Moon Wars

"What do you think people are made of? I'm not talking about or flesh. We do care about what's on the exterior, but we want to focus more on what people even now still call the "inside." You can also call it "nature." I guess you are either born this way or raised to act this way. Are people born like this or do they become like this? The answer is..." —--Opening Narration

Moon Wars is a Summer 2025 Anime series that was produced and collaborated on by Studio TMS Entertainment and CLAMP. It is the second anime based on following 2005's, and the fourth overall incarnation in the franchise.

Moon Onii is a High School girl born to a shrine family. By day, she's completely ordinary and enjoys hanging out with her friends. By night, she fights and the called "Equestria" who invade her town and attempt to feed on humans. But as Onii continues to fight for her life each night, she begins to notice something isn't quite right in this town…

Tropes used in Moon Wars include:

• Action Dress Rip: Onii rips off part of her school skirt and turns it into an Eyepatch of Power in episode twelve.
• Adorkable: Onii in spades. Taken Up to Eleven in the manga...CHIBI ONII!
• Anguished Declaration of Love: Confesses to Onii in Episode 9. She reacts in confusion and asks what he likes about her. Turns out the whole thing was just an act.
  • Played straight
• Ankle Drag: Happens to the Motoe twins in episode 12. Nene is dangled in the air and then repeatedly smashed into the ground, while Nono gets ripped in half.
• Anti-Hero: Onii in spades by episode 12
• Anyone Can Die Double Subverted Sometimes twice. The second time, though, it manages to stick.
• Armor-Piercing Question: "Who did you promise?"
• Asshole Victim: This could be said about Ren, the twins.
• Badass Adorable: Onii.
  • Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
• Becoming the Mask: Ren comes to actually care for Onii while acting out his role as her classmate.
• Big Bad/The Man Behind the Man: Ren
• Bishonen: Well, CLAMP did the character designs, so the males that have been introduced so far fit the trope.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Ren.
  • As of the last episode, Yukiko can be added to the list. She only participated in The Masquerade because she wanted to be a politician and doesn't seem to care when the rest of the participants are slaughtered.
• Bloodier and Gorier
• Hilarious: Lots of the Gorn.
• New Black: Onii in the opening and in Episodes 3 and 4 has her covered from head to toe.
• Bob Haircut: Yukiko has a glamorous, asymmetrical one.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: What does to the Equestria and when he gives them some of Onii.
• Break the Cutie
  • Broken Bird
• Chaste Hero: Onii
• Censor Shadow / Lens Flare Censor:
  • Several times when attack. Replaced with blurs half the time in episode 12 for unknown reasons.
  • Removed in the BD/DVD releases.
• Class Representative: Yukiko
• Cliff Hanger: The ending left us with Onii pursuing into the city.
• Continuity Nod: In the teaser trailer for the movie, we see Onii in her school uniform from, the very first installment of the franchise.
• Cool Sword: Onii's mother's sword. Though it's not really her mother's.
• Cradling: Onii briefly does this to Ren's corpse.
• Cruel and Unusual Death
• Cute Clumsy Girl/Dojikko: Onii's habit of falling on her face.
• Daddy's Girl: Onii.
• Dark Reprise: Listen closely to the BGM playing during Onii's Heroic BSOD after escapes. It sounds like the song she always sings.
• Daylight: Episode 6 and 8.
• Dead Foot Shot: Chie.
• Death By Genre Savvy: An unlucky student from Episode 9. Safely getting away from the and escaping outside, he is promptly killed by falling glass because Onii kicked the monster into the window.
• Dogged Nice Guy: Towards Onii. It's hinted that is also one for Onii.
  • Subverted, at least in case it was all an act.
• Downer Ending: And gets away, Onii loses an eye, die redeeming themselves, and the entire town is massacred.
  • But Wait! There's More!: Don't forget the movie coming next year. The finale has only just begun...
• Dying Declaration of Love: Itsuki in episode 12
• Eaten Alive: Only if an Equestria doesn't its victim first.
• Eldritch Abomination: Most of the Equestria that are bigger than an average human
• Eyepatch of Power: Onii, after taking a bullet to the eye in episode 12
• Eye Scream: The Eyeball-head in Episode 5 and Onii thrusting her hand through its head/eye.
  • Onii gets a bullet to the face in episode 12.
• Fake Memories: Most everything Onii remembers that isn't from a flashback is fake.
• Faking the Dead: Tokyo the twins City.
• Failure Hero: Onii when it comes to saving people. Big time.
• Failure Is the Only Option: Doesn't matter whether you were too dumb or just trying to get the hell out of there.
• Fan Service: Onii's bathscene and the opening.
  • Fan Disservice: The twins' panty shots during their deaths. Then there's who not only had several panty shots, but a full breast exposure when she was Tokyo.
• Food Chain of Evil: Onii eats Equestria.
• Girl Next Door: Onii is this towards. Or not
• Girlish Pigtails: Onii.
• Go Out with a Smile: But just slightly.
• Gorn:
  • Dripping with it during fights.
• Godiva Hair: In the opening and bath scene
• Gory Discretion Shot: As the Equestria of Episode 7 is cleanly bisected, his two halves turn around so that the gooey bits remain off camera.
• Gratuitous English: In the opening theme (Spiral by Dustz). The full theme also adds Gratuitous French.
• Purple Eyes: Onii has these unless she's kicking a red's ass.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Tadayoshi.
• Hannibal Lecture: The Equestria in Episode 9 gives Onii the shortest one while her classmate.

