Sailor Moon/Manga-Only Tropes: Difference between revisions

* [[Berserk Button]]: Several, both comedic and serious. Venus' one is pressed ''hard'' when you try killing Sailor Moon. (She was not her closest body guard for nothing...)

** On the more comedic side... telling her she picked a trashy colour for lipstick makes sweet, [[Yamato Nadeshiko|ladylike]] Michiru... angry.

* [[Bifauxnen and Ladette]]: Haruka Tenoh and her rival Seiya Kou play the trope straight.

* [[Blind Idiot Translation]]: The original English translation of the manga by [[Tokyo Pop]] (previously Mixx Entertainment) made many, ''many'' mistakes, especially where names are concerned. For a few examples, Kaolinite is given the title "Magnus" (large) instead of "Magus" (mage), Ptilol becomes "Petite Roll," and the Boule Brothers are translated ''too'' literally into the Artificial Jewel Brothers. Particularly sad is when Hotaru quotes passages of a William Blake poem. The translators apparently didn't recognize it despite the credits given in the story itself and retranslated the Japanese translation into English. Then they made the exact same mistake when a [[Creator/Yeats|Yeats]] poem appeared in the manga.

* [[Body to Jewel]]: No, not the [[Anatomy of the Soul|heart crystals,]] the Silver Crystal is made partly of Usagi's tears. Also, the Pink Moon Crystal appears this way.

* [[Character Development]]: Much more of it than in the anime for the main characters (much less for minor characters and villains, as the result of the manga being much more concise).

* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Sailor Tin Nyanko goes undercover as a foreign exchange student... from ''Libya'' of all places. She's pasty white, and doesn't even remotely act or dress like she's from a country with a conservative Muslim majority. Her name is also ''Japanese''. Whether Takeuchi or Tin Nyanko failed to do the research is anyone's guess. She dies in her first appearance anyway, so there's not much time to contemplate it.

* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: In ''Stars'', Princess Kakyuu has quite a bit of page time and character development, as she spends all of her time encouraging and helping Sailor Moon throughout the bad times. Then suddenly, during a fierce battle in the sailor crystal garden, {{spoiler|she decides it'd be awesome to tell everyone she's a Sailor Senshi, transforms into Sailor Kakyuu, then proceeds to get stabbed through the chest by a blunt, rounded staff. The bad guys quickly harvest her Sailor Crystal, and Sailor Moon completely snaps.}}

* [[We All Live in America|We All Live In Japan]]: In the "Princess Kaguya" manga arc, Himeko mentions being denied a place on the Luna Shuttle's team because the NASA scientists thought a young woman like her "should just get married and settle down." While in Japan such attitudes toward young women are [[Christmas Cake|still fairly prevalent]], in the U.S. getting married at Himeko's age (early '20s) would be considered rather young. It would be especially unlikely that she would hear it working at NASA, because the years of extra training and education required to get there would push the average marriage age even higher.

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: The cats are the last of Usagi's allies to be killed off in the ''Sailor Stars'' arc... and unlike the Senshi are promptly forgotten about, never shown to be resurrected and never mentioned or alluded to during the ending. But they must have been resurrected or Diana would never have been born.

 

{{reflist}}