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{{Button|manga page = Michiru Kaiou / Sailor Neptune (manga)|anime page = Michiru Kaiou / Sailor Neptune (anime)|crystal page = Michiru Kaiou / Sailor Neptune (Crystal)|sera myu page = Michiru Kaiou / Sailor Neptune (Sera Myu)}}
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{{Character Infobox - Manga
{{InfoboxCharacter
 
|kanji / kana = 海王 みちる<br /> ''Kaiō Michiru''
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|kanji / kana = 海王 みちる
|alignment = [[Moon Kingdom]], [[Crystal Tokyo]]
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|alignment = Moon Kingdom, Crystal Tokyo
 
|species = Human
 
|species = Human
 
|gender = Female
 
|gender = Female
 
|resides = Tokyo, Japan
|occupation = Student, violinist<br />Cooking teacher ([[Parallel Sailor Moon]] only)
 
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|image =<tabber>Civilian Form=[[File:Michiru Kaiou - Manga.png|200px]]|-|Sailor Form=[[File:Michiru Kaiou Sailor Neptune Sailor Form - Manga.png|150px]]|-|Super Form=[[File:Michiru Kaiou Sailor Neptune Super Sailor Form - Manga.png|200px]]|-|Eternal Form=[[File:Michiru Kaiou Sailor Neptune Eternal Form - Manga.png|100px]]|-|Princess Neptune=[[File:Princess Neptune - Manga.png|80px]]</tabber>
|forms = Sailor Neptune<br> Super Sailor Neptune<br>Princess Neptune<br>Eternal Sailor Neptune
 
 
|age = 16-17 (S), 17+ (Stars)
|resides = [[Tokyo]]
 
|associates = Solar System Sailor Senshi (mainly Outer Senshi)
 
|image = Michiru Manga.jpg
 
|first appearance = [[Act 27 - Infinity 1, Premonition]]
 
|actors =
 
|age = 16-17
 
 
|height = 163 cm or 5'4"
 
|height = 163 cm or 5'4"
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|blood type = O
|blood type = O <ref>[http://sailormoon.channel.or.jp/chara/chara08.html Michiru Kaiou at Sailor Moon Official Website (Japanese)]</ref>
 
|likes = Collecting cosmetics, playing the violin, swimming, painting, music, sashimi, aquariums, the colors turquoise, teal, and aquamarine
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|likes = Collecting cosmetics, playing the violin, swimming, painting, music, sashimi, aquariums; the colors turquoise, teal, and aquamarine
|dislikes = Sea cucumbers, kikurage, physical education|related pages = [[Michiru Kaiou (anime)|Anime Bio]]<br />[[Michiru Kaiou (Sera Myu)|Sera Myu bio]]<br />[[Michiru Kaiou (Crystal)|Crystal Bio]]|birthdate = March 6th ([[♓]])|full name = Michiru Kaiou
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|dislikes = Sea cucumbers, kikurage, physical education
 
|name = Michiru Kaiou
|aliases = Michelle<br>[[Sailor Neptune]]|titles = Soldier of the Sea<br>Scout of Embrace<br>Sailor Soldier of Affinity<br>Sailor Soldier of the Ocean}}
 
 
|first manga appearance = [[Act 27 - Infinity 1, Premonition]]
'''Michiru Kaiou''' is the civilian identity and present-day incarnation of [[Sailor Neptune]]. This is the original depiction of the manga character created by [[Naoko Takeuchi]].
 
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|japanese = 海王 みちる
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|romanji = Kaiō Michiru
 
|aka = Sailor Neptune, Super Sailor Neptune, Eternal Sailor Neptune, Princess Neptune
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|jobs = Violinist<br>
 
Cooking teacher ([[Parallel Sailor Moon]] only)<br>
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Sailor Guardian
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|affiliates = Solar System [[Sailor Guardians]]
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|birthday = March 6 (♓)|relations = Haruka Tenou (romantic partner)|schools = Mugen Academy}}
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{{Quote|Protected by Neptune, the Outer Planet of the Seas, Guardian of the Deep Sea, I am Sailor Neptune. |Sailor Neptune's introduction }}
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<font color="#00a5a5">'''Michiru Kaiou '''</font>(海王 みちる, Kaiou Michiru) is the civilian identity and present-day incarnation of <font color="#00a5a5">'''Sailor Neptune '''</font>(セーラーネプチューン, Seeraa Nepuchuun).
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== Nomenclature & Etymology ==
 
=== Etymology ===
 
Michiru's surname (海王, kaiou) translates to "Sea King", based on the Japanese name of the planet Neptune (海王星, ''Kaiousei'' "Sea King Star", the given title of Neptune, the Roman god of the sea).
   
