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Meioh Setsuna/Sailor Pluto
Sailor Pluto's last name, Meioh,
is the first chracter in Japanese for the planet Pluto, which
can also be read as "Hades", Pluto's Greek counterpart. Hades
was the grim lord of the Underworld and he carried a staff
which he used to beckon the dying to his world. In the same
vein, her astrological sign, Scorpio, embodies the aspects of
death and transformation. In this case, a discrepancy arises
because Sailor Pluto is the soldier of time, not death. Her
powers would have been more appropriate if they were
associated with the planet Saturn instead.
Roman Pluto; Greek Olympian
Hades.) They are both god of underworld and riches. Like
Neptune, he�s not popular god. I think this is the cause of
less developmental character of Sailorpluto for having viewing
problem (in other words, she didn�t appear too much unlike the
main senshis.) He is the brother of Vesta, Jupiter, Neptune
and Juno (Hestia, Zeus, Poseidon and Hera in Greek.) Being god
of underworld, it associates Sailorpluto�s power "Dead
Scream", also her complexion its dark. It tells that the god
of underworld is somehow the black sheep and most fear god so
they didn�t mention his name. Also as god of riches,
Sailorpluto carries the third talisman, which is the Garnet
orb and also shows her status life of being somehow "rich"
because of her act and elegance. This god
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