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| Okay, Okay, so this may be totally pointless since every hardcore Sailor Moon fan knows the story, but I'll tell you anyhow. Even though the Anime and Manga plots are somewhat similar, I personally favor the Manga. They both rule though! However, the American Dub is rather annoying. The voices are absolutely exagerated and they censor the best parts! (i.e. The part where Chibi-Usa comes from the future and points a gun at Usagi's face! They censored that! -_-) But, all you DiC SM fans out there, do not come after me with guns and axes because it's still Sailor Moon, and no matter which way it is presented, IT STILL RULES! Now, please, enjoy! |
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| A thousand years ago, there was a kingdom called the Silver Millenium ruled from the Moon by Queen Selenity (or Serenity, however you want to put it) and her daughter, Princess Serenity (Selenity). The Princess fell in love with a quite charming prince of Earth named Endymion. Alas, at that time, there was a war between an evil force called Metallia (she ruled the Negaverse through Queen Beryl) and the Silver Millenium. The Earth and Moon were not the best of friends, to put it politely. However, Endymion fought by the Moon's side and everyone was killed in the battles (that includes the princess's court, the princess herself and Endymion)..However, just before the Queen died, she used a mythical stone called the ginzuishou or "silver crystal" to reincarnate the princess and her four guardians (Sailor Mercury, Sailor Venus, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter), and her beloved Prince Endymion to a more peaceful time on Earth. This is where the story really begins. One by one, Sailor Moon (later revealed to be the princess), Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars and Sailor Venus are found and put into "active duty" by Queens Selenity's former feline advisors, Luna and Artemis, who were also sent to the future to train and aid the princess and her guardian soldiers. Each season has the sailor senshi fighting different forms of evil with different evil plans, and thus, protecting the earth. |
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| The First season starts off with clumsy fourteen-year-old Usagi waking up late for school. Running to reach her class-room before the bell rings, she finds herself in a parking lot where she sees several young boys torturing a cat. Well, Usagi, is known for her big heart and she chases the kids away from the cat. Picking the feline up, the blonde sees that it has two bandages crossed on its forehead. When she takes them off, she realizes that the cat has a Crescent-Moon symbol upon her forehead. Realizing that she's late to school, Usagi screams and runs off. Later that day, we find Usagi walking home from school, much, much, slower than when she was going there. And the reason for this is that she's holding her test on which she received a 30. Feeling very much depressed, Usagi crumples up the paper and hurls it. Of course, the paper hits Mamoru (a very good looking and very smart young man that was only about 5 or 6 years older than Usagi ^_^). Being the jerk he was at the time, he teases Usagi by calling her "ondango atama", which DiC translates it to "meatball head". He also tells her that she should study more. However, our little heroine isn't the shy type and she starts yelling at him and crying, until he's out of her sight. A few hours later, Usagi lies down on her bed in order to take a short nap. She has had a rough day, her mother yelling at her because of the test and all.. She's drifting off into sleep when the cat that she had rescued later that day enters her room through the window. The feline introduces herself as Luna, Usagi's guardian cat. Flabbergasted, Usagi doesn't believe her eyes at first, but she soon realizes that she isn't dreaming at all. Luna flips in the air and doing so, she materializes a very pretty brooch. She tells Usagi that she is Sailor Moon, and is destined to destroy the enemy that has appeared once more; Therefore, in order to transform into the warrior she has hidden inside, she has to hold the brooch and yell "Moon Prism Power!". Reluctantly, the blonde does what she is told and is very much surprised when she transforms for the first time into Sailor Moon! Once transformed, Usagi's disks that are situated on her ondagos pick up cries for help. Usagi recognizes the voice to be her friend's Naru. Alarmed, and with Luna's advice, Sailor Moon runs toward Naru's mother's jewellery store where of course, she finds youmas (or monsters). She makes her little speech: "For love and justice, I am the sailor suit beautiful girl warrior, Sailor Moon!" Very soon, however, the youmas are closing in on our clumsy heroine and ignoring Luna's constant commands to fight, the princess (although she doesn't know she is yet) starts crying. Keep in mind though, she isn't normally weeping, the youmas cover their ears from her wailing... A rose is thrown at the youmas and it attracts everybody's attention. Sailor Moon looks up only to see (dum dum