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Michiru's first name means "rising".
==Profile==
 
Elegant, sophisticated, though sometimes cold and capable of sharp anger, she has been described by [[Usagi Tsukino]] as 'the ideal princess'.
 
   
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Her full name means "Rising Sea King".
Michiru attends [[Mugen Gakuen]] with [[Haruka Tenou]] and the younger [[Hotaru Tomoe]]. She is patient and caring, almost always offering a smile or laugh to a situation. While polite and calm to a fault, she is not the most social person, but when she does become close with someone it is because she truly wants to. She dislikes being patronized and will not indulge others.
 
 
==Appearance==
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=== Civilian ===
 
Michiru is an extremely beautiful and delicate-looking girl of slim stature and average height, with deep blue eyes and wavy teal hair that falls just past her shoulders. The epitome of elegance and femininity, she has an excellent sense of fashion, is always dressed smartly, and applying makeup or perfectly made up already. Usagi and Minako were both utterly dazzled by her beauty when they first saw her, and Usagi has gone as far as saying that Michiru is exactly what a fairy tale princess would be like.
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=== Sailor Guardian ===
 
<tabber>
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|-|Sailor Neptune =
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Sailor Neptune's uniform consisted of a white leotard with a sea-green skirt, a navy-blue front bow, and a navy-blue back bow. The collar on her leotard was sea green and it did not have any stripes on it, and her shoulder pads had three layers. Her gloves were white with sea-green wrist fittings. Her shoes were lace-up loose sea-green boots. Her accessories were a gold tiara with a sea-green gem in the middle, her earrings were white studs and had some kind of planetary object surrounded by a ring dangling from them, and a sea-green choker with a sea-green gem with golden accents attached to it.
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|-|Super Sailor Neptune=
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Near the end of the Infinity arc and throughout the Dream arc Sailor Neptune's uniform was slightly altered. The sea-green gem no longer had gold accents to it but instead it was embedded in a yellow star. Her sailor collar now featured one white stripe. Her shoulder pads were nearly identical to the one in her form before but this time the last pad was more wing-like and translucent. her brooch was now heart shaped, and her back bow ribbons were now longer.
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|-|Eternal Sailor Neptune=
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As Eternal Sailor Neptune, her outfit is almost completely altered. The gem on her tiara is now star-shaped. Her earrings are now sea-green studs with sea-green stars dangling from them. Her choker is now v-shaped with a yellow star in the center. Her sailor collar has a single gold stripe on it. Her brooch is now star shaped. Replacing her shoulder pads are short solid light sea-green bubble-like sleeves with sea-green bands at the end. Her gloves are heighted to be just below her bubble sleeves. her skirt is attached to her leotard with a sea-green belt with a lighter sea-green belt below it. A yellow star is connecting both belts in the center. Her skirt is in two layers with top being sea-green and the bottom being a lighter sea-green. Her back bow has been reverted to the one from her original form but this time it's a light sea-green with narrow, long, sea-green ribbons extending from it down to her knees. Her boots are now knee-length with sea-green colored v-shaped borders with a yellow star in the center.
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|-|Princess Neptune=During the Silver Millennium, Sailor Neptune was also the Princess of her home planet and was among those given the duty of protecting the solar system from outside invasion. As Princess Neptune, she wore a sea-green gown with the symbol of Neptune on her forehead. She dwelt in Triton castle.
 
</tabber>
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== Personality ==
 
Elegant, sophisticated, though sometimes cold and capable of sharp anger, she has been described by [[Usagi Tsukino / Sailor Moon (manga)|Sailor Moon]] as 'the ideal princess'.
   
 
Michiru attends Mugen Academy with [[Haruka Tenou]] and the younger [[Hotaru Tomoe]]. She is patient and caring, almost always offering a smile or laughter to a situation. While polite and calm to a fault, she is not the most social person, but when she does become close with someone it is because she truly wants to. She dislikes being patronized and will not indulge others.
This can make her look like a snob, and her seeming perfection at everything does not help this perception of her. She is a genuinely intelligent young woman, a prodigal violinist and artist, already famous for her endeavors. Her intelligence is also apparent through her acceptance to Mugen Gakuen, a school with a very high acceptance threshold; only geniuses of some field are permitted enrollment.
 
