which leads to Arimura-san being surprised that she survived}}.
* [[First-Name Basis]]: A handy barometer as to who Robu-san thinks is important, and vice versa, in the story.
** Makoto goes to first-name-without-honorific basis before the end of the first chapter, while Rei remains "Hino-san" for the entirety of chapter 1.
** Robu-san remains on a family-name-with-honorific basis with Hino-san until the middle of the second chapter, when she gives him permission to call her Rei. They never get close enough to drop the honorifics.
** Robu-san, Makoto, and Ami are on a first-name-without-honorific basis by the end of the second chapter. Ryou joins that list partway through the third chapter, as do the friends they make while they're in [[Another Dimension]].
** Minako goes to first-name-without-honorific basis when Robu-san finally realizes she's a friend ''and'' as close as a sister.
* [[Friend on the Force]]: Carried over from ''[[Codename: Sailor V]]'', Minako knows Superintendent Sakurada, who has gotten her out of a few sticky legal situations. [[Deconstructed]] in ''Isekai by Moonlight'', because, in Real Life, the Superintendent of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is the highest-ranking police officer in Japan.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Robu-san, his early blind spot about his relationship with Makoto notwithstanding. Early in the first chapter, he worries that "Stupid genre conventions" is becoming his [[Catch Phrase]]. {{spoiler|By the end of the second chapter, it has.}}
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: "my ... nosebleed." Context shows that this isn't referring to a literal [[nosebleed]].
* {{spoiler|[[Ghost Memory]]}}: {{spoiler|One of Robu-san's powers, which requires the cooperation of the person donating the memories, is to copy the other person's memories... and give them back later.}}
* [[Good News, Bad News]]: After an exorcism gets the wrong target:
{{quote|The good news was that we'd saved {{spoiler|Hanyu Mimi-san from an eventual fate worse than death}}. The bad news was that {{spoiler|Mistress Nine was still inside Tomoe Hotaru-san}} and we couldn't do anything about that today.}}
* [[How Do I Shot Web?]]: [[Played With]]. Robu-san had no idea what his powers were until he used some of them reflexively to protect other people. Once he realized what his powerset was, though, he could use the powers without effort.
* [[How We Got Here]]: The third chapter starts with a short scene of the characters who had been sent to another dimension at the end of the previous chapter announcing their return. [[Whole-Episode Flashback|The remainder of the chapter shows how they managed to return home.]]
* [[I Can't Believe I'm Saying This]]: [[Played With]] in Chapter S.
{{quote|"[[In the Name of the Moon|My speech]] sounds stupid when a guy says it," ''[Sailor]'' Moon complained.
I hate to tell you this, [[Affectionate Nickname|Bunny-chan]]... so I won't.}}
* [[I Know You Know I Know]]: The "absolute honesty" version is used by Robu-san when he wasn't sure whether Zoicite was spying on him.
* [[I Need to Go Iron My Dog]]: Robu-san points out an eye-catching rosebush in order to give Sailors Moon and Jupiter some privacy to transform back to Usagi and Makoto... and then Makoto points out that it's a poinsettia plant.
* [[In the Name of the Moon]]: It's a ''Sailor Moon'' fanfic, so it's to be expected. In addition to the canon and near-canon versions used by the Sailor Senshi, Oni gives the speech in Chapter S in order to give Sailor Moon time to get out of restraints. She complains that it sounds stupid when a guy says it.
* [[Instant Costume Change]]: After Ami learns some magical theory, she makes the [[Transformation Sequence]] instant.
* [[It's the Principle of the Thing]]: In the first chapter, Ichigo (who was not yet friends with the other characters) made a comment about Robu-san that he shrugged off... but Makoto verbally lambasted her for making it.
* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]: Early in Chapter S:
{{quote|Burst in, shoot once, and leave? If this was a story, I'd call that hack writing.}}
* [[Like Brother and Sister]]: There are three girls who Robu-san trusts and loves, but the one who he ''never'' thinks of as a romantic interest is Sailor Moon herself. She returns the feeling, and Robu-san has had to explain their relationship to Tuxedo Kamen.
* [[Literal Metaphor]]:
** Throw pillows. Especially after somebody's made a horrible pun.
** At a picnic, Sailor Mercury eats like a bird {{spoiler|after she learns how to fly, swooping down from the sky and grabbing a sandwich}}.