dum) Tuxedo Kamen. He looks at her and says: "I'm Tuxedo Kamen! Nothing will be solved if you just cry, Sailor Moon!" However, Sailor Moon doesn't stop crying until Luna tells her to use her tiara. She does so, and for the first time and certainly not the last, Sailor Moon defeats her enemy. The black cat congratulates Sailor Moon, but the girl's eyes are filled with hearts. She fell for Tuxedo Kamen. (A.N. - That, my friends, was the first episode and the only one I will tell in this much detail! I know, the writing is not very creative, but I am in a terrible hurry.) * * * At the outset, Usagi runs the business single-handed. However, over the first 30 episodes, she brings together her predestined group.. Ami is the first to be discovered, via a memorable incident involving a disk and an arcade. Rei soon follows, as does Makoto. Minako finally shows up about 10 episodes before the end of the season having left England to live in Tokyo. They are all given their attack techniques and general purpose in life by Luna, the worryingly organized cat who looks after Usagi. Basically, they're told that whenever a monster jumps out and starts sucking the life out of a nearby friend, show it the dimensional door. In order to do this, they'll need the help of the ginzuishou or "Silver Crystal". The Senshi soon get the hang of it and literally pulverise the unfortunate first demons sent down by Beryl to fight them. The general structure of these surreal battles is that the Sailors happen to stumble upon whoever it is causing trouble and use their magic to transform into the Sailor Senshi. Once they have made their presence known, they use their various techniques to distract and injure the offending party until they are rather still. Sailor Moon then uses her Moon Staff to send them back to wherever they came from. As time goes by, Usagi and the rest of the senshi improve great While the intrepid girls fight against the efforts of Kunzite, Zoicite (who is a woman in the Anime, Nephrite and Jadeite, the enemies are in turn fighting and plotting against each other in their quest to thieve the silver crystal and achieve global domination. The charmers. They launch offensives in the form of Exorcist-style possessions (no, its not that serious), evil-inducing make-up and food and, obviously, random attacks on the senshi and other people. The runts always get rumbled in the end, though and the senshi are rarely faced with much of a challenge throughout this season, except perhaps the showdown in the last couple of episodes, which are rather intense... When Kunzite and Zoicite make off with Sailor Moon's favourite piece of jewellery in one of the concluding episodes, there is a penultimate punch-up in the Tokyo Tower and Zoicite tries to kill Tuxedo (Mamoru) so that Beryl can have him for herself . She appears to succeed. Mamoru is brainwashed by Beryl and becomes once again Prince Endymion. He fights against Sailor Moon and the senshi rather fiercely. After trying many times to bring Mamoru back to her, Sailor Moon finally feels beat. She starts crying, when the strangely obedient crystals return to her and transform her into Princess Serenity, allowing her to save the day and look very pretty indeed. One of the crystal shards flies into her estranged prince who is captured once again and slung into a cage at the enemy's Headquarters. The senshi, meanwhile, soon discover that this HQ is under the North Pole. They are soon caught by the comically smug Kunzite, who sends them into the oblivion of time, but with little success. Instead of landing in the stone age, the scouts find themselves on the moon and have the past of their quest revealed to them. They remember how Usagi was a Princess at one point when Beryl launched a very powerful wave of destruction on their palace and surroundings, amongst other fond childhood memories. After they have been sent back to fight Beryl by Usagi's mother, the senshi all pile into the HQ for a royal rumble. This is where the 'glitch' comes in. Of course, they win but there is one little problem....Ami, Rei, Makoto and Minako are actually dead, only their spirits helped the princess defeat the evil queen and rescue Endymion. Of course, the episode is directed with the intention of stirring some emotion, (and it definitely did. I was about twelve years old when I watched this episode and I think I cried. -_-) but this seems a little inept when you look at the precedent, to put it politely. However, as any animation fan should know, you can't just leave a series when four of the main characters have been 'whacked'. Unsurprisingly therefore, that in that same year, TOEI released the follow-up series... The second season is rather perplexing, but very well plotted out. Although confusing because of the numerous powerful enemies, the Sailor Moon R season is probably the most famous in the United States (It's also because Cartoon Network played it over and over and over again until the viewer knew the whole scirpt by heart...) The first opposing force are Fiol and Kisenian, two strange aliens who go to Usagi's school in human form. They arrive in a pod that crash-lands in Tokyo, bringing