Chanela and Iguara Iguara first takes on a human form, posing as the owner of a pet shop. She sells the kids of Tokyo Chanela pets, which are rabbit like creatures that emit a toxic perfume. The kids get high off of the pets, and begin to act violently towards other people. When Sailor Moon discovers this plot, Iguara turns the children nearby into zombie-lizard-monsters, and sends them against Sailor Moon. Iguara herself tries to strangle Sailor Moon with her tail! Chanela is named after the perfume Chanel No. 5. In the manga, Ruruna Kobe is a fan of the "Channel" brand, another play off of Chanel No. 5. While she is not a Sailor Senshi and only uses her real name, some fans have playfully called her "Sailor Channel" in honor of the brand. Many fans still believe a pink Chanela would be perfect for her as a Guardian.

Shingo, Mika and the children, tweens and teens of Tokyo Shingo is Usagi’s younger brother. Like his big sister, he’s a video game fan and likes to play Nintendo. He’s a huge fan of Sailor V and Sailor Moon, thinking that they’re both very cute. But he views his sister as being very stupid. He never learns his sister’s identity as Sailor Moon. Depending on the episode, there is a 3-5 year age gap between Shingo and Usagi. In the R movie, there's only 3 years between them, but off and on here and in SuperS, it stretches to 5. He attends the same school as Chibiusa in SuperS. Mika Kayama is a talented, energetic doll maker, but very temperamental. She is Shingo’s first love, but is very pushy. Mika only appears in two episodes of the anime. In the Materials Collection artbook, there is a page where Shingo thinks of her name, but Naoko Takeuchi never drew her. Children, tweens and teens are seen becoming possessed by the Chanela.

Episode 5: The Demonic Scent! Chanela Steals Love First appearance of Mika. First time Sailor Moon uses Moon Tiara Stardust. This episode also explains how Luna ends up staying at the Tsukino residence for good. First time Sailor Moon is choked/strangled. Mika is really bossy and pushy. Very hard to like. Dropped in the US in 1995 due to scenes of Shingo seemingly getting high and kicking Luna. Animal and drug abuse is a big issue with this episode. Child abuse when Usagi slaps her little brother. Also, Shingo has a crush on Sailor Moon, not knowing she’s his sister. Incest. Iguara strangles Sailor Moon in one scene. Guardians that appear but do not help in battle: Total Guardians: Final Blow from:

I just want to point out that it's kind of a shame the pre-episode introductions had to stop a little more than halfway through this season. After we find out about Usagi's true past, we only have one more "Hi my name is" segment, and that's for the R movie. I kind of wish they had done a few for the following seasons, but then if they had, it would have added an extra 5-10 minutes of content to each episode, especially towards the end of Sailor StarS. Ah well, one can dream. She does this off and on in the manga too.

Well speaking of dreaming, we start the episode where Usagi is having a nightmare.

She's dreaming of a giant Youma chasing her, and it's here we get a little spoiler. If you stretch the monster out a little, you get Queen Metallia! Usagi will off and on have a little psychic flash through the series, more so in Crystal than the original anime, still, when you re-watch the series, scenes like this make it more fun. Well just as the monster is about to grab her, Tuxedo Mask arrives to kill the Youma with a rose….. because when I think of how to kill demonic monsters, I always think of flowers.

Oh and apparently, we can walk on clouds without the helium effect ~ or that pesky falling effect ~ and it's totally normal for Tuxedo Mask to have a baseball head while Usagi's head is the size of a small watermelon. It's all normal in Dreamland. And Tuxedo Mask knows your name. It's all good. No secrets here.

Well just as Usagi is starting to enjoy this fantasy, Shingo starts screaming, granting us a few minutes worth of hilarious scribble faces.

Shingo is absolutely terrified of Luna, who has crawled into his bedroom in the middle of the night and made herself at home. He screams for Usagi to get rid of Luna, but Usagi instead chooses to torture him with her.

Oh trust me, it's justified.

At breakfast, Kenji takes an immediate liking to Luna, and Ikuko has made her a saucer of milk. Usagi asks if she can keep Luna, and Shingo starts a fight with her. The two scream it out, and just how do their parents handle this?

By doing….. nothing…. At all.

Yeah, even at 9 and 14 years old a piece, Usagi and Shingo have more sense than their parents. That is a scary thought.