* [[Load-Bearing Boss]]: As a security measure, the tunnel from D-Point started to collapse as soon as Kunzite died.
* [[Love Thy Neighbour]]: Next-door neighbours, to be exact. It's because they lived next to each other that [[First Girl Wins]] applies to Makoto and Robu-san.
* [[The Maiden Name Debate]]: In the fourth chapter, and as part of Saeko-san giving her daughter Ami permission to marry Ryou, she insists that he become a [[wikipedia:mukoyōshi|mukoyōshi]], taking the Mizuno name instead of Ami taking the Urawa family name (which would have caused the Mizuno family to end with Saeko).
* [[Male Pack Mule]]: A downplayed example appears in chapter three:
{{quote|One nice thing about a magitech society like {{spoiler|Midchilda}}'s was that I didn't need to hide my powers. The flipside of that, of course, was that I ended up carrying everybody's purchases in a forcefield wheeled basket...}}
* [[Man on Fire (trope)|Man on Fire]]: Zoicite, when most of the Senshi attack him at the Star Light Tower. It doesn't last long.
* {{spoiler|[[Mauve Shirt]]}}: {{spoiler|With the number of deadly enemies the Senshi go up against, you weren't really expecting all of the [[Original Character]]s and [[OC Stand-In]]s to survive, were you?}}
* [[Married Mai Waifu For Real]]: The only reason Robu and [[Sailor Moon|Makoto]] aren't married is because her guardian has told them to wait. They're otherwise an example of this trope, wearing each other's rings, scheduling fun times around work, shopping for groceries together, sharing the household chores, and eventually [[Battle Couple|supporting each other in combat]].
* [[The One Guy]]: Robu-san for part of the first chapter, when (as in canon) Tuxedo Kamen was kidnapped.
* [[Mathematician's Answer]]: Two of them, at the start of the "sent to another dimension" story arc.
* [[Original Character]]s: Aoyama Ichigo in Makoto's class, and Sato Kichirou in Robu-san and Ami's class.
{{quote|"Has anybody figured out where we are?"
"Outside?" Makoto answered with a shrug.
"In an open field," Ami added}}<!-- The lack of punctuation here is intentional; there is none at this point in the source. -->
* [[Neat Freak]]: Makoto, as in canon, but given a reason here that ties in with her parents' death.
* [[NewThe TransferOne StudentGuy]]: Makoto (as per canon) and Robu-san (thefor samepart day) atof the startfirst of the storychapter, Minakowhen later,(as andin {{spoiler|Urawacanon) Ryou}}Tuxedo inKamen thewas second chapterkidnapped.
* [[Original Character]]s:
** In the first chapter, Aoyama Ichigo in Makoto's class and Sato Kichirou in Robu-san and Ami's class.
** Introduced during the "sent to another dimension" story arc, Sakura, Ichiro, Meia, and Kasandara, and playing with the trope, {{spoiler|[[Cloning Blues|Hayate-chan and Shario-chan]]}}.
** Between the canon ''R'' and ''S'' story arcs, [[New Transfer Student|Elmira Bogdonava]], Sakamoto Kazuya, [[Jerkass|Matsudaira Hanzō]], [[Those Two Guys|Ueno Daisuke and Yamaguchi Toshiaki]].
* [[New Transfer Student]]: Makoto (as per canon) and Robu-san (the same day) at the start of the story, Minako later, {{spoiler|Urawa Ryou}} in the second chapter, and [[Original Character]] Elmira Bogdonava in the fifth chapter.
* [[Pay Evil Unto Evil]] and [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him]]: Both are discussed when the team goes up against somebody who had been in the middle of attempted mass murder until being [[Hoist by His Own Petard|Hoist by Her Own Petard]]. Save her or let her die? {{spoiler|The discussion takes too long and she dies anyway.}} The story's next scene mentions that their tutors give them an impromptu ethics class.
* [[Pop Cultural Osmosis Failure]]: Of the "Who's X?" variety, whenever Robu-san references or quotes from famous works that haven't been written yet.