with it the 'Doom Tree'. Kids can be so sweet. anyway, before long, Fiol has a crush on Usagi and Kisenian one on Mamoru. Sheesh. Once that little inconvenience is out of the way (they decide it's not in their best interests, which I reckon represents a victory for common sense), we learn that they are after a piece of the human race in order to sustain their life tree. They do this by means of demon-ridden cards, each more sly and malevolent than the other. With each card, they summon a different demon. They also keep getting away with it, at which point you may remember what happened at the end of Sailor Moon (they were all wasted, bar Usagi). As you'd expect from any good friend, Usagi resurrected her group from the dead, but there's a slight problem. Even Ami, the alleged genius, can't remember what the hell (excuse...my language ^_-) they're supposed to be doing on Earth. However, they have their memories 'jogged' by Luna, again, who reminds them that their purpose in life is to Save the World(TM), albeit wearing those outfits. Problem solved. Before long, they have found out about Fiol and Kisenian, at which point things start to get pretty nasty. Kisenian kidnaps Sailor Moon herself with the intention of draining her of her energy like an orange in a blender. Her brother Fiol is opposed to this and before long he gets Mamoru involved too, thus completing the life tree they need. The scouts face the tree, which suddenly decides to kill Kisenian. The tree then tells the senshi about how it used to be a life-tree tree, and gave birth to an entire civilisation. But his children's minds became warped, and they turned evil. Their thoughts twisted the (nice) life-tree to a (nasty) doom-tree. Fiol and Kisenian were the only two survivors of the race, and the tree needed energy to survive. So it came to Earth. Fiol listens, and promises to mend his ways. The tree revives Kisenian, because it's cool like that. The tree then asks Sailor Moon to heal itself (with her crystal). She does, and it turns back into a seed. So Fiol and Kisenian promise to take care of the seed, and let it grow into another beautiful life tree. So ends the first half of SMR. The second half is much more intense. As Usagi and Mamoru were enjoying a very nice and rather romantic afternoon in their favorite park, a pink-haired girl fell from the sky. In one of the most memorable scenes Sailor Moon has ever had, the girl spontaneously pulls a .45 pistol on Usagi and shoves it between her eyes. She, as we all know, is Chibi-Usa. She resembles Usagi very much (Chibi= small, Usa= stands for Usagi), due to her hair-style and energetic spirit. Chibi-Usa soon becomes a regular, having hypnotised Usagi's family into treating her as their daughter. Mamoru says that he feels there is something familiar about Chibi and recommends they keep an eye on her. Little does he know he's talking about his own future daughter. Chibi-Usa seems only to be concerned about getting back to wherever she came from and saving her mother with Sailor Moon's crystal. She concentrates on annoying Usagi in the meantime, not knowing that she is talking to a past version of her 'mama'. Because of Chibi forming a link with the future, a new Sailor comes into play, namely Pluto who doesn't fight but just sits there and guards the time portal. Good work if you can get it, I suppose. So, what is this all past and future talk about? Well, the senshi soon find out that Chibi-Usa came from the future with the purpose of acquiring the ginzuishou in order to save her mother, Neo Queen Serenity, from eternal sleep, or something of that sort. When Usagi and Mamoru find out that Chibi-Usa is their future daughter, they are absolutely flabbergasted. Even so, they try to help the pink-haired girl as much as they can. Now, as for the enemy. Here it goes: They are known as the Black Moon Family and are said to have been turned evil by 'Wise Man', a very eerie looking dude that kinda reminds me of Star Wars' Darth Vader. Honestly, I don't know why, I guess it's the black suit and all. Their purpose is to change the past in order to, you've guessed it, achieve global domination. There is Diamond, (the king) , Saphire, (his brother and also a prince. Resembles Mamoru strongly, though he somehow looks younger.) Anyway, the senshi succeed in turning the Four Sisters (they're actually kinda cool.) back to their good selves. Rubeus, their "leader", is very angered and also challanged by Emerald (another kinda funky girl. She has the most annoying laugh in the DiC dub. I advise you: cover your ears.) captures Chibi-Usa and the senshi (bar Usagi). Even though Mamoru and the cats advise Sailor Moon not to go after her friends, she doesn't listen. She ends up being locked in Mortal Combat with Rubeus. After much struggle, Sailor Moon finally wins and returns back to earth leaving Rubeus' ship to explode in space. After Rubeus' failure, Diamond assigns Emerald to kill the senshi and capture Small Lady (Chibi-Usa). Little does he know that the man he thinks to be his friend, Wise Man, is his worst enemy. Well, things get pretty nasty for the Sailor Senshi when Chibi-Usa is captured by the