   
 
This can make her look like a snob, and her seeming perfection at everything does not help this perception of her. She is a genuinely intelligent young woman, a prodigal violinist, and an artist, already famous for her endeavors. Her intelligence is also apparent through her acceptance to Mugen Academy, a school with a very high acceptance threshold; only geniuses of some field are permitted enrolment.
===Appearance===
 
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==Information==
Michiru is an extremely beautiful and delicate-looking girl of slim stature and average height, with deep blue eyes and wavy teal hair that falls just past her shoulders. The epitome of elegance and femininity, she has an excellent sense of fashion, being always dressed smartly, and applying makeup or perfectly made up already. Usagi and Minako were both utterly dazzled by her beauty when they first saw her, and Usagi has gone as far as saying that Michiru is exactly what a fairy tale princess would be like.
 
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== Sailor Guardian Info ==
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Michiru Kaiou can transform into Sailor Neptune by saying Neptune Planet Power, Make Up! Her attacks are centered around sea attributes.
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=== Phrases ===
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* [[Neptune Planet Power, Make Up]]
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* [[Neptune Crystal Power, Make Up]]
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==== Items ====
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* [[Neptune Crystal]]
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==== Weapons ====
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* [[Deep Aqua Mirror]]
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* [[Marine Cathédrale]]
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==== Attacks ====
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* [[Deep Submerge]]
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* [[Submarine Reflection]]
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* [[Submarine Violin Tide]]
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* [[Galactica Violin Tide]]
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* [[Sea Serpent Strangle]]
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* [[Tidal Wave]]
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* [[Dolphin Wave]]
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* [[Dragon Rise]]
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* [[Splash Edge]]
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* [[Galactica Planet Attack]]
 
==Development==
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=== Michiru Kaiou ===
 
In concept art, [[Naoko Takeuchi]] had planned for Michiru and Haruka to be affiliated with the [[wikipedia:Takarazuka Revue|Takarazuka Revue]]. Also, she was originally intended to wear a bow in her hair when at school. Neither characteristic was carried over to the final version of her development.
   
 
According to the ''Materials Collection'', she had kindness "as great as the sea."
==Biography==
 
===Infinity Arc===
 
   
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=== Sailor Neptune ===
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Sailor Neptune's character was not developed until partway through the [[Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon (anime series)|Sailor Moon]] series after the other Sailor Guardians had already been established. When she was created she was made along with Sailor Uranus, the pair was meant to be "complementary but opposite characters", and were meant to work along with Sailor Pluto from the beginning. Sailor Neptune's visual design is made to evoke images of her element, the ocean. The choice of her colors along with the wavy quality of her hair, which Takeuchi even joked, might be thought of as seaweed hair.
 
==Gallery==
 
=== Infinity Arc ===
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<gallery position="center">
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Sailor Neptune in the Manga.jpg
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Group m06.jpg
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</gallery>
 
===Dream Arc===
 
===Dream Arc===
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<gallery position="center">
===Stars Arc===
 
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The Outer Senshi manga.gif|The Outer Senshi introducing themselves in their Super Sailor forms.
 
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Princess Neptune.jpg|Princess Neptune of Triton Castle
== Powers and Abilities ==
 
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</gallery>
Michiru can use her talisman to predict events of a close future.
 
 
=== Concept Art ===
 
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<gallery position="center">
==Development==
 
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Sailor Neptune Pluto Uranus Concept Art.jpg
In concept art, [[Naoko Takeuchi]] had planned for Michiru and Haruka to be affiliated with the [[wikipedia:Takarazuka Revue|Takarazuka Revue]]. In addition, she was originally intended to wear a bow in her hair when at school. Neither characteristic was carried over to the final version of her development.
 
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</gallery>
 
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===Miscellaneous===
According to the ''Materials Collection'', she had a kindness "as great as the sea."
 
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<gallery position="center">
 
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NewArt 30.jpg|The artwork of Sailor Neptune that was seen on Volume 8 of the shinsouban edition of the manga.
=== Eytmology ===
 
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Sailor Neptune on the back of Volume 8.jpg|A picture of Sailor Neptune that was seen on the back of Volume 8 of the shinsouban release of the manga.
Michiru's surname (海王, kaiou) translates to "Sea King", based on the Japanese name of the planet Neptune (海王星 ''Kaiousei'' "Sea King Star", the given title of Neptune, the Roman god of the sea).
 
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Neptune_by_Arina_Tanemura.jpg|Sailor Neptune by [[Wikipedia:Arina Tanemura|Arina Tanemura]].
 