Why are you sad?

• Healing Factor: Onii's is officially recognized in Episode 8. Though it does take a day or two, the end result is fairly clear.
• Hidden Depths: Despite her established klutziness, Onii is REALLY good at sports.
• High-Pressure Blood
• Hot Chick with a Sword: Onii.
• Hot Teacher: Yu.
• House Husband: Chie.
• Humanoid Abomination: Equestria in episode 5 (first half), episode 7 and episode 9 and Tadayoshi who is a Half-Human Hybrid
• I'm a Humanitarian: In a weird twist:While the Equestria feast on humans, Onii (being one herself) cannot. Instead, she can only feast on the of other Equestria.
  • The Guimauve that Fumito fed her was made from the of Equestria.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Multiple of Onii's classmates (including Yukiko's fake body) that weren't eaten.
  • A bunch of extras in the final episode.
• Irony: Yukiko and Onii seem to be the main pairing while is the ignored love interest. The irony comes when the twist is revealed, Yukiko is revealed to be a jerkass and is one of the few people who actually cared about Onii.
• I Will Definitely Protect You: What she promised her class in Episode 8. She couldn't deliver on it.
• Karma Houdini:Ren.
• Katanas Are Just Better
• Kill the Cutie:
  • The twins, and the rest of her class except and Yukiko.
  • Yukiko was eaten in Episode 10. Which revealed that the Twins are still alive.
  • And then it turns out all three of them are alive. And are complete jerkasses. They eventually die for real later on, along with Amamiya-san.
  • Chie is trying to protect Onii in the final episode.
• Kill'Em All: Everyone in Onii's class in Episodes 8 and 9, with the exception of Yukiko.
  • Everyone eventually dies except for Ren, Onii. Even the entire town gets eaten.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Onii.
• Late for School: This is how Yukiko is introduced.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In episode 11 Marie explain that: Onii and the twins themselves are the main characters and the rest are just extra.
• Living a Double Life: There's sweet Onii, and then there's cold, red-eyed hunter Onii.
• Living Shadow: The Equestria in episode 6 that possesses
• Love Dodecahedron: Sort of. There's a mild one with having feelings for Onii, who "loves" Ren.
• Lyrical Dissonance: The cheerful in Episode 7... just an episode after their deaths. Talk about Mood Whiplash.
• Made of Plasticine
• Magic Skirt: Apparently just for Saya.
• Meaningful Name: Moon means "to cloak oneself or change form," ironically a fitting name for Onii's role.
• Megane: Chie.
• Meganekko: Onii.
• Miko: Onii.
• Mind Screw: Gee, thanks, Episode 11.
• Missing Mom: Onii's mother died when she was a child. Or did she?
• Monster of the Week: Starts off this way.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: The Samurai Equestria in Episode 7.
  • Multi Wield
• Names to Know in Anime:
  • Yukari Tamura as Onii Moon (Tamura also performs the ending theme)
  • Jun Fukuyama as Ren Amamiya
  • Daisuke Namikawa as Yu Narukami
  • Showtaro Morikubo as Yosuke Hanamura
  • Yui Horie as Chie Satonaka
  • Ami Koshimizu as Yukiko Amagi
  • Kana Hanazawa as Marie
  • Mamoru Miyano as Ryuji Sakamoto
  • Nana Mizuki as Ann Takamaki
  • Tomokazu Sugita as Yusuke Kitagawa
  • Aoi Yūki as Futaba Sakura
  • Yuuko Sanpei as Aak
• Nice Guy: This is mainly the reason for Onii "loving" Ren (for being kind, making delicious food, and listening to her). He's ANYTHING but.
• Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here: So it seems for the people who don't get to see the Equestria. Which leads to
  • Be Careful What You Wish For: As Nene found out.
  • And would have if she were in her right mind.
• Noodle Incident: What exactly were the twins arrested for?
  • In episode 11, it's implied that the twins were previously arrested for pimping out other girls when one of them suggests that they should get more school uniforms for "the girls" to wear, but that this time they'd have to be more careful.
• Noodle People: Well, CLAMP is doing the character designs.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Everyone.
• Oblivious to Love: Onii. Poor. Or maybe she can tell their hearts aren't in it.
• Off-Model:
  • Fumito during a few scenes in Episodes 2 and 8.
  • And the monster in Episodes 8 and 9. The tips of its fingers seem to have a different shape, depending on the shot. They're either a continuous purple blade or something resembling a scorpion's stinger.
• Off with His Head
• Oh Crap: The Twins, and in episode 12, when the nearby Equestria and informs the the talismans protecting them from it, are fake. And he sics it on them as well.