Black Moon family. Wise Man turns her into a grown woman, dubbed 'Black Lady', and turns her against the senshi and her parents (Usagi and Mamoru). She puts up a really good fight but she finally gives up when good memories of her parents and senshi come back to her. Many other things happen, but they're not very important: Diamond loved Usagi and died protecting her, Saphire was killed by Wise Man, and the Four Sisters that were once evil, come back into the story but not for long. Finally, Wise Man is destroyed and Chibi Usa goes back home to meet her father and mother who was now awake and healthy in Crystal Tokyo (the future). All Right, well, if you thought that the second season was confusing, wait until you see this. The season starts off with Chibi-Usa returning to the past and becoming a Sailor Senshi also, called Sailor Chibi Moon. The main opposing force is one Souichi Tomoe, a crazed professor, concerned mainly with destroying the senshi with the help of his assistant, Kaolinite and later, the five Witches. His cunning plan is to use these people to drain the energy of the famous by taking their 'Heart Crystals' out of them. These crystals represent the goodness in people, and without them, they will soon die. With these, he hopes to retrieve the three Talismen that form the Holy Grail.(No, not the Bible/Monty-Python/Indiana Jones style one. That would be taking things a little too far) Kaolinite soon finds a way to get these precious heart crystals herself (via a strange cannon/gun contraption) and get in with a chance of finding the 'Holy Grail'.This can be obtained through the possession of three particular Heart Crystals, together with talismen of a mirror, a sword and a gemstone (the three holy symbols of Japanese mythology, don't you know?). The Senshi's task at this point is to keep retrieving the Heart Crystals that are stolen, give them back to their "owner" and figure out what the hell is going on. The two most significant things of this series then show up. Michiru AKA Sailor Neptune and Haruka AKA Sailor Uranus. These two are considerably older than the original five scouts and study at the local University. They are after the talismen too, and have a close bond with one another. Without wanting to cause any kind of feeble controversy, these two sailors are lesbians. This was the major reason why DiC didn't dub this season sooner. However, when they did, they made the two cousins, which I thought was pretty witless. Anyway,"Phenomenal" though the original Sailor's mental capabilities are, they are baffled by the fact that these two are pretty much neutral in comparison with themselves, and would rather stay out of battle. Neptune and Uranus become much more concerned than the Inner Senshi when a Heart Crystal is stolen and usually set about retrieving them before the others. Kaolinite, the professor's assistant, is eventually won over to a more moral walk of life and the professor appoints the oldest of the Witches 5 as his new assistant, namely Yuziaru, who inherits Kaolinite's Heart Crystal cannon. Kaolinite and Eudial then die to reveal the Talismen to the senshi in a special two-part episode. Eventually, one of the 'special' Heart Crystals is revealed in Sailor Neptune. From it, the senshi receive the Deep Aqua Mirror Talisman. Convinced that she holds another one, Uranus shoots herself in the chest with Yaziaru's cannon, despite Sailor Moon's protests. Uranus succeeds and they obtain the Space Sword, the second talisman. However, in keeping with the vices of this series, Neptune and Uranus will soon die without their Heart crystals. Mamoru stays with the dying sailors while Sailor Moon fetches the mirror and sword, at which point Sailor Pluto appears and retrieves the third talisman from herself using the Garnet Orb. Now that all the Talisman are together, the sailors finally obtain the Holy Grail. Moon can use this to transform into Super Sailor Moon, hence the title of this series. A cunning plan, by any standards. Meanwhile, Yuziaru is killed by her jealous sister Mimetto, who takes the brakes off her car. A surprisingly normal death for this series... On to the next part of the plot, Chibi Usa strikes up a friendship with Hotaru Tomoe, a diseased girl with strange powers of healing. She is of course the daughter of the crazy professor Souichi, but Chibi fails to realize this. Mamoru helps the scouts to find out that the local University, where Souichi Tomoe (the crazy Prof.) teaches and Haruka and Michiru study is the Headquarters of all the inter-dimensional invasions of enemies. The dimensional door was accidentally opened by the Professor, through which the demon Mistress 9 eventually passes to cause trouble. She steals Hotaru's Heart Crystal and possesses her body, thus the reason of her illness. The leader of these invasions is Pharaoh 90, a black sphere of energy, who needs the energy of the Seihai (namely Sailor Moon) to pass through into our dimension. As a matter of course, Pharaoh 90 plans to annihilate all life on Earth once it's passed through (can't they just get along?) so it falls on a certain group of Senshi to Save the World. Again. Oh, Kami-sama. The