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is the only major male human character appearing in the Manga and Anime known as Sailor Moon . His 'code name' in battles is Tuxedo Kamen ('Kamen' pronounced '''''' in IPA ) or '''Tuxedo Mask'''. References either way are almost even (with "Tuxedo Mask" slightly outweighing "Tuxedo Kamen"). Most recent print sources refer to him as "Tuxedo Mask," while older print sources are mixed between both names. He is known as '''Darien Shields''' in the English adaptations. In DIC's first promo for the American adaptation, he was known as "The Masked Tuxedo". A preliminary dub name for Mamoru, that appeared on Kodansha's English website in an advertisement for the series, was said to be '''Mark'''. He is most known to Sailor Moon fans as the rose-throwing Tuxedo Kamen of the Japanese anime. Wearing a mask to conceal his identity, he interferes with the Dark Kingdom's operations and encourages the Sailor Team with advice appropriate for the situation. The kanji breaks down as such: first kanji ''chi'' means ''earth, ground'' which is the same kanji that is used in the word ''chikyuu'' which refers to the planet Earth. The second kanji ''ba'' translates to ''location, place''. Together, they form the word ''chiba'' which, when the two kanji are placed together like this mean ''local.'' The third ''mamoru'' litterally translates to ''protector, guardian''. So his name would be translated as "Local Guardian." The English dub parallels this by naming him Darien which means "protector". CHARACTER Sailor Moon (Dark Kingdom Arc) Mamoru Chiba's past is completely unknown even by him. This is because his parents died in a car crash when he was very young, and because of the severity of the accident he has blocked the memories of his past life from his head. This often causes him physical pain which makes him vulnerable to mental attacks by the Dark Kingdom, among other enemies. From the first series, Mamoru Chiba's alter ego is Tuxedo Mask. In the beginning, he would always get terrible headaches and would blackout whenever Sailor Moon was in danger. He had no idea that during the time when he have these blackouts, he would turn into Tuxedo Mask and go and rescue Sailormoon. Aside from his headaches and blackouts, he would also have these dreams of a princess urging him to help her find the ginzuishou, a mystical silver crystal imbued with great power. (The ginzuishou is called a variety of different names in the dubbed American version, the most popular being "the Empyrium Silver Crystal ." Literally translated, ginzuishou means "silver water crystal.") In order to find the ginzuishou, one must gather the seven nijizuishou ("Rainbow Crystals" in the dub). It is during this time that both the Dark Kingdom and the Sailor Soldiers are also looking for the nijizuishou. Zoisite and Kunzite, two of the Shitennou , set up a trap so that Tuxedo Mask would come and rescue a fake Sailor Moon. While fighting Tuxedo Mask's fell away, revealing Mamoru's identity and he was also injured in the process. Zoisite calls for a meeting with Tuxedo Mask at the Starlight Tower. The injured Mamoru makes his way to the Tower and bumps into Usagi Tsukino in the process. Usagi realizes that Mamoru is injured and follows him to the Tower. Later, trapped in the elevator, Mamoru finds out that Usagi is actually Sailor Moon! Mamoru's identity as Tuxedo Mask was also revealed to Usagi. Protecting Sailor Moon, Tuxedo Mask was stabbed by spears thrown by Zoisite that was meant for Sailor Moon. Grieving for Mamoru, Usagi's hidden power was revealed and her teardrop was combined with the seven nijizuishou to turn into the ginzusihou. Usagi turns into Princess Serenity (her reincarnation from her past life) and memories from their past life are revealed. One of the revealed truths is that Mamoru turns out to be the reincarnation of Prince Endymion. During the Silver Millennium, Prince Endymion was the ruler of the Planet Earth. He and Princess Serenity from the Moon Kingdom fell in love with each other. However, Beryl, from Earth was possessed by an evil force, Queen Metallia , and swore to take over the Moon Kingdom. A war broke out between the Earth and Moon; Prince Endymion defected and swore to protect Princess Serenity. Beryl, who had her sights set on Endymion, killed both him and Princess Serenity. Queen Serenity sacrificed herself and used the power of the Silver Crystal to seal away Beryl and Metallia. With the last of her strength, she sent Princess Serenity, Prince Endymion, the Sailor Senshi to Earth to be reincarnated. After all of the senshi's past memories returned, Queen Beryl took the injured Mamoru away and brainwashed him into becoming a villain. He goes by the name Prince Endymion as a villain. In the final fight with Queen Beryl, Endymion dies while protecting Sailor Moon once again. At the end of the first series, Usagi pleads for the ginzuishou to grant her wish to return everything to normal. Everyone was brought back to life, and their memories of the Dark Kingdom, and of Mamoru and Usagi's relationship with each other, were locked away. Sailor Moon R Mamoru had no memory of anything that happened in the first series. Usagi did her best to revive his memories of her and their love together. During this time, a