Making New Friends: Chibi Moon’s Adventure

Back among the twentieth century guardians for more training, Chibiusa takes to heart her mother's advice that a fated friendship waits for her somewhere in this era. Her curiosity settles on Tamasaburo, a poised boy who leads a family tea ceremony, though the same afternoon the Death Busters mark him as a candidate worth draining. The dub retitled this one Tainted Tea Party.

Chibiusa hands Minako a note penned by Neo Queen Serenity, asking the present day team to mind her during her stay, while a second letter nags the current Usagi to hit the books harder. Wandering the streets, the girl mistakes a boastful park kid for her destined match before spotting a boy in a kimono who slips away. She later drags Mamoru and Usagi into a squabble over lunch, which Haruka and Michiru interrupt with an invitation to tea.

The tea house reveals the vanished boy as Tamasaburo, head of the Yaburakoji Burakoji household. Chibiusa reads the meeting as fate itself; Usagi merely fumbles the etiquette. Elsewhere, Professor Tomoe, fed up with scalding tea, decides Tamasaburo may hold a Talisman and dispatches Eudial along with a fresh Daimon, Chagama, brewed from a kettle.

Viewers watch Chibiusa change into Sailor Chibi Moon on screen for the very first time, and the phrase Moon Prism Power, Make Up debuts in her hands here. The episode nods repeatedly to the raunchy comedy Crayon Shin-chan, and Souichi Tomoe is glimpsed in a pale violet kimono flinging away a cup of hot tea. Dub scripts softened a young boy's crude joke and rewrote Minako's remark about the childlike handwriting on the queen's note.