World Shaking

This is the opening attack in Sailor Uranus's arsenal, appearing in every incarnation where she features: the manga, the 90s anime, Crystal, the Sera Myu musicals, and the video games. It is classed as a solar-wind technique and later upgrades into Space Sword Blaster. The Japanese title pairs the reading of the English words with kanji that translate to the idea of the skies trembling.

The televised version is the most fully staged. Uranus lifts a hand overhead and streaks of energy collect into her palm out of the surrounding air. She closes her fist around them and a ringed sphere takes shape, which she then flings toward the ground in the target's direction. The sphere tunnels through the earth to set off a quake, then surfaces again, its orientation matching that of its ring, right as it reaches the foe.

The comic keeps it more direct, rendering the move as an energy blast fired at the enemy. Uranus first uses it at the close of the twenty-ninth chapter to kill Mimete, and turns it on Usagi soon after in the following chapter to knock her out. It resurfaces in the Princess Kaguya short story and again in the forty-fifth chapter of the Dream arc, where she deploys it to pull the inner guardians clear of the Amazoness Quartet.

Crystal keeps the yellow ringed-sphere look from the older anime for the Mimete kill, and Uranus also aims it as a warning at Sailor Moon, Chibiusa, the inner guardians, and Tuxedo Mask to keep them out of her and Neptune's mission. In Sailor Moon Eternal she pairs it with Pluto's Dead Scream to break the inner guardians free of the Amazoness Quartet's vines. There the technique reads as a plasma orb that raises a magnetic field, tearing loose and drawing in rocks before slamming them down and rupturing the ground.

Sailor Uranus is the sole wielder of World Shaking. In the anime she debuts it unnamed in episode 90 against the Daimon Mikuji, and the spoken name only lands two episodes later; once she reaches her Super form, the stock footage is redrawn to fit the updated uniform. She has also used it across several games, including the S title on 3DO, the SuperS fighting game, and Another Story. The Cloverway English dub sometimes tacked her name onto it, billing the move as Uranus World Shaking.