Sailor Moon

Chapter 1 introduces a harried Usagi Tsukino, a 14-year-old girl who admits to the reader that she is “kind of a crybaby” (1). Usagi is styled as blonde, blue eyed, petite, perpetually tearful and emotional, and wearing a signature hairstyle of odango, or two buns with long, loose hair trailing down from each bun. Additionally, her status as protagonist is indicated by the large, detailed portraits that often dominate more than half of a page, accompanied by stylized flowers surrounding her face. 

After waking up late for school, she rushes to class and accidentally trips over a small black cat. After apologizing to the cat, she notices that the cat has bandages on its head that it is trying to remove. She helps the cat remove them and sees that the cat has a small crescent moon on its forehead. Usagi doesn’t have time to consider this, as she is still late for school. 

Once she arrives, Usagi is locked out of the classroom as punishment for tardiness. She takes the opportunity to eat some of her lunch. She receives her graded English test, on which she scored a 30 out of 100. She meets with her best friend, Naru, and a boy named Umino, whom she describes as a “super otaku” (5), a term for a socially awkward “nerd.