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* [[Brainwashing]]: Unlike the original, where Ami's cram school was a youma front to gather life energy, here it's a setup to brainwash its students into locating the Ginzuishou for the Dark Kingdom. Using Ami's intelligence to take over Tokyo ... [[Step Three: Profit|somehow]] ... is just a bonus.
* [[Bus Full of Innocents]]: The "Demon 6:00 PM Bus" in episode 3 makes off with one of these every so often.
* [[Clark Kenting]]: There's no reason at all why Usagi shouldn't be able to tell that Tuxedo Mask and Mamoru Chiba are the same person; there's no magic involved in his transformation, and his mask hides less than a pair of sunglasses.
* [[Conspicuous CG]]: Used in the Sailor Senshi's transformation sequences, to make smoother [[Everything's Better with Spinning|spinning and twirling]]. Pulled off relatively well for Usagi and Ami, but [[Special Effects Failure|not so well in Rei's case]]; she looks the most like a 3D model.
* [[Extroverted Nerd]]: Umino.
* [[Finish Him!|Finish Her!]]: What Tuxedo Kamen says to Sailor Moon during the confrontation with the youma in episode 2.
* [[Flashback Cut]]: When Usagi and Ami's hands touch for the first time, Ami gets a momentary flashback to the Silver Millennium. Rei gets one just upon seeing Usagi the first time, as does Makoto.
* [[Forgotten Phlebotinum]]: Played with -- Sailor Moon's "sonic attack", which in the original anime was used once in her first appearance and never seen again, here shows up at least twice -- but the second youma [[It Only Works Once|is unaffected by it]].
* [[Free Prize At the Bottom]]: How Ami gets her henshin wand and Usagi gets her disguise pen -- they're both dispensed from the ''Sailor V'' video game when Ami beats the high score.
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* [[Gratuitous French]]: "A suivre" ("to be continued") on a [[Title Card]] at the end of each episode.
* [[Hemisphere Bias]]: Seen in one of the bumper illustrations, which shows Earth in the sky above Tuxedo Mask and Sailor Moon -- with Southeast Asia and Japan visible.
* [[Huge Schoolgirl]]: Don't trust the page image. Makoto is significantly taller than Usagi. but just ''how'' tall she is seems to vary by the needs of the moment. During her first appearance in school in episode 5, she looms over one of the ''male'' teachers, but a few minutes later, she's not quite a head taller than Usagi, who is a tiny thing. At the same time, she's not too much shorter than Motoki...
* [[Les Yay]]: Not exactly unexpected, given the history of the franchise.
** In episode 3, Ami invites Usagi onto her usual bus to cram school by mentioning "there's a beautiful girl I see all the time on it", implying and assuming Usagi will be interested in seeing the girl, who turns out to be Rei. When Usagi sees Rei for the first time, she gets hearts in her eyes and croons "she's so beautiful..." before following her off the bus, obviously crushing on her.
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* [[Love You and Everybody]]: Usagi.
* [[Magical Girl]]: The original [[Magic Warrior]]s series, back again for another go-round with 21st-Century sensibilities.
* [[Male Gaze]]: Does the camera ''really'' need to park itself right next to Makoto's left breast for several seconds during the middle of her [[Transformation Sequence]]?
* [[Meganekko]]: Ami, right from the start.
* [[Mind Control Eyes]]: Ami gets them once she starts using the "Crystal Disk" at the Crystal Seminar.
* [[Motionless Chin]]: Possibly in deliberate imitation of the original; certainly with digital animation there's no budgetary or other requirement for this shortcut.
* [[Mythology Gag]]: The Senshi's transformation tokens have frequently been called "henshin pens" by the fandom over the past twenty-some years because of their resemblance to pens with fancy caps. Here they actually ''are'' pens, and it's the pen's cap which is the magic item.
* [[The Nicknamer]]: Usagi, as part of her ability to make friends with anyone.
* [[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.
* [[Opaque Nerd Glasses]]: Umino -- and they're huge to the point of comedy.
* [[Paper Master]]: The youma behind the Crystal Seminar.
* [[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.
* [[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]]: Many of the Dark Kingdom's operations seem to become "instant" urban legends -- like the "haunted bridal sho" 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 the ''Sailor V'' video game that we can start sussing out its tropes -- it's a multi-level side-scrolling shooter to start with.
* [[Windows Match the Drapes]]: Ami. Also Kuri, one of Usagi's pre-Senshi friends, who has matching dark amethyst hair and eyes.
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