mysterious character, the Tsukikage no Knight (literally, "moon shadow knight/knight of the moonlight," known as the Moonlight Knight in the dubbed American version), appears each time that Sailor Moon gets into trouble, similar to the fashion in which Tuxedo Mask/Kamen appeared. Later on, it was revealed in the English version that the Tsukikage no Knight was actually a part of Mamoru's soul, whose love for Usagi is so strong that the knight was created so that he could continue to protect his beloved. In the Japanese version, the Tsukikage no Knight is actually the embodiment of Mamoru's past memories, separated from his body by Usagi's crystal. {Link without Title} After the Makaiju arc of the anime (which did not exist in the original manga), Mamoru's memory was returned but just when things were going well for him and Usagi, Chibiusa appeared. Mamoru started having strange dreams again. In these dreams, he was in the middle of a wedding ceremony with Usagi when disaster struck. A voice in his dream warns him that tragedy will come if he continued a romantic relationship with the princess. Because of these dreams, Mamoru tells Usagi that he needs some time away from her. (Mamoru more or less disregarded his disturbing nightmares in the manga. However, the anime Mamoru decided to follow the voice because he loved Usagi enough to protect her, even if that resulted in his own discomfort.) Later on, it turns out the voice in his dreams was actually King Endymion, ruler of Crystal Tokyo in the 30th century — Mamoru's future self. When Tuxedo Kamen travels with the senshi to the 30th century to save it, King Endymion (or a holograph of him) explains that the purpose of the dream was to test the strength of the love between Mamoru and Usagi. Sailor Stars At the beginning of the Sailor Stars series, the villainess from the previous arc (Sailormoon SuperS), Nehelenia (also spelled Nepherenia and Neherenia) is resurrected. When she shatters the mirror she was trapped inside, shards fall in the eyes of people across Tokyo, including Mamoru. The shard causes him to have extreme pain in his eye; later he also has headaches. At the most advanced stages, he is controlled by Nehelenia, who takes him to her palace/headquarters. As a result, the timeline is bent, causing Chibi-usa to fade out of existence (since her existence is actually uncertain). Sailor Moon travels to Nehelenia's point and heals Mamoru. In the fifth series, Mamoru leaves to study at a University in the United States . Before he leaves, he slips a ring on the fourth finger of Usagi's left hand, often interpreted as a tacit proposal. He promises to answer Usagi's letters as she writes (and the opening scenes/synopsis of the episodes are usually in the form of Usagi's letters to Mamoru.) However, sometime when his plane was in the air, Sailor Galaxia -- the head villainess in this arc -- attacks the plane, having sensed a True Star Seed . Mamoru, as Tuxedo Kamen, attempts to confront her, but she easily extracts his star seed, effectively killing him. As he dies, he warns Galaxia that the Sailor Senshi on Earth would stop her ambition. When the power of Sailor Moon 's forgiveness gave Galaxia the power to expel Chaos from her body, Mamoru was resurrected in episode 200. He was last seen kissing Usagi. His current location is unknown. We do not know if he remained in Tokyo or returned to his studies in America. Manga Tuxedo Kamen was portrayed significantly differently in the manga version of the series. The most pronounced difference is that he never threw or even held a rose throughout the entire manga series. Instead, he had the power of Psychometry . This was not explored in detail until the second arc (the equivalent of Sailor Moon R) where Kino Makoto explained that he had the ability to transfer energy and read impressions of objects through touch. He was also taught by King Endymion, the future version of himself to use this ability offensively, an attack called "Tuxedo La Smoking Bomber," a pun on the French word for "Tuxedo." Also, like Sailor Saturn, he has the ability to heal injuries. This power is actually touched on in the S and Super S anime, but only for very brief moments. Another major difference is that in the manga, Tuxedo Kamen, like Sailor Moon, was supposed to have his own guardians and advisors. It's also interesting to note that it was the Dark Kingdom Generals (Jadeite, Nephrite, Zoiscite and Kuzite) that were supposed to fill that role. Back in the Silver Millenium, they were to Prince Endymion the equivilent of the Sailor Soldiers to Sailor Moon. Unfortunately, when the Dark Kingdom attacked, they were brainwashed by Queen Beryl and turned against Earth. After the Moon Kingdom was destroyed, the Four Generals found themselves reborn on Earth along with all the others and began to search for Mamoru so he could become Prince Endymion again. Unfortunately, they were discovered by Queen Beryl and once again turned to evil before they could find him. They make a brief cameo in the second arc when they appear to Mamoru in a vision. At a moment when Mamoru is feeling powerless and weak, the Four Generals appear for encouragement, telling him that as Prince and future King, he does have to power to fight alongside Sailor Moon. However, after that one brief appearance, the