Outside, Usagi asks Luna why she was in Shingo's room at all. Luna claims she was exhausted and just didn't think. Usagi asks playfully if Luna was trying to catch mice… you know… like a USEFUL house cat. But Luna says she was looking for the Moon Princess. And somehow, Usagi hears "pudding" out of "princess".


WELP! Usagi just doesn't give a shit today ♥ so she tells Luna to try and make Shingo like her. Luna walks past a pet shop after Usagi leaves, and sees a kitten being cute. She decides to try being cute herself.

Meanwhile, Jadeite is telling Queen Beryl that Iguara is ready to go. She gives him her blessing.

At school ~ and by the way, we are at the second episode in a row where Usagi is ON TIME for school ~ Usagi tells Naru that when Shingo was a baby, he was bit on the tip of the nose by a cat, and ever since then, he's been afraid of cats. Umino then tries to convince the two girls that he survived being bitten by an alligator.

Usagi figures out he meant an alligator handbag. He still expects some sort of praise. Naru and Usagi quietly plot Umino's demise.

After school, Luna is waiting for Shingo, and….

DID ANYBODY ELSE CATCH THE SHAVED HEAD OF THAT ONE KID???

So anyway, she waits for Shingo to appear, pounces, licks him and scares the piss out of him. Honestly. It's a good thing she's a cat, otherwise this would be considered very rapey.

And it looks like Shingo would agree. STRANGER DANGER!!!

Well just as Luna leaves, Mika appears, giggling that he doesn't like cats. Because why be supportive, right? Well the two start walking, and she tells him about the new pet store having the "perfect" pet for him. The pet store is called Pet Shop perfume, and reeks of sweet smelling … well… perfume. Clever, right? The two enter, and before they can even browse, the shop owner tells the two kids about the Chanelas and how each Chanela has a unique scent. Shingo sees a really cute one, and leans down to-

OH WHAT THE FUCK??

One by one, the Chanelas start possessing each of the kids in the store. Naturally, Shingo chooses this one to bring home. The shop owner tells the kids they can pay whenever they want, and by this point, the kids are so high from the perfume that they can't tell a SCAM when they hear it.

As they walk home, Mika and Shingo walk right past a homeless puppy. The Chanelas take their energy with each step.

At home, Usagi is disappointed Luna hasn't gotten along with Shingo. Luna tries to tell her she doesn't have to be kept as a pet, but Usagi scolds her for being a coward and backing down too quickly. Just then, Shingo slams open Usagi's door. Luna tries to walk playfully towards Shingo, mewing like a kitten. Violins play, and suddenly Shingo kicks Luna clear across the floor!!

… In skinny jeans. Ah well, this is as useful as the fashion challenged brat is gonna get.

Shingo demands Luna be thrown out, which makes Usagi cry. I'd have backhanded his little ass, but in this case, crying makes him flee. After Shingo runs off, Luna licks up Usagi's tears and tries to convince her everything is okay.

… Well… except for those fugly green shorts that are two sizes too small, the mismatched pink slippers and that bulky assed pink sweater, and the fact that Usagi's hands are drawn infant-size while her head is massive, your parents are worthless and the fact that YOUR CAT HAS HER MOUTH OPEN TO COLLECT YOUR TEARS and your brother is getting high off of rabbits, but hey, it's all gonna be okay. We only have another 13 minutes to fill, I'm sure a solution is right around the corner.

Ikuko is serving tea and cookies. The whole family gathers around. Shingo tells Kenji that Chanela doesn't need to eat anything at all. Ever. Kenji seems to think that makes it an economical pet. MOST PEOPLE WOULD FIND AN ISSUE WITH THAT!!! But then, this is just a negligent parent to begin with. His son is HIGH and rubbing a Chanela ass AT THE TABLE and he doesn't even notice!!

Kenji and Ikuko decide that both Luna and Chanela can stay, but Shingo objects. We then see him storm off to his room, knock aside his homework, and just gaze at his pet.

The next day, Usagi tries getting him up for school. He refuses to leave, so she checks in on him. His cheeks are sunken in, his eyes are dilated, and the Chanela is glowing…. Aaaaaaaaaaaand she does NOTHING about it. Yep. Awesome. Good job being a big sister there.

