Moon Tiara Action

This technique serves as Sailor Moon's very first combat power and dominates the opening season, where she uses it to erase the Youma dispatched by the Dark Kingdom. Once Nephrite's storyline wraps, Moon Healing Escalation takes over as her primary move, yet the tiara throw never fully retires, resurfacing across later arcs. Its manga cousin is Moon Frisbee, while Crystal and the live-action series present the comparable Moon Tiara Boomerang.

Sailor Moon draws the ornament off her brow, and it hardens into a glowing white disc as she turns a full circle and sets down. Calling out the move, she sends it flying, and struck enemies usually break apart at once, though certain scenes skip the spin and cut straight to the throw. The strike is plainly meant to kill: it sliced the monster Furau clean in two, and the horror on the faces of allies elsewhere signals that a human hit by it would not survive, a fear reinforced when Mamoru doubled over after being caught.

Despite that lethality, Usagi could bend it to many ends. She learned to curve it back like a boomerang toward a missed mark, throttled it to a harmless crawl, halted it outright to spare Naru, and once let it fasten onto a foe's head to deliver a shock rather than a fatal blow. A gentler offshoot, Moon Tiara Stardust, scattered healing dust instead of striking, and she sometimes merged the throw with Sailor Mars's Fire Soul, or Sailor Mercury's Sabao Spray, into a combined assault.

The power belongs entirely to Sailor Moon, and it holds the record for the most variations of any move in the series while remaining her most-used strike even after upgrades. In her later Eternal form, which lacks a tiara, she improvised by hurling a pizza. The third film reshaped it for Super Sailor Moon, whose version bent into a crescent and shone white instead of gold. It also carries into several games, among them the 3DO release and Another Story, where she throws the tiara like a frisbee to hit distant enemies.