Changes: Motoki Furuhata (anime)

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"You should never give up before you start!" — Motoki Furuhata

Motoki Furuhata was a young man who worked at Game Center Crown.

Appearance

Personality

Motoki is a crush of Usagi and Makoto's and works at the Game Center Crown, the video arcade Usagi visits frequently. In the anime he is referred to as Motoki-oniisan by Usagi, he is also good friends Mamoru, as they are students at the same college. Although they are good friends their personalities differ greatly. He is always speaking nicely to the girls and referred to them as little sisters, unaware that they were attracted to him. His girlfriend is Reika Nishimura and has a younger sister named Unazuki Furuhata.

Biography

Sailor Moon

Motoki's main role in the series was to be one of Usagi's two crushes along with Tuxedo Mask. She was shown to love them equally and had visions of marriage with both.

Throughout the series, the Game Center Crown was a popular hangout place for Usagi. There she would always meet Motoki.

Eventually, Usagi's love shifted completely towards only Tuxedo Mask, after she regained memories of her past as the Moon Princess with Prince Endymion/Tuxedo Mask. It was also revealed that Motoki was actually already dating another woman, Reika Nishimura.

Sailor Moon R

Motoki appeared significantly less often than season one from this season on, because of the established love relationship between Usagi and Tuxedo Mask. He made only one appearance in Sailor Moon R, when Mamoru asked him for some advice. In that episode, it was revealed he had a sister, whom Usagi mistakenly thought was Mamoru's new girlfriend.

Sailor Moon S

Sailor Moon SuperS

Motoki had several appearances in this season. In episode 129, it was revealed that Motoki and his old girlfriend Reika were experiencing romantic relationship problems and does not want to talk about it. They eventually got back together in the end. His last appearance of the whole series was where he goes confused and shocked seeing his sister Unazuki helping Sailor Chibi Moon gain power to the Golden Crystal.

Gallery

Trivia

In the DiC English dub, he is named Andrew and did not receive a surname, but in Mixx 'Sailor Moon the Novels' novelizations, he was given the surname Foreman. In the Sailor Moon Collectible Card Game, he retained his Japanese surname and was called Andrew Furuhata.
In episode 29 of the anime, Motoki admitted that his favorite food was hayashi rice.

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 |jobs = Worker at [[Game Center Crown]]
 |relations = [[Unazuki Furuhata (anime)|Unazuki Furuhata]] (younger sister)
-|first anime appearance = [[Punish Them! The House of Fortune is the Youma Mansion]]
+|first anime appearance = [[Punishment Awaits: the House of Fortune Is the Monster Mansion]]
 |anime voiced by = Hiroyuki Satou (Japanese)<br>Lucien Dodge (Viz Media English dub)
 |aka = Motoki-oniisan
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 ==Gallery==
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-AniMoto.png|Motoki in [[Mysterious Sleeping Illness! Protect the Girls' Hearts in Love|episode 3]].
+AniMoto.png|Motoki in [[The Mysterious Sleeping Sickness: Protect the Girls in Love|episode 3]].
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-.png|Motoki and [[Makoto Kino (anime)|Makoto]] in [[Total Chaos! The Messy Square Relationship|episode 29]].
+.png|Motoki and [[Makoto Kino / Sailor Jupiter (anime)|Makoto]] in [[Total Chaos! The Messy Square Relationship|episode 29]].
 SMSuperS_129_(3).png|Motoki in episode 129. Note that the sign in the background says "Fruit Palor Crown" instead of "Fruit ''Parlor'' Crown".
 SMSuperS_129_(2).png|Motoki talking to Reika in episode 129.