four of them are never seen again. Tuxedo Kamen's importance in the manga is significantly played up in several ways. In fact, many of Sailor Moon's transformations and final victories come as a result of her and Tuxedo Kamen fusing their powers together. In the final battle against the Dark Kingdom, Queen Metallia absorbed Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Kamen into her body. However, they were able to combine their powers through the Silver Crystal to destroy Queen Metallia from within. This was essentially the inspiration for the climax of the Sailor Moon R movie when Tuxedo Kamen transformed into Prince Endymion and helped Sailor Moon use the Silver Crystal to prevent an asteroid from crashing into the Earth. In the second story arc (Sailor Moon R), he combined his power with Sailor Moon through the Moon Scepter to kill Prince Diamond of the Black Moon Kingdom. Later, they fused their powers together to transport Chibi Usa to them for the final battle against the Death Phantom. In the third story arc (Sailor Moon S), he combined his powers with both Sailor Moon and Sailor Chibi Moon to create the Holy Grail, transforming Sailor Moon into Super Sailor Moon. The reasons for this constant fusion are never fully known until the fourth story arc (Super S), when all the answers come. As the Dead Moon invasion corrupts the Earth, both Usagi and Mamoru find themselves dying from a mysterious form of lung cancer. To save their lives, Helios transports them to Elysion, which used to be the Earth Kingdom when Mamoru was Prince Endymion. There, he explains that their infection is caused by their ties to the Earth. During the Silver Millenium, Princess Serenity and Prince Endymion were both born with a specific mission; to protect the Earth. They did this with the help of their crystals: The Princess with the SILVER Crystal and the Prince with the GOLDEN Crystal. According to Helios, the Silver Crystal and the Golden Crystal are two halves of the same whole, created for the sole purpose of protecting the Earth. However, Endymion's mission was the protect the Earth from within, while Serenity's mission was to watch over the Earth from the moon, so the two were forbidden to fall in love. However, when they were reborn on Earth, they were freed from that restriction and arguably became that much more powerful for it, since according to Helios, the Silver Crystal and the Golden Crystal draw strength from each other and were always meant to be used together. Usagi then realizes that if the Silver Crystal was in her body, then the Golden Crystal must be inside Mamoru. Armed with this knowledge, Usagi and Mamoru return to Earth and transform, ready to fight. When Sailor Moon transforms into Eternal Sailor Moon for the final battle with Queen Nepherenia, Mamoru, more determined than ever to help Sailor Moon, forces the Golden Crystal out of his body and his true power is awakened at last. Combining his new power with the Sailor Soldiers, he is able to help Sailor Moon defeat Queen Nepherenia, then Helios appears after being revived by Sailor Chibi Moon. Presenting Mamoru with his own scepter, Helios attaches the Golden Crystal to it and with their full powers realized, Tuxedo Kamen and Sailor Moon transform into King Endymion and Neo Queen Serenity. Then, with their combined power, they completely obliterate the Dead Moon and Queen Nepherenia once and for all. In the STARS manga, Mamoru is accepted at Harvard University , but is killed by Sailor Galaxia before he can travel to America . After Eternal Sailor Moon becomes one with the Galaxy Cauldron and wishes for her and the others to be brought back to life, she awakens in Mamoru's arms as if it was just a dream. They are married soon after and later, they are seen discussing the future of their child, which would suggest that they had had Sexual Intercourse . However, it's unclear whether Usagi was saying that she thought she was going to be pregnant soon or that she thought she already was. Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon In the live action version, Mamoru is a much more silent, yet dedicated person. He is in search of the Silver Crystal due to his amnesia and dreams that told him that the magical object could restore his memories. To do this, he donned the Tuxedo Kamen disguise and became a thief, searching for the legendary crystal. Once his memories of his past and present lives were restored, he assumed his Endymion form to help the Senshi and tried his best to protect Usagi from the dangerous aspects of overusing the Silver Crystal. However, this went a bit too far when he joined the Dark Kingdom to understand more of the link between the Silver Crystal and Metallia (though he also went to protect not only Usagi, but the Shitennou, who Beryl threatened to kill did he not join her). Learning that the Silver Crystal made Metallia stronger every time Sailor Moon used it, Endymion took Metallia into his body before succumbing to its dark power. Now an evil parody of himself, Dark Prince Endymion, he almost killed Sailor Mercury when Sailor Moon was forced to kill him to stop Metallia. He was revived once Sailor Moon managed to finally control the Crystal's power and destroyed Metallia for good. PROFILE
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