• Older Than They Look: Yukiko.
• Our Are Different: They can look like just about anything, they're called 'Equestria', and... they're not really at all. Onii, though...
• Panty Shot: We get a clear panty shot. Right before the Equestria rips her legs off, split wise...
• Rain: Near the end of episode 6
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Onii
• Rapunzel Hair: Onii.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: When Onii's eyes change color, it's over.
• Red Shirt: The entire town besides the main cast is specifically designated as this by Ren.
• Redemption Equals Death: Yu goes down protecting Onii, and admits that he was actually beginning to care for her.
• Revenge: Onii towards Ren.
• Screaming Warrior: Onii in episode 12
• Scenery Censor: Played with when the dog appears while Onii is taking her bath.
• Scenery Porn
• School Uniforms Are the New Black: Pretty much the only thing we've seen any of the teenagers wear, except for Onii's miko clothes. She even wears her school uniform when she's out hunting .
• Shout-Out: The train in the third episode may have some relation to the one in even if the train is the magics. in this case.
  • Episode 6: Death by decapitation through a maw.
  • Episode 7: The Ren owns a shop that grants wishes.
    • Note that the seiyuu is even the same as Amamiya's.
    • The monster of the day in Episode 7 looks a lot like Tadakatsu Honda from Sengoku Basara, of which TMS Entertainment did the anime adaption for.
• Single-Minded Twins: Theme Twin Naming Sakamoto.
  • Creepy Twins: As of episode 11
• Small Town Boredom: Sakamoto, who wish that they could do more normal high-school things.
• Specs of Awesome: Onii.
• Strictly Formula: Episodes 1 through 5 followed a predictable pattern. Sing on the way to school, play with the puppy, eat and chat with friends, and the of the eeek. And then came Episode 6...
• Strong as They Need to Be: Onii seems to only gain the strength to the of Week after they've managed to slaughter everyone in sight.
• Supreme Chef: Ren, who owns a coffee shop that Onii often visits.
• Tall, Dark and Bishoujo: Onii and Yukiko.
• Tall, Dark and Handsome: Amamiya.
• Tempting Fate: In Episode 8, one of the students in Onii's class remarks that the monster seems to be a Mighty Glacier, giving them time to run, seconds before he went Lightning Bruiser on them.
• Theme Twin Naming: No.
• Third Person Person: Onii.
• Tomato in the Mirror: Onii who is an Equestria in human form.
• Too Dumb to Live: The villagers, seriously. It's understandable that they are not aware of the existence of the Equestria. But when Onii tells them to run away while she deals with the they just stay on one spot near the battle field and then, they got.
• Town with a Dark Secret: It increasingly seems like everyone is in on some sort of plot with the Equestria. Then, well, look at the next trope down.
• Truman Show Plot
• Trademark Favorite Food: Onii always eats Guimauve (or marshmallows) and drinks coffee. Both are mixed with of the Equestria
• Twelve-Episode Anime
• Unorthodox Sheathing: Onii does this in the opening sequence by holding up her sword and having the sheath land perfectly in place.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Nobody comments when Onii brings her katana to school in Episode 6. By Episode 8, they start to take notice.
• Unwitting Pawn: Onii. Big time.
  • All of the unfortunate villagers who have no idea that they're meant to be slaughtered when everything's over.
• Hunter: Onii, for certain values.
• Vapor Wear: When the multi-armed Samurai Equestria from Episode 7 cuts up the back of Onii's uniform, no bra is seen.
• Wham! Episode:
  • Episode 6 throws the series into Anyone Can Die territory with the deaths of the twins.
  • Episodes 8 and 9 together formed another Wham! Episode, where Equestria's entire class was slaughtered, sans Ren, Yukiko and Yu.
  • Episode 10 has the death of Ren and the return, or not, of the dead Twins
  • Episode 11. That is all.
• Wham! Line: Two in Episode 10. First...

Onii: That's fine, but... How long will you play at this stupid game?

• • And after that:

Yukiko: It's all fake!

• With Friends Like These...: More like, with a sister like this. knocks over, so she can escape the Equestria in episode twelve. She doesn't get away though.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Ren, the twins, and in episode twelve.

Ren: Actors who refuse to play their parts, should leave the stage.

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