Why can't people distinguish Sailor Soldiers from their real selves?


When people transform in Sailor Moon, they look physically identical to their
human forms. Even fellow magical beings are unable to tell a person's identity
unless they witness the transformation happening.

Is there an in-universe explanation for this?




It's a [common trope](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ClarkKenting)
in a lot of super hero fiction. It's just one of those things that creators
ask audiences to suspend disbelief for. Though it's not really meant as an
explanation, many characters do poke fun at various scouts' [paper-thin
disguises](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PaperThinDisguise) in
universe, saying things to the effect of "She can't be Sailor Moon; Sailor
Moon is too pretty to be that meatball head." (It must be the tiara.)




It's a [common trope](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ClarkKenting)
in a lot of super hero fiction. It's just one of those things that creators
ask audiences to suspend disbelief for. Though it's not really meant as an
explanation, many characters do poke fun at various scouts' [paper-thin
disguises](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PaperThinDisguise) in
universe, saying things to the effect of "She can't be Sailor Moon; Sailor
Moon is too pretty to be that meatball head." (It must be the tiara.)

