Usagi's Idol: The Graceful Genius Michiru

Feeling unworthy of Mamoru after he forces down her burnt cookies to spare her feelings, Usagi decides she must become graceful, cultured, and clever. Her friends brush off her requests for lessons in cooking, English, and kimono-wearing, recalling how fast she always quits. Wandering off in tears, she stumbles onto Michiru practicing violin and instantly makes the refined artist her idol, shadowing her through an afternoon that ends at a recital where a monster attacks.

Michiru and Haruka quietly weigh their mission, resolving that the talisman bearers may have to die, while Usagi hangs on Michiru's playing. A lemon Haruka lobs at the violin is casually juggled back without breaking the tune. Usagi tags along to an art gallery and a restaurant, fumbling badly at the instrument and downing seven servings of ice cream, before Michiru hands her two tickets to a coming recital.

Mamoru, the other guardians, and the cats all attend the concert. Usagi spends the performance ogling Mamoru until Rei smacks her upside the head, and the youma Octave springs up only to be swiftly beaten.

In the manga the tickets are for Michiru's own recital rather than someone else's, and that performance takes place on Mugen Academy grounds. The pieces Michiru first plays are Kreisler's Liebeslied and Liebesfreud. During the recital scene, Ami and Rei wear the same dresses they had on in the twelfth episode. Megumi Sugihara wrote the installment, with Hiroki Shibata directing.