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Picking up where the last episode leaves off, Luna has dropped the Moon
Stick, and has informed Sailor Moon that not only does the wand belong to
her, but she is officially (In case anybody forgot over the last four
episodes) the leader of the Sailor Guardians. Once again, if it was me, I
would sincerely wipe that wand off with some disinfectant. LUNA DOES NOT HAVE
POCKETS!!
After the opening, we cut to Mamoru having a nightmare about Princess
Serenity being under attack. As soon as she starts screaming about the Silver
Crystal, he wakes up, half naked, for seemingly no reason at all.
Where is your hand??
Yeah. You know who you are. And you're welcome.
Mamoru contemplates who the pigtailed woman is in his dreams, totally missing
every obvious clue here.
Across town, Usagi catches up with Ami and Makoto. As it turns out, she's
been having the exact same nightmares as Mamoru, only she sees everything from
the princess's perspective, while he sees all from the prince's.
Can't you just scream? They can't figure out they are dreaming about each
other!
Usagi bumps into Mamoru, and as usual, he tells her to look where she's
going. He offers to help her up, but she picks herself up, and then stares at
his pants for a second.
He smiles at her, and tells her to be careful, then walks off. Makoto teases
Usagi when she catches her blushing, while Ami stares at Mamoru's bum as he
makes the silliest walk to school.
But as the girls contemplate the fact that he attends a really really really
GOOD high school, a news broadcast airs, warning everyone about Tuxedo Mask.
The entire town is buzzing about Tuxedo Mask and what type of enemy he really
is.
How they got a bubbly photo of Tuxedo Mask a few stories up, I will never
know.
The news story is a not-very-well-thought-out plan Tuxedo Mask is in favor
of, hoping to find out more about the Silver Crystal. To recap, Usagi is
starting to have feelings for a 17 year old, driven so mad by nightmares
about his past life, that he is willing to create a media frenzy in order to
find the rock he keeps dreaming about, while he dresses in a tuxedo and jumps
from building to building and occasionally committing breaking and entering.
What a catch! I'm sure glad she's got a good head on her shoulders. <.<
By the way, Ikuko-mama? Maybe you should spend less time goofing off with
Luna and more time asking about the people your kid is hanging out with.
Meanwhile, Kunzite and Zoicite are sort of giggling about the whole
situation. Queen Beryl isn't a fan of their jovial attitude, and reminds them
they need to fetch the crystal. Nephrite offers to go back and avenge his
loss to Sailor Jupiter, but Zoicite instead offers to take his turn and head
up, and possibly bring back some human energy.
It's late at Crown Game Arcade, and Luna has taken the
girls inside to the Sailor V game machine. Hmm. Breaking and entering. Good
one, Luna! Anyway, the girls ask Luna if she even knows who they're supposed
to be fighting, and she gives them a vague description of Queen Metallia,
which is also followed with the statement that the Silver Crystal holds
enough power to destroy a whole planet. To wit Ami asks the most intelligent
question out of the group.
Well that was blunt.
Luna states that finding and protecting the crystal and locating the Moon
Princess are their main goals right now. The girls figure out that Luna came
from the Moon, but this is all a bit overwhelming, so Usagi decides to gaze
at the Sailor V game a bit.
OH FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK the video game just talked back to me!!
Well rather than scream at the obviously possessed arcade machine, Usagi
instead decides to ask Luna if Codename Sailor V is an ally of theirs.
The next day, Zoicite is cross-dressing, posing as a woman named Dr. Isono
and lands a TV spot to talk about the Silver Crystal. After mentioning that
the crystal can give the user eternal youth (a spoiler for the next arc) a
wave crashes over everyone, possessing them and making the entire country go
ape-shit looking for the crystal.
Ikuko is ripping up the whole house looking for it, freaking out Usagi, while
the other girls are stuck in the city, watching people beat each other up
over it. Luna instructs the girls to meet at the arcade again.
She takes them into the basement, where her secret command center is FREAKING
SPACE AGE!! Good lord, how did a CAT develop this??
Luna blames everything on Tuxedo Mask, and Usagi has had just about enough of
that. She points out that if he really was evil, he wouldn't keep saving her
all the freaking time. Luna dismisses Usagi's feelings, so Usagi decides to
bail and run into the city.
Meanwhile, Zoicite has started draining the country's life energy into Tokyo
Tower, but ends up being caught by Luna, Rei, Makoto and Ami. He already
knows their secret identities, so they're not really upset about having to
transform in front of him.
Across town, Usagi is feeling dizzy and weak. (EAT SOMETHING, KID!!) She is
about to faint, but Tuxedo Mask catches her.
He apologizes for all the trouble, and confesses he wants to find the
crystal, but feels he doesn't have any powers like the Sailor Guardians do.
Usagi admits she feels weaker than the others, and understands the feeling.
(By the way, did I mention this was a close-up heavy episode?) Just then, she
senses the girls fighting Zoicite.
Oh, and we can fly now. Or hover for long periods, however you want to look
at it.
But Zoicite gets the upper hand and blasts the girls
back. He then summons Queen Beryl, who threatens to kill everyone. Usagi
doesn't want to transform in front of Tuxedo Mask…. Um… totally forgetting
she already gave away that she's the leader of the Guardians like less than
five minutes ago… and forgetting he already freaking knows she is Sailor
Moon.
She protests, saying she doesn't have the same cool powers as Mercury, Mars
or Jupiter, so Tuxedo Mask grabs her.