** In Chapter S, Robu-san quotes "[[It's Showtime!]]", thinking of (and misquoting) ''[[The Big O]]'', but Sailor Venus thinks of ''[[All That Jazz]]'' and Ichiro thinks of ''[[Beetlejuice (film)|Beetlejuice]]''.<ref>''[[The Incredibles]]'' and ''[[Better Call Saul]]'' are both too new to be thought of in-universe as the source of the quote.)</ref>
* [[Power Perversion Potential]]: Discussed and consequently averted:
{{quote|'''Robu-san''': "So, Ami-chan, you want a teenage boy who you know can turn invisible to join you in a trip to an onsen?"
Before anybody else could react, Hino-san said "Bad idea" flatly.}}
'''Rei''': Bad idea.}}
* [[ResetPrecision ButtonF-Strike]]: Robuand [[Atomic F-sanBomb]]: lampshadesNear inthe end of the secondfirst chapter, thewhen (as in canon) Makoto dies. occurrence[[Word of God]] says this tropewill atbe the end''only'' ofF-Strike in the firstentire animemain seasonstory. and(But firstnot chapternecessarily in any sequel story, should one be written.)
* [[Rags to Riches]]: During the "Sent to [[Another Dimension]]" story arc, they discover that the dimension has so much gold that it's an industrial metal, not a precious metal. They earn enough money to buy a literal metric ton of gold, and the metal (and Ryou's skills at day-trading) make the four of them multimillionaires once they get home. Since they continue to be part of the Sailor Team and they all have plans for careers once they graduate from school, this also makes them [[Non-Idle Rich]].
* [[Reset Button]]: Robu-san lampshades in the second chapter the canon occurrence of this trope at the end of the first anime season and first chapter. In order for the canon timeline to make sense, it's a near-literal reset, winding the clock back by one year.
* [[Rhetorical Question Blunder]]: [[Played for Laughs]] in the sidestory "The Talk":
{{quote|"How did I end up needing to give the enhanced version of The Talk to my fiancée, our best friend, her fiancé, our best friend's adopted sister, and the one person who all five of us love like a sister?" I asked myself.
From the doorway to her apartment, my fiancée replied, "You're just lucky, I guess."}}
* [[Sarcastic Clapping]]: One of Robu-san's favourite ways to draw attention to himself and away from the Sailor Senshi. The trope being unknown in Japan in the early 1990s, the clapping serves less as a psychological attack and more as a distraction.
* [[Sarcastic Confession]]: During the months-long break between the first season and ''R'' that's mentioned in canon, when (in this story, most of) the Senshi don't have memories of being Senshi:
{{quote|'''Robu-san''': You see, {{spoiler|Ami-san, Makoto}} and I are part of a secret team that defended the entire Earth from being conquered during the Missing Time, and the existence of the Missing Time is a side-effect of our success.
'''Minako''': Pull the other one, it has bells on.}}
* [[Secret Keeper]]: Robu-san for the Sailor Senshi, and vice-versa. ByAlso, Osaka Naru and Urawa Ryou by the end of the first chapter, {{spoiler|Osakaand Naru}}Aoyama Ichigo midway through the second chapter for all of them. By partway through the fourth chapter, the Tsukino, Mizuno, Aino, and Osaka families know about Usagi, Ami, Rei, Makoto, Minako, Ryou, and Robu-san, as does Rei's grandfather, and all of the Secret Keepers know about all of the other Secret Keepers.
* [[Seven Deadly Sins]]: A theme in the first part of Chapter S, when Sailor Team members and associates have their Pure Hearts removed and their impure thoughts come to the fore. Since there are more Sailor Team members than there are Deadly Sins, one Deadly Sin gets re-used and a few sins that the author thought were on par with the Deadly Sins are displayed by the others.
* [[Sexy Discretion Shot]]:
{{quote|I closed the door behind me... and that is all that anybody will learn from me about the rest of that day, except that we were both very happy at the end of it.}}
* [[Something Completely Different]]: The [[Whole-Episode Flashback]] story arc that starts when Robu-san, Makoto, Ami, and Ryou get sent to [[Another Dimension]] by the Black Moon's Stick and {{spoiler|[[crossover]] with ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]''}}. Most of the Senshi appear only in the chapter's first, short framing scene, and [[Absentee Actor|Mamoru, Naru, Ichigo, and Mizuno-sensei do not appear at all]].
