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If you are looking for the original 1992 anime or the manga that inspired it, see ''[[Sailor Moon]]''. If you want the [[Live Action Adaptation]], see ''[[Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon]]''. ▼
'''''Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon: Crystal''''' in Japanese. This is the 2014 [[Continuity Reboot|reboot]] of the ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' anime, featuring an art style and a storyline which both draw more strongly upon the original ''Sailor Moon'' manga than its animated predecessor did.
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This series covers the first three manga arcs (''Dark Kingdom'', ''Black Moon'' and ''Death Busters'') in two seasons. A Two-part movie covering the Dead Moon arc of the manga, ''[[Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal: The Movie]]'', was premiered in 2021; it can be viewed on [[Netflix]] worldwide.
▲If you are looking for the original 1992 anime or the manga that inspired it, see ''[[Sailor Moon]]''. If you want the [[Live Action Adaptation]], see ''[[Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon]]''.
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* [[Action Girl]]: Right from the first few words of the theme song, it's very clear that this reboot not only embraces the original "girl power" themes underlying the original ''Sailor Moon'', but extends and expands them.
* [[Animal Motifs]]: Rabbit-head imagery appears on just about everything Usagi owns, starting with the umbrella she carries in the opening credits, and even extending to the ''brand logo'' on her laptop computer.
** It's also the logo for the company that makes the "Sailor V" cabinet video game, judging by a poster seen several places around the Crown Arcade in episode 11.
* [[Anime Theme Song]]: Following in the footsteps of the [[Live Action Adaptation]], ''Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: Crystal'' uses a new theme written for it instead of the venerable "Moonlight Densetsu". Rather than being about finding one's "miracle romance", the new theme is about being a strong and determined woman ready to do battle for what she believes in.
* [[Art Shift]]: Compared to the original anime, which disturbs some fans. In addition to a crisper, sharper look (no doubt thanks to modern digital animation) with a hint of pastels in the coloring, the overall art style harkens directly back to the original manga.
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* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: When Usagi finally manifests the Ginzuishou in episode 9, its light revitalizes and heals -- but it also ends up feeding Metaria (who is all the way in the Dark Kingdom) the energy it needs.
* [[The Nicknamer]]: Usagi, as part of her ability to make friends with anyone.
* [[Non-Indicative Name]]: Unlike the original anime, where in addition to Beryl and the Generals it had thousands of clearly sapient youma, the "Dark Kingdom" in ''Crystal'' appears to have only five actual inhabitants. That's a ''gang'', not a kingdom.
* [[Off-Model]]: Again, only by comparison to the original anime. Characters are thinner and have exaggerated legs and more adult-looking faces with larger eyes (as they did in the manga); their heads appear slightly too large for their bodies in some shots. Individual characters also have changes specific to them -- for instance, Ami's pageboy-like haircut is now a shaggy gamine closer to [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Rei Ayanami's]] style. By the ''Season III'' and the movie, the proportions are sightly closer to the 90s anime.
* [[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo]]: The second season of the series is titled ''Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal Season III'', probably in the implication that the first season was a full 26 episode series in contrast with said season 13-episode order. The film, whom for all that matters is a sequel, is titled ''Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal: The Movie''.
* [[Oddly-Small Organization]]: The so-called "Dark Kingdom", which appears to have an entire population of ''five people''.
* [[Opaque Nerd Glasses]]: Umino -- and they're huge to the point of comedy.
* [[Paper Master]]: The youma behind the Crystal Seminar.
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* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]: Queen Beryl is not above showing up in the human world and taking a hand in matters.
* [[Batman Can Breathe in Space|Sailor Guardians Can Breathe on the Moon]]
* [[Standard Female Grab Area]]: In episode 7, Zoisite seizes Usagi by the upper arm to restrain her while confronting Tuxedo Mask. To her credit, she's already been battered a bit ''and'' had used an exhausting magical effect shortly before, so her brief inability to act is probably not entirely due to the grip.
* [[Stealth Hi Bye]]: Umino is capable of this, often suddenly appearing amongst Usagi and her friends in early episodes.
* [[Super Strength]]: Makoto already has a reputation for this when she first arrives at Usagi's school -- with some justification.
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* [[True Love's Kiss]]: In episode 14, and lampshaded moments later by Luna.
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: Although Luna has conversations with Usagi in all sorts of public locations -- street corners, school yards, buses -- ''no one'' ever seems to find a talking cat at all unusual or worth paying attention to. [[Lampshaded]] in episode 3 when Luna suddenly pretends to be a normal cat and only meowing when Mamoru turns out to be sitting next to them on a bus; he then asks Usagi why she's talking to herself...
* [[Urban Legends]]/[[Day-Old Legend]]: Many of the Dark Kingdom's operations seem to become "instant" urban legends -- like the "haunted bridal show" in episode 5 or the "demon bus" from episode 4. They can't have been in operation all that long, but somehow they seem to get rumors and legends about them almost instantly.
* [[Video Game Tropes]]: We see enough of the ''Sailor V'' video game that we can start sussing out its tropes -- it's a multi-level side-scrolling shooter to start with.
* [[Weird Moon]]: It always seems to be full, for weeks at a time (until it's necessary for the plot for it ''not'' to be full), and when full is much larger than "normal". And when it's not full, it's always a distorted crescent whose points almost touch, enclosing a black circle. It also only has realistic surface detail when it's full, otherwise it's flat white.
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