Name:    Tomoe Hotaru
Sailor names: Sailor Saturn, Super Sailor Saturn
Height: 4'7" , 140 cm
Birthday: 6th January
Age (when she came into show): 13
Blood type: AB
Gemstone: fluorite
Fav colour:   purple
Fav food: nihon soba (Japanese noodles)
Fav subject: world history
Least fav food:  milk
Least fav subject: physical education
Strong Point: healing
Has trouble with:   marathons
Dream: to be a doctor

  Hotaru is one of those characters that you feel sorry for. After a lab accident where she was killed, her father agreed to sell his soul to bring Hotaru back to life. But then the bad guy who did this started to take over Hotaru too! On top of this, Hotaru didn't have any friends until she met Chibi-Usa (Rini). This was because she once used her healing powers in public to help someone, but then everybody thought she was weird and stayed away from her. However, when Hotaru told her this, Chibi-Usa thought that was an amazing power and was impressed with Hotaru.

    Chibi-Usa introduced Hotaru to Usagi (Serena), who treated Hotaru the way she would treat anyone. So they became friends too.

    Before she met Chibi-Usa, Hotaru was lonely and had low self esteem. If not for Chibi-Usa, she probably would have let Mistress 9 take her over completely. When Hotaru was taken over by Mistress 9, Uranus and Neptune wanted to destroy her to save the world. But Super Sailor Moon kept stopping them. It was probably Sailor Moon's and Chibi-Usa's friendship, and her father's love, that let Hotaru destroy Mistress 9 (who had taken over her body - think of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde). However, at this point Hotaru transformed to Sailor Saturn, the senshi of death.

    Sailor Saturn explained to Sailor Moon that, in order to destroy the bad guy (Pharoah 90), she would use her "Silence Glaive Surprise" attack. However, this attack was so powerful that she would kill herself in the process (She is the most powerful Sailor after all).

    Like the rest of the Outer Senshi, Hotaru disappeared during the fourth season. Then she reappeared when Setsuna picked her up from her father. When the Outer Senshi were being threatened by bad guys, Hotaru's power "re-emerged," and she started rapidly aging. Supposedly she was aging to her age in Sailor Moon S, but most people agree that she appears to have grown to Chibi-Usa's age. Anyway, Hotaru also granted the Super upgrade to the Outer Senshi. At this point we see that Hotaru is living with Haruka, Michiru, and Setsuna in the same house. In the battle with Nephrenia, Saturn almost used her "Silence Glaive Surprise" to defeat Nephrenia, but Sailor Chibi Moon stop it! 

    After Nephrenia was defeated, she promptly disappeared again. She didn't reappear until the end of the fifth season. It's not clear whether she had returned to her father's house ("Ahh! You grew up!!") or was still staying with the Outers.