Editing Usagi Will Teach You! How to Lose Weight

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| image             = http://www.wikimoon.org/images/ep4.jpg
| caption           = Luna loses patience with Usagi.
| Name (Kana)       = うさぎが教えます! スリムになる法
| Name (Romaji)     = Usagi ga Oshiemasu! Surimu ni Naruhou
| Name (Translated) = Usagi Will Teach You! How to Lose Weight
| Name (Viz Dub)    = Learn How to Be Skinny from Usagi
| Number (Original) = 4
| Director          = [[Harume Kosaka]]
| Writer            = [[Sukehiro Tomita]]
| Art               = [[Kiyoshi Matsumoto]]
| Air Date          = March 28, 1992
| Prev              = [[Mysterious Sleeping Illness! Protect the Girls' Hearts in Love]]
| Next              = [[A Youma's Scent! Chanelas Steal Love]]
| Name (Dub)        = [[Slim City]]
| Number (Dub)      = 3
| DiC or Cloverway  = [[DiC]]
| Air Date (Dub)    = September 13, 1995
| Prev (Dub)        = [[Talk Radio]]
| Next (Dub)        = [[So You Want to be a Superstar]]
}}A [[Shapelin|new gym]] which promises incredible weight loss in just a few days falls under suspicion from [[Usagi Tsukino|Usagi]] and [[Luna]].

==Summary==
[[Usagi Tsukino|Usagi]] discovers that she has gained weight. Both her family and [[Luna]] agree that she eats too much and doesn't exercise, so she decides to go on a diet. [[Naru Osaka|Naru]] points out that [[Haruna Sakurada|Haruna]] has recently lost a lot of weight. As luck would have it, [[Gurio Umino|Umino]] has been stalking Haruna and informs the girls that she has been going to a gym called [[Shapelin]]. Finding out that the gym is offering free membership, the girls sign up immediately. The gym is actually run by [[Jadeite]], disguised as a fitness instructor. The girls are taken in by the ruse, although Usagi quickly sneaks away for a bath. The other girls are given "[[Shape Ray]]" treatment, which Jadeite assures them will reduce their weight. They emerge from the Shape Ray pods drained, but Jadeite tells them that they are more beautiful, and that they should come back tomorrow. The pods are, in fact, draining their energy.

Having lost track of Naru and the others, a hungry Usagi wanders the streets and passes out in [[Motoki Furuhata|Motoki]]'s arms. She tells him that she is dieting, and he replies by telling her that she doesn't need to lose weight. Reassured, Usagi buys a large bag of dumplings and returns to her old eating habits. She then encounters [[Mamoru Chiba|Mamoru]], who tells her the exact opposite of what Motoki told her. Luna agrees with him, and Usagi realises that all the dumplings she just ate will make it even harder to lose weight. Luna tries to point out that the Shapelin gym is suspicious, and that the girls who go there are becoming dangerously thin, but Usagi is more worried about her excess calories.

While Usagi works hard in the gym, Luna sees an emaciated Haruna going into the basement. Jadeite puts her in the Shape Ray pod for another treatment, which will probably kill her. Luna knocks Usagi off an exercise bike, lures her out of the gym, and gets her to transform into [[Sailor Moon]]. They confront Jadeite, who sets three hypnotised bodybuilders on Sailor Moon while he escapes. Following Luna's advice that fighting will help her lose weight, Sailor Moon tackles them and indirectly destroys the Shape Ray pods, then removes the hypnosis rings from the bodybuilders' heads. While [[Queen Beryl]] congratulates Jadeite on a semi-successful plan, Usagi discovers that despite her hard work, she has gained weight.

==Episode trivia==
* The kana for "sailor V" (セーラーＶ) can be seen on the whiteboard when motoki says "A diet?" 
* [[Jadeite]] and [[Queen Beryl]]'s conversation in the penultimate scene marked one of the few times an evil minion managed to satisfy their superior by the end of an episode.

* In the original version, [[Usagi Tsukino|Usagi]] weighed herself at the end and found she had still gained weight. In the original [[DiC]] [[Sailor Moon in North America#English Dub|English dub]], however, [[Shingo Tsukino|Sammy]] had tampered with the bathroom scale to see Serena's reaction.

* The DiC English version added extra "water" to cover Serena's cleavage while she was in the bath, but the scene remained unaltered in the [[Viz Media|Viz]] dub.

* In the DiC dub, the dumpling Usagi was eating was changed to a doughnut; in the [[Sailor Moon in Germany#Anime|German dub]], it was changed to a hamburger.

* When [[Gurio Umino|Melvin]] showed the photographs of [[Haruna Sakurada|Ms. Haruna]] to the girls in the DiC dub, he failed to mention that they were before and after photographs.

* Devices similiar to the [[Shape Ray]] in this episode also appeared in chapter 9 of ''[[Codename: Sailor V]]'', "[[Sailor V vs deVleene!]]."

* This was one of the few episodes where Jadeite's plan was accomplished without the use of a [[Youma]].

* This was the first episode to feature the work of [[Kiyoshi Matsumoto]] and [[Harume Kosaka]].

*During the scene when [[Sailor Moon]] was fighting the men, her [[odango]] covers were missing.

* While this episode was dubbed and aired in [[Sailor Moon in Sweden#Anime|Sweden]], parental complaints led to the episode being pulled from reruns.

* This episode was omitted from the [[Sailor Moon in Spain#Anime|Catalan dub]].

==Cast==
* [[Usagi Tsukino]]/[[Sailor Moon]] - [[Kotono Mitsuishi]]
* [[Luna]] - [[Keiko Han]]
* [[Mamoru Chiba]]/[[Tuxedo Mask]] - [[Tohru Furuya]]
* [[Naru Osaka]] - [[Shino Kakinuma]]
* [[Gurio Umino]] - [[Keiichi Nanba]]
* [[Haruna Sakurada]] - [[Chiyoko Kawashima]]
* [[Ikuko Tsukino]] - [[Sanae Takagi]]
* [[Kenji Tsukino]] - [[Yuuji Machi]]
* [[Shingo Tsukino]] - [[Chiyoko Kawashima]]
* [[Motoki Furuhata]] - [[Hiroyuki Satou]]
* [[Queen Beryl]] - [[Keiko Han]]
* [[Jadeite]] - [[Masaya Onosaka]]
* Large Man - [[Arihiro Masuda]]
* Man - [[Toshio Kobayashi]]
* [[Usagi's Classmates|Girl]] - [[Mayumi Seto]]
* Girl - [[Naoko Nakamura]]

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