My Input

Tsukino Usagi is only 14 years of age when we are introduced to her at the beginning of the manga and anime story and she is your typical teenager. As the series moves on, Usagi does mature incredibly, even if it doesn’t always appear to be so on the outside; after all, she still remains to be lazy, clumsy, naïve and incredibly ditzy at times. But no matter what obstacles and enemies are thrown into her way, she overcomes them, her innocent light always helping her make that way which she believes to be the right one.

A path which isn’t always easy of course, and a path which she never has to walk alone, the number of senshi growing with each season. But, a question I always ask myself is, why does she follow it so blindly? As the series progresses, we hardly ever see Naru or Usagi’s family anymore; saving the world each day is by far not an easy job, but suddenly her life is just consumed with what destiny tells her it is supposed to be. Of course, the vision of being married to a handsome man and being the Queen of a grand galaxy is nothing but inviting – but still, I tend to wonder, what Usagi felt deep within herself as her power grew with each season, her future seemingly already decided. Being happy on the outside is an easy thing; but the inside can often hold surprising things. I know, most people will probably shout, “Hey, Usagi is such an innocent and naïve girl! Her feelings would be hard to overlook!” But often people aren’t even aware of what they feel deep inside them; but maybe ‘aware’ is the wrong word. In my opinion, it must be hard for her to define what she is feeling and lay a finger on it, for having the burden of destiny so heavy on one’s shoulders isn’t a common thing after all.

So, what the hell am I trying to say with that? I’m trying to say, that I believe that there is more to Usagi than can be seen on the outside, and that those feelings might often be interpreted wrongly. I don’t think of Usagi as a sole ditz and as impersonated naivety, no, not at all. I find there is a much deeper side to her, a side which she doesn’t tend to portray to the outside world too much, a side that makes her into a very mature and interesting character, a side I am just as fond of as her beautiful carefree easygoing character.

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