* [[Standard Female Grab Area]]: No, Usagi, you don't get to leave and immediately come back as Sailor Moon, thus blowing your cover.
* [[The Stations of the Canon]]:
** The story starts with the anime-only "Seven Great Youma" arc, and in the first chapter canon events are shown in the same order that they appeared in canon {{spoiler|to show the inevitability of the canon season ending}}.
** And again in the "Doom Tree" arc, because - having ruined one canon relationship already - Robu-san doesn't want to take any chances that he'd end up derailing Usagi and Mamoru's relationship. Once Chibiusa shows up, The Stations of the Canon become less important.
* [[Sued for Superheroics]]: Sailor Mercury and Oni don't wait for the bill; they just pay for the broken window at the juku as soon as they break it while destroying a droid.
* [[Super Empowering]]: In the [[backstory]] for Robu-san, and {{spoiler|in-story for Osaka Naru}}.
* [[Super Family Team]]: Mizuno Saeko appears to be doing her best to put one together. As of the end of the fourth chapter, the family includes her daughter Ami, Ami's future husband Ryou, Ami's adopted sister {{spoiler|Minako}}, and honourary members Robu-san and Makoto. All but the last two either are or have agreed to be listed in the Mizuno family register with the official paperwork filed at city hall.
* [[The Talk]]:
** Implied to take place offscreen, with Naru in the adult's role and Usagi in the child's.
{{quote|"Naru-chan," Bunny-chan asked, "what are they talking about?"
"Oh, Usagi... I'll tell you later, but not in front of Chibiusa."}}
** Followed by a sidestory titled "The Talk" where 2010s and 2020s ideas about sexuality are explained to some of the 1990s characters.
* [[Tap on the Head]]: Robu-san is knocked out by one blow from Makoto during a training session during the fifth chapter. When he comes to, he's receiving (magical) medical attention for the concussion he's received, and ends up having to sit out the remainder of the training session.
* [[The Team Normal]]/[[Ordinary High School Student]]: Aoyama Ichigo, who isn't even a formal member of the team... but she isn't a [[Magical Girl Warrior]] or a [[Designated Victim]], either.
* [[Their First Time]]:
** As he promised, when she's finally old enough and they'd been dating for years beforehand. [[Sexy Discretion Shot|The act itself is kept off-screen]].
** And then the other couple, two-and-a-half weeks later. Again, the act itself is kept off-screen.
* [[Theiss Titillation Theory]]: He thinks his girlfriend looks sexier in a négligée than she does when she's naked during her [[Transformation Sequence]].
* [[There Was a Door]]: Justified:
{{quote|'''Robu-san''': By the way, there was a door.
'''Makoto''': With a droid blocking it, darling.}}
* [[There's No Place Like Home]]: The trope drives the plot of Chapter 3. Lampshaded near the end of the chapter:
{{quote|Funny; I'd been in or near {{spoiler|Cranagan}} for two years and Tokyo for less than one year before that, but it was the Azabu-Juban neighbourhood that I thought of as home. Of course, so did Makoto, and home is where the heart is.}}
* [[This Is Reality]]: Alluded to when people started taking the isekai characters' knowledge as inevitable:
{{quote|We can't just 'do our best'. We ''must'' succeed. No counting on the inevitably of the anime events to happen, because they didn't when Small Lady became Black Lady.}}
* [[Today X, Tomorrow the World!]]: Downplayed in the second chapter by Touhi-chan, who doesn't know just how large the world is:
{{quote|"Ho-ho! I am Touhi-chan! After ten thousand years of being suppressed by the guardians of the Silver Millennium, I have finally gathered enough energy to re-form myself! And now I will drain your energy and use it to establish a toehold in this barbarian land! Today, this lodging; tomorrow, the settlement!"<ref>Said "settlement" being Tokyo, of course.</ref>}}
* [[Translation Convention]]: While the dialog is in Japanese unless otherwise noted, it is written in English, just like the rest of the story.
* [[Unfamiliar Ceiling]]: The first two words of the story are "Unfamiliar ceiling." Robu-san quickly discovers that he's been rejuvenated, bringing the trope into play.