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</gallery>
Michiru's first name means "rising".Her original English name Michelle a French feminine form of Michel, from the Hebrew name Michael meaning "Who is like God?"Her name that was used on the doll box back in the 1990's used by Irwin was Nerissa which means Sea Nymph/From the Sea.
 
 
 
==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==
* Michiru owns her own helicopter that she calls the Kaio Maru.
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* Michiru owns her helicopter that she calls the Kaio Maru.
 
* Michiru is capable of using the Deep Aqua Mirror without needing to become Sailor Neptune.
 
* Michiru is capable of using the Deep Aqua Mirror without needing to become Sailor Neptune.
* Michiru's apartment number in the Infinity arc is "1306". If one removes the "1", they will get "306", the numbers of her birthday. (Michiru's birthday is March 6, or 3-06)
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* Michiru's apartment number in the Infinity arc is "1306". If one removes the "1", they will get "306", the numbers of her birthday.
 
* As with the other members of the Outer Senshi, her surname is also the name of a rail line in Tokyo.
 
* As with the other members of the Outer Senshi, her surname is also the name of a rail line in Tokyo.
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* The Sailor Moon "Materials Collection" confirms Haruka to be in her first year of high school at the start of her first appearance, along with Michiru.
 
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* At the 1998 San Diego International Comics Convention, Naoko Takeuchi confirmed that Uranus and Neptune were indeed intended to be seen as lovers. "Uranus has the heart of a man, while Neptune is more girlish," she said.<ref>https://www.tuxedounmasked.com/what-information-did-naoko-share-with-american-sailor-moon-fans/</ref><ref>http://www.theblackmoon.com/Naoko/take.html</ref>
==Gallery==
 
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** The question "Are Uranus and Neptune lovers, and if so why did you make them gay?" came from a young female fan who wanted a clear answer. Naoko-san answered that "YES, they were a couple!"
<tabber>
 
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** Naoko further commented that Neptune was "feminine" and Uranus "masculine" and joked they had a relationship because "they had lots of time on their hands."
|-|Manga Scans=
 
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** This relationship was changed in the 1st U.S. dub due to censorship.
{{Gallery|MichiruKaiouManga.gif|Michiru in the Infinity Academy uniform|MichiruJuubanHighSchool.gif|Michiru in the Juuban High School uniform|Neptune m01.jpg|Michiru playing the violin|Haruka and Michiru in the Dream arc.jpg|Haruka and Michiru.|HSMHM Profiles Manga.PNG|Hotaru, Setsuna, Michiru, Haruka, and Minako's profiles from volume 10 of the tankoban version of the manga.|position=center}}
 
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* In a 1996 interview with Animerica magazine, Naoko Takeuchi stated that while "Sailor Moon is closest to me in terms of personality; Sailor Neptune is the opposite."
|-|Artbook art=
 
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* Sailor Neptune's planetary symbol (♆) stands for the trident''' '''of the Greek and Roman god.
{{Gallery|Tumblr_m247xvqGM01r89poho1_500.png||Michiru.Artbook.3.jpg|Michiru in artbook 3. Art by Naoko Takeuchi|Michiru.and.Haruka.Artbook.3.jpg|Michiru and Haruka in Artbook 3. Art by Naoko Takeuchi|Haruka.and.Michiru.Artbook.3.jpg|Haruka and Michiru in Artbook 3. Cover of [[Act 29 - Infinity 3, Two New Soldiers|Act 29]]. Art by Naoko Takeuchi.|All10InnerSenshiBlueAndYellow_Artbook_3.jpg||10SenshiArtbook3.jpg||All10InnerSenshiBlackDressesArtbook3.jpg||All10SenshiSwimsuits_Artbook_3.jpg||All_10_Senshi_as_Sailors_Artbook_3.jpg||All_10_Senshi_Artbook_4_Cover.jpg||All_10_Senshi_in_white_shirts_Artbook_4.jpg||All_10_Senshi_with_blond-brown_hair_Artbook_4.jpg||All_10_Senshi_in_Swimsuits_on_Lillypad_flowers.jpg||All_10_Senshi_in_Tuxedos.jpg||All_10_Senshi_in_Red.jpg||All_10_Senshi_in_Princess_Dresses.jpg||The_Outer_Senshi_Artbook_3.jpg||Sailor_Senshi_Artbook_4_Blue.jpg||Sailor_Senshi_Fashionable_Clothes.jpg||Usagi%2C_her_Senshi%2C_and_Chibi_Chibi.jpg||Solar_System_Senshi_and_the_Starlights_School.jpg||Sailor_Senshi_White_Dresses.jpg||Sailor_Senshi_in_Kimonos.jpg||Sailor_Senshi_Wedding_Dresses.jpg||position=center}}
 
