Moon Crystal Power, Make Up

After outgrowing her first activation phrase, Usagi Tsukino adopts this command as her next step, using it to become Sailor Moon throughout the printed volumes, the original animated run, and Sailor Moon Crystal. It draws its power from the Crystal Star brooch, and in time she moves on again to Moon Cosmic Power, Make Up.

The wording caused trouble for its English localizers. The DiC dub trimmed it to Moon Crystal Power, once slipped and labeled it Moon Prism Power, and on three separate occasions rendered it as Moon Star Power. It also holds the distinction of being the only one of her changes handled by every company that dubbed the franchise into English.

The manga keeps the change immediate: Usagi lifts her arms, speaks the words, and stands transformed with no drawn-out display. The animated sequence is far more involved. She raises the Crystal Star, whose lid parts to expose the Silver Crystal, and passes a hand across it to draw out pink light. The brooch rises above her head, floats down to fix itself to her chest, and she spins repeatedly. Wings unfold at her back as pink ribbons shape her leotard, then scatter into feathers while more ribbons form her gloves and boots. Her skirt and rear bow appear, a crescent glows on her brow, and her tiara, earrings, and hair ornaments arrive before she strikes her final stance against a backdrop of pink blossoms.

Crystal reused the earlier Moon Prism Power, Make Up animation almost wholesale, swapping only the Transformation Brooch for the Crystal Star. The source also notes a manga quirk: in one chapter Usagi transforms using the empty Crystal Star while the Silver Crystal remained fixed to the Moon Stick, whereas a later chapter shows her needing only the Silver Crystal itself.

Usagi Tsukino, in her Sailor Moon identity, is the sole user of this activation phrase across all three main versions of the story.