The next day at school, almost half of Usagi's class have Chanelas. Yumiko tries to hide hers, but goes into immediate withdrawal. When Haruna catches her with the pet out, she tries to take the Chanela from her. Yumiko screams and pushes Haruna into another desk. Yumiko, Kuri and all of the kids with Chanelas decide to leave class. Usagi asks Naru where the pets are coming from, and Naru tells her about the new store. Usagi asks Naru to go with her to check it out, but Naru declines, so Usagi goes alone.

At the store, Usagi thinks about the risk of ending up like her brother, but decides it's for the best to go in. Mamoru appears to tease her, but she decides to ignore him today. Luna is already inside and tries to warn Usagi not to look into a Chanela's eyes, but it's too late, Usagi ends up possessed with a pet. Luna orders her to return the pet, but Usagi just says this:

Now don't you wish she had this attitude last episode?

Luna brushes it off, and as she's trying to catch up to Usagi, a toddler falls off of a tricycle. Usagi walks past without even glancing at the tot, and Luna… licks up the tears…

Look at her. She's SMILING. She enjoys the taste of peoples' misery!!!!

But more than that, she has a taste for blood. When she realizes Usagi is ignoring her, she jumps onto Usagi's head, bites the Chanela in the neck, and then throws it's carcass into a trash can. HOLY SHIT!!

Well of course, murdering the pet and leaving it in a dumpster snaps Usagi back to her normal self. She apologizes to Luna as the two race into Shingo's bedroom. Shingo by now has dropped a ton of weight and his skin looks like crap.

See kids? This is what heroin does to you, because clearly that's what the Chanela is caked in. The withdrawal, weight loss, nasty attitude, violent tendencies, and let me say this, white is not it's original color, it's supposed to be pink!! That ain't perfume, it's COKE!!
Usagi tries to wrestle the Chanela out of his hands, and when that fails, she bitch slaps him hard across the face.

Shingo wrestles himself out of the room and races off to the pet store. Usagi is concerned about going back, in case she gets possessed again, but Luna reminds her that this is not the time for that. Usagi becomes Sailor Moon, and sets out.

Sailor Moon arrives, just as the pet shop owner puts together an army of children and Chanelas. The plan is to make everyone in town have a Chanela and fall in love with one, so the pets will steal their life energy for Queen Beryl. On seeing Sailor Moon, the pet shop owner becomes Iguara. She then transforms the children into zombie-lizards.

Sailor Moon tries to run from the Youma, and remarks that usually Tuxedo Mask shows up about here to be somewhat helpful. She discovers it's probably his off day, because his lazy bitch ass ain't there. Luna scolds her for relying on people. By the way, that will become the theme for the rest of this series. Let's teach Usagi the value of teamwork, tell her after she becomes the princess that the others are supposed to protect her, only to chastise her everytime she uses that help we keep giving her and telling her belongs to her. This yo-yo mind fuck in unbelievable. Either you want her to be independent or part of a team. PICK ONE AND STICK TO IT!!!

Luna then tells her to use Moon Tiara Action on the kids. Sailor Moon accurately points out that if she does, Shingo will die. So Luna tells her to try Moon Tiara Stardust, an attack with heals the children and breaks the Chanela spell. I CAN'T BELIEVE LUNA HAD TO THINK ABOUT THAT!!! Hmm lesseeeeee, do I tell Usagi to kill her little brother or not? This cat is evil. Well, Iguara gets pissed and chases Sailor Moon to a parking lot, and then strangles her with her tail.

Luna informs Sailor Moon that the base of Iguara's tail (her ass) is her weak point. So Sailor Moon flings the tiara at the spot, disintegrating Iguara alive, and thus, killing all of the Chanela.

Shingo races outside, thinking he was saved by Sailor V. Sailor Moon hides behind a car as Shingo begs for an autograph. She tells him she is in fact, Sailor Moon. His response?

Wow. He has the hots for his sister and doesn't even know it. EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!
What is it with this family and incest????

Well Sailor Moon uses this to her advantage, and convinces Shingo to be nice to Luna. The next morning, Shingo feeds Luna ham, and Ikuko declares that now they are a family of five. Usagi wonders if that's really a good thing….

BONUS

Have you guys been paying attention to the opening? The first few episodes, the opening and ending animation is slightly different. Check out these screenshots you may not have caught before:

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