Yusuke Amade

A crisp dinner suit suits his life on stage as a performer. Yusuke keeps his hair black and his eyes dark, and the way he talks with Usagi suggests he is somewhere in his thirties, possibly edging toward forty.

Beneath the polish of a well-known musician, Yusuke is shy about matters of the heart. He carries a quiet crush on his colleague Akiko Yanagi and cannot bring himself to say so directly, opting instead to record his confession onto a tape. When he opens up to Usagi about his troubles, he comes across as earnest and a little worn down, and his devotion to Akiko drives everything he does across the episode.

The episode opens with Usagi and Naru enjoying his playing, which establishes him as a jazz pianist. Viewers soon learn he means to confess to Akiko by handing her a tape of his feelings. Trouble starts when Akiko grabs one of Jadeite's energy-draining tapes by mistake, thinking it is Yusuke's, which draws a Youma to her. Kyurene later strikes at Yusuke himself, and after a chance collision with Usagi, he pours out his frustrations to her, who then works out who he is.

Wanting to shield him, Usagi trails him to his next concert, where Kyurene attacks again and snatches the energy-draining tape back. Still convinced the tape holds his own song, Yusuke hunts Kyurene down with Usagi's help and pulls Akiko out of the Youma's clutches, finally telling her how he feels. Once Sailor Moon finishes off Kyurene, the two admit their love and wed, a happy ending that leaves Naru glum, since she had been sweet on him herself. Notably, Yusuke stands out as the first single individual in the whole series to be marked by a Youma, and the only person ever singled out by one of Jadeite's Youma, though the target was never his energy.