He tells her that she opened each of the girls up and brought out their power
just with her own warmth. He then offers to hold her bag while she
transforms.
And after floating up like a ninja, Sailor Moon grabs the wand and decides to
battle Beryl and Zoicite.
Sailor Moon lets loose her new attack, Moon Healing Escalation, which
utilizes stock backgrounds.
She bounces the beam, which hits Zoicite as he uses himself as a shield to
protect Queen Beryl.
Queen Beryl carries Zoicite away, while his body is still glittering. Sailor
Moon then uses her powers to restore everyone in Japan back to health.
She returns to where Tuxedo Mask last had her bag, and faints.
After thanking her bewbs for a job well done, he kisses her while she is
unconscious.
And in case this isn't rapey enough, he carries her to his apartment.
And you know the most damning thing?
Codename Sailor V and Artemis are RIGHT FREAKING THERE and choose NOT
to do anything!
Yeah! Not only are they letting the town creeper kidnap Sailor Moon, they are
SMILING about it!! Yeah! That's not a joke. They stand there and watch Tuxedo
Mask kiss on, touch on and kidnap a 14 year old girl, and they do nothing at
all except smile about it. OMFG and THESE are the GOOD guys??
The next morning, Usagi wakes up in Mamoru's bed, totally re-dressed and with
a broken pocket watch sitting on her lady bits. Do I EVEN want to comment?
Now granted it broke when it hit her locket, making me wonder WTF the locket
is made of, but before we can contemplate all of the innuendo of a broken
pocket watch sitting on her re-dressed lady bits, we find that Mamoru is just
staring at Usagi, watching her wake up.
And while gazing at his smug expression, Usagi finally puts it together that
Mamoru is Tuxedo Mask.
Oh shit…
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BONUS!!
So the opening changed, and it looks like rampant
Twitter trolling was the reason why.
So after weeks of bitching, whining, moaning and
complaining from hipster Moonies ~ all of which CAN'T DRAW and have NEVER
tried to animate a complete, 25 minute episode of anything ever, and are
mostly unemployed and yet pretend the world owes them something, and whose
severely limited "art career" stops at a handful of tracings on DeviantArt,
a half-assed sketch of two non-Gay dudes suddenly kissing, and an ugly MMD
model, who did not actually grow up watching Sailor Moon, never read the
manga, yet act like they know more than the people who made the show, Toei
decided to cave in and cater to the bitchy Twitter patrollers and change the
animation.
Toei also worked their animators to death in
re-animating entire shots for the Blu-Ray, to make these hipster Moonies
"happy" even though said hipsters still continue to bitch and whine
about the Blu-rays, and illegally stream poor bootlegs from the Sailor Moon Centre
and again, act like their better than the rest of us.
And to be honest, most of the people bitching aren't
real Sailor Moon fans to begin with. Most are only watching because right
now, #SailorMoon is a trend on Twitter.
These are the same lowlifes that pretend to be
"Whovians" for Doctor Who, and pretend they know much about the
series, when in reality, they can't even tell me who Kamelion was, why REAL
Doctor Who fans are up in arms about Shada, and how the Dr. Who movie is
actually a parallel universe story from the first season with William
Hartnell. Who am I kidding? Most believe the first Doctor was Christopher
Eccleston. (And no bonus points for Googling the answers.)
The handful of alleged long-time Sailor Moon fans
who also bitched ~ let's be honest ~ were the ones who admit that they either
never read the manga all the way, or did and couldn't piece together why it
didn't follow the first anime. The leftovers in this group? They keep posting
ugly, poorly written "re-imaginings" of Sailor Moon, trying to
re-envision the show to make it match their Emo, extra dramatic,
Twilight-and-X-Men-rip-off fanfics, which are sometimes sprinkled with
suddenly Emo or Punk Disney characters.
But again, Toei tries to cater to all Sailor Moon
fans, so they swapped out a few segments. So here are the ones that caught my
eye.
Keep in mind, I'm not going to nitpick and show
every single scene where an eye was re-drawn or a nose was altered or shading
was added, as that would stretch the page way out, so I'm just focusing on
the big changes.
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Acts 1-5
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Act 6
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Um… is this meant to be
dramatic?
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Okay, admittedly, the eyes
look WAY better, but why is Usagi now skinnier?? Yeah, she's slender at
this point in the manga, but not to this extreme, Hell, not even to the
extreme of the previous opening. WTF are we promoting anorexia??
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Makoto doesn't look
possessed anymore, but Artemis is still missing a nose. Was this necessary?
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Okay, so we went from a
rocky, earthy terrain to the tundra. To be fair, both are accurate to
Crystal, as we will (spoiler alert) see the girls fighting the Dark Kingdom
on both terrain, but I can see where they made the second screen, since
most of the fight in the manga and first anime took place at D Point, which
is at the North Pole. (Sorry Santa..)
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THIS ↑ is WRONG and
spoils the whole "Usagi is the Moon Princess" thing. But it is in
homage to her first appearance in Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon episode 34.
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THIS right here, is the
only thing that needed to change. THIS ↑ is Queen Serenity's actual
coloring. Silver hair, pale eyes. (They vary between blue, lavender and
silver.)
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OMFG!! Well apperantly, Usagi has hit
puberty since the last episode, as her bewbs just shot up a few cups.
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The Blu-Ray releases have since gone on to change
the episodes even more. In some ways it's a good thing, but making the girls
more skinny was a bad call.
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First
time Usagi uses Moon Healing Escalation. First in-episode apperance of
Artemis.
This
episode gets a little rapey near the end.
Act
6
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