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* Sailor Neptune is one of the only Senshi (besides Sailor Mars) who possesses exceptionally strong psychic abilities and the only Outer Senshi who has such powers.
|-|Concept Art=
 
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* Sailor Neptune is the second Senshi to use a sound-based/supersonic attack (with her violin), the first being Sailor Moon with her supersonic wails.
{{Gallery|Michiru Concept Art.jpg|Michiru's concept art|position=center}}
 
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** She is also the second Senshi to use a personal/ordinary item in battle, the first being Sailor Mars with her ofuda.
|-|Misc.=
 
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* Sailor Neptune and Sailor Uranus are the only members of the Sailor Senshi who's the backstory of becoming a Sailor Senshi had never been revealed in the manga.
{{Gallery|Kanzenban 10.jpg|The Inner Senshi on the cover of volume 10 of the Kanzenban manga.|position=center}}
 
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* Eternal Sailor Neptune is eliminated and given bracelets from Galaxia in the manga. But in the anime's fifth and last season, she voluntarily sells her own heart and soul to Galaxia and is given her mind-controlling bracelets.
</tabber>
 
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* Eternal Sailor Neptune is on the cover art of volume eight of the reprinted manga. On the kanzenban manga, Sailor Neptune appears on the cover of volume 6 along with Sailor Uranus.
 
 
 
==References==
 
==References==
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Revision as of 22:34, 11 November 2020

"Protected by Neptune, the Outer Planet of the Seas, Guardian of the Deep Sea, I am Sailor Neptune. "
— Sailor Neptune's introduction


Michiru Kaiou (海王 みちる, Kaiou Michiru) is the civilian identity and present-day incarnation of Sailor Neptune (セーラーネプチューン, Seeraa Nepuchuun).

Nomenclature & Etymology

Etymology

Michiru's surname (海王, kaiou) translates to "Sea King", based on the Japanese name of the planet Neptune (海王星, Kaiousei "Sea King Star", the given title of Neptune, the Roman god of the sea).

Michiru's first name means "rising".

Her full name means "Rising Sea King".

Appearance

Civilian

Michiru is an extremely beautiful and delicate-looking girl of slim stature and average height, with deep blue eyes and wavy teal hair that falls just past her shoulders. The epitome of elegance and femininity, she has an excellent sense of fashion, is always dressed smartly, and applying makeup or perfectly made up already. Usagi and Minako were both utterly dazzled by her beauty when they first saw her, and Usagi has gone as far as saying that Michiru is exactly what a fairy tale princess would be like.

Sailor Guardian

Sailor Neptune's uniform consisted of a white leotard with a sea-green skirt, a navy-blue front bow, and a navy-blue back bow. The collar on her leotard was sea green and it did not have any stripes on it, and her shoulder pads had three layers. Her gloves were white with sea-green wrist fittings. Her shoes were lace-up loose sea-green boots. Her accessories were a gold tiara with a sea-green gem in the middle, her earrings were white studs and had some kind of planetary object surrounded by a ring dangling from them, and a sea-green choker with a sea-green gem with golden accents attached to it.

Near the end of the Infinity arc and throughout the Dream arc Sailor Neptune's uniform was slightly altered. The sea-green gem no longer had gold accents to it but instead it was embedded in a yellow star. Her sailor collar now featured one white stripe. Her shoulder pads were nearly identical to the one in her form before but this time the last pad was more wing-like and translucent. her brooch was now heart shaped, and her back bow ribbons were now longer.

As Eternal Sailor Neptune, her outfit is almost completely altered. The gem on her tiara is now star-shaped. Her earrings are now sea-green studs with sea-green stars dangling from them. Her choker is now v-shaped with a yellow star in the center. Her sailor collar has a single gold stripe on it. Her brooch is now star shaped. Replacing her shoulder pads are short solid light sea-green bubble-like sleeves with sea-green bands at the end. Her gloves are heighted to be just below her bubble sleeves. her skirt is attached to her leotard with a sea-green belt with a lighter sea-green belt below it. A yellow star is connecting both belts in the center. Her skirt is in two layers with top being sea-green and the bottom being a lighter sea-green. Her back bow has been reverted to the one from her original form but this time it's a light sea-green with narrow, long, sea-green ribbons extending from it down to her knees. Her boots are now knee-length with sea-green colored v-shaped borders with a yellow star in the center.