* [[The "Unicorn In The Garden" Rule]]: Somebody is [[Trapped in Another World]] where abilities are gained and allies are found. (The third chapter repeats the same unicorn.)
* [[Unusual Chapter Numbers]]: Chapter 1, Chapter R, and so on, referencing the source anime's season names after the first chapter.
* [[Unsound Effect]]: Artemis is ''almost'' caught talking in the first chapter:
* [[Unwanted Harem]]: Discussed but never actually happens; it's pretty clear that [[First Girl Wins]] is in play instead.
{{quote|Ichigo-san looked at Artemis. "Did you just say the word 'nyan' instead of purring?"
"Don't be silly..." Naru-san said,}}<!-- sic for the comma instead of a period -->
:* It became a [[Brick Joke]] three chapters later:
{{quote|"Did you just say the word 'squee' instead of squeeing?" Artemis asked.
"Don't be silly," Ichigo-san replied with a grin.}}
* [[Unwanted Harem]]:
** Discussed but never actually happens; it's pretty clear that [[First Girl Wins]] is in play instead.
** This applies to Ryou, Robu-san, and Mamoru; nobody has or wants a harem. No matter how many girls try to throw themselves at {{spoiler|Urawa Ryou}}.
** An [[April Fools' Day]] [[omake]] showed where the story would have diverged if it had been an Unwanted Harem crackfic for Robu-san: Makoto, Usagi, and Ami all matter-of-factly volunteer to be part of Robu-san's harem at school on the day that Makoto and Usagi meet, ending with all three of them going home with him.
* [[Vomit Discretion Shot]]: Immediately after {{spoiler|Sailor Venus' first Unison}} and immediately before she swears to never do that again.
* [[Wacky Marriage Proposal]]: Essentially a proposal in reverse – Makoto announces herself to someone she just met as Robu-san's fiancée, then asks him, "We are going to get married, right?" (He says yes.)
* [[The War Room]]: Located in the basement of the Mizuno family's house that was purchased and outfitted in Chapter S. Ryou calls it the War Room once while quoting ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]''. Robu-san usually calls it "the Situation Room" (complete with the capital letters), Ami prefers to do homework there, Usagi and Minako call it "the movie night room".
* [[Watch Where You're Going]]: Done deliberately by Sailors Moon and Jupiter as part of their plan to convince Kunzite that they aren't getting along.
* [[Waxing Lyrical]]: In order to give advance notice of his presence in one scene, Robu-san starts singing the opening theme to ''[[Princess Principal]]'', gender-swapped where necessary.
* [[What Year Is This?]]: One of the first things Robu-san asks himself. He gets the answer by turning on the TV.
** One of the first things Robu-san asks himself. He gets the answer by turning on the TV.
** At the start of the "Sent to [[Another Dimension]]" story arc, discovered when the banished characters ask their hosts.
* [[Witch with a Capital B]]: In a case of self-censorship, Robu-san repeatedly calls Eudial a "b... Witch". Considering that she was a member of the Witches 5, this is to show that, yes, it is an insult.
* [[Writing Around Trademarks]]: The trope is [[Lampshade Hanging|mentioned by name]] the first time that Makoto and Robu-san stop at a (canon) 7-12 convenience store.
* [[You Can't Fight Fate]]: Not during the first season, at least; everything Robu-san does other than forming relationships with various Senshi and their friends only accelerates the canon plotline. Canon starts going off the rails when Chibiusa shows up, and the second chapter ends with canon being broken completely.
* {{spoiler|[[You Did Everything You Could]]}}: Minako's opinion during the first talk she had with Robu-san after {{spoiler|he was forced to kill a classmate}}.
* [[You Can't Fight Fate]]:
** Played Straight during the first story arc. No matter how hard Robu-san tries to change things during the first chapter, including suggesting a power-up to Makoto, the Sailor Senshi still end up outclassed at D-Point.
** Played With during the Black Moon arc. Some characters survive who died in canon, others who survived in canon die, and Naru ends up without a boyfriend but knowing who the Senshi are... but Chibiusa still becomes Dark Lady.
* [["You?" Squared]]: Makoto and Petz during the Lucky Charms House incident, revealing that Petz had seen Makoto transform to Sailor Jupiter the previous time they met.
 
 
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