Sailor Neptune (セーラーネプチューン, Sērā Nepuchūn?) is a fictional lead character in the Sailor Moon media franchise. The alternate identity of Michiru Kaioh (海王 みちる, Kaiō Michiru?, or Michelle Kaioh in the English adaptations), a teenage Japanese schoolgirl, she belongs to the Sailor Senshi, female supernatural fighters who the franchise's main girl characters transform into to fulfill their duty of protecting the Solar System and the franchise's eponymous protagonist from evil.
Introduced in the third story arc, Sailor Neptune fights alongside her partner and lover Sailor Uranus. In both versions of the story she is portrayed as an antihero: elegant, sophisticated, capable of sharp anger, occasionally cold, and fully dedicated to her duty as a Sailor Soldier. She possesses powers associated with the sea, precognitive ones, and various others granted by a mirror.
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