During the Silver Millennium, Sailor Neptune was also the Princess of her home planet and was among those given the duty of protecting the solar system from outside invasion. As Princess Neptune, she wore a sea-green gown with the symbol of Neptune on her forehead. She dwelt in Triton castle.

Personality

Elegant, sophisticated, though sometimes cold and capable of sharp anger, she has been described by Sailor Moon as 'the ideal princess'.

Michiru attends Mugen Academy with Haruka Tenou and the younger Hotaru Tomoe. She is patient and caring, almost always offering a smile or laughter to a situation. While polite and calm to a fault, she is not the most social person, but when she does become close with someone it is because she truly wants to. She dislikes being patronized and will not indulge others.

This can make her look like a snob, and her seeming perfection at everything does not help this perception of her. She is a genuinely intelligent young woman, a prodigal violinist, and an artist, already famous for her endeavors. Her intelligence is also apparent through her acceptance to Mugen Academy, a school with a very high acceptance threshold; only geniuses of some field are permitted enrolment.

Information

Sailor Guardian Info

Michiru Kaiou can transform into Sailor Neptune by saying Neptune Planet Power, Make Up! Her attacks are centered around sea attributes.

Phrases

Items

Weapons

Attacks

Development

Michiru Kaiou

In concept art, Naoko Takeuchi had planned for Michiru and Haruka to be affiliated with the Takarazuka Revue. Also, she was originally intended to wear a bow in her hair when at school. Neither characteristic was carried over to the final version of her development.

According to the Materials Collection, she had kindness "as great as the sea."

Sailor Neptune

Sailor Neptune's character was not developed until partway through the Sailor Moon series after the other Sailor Guardians had already been established. When she was created she was made along with Sailor Uranus, the pair was meant to be "complementary but opposite characters", and were meant to work along with Sailor Pluto from the beginning. Sailor Neptune's visual design is made to evoke images of her element, the ocean. The choice of her colors along with the wavy quality of her hair, which Takeuchi even joked, might be thought of as seaweed hair.

Gallery

Infinity Arc

Dream Arc

Concept Art

Miscellaneous

Trivia

  • Michiru owns her helicopter that she calls the Kaio Maru.
  • Michiru is capable of using the Deep Aqua Mirror without needing to become Sailor Neptune.
  • Michiru's apartment number in the Infinity arc is "1306". If one removes the "1", they will get "306", the numbers of her birthday.
  • As with the other members of the Outer Senshi, her surname is also the name of a rail line in Tokyo.
  • The Sailor Moon "Materials Collection" confirms Haruka to be in her first year of high school at the start of her first appearance, along with Michiru.
  • At the 1998 San Diego International Comics Convention, Naoko Takeuchi confirmed that Uranus and Neptune were indeed intended to be seen as lovers. "Uranus has the heart of a man, while Neptune is more girlish," she said.[1][2]
    • The question "Are Uranus and Neptune lovers, and if so why did you make them gay?" came from a young female fan who wanted a clear answer. Naoko-san answered that "YES, they were a couple!"
    • Naoko further commented that Neptune was "feminine" and Uranus "masculine" and joked they had a relationship because "they had lots of time on their hands."
    • This relationship was changed in the 1st U.S. dub due to censorship.
  • In a 1996 interview with Animerica magazine, Naoko Takeuchi stated that while "Sailor Moon is closest to me in terms of personality; Sailor Neptune is the opposite."
  • Sailor Neptune's planetary symbol (♆) stands for the trident of the Greek and Roman god.
  • Sailor Neptune is one of the only Senshi (besides Sailor Mars) who possesses exceptionally strong psychic abilities and the only Outer Senshi who has such powers.
  • Sailor Neptune is the second Senshi to use a sound-based/supersonic attack (with her violin), the first being Sailor Moon with her supersonic wails.
    • She is also the second Senshi to use a personal/ordinary item in battle, the first being Sailor Mars with her ofuda.
  • Sailor Neptune and Sailor Uranus are the only members of the Sailor Senshi who's the backstory of becoming a Sailor Senshi had never been revealed in the manga.
  • Eternal Sailor Neptune is eliminated and given bracelets from Galaxia in the manga. But in the anime's fifth and last season, she voluntarily sells her own heart and soul to Galaxia and is given her mind-controlling bracelets.
  • Eternal Sailor Neptune is on the cover art of volume eight of the reprinted manga. On the kanzenban manga, Sailor Neptune appears on the cover of volume 6 along with Sailor Uranus.

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