senshi take a minute to polish off the Witches 4, as they now are, when suddenly a possessed Hotaru (the Professor's daughter) steals Chibi's Heart Crystal and transforms into Mistress 9. Sailor Moon takes Chibi's lifeless carcass and gives it to Mamoru, who can sustain her life with his own energy as long as he stays with her. A somewhat irrate group of Senshi go to confront the opposition, including Uranus and Neptune, who help the professor fight Mistress 9's counterpart, Gerumtoido. The professor has been possessed by the latter, but is excorcised within minutes of the two scout's arrival. Mistress 9 is causing the group serious problems in that she isn't beaten on the instant. Faced with this unprecedented situation, Sailor Moon gives the now perfectly sane professor her Holy Grail which he uses to awake the sleeping spirit of Hotaru within Mistress 9, but she just takes it off him and opens the portal for Pharaoh 90. Oh no! The Sailors don't stand a chance. Right. It is Hotaru, who saves the day by infiltrating the evil from within and beating Mistress 9's spirit, by transforming into Sailor Saturn. She returns Chibi's Heart Crystal before sacrificing her own life to banish Pharaoh 90. She springs into the ball of energy and is soon followed by a panicking Sailor Moon. Just a minute.... that'll kill them both, won't it? Well, Sailor Moon manages to retrieve Hotaru as a baby and hands her back to the professor. Sailor Neptune and Uranus then start blasting Sailor Moon and, having been defeated by Sailor Moon and Chibi, admit that it was just to see whether she was strong enough. Convinced of her power, Haruka says that Usagi could well be the Seihai (a type of messiah... this really is getting out of hand). Well, these were the main events of the third season. I know, a pretty complicated mess when trying to put it into words. Watching it would be a lot easier, I tell ya. The kingpin is Zirkonia, ( AKA 'the one with purple skin') who works from the Tokyo-based Dead Moon Circus. He starts off by sending out the Amazon Trio. These are an inexplicably vain, incredibly camp trio of men around Mamoru's age (18-20) who are given a bunch of photos of potential targets, one of which they pick at random (with me so far?) and eventually attack. The purpose of this is to find Pegasus, would you believe, a unicorn living within a Dream-World and with whom only Chibi-Usa can communicate. To find Pegasus, the Amazon Trio charm their victim into a quiet spot before violently strapping them to a vertical board and summoning their Dream Mirror, which is evidently painful for the unfortunate victim. Once the mirror has been brought out, they look into it to see if Pegasus is in that person's dream, which he never is. This attack method usually relies on charm, so the lads (Tiger and Hawk) are the ones who do the girls over whereas it's Fish-Eye, the transvestite (-_- And then you wonder why DiC didn't want to dub this.), charms the lads, including Mamoru. Fish-Eye redefines 'camp' and a female voice actress is invariably used in dubs for his part (he does show the others his chest to prove he's a bloke in one episode, if I remember rightly). When the Senshi arrive at the scene of an attack, the lazy Trio don't fight themselves but summon a demon of some kind instead and let it settle the unfinished business. Cue a short and uneventful fight (all that ever happens is that they mess around until Moon and Chibi remember to use the new Kaleido Moon-Scope to kill it). And so it goes on for the Amazon Trio for about 25 episodes- they do the people over, look in their dream mirror and don't find Pegasus. Fish-Eye is the first one who gets bored with the setup and in one episode attacks his arrogant counterpart Hawk. He realizes that none of them have a 'Dream Mirror' and they ask Zirkonia why. Zirkonia, the charmer, just attacks Fish-Eye when he puts forward the question and tells the Trio to stop thinking too much. Fish eventually trades with Zirkonia the newly discovered location of Pegasus (he's hiding in Chibi's dream) with a ball of energy which the Trio can use to stay as they know are- soulless humans. The Trio actually end up using this last lot of energy to restore Usagi's dream mirror after it is smashed by one of Zirkonia's demons. Why? Because they cannot defeat this demon themselves (he was sent to kill the Trio and Usagi) and need Sailor Moon's help. Now, no senshi can be expected to function properly without her dream mirror, so what they do is pretty logical. However, after Sailor Moon and Chibi have sent the demon back to the Dead Moon Circus, the Amazon Trio turn back to what they were (before Zirkonia had them transformed): a fish, a hawk and a tiger. Sailor Moon realizes what the Trio did for her and calls Pegasus to see what he can do to help. Pegasus shows up and transforms them back into humans, albeit friendlier and complete with dream mirrors. So much for the Amazon Trio, now the Sailors have the Amazon Quartet to tackle. The Amazon Quartet are, well, different. They are four girls about the senshi's age who are also after Pegasus. The only difference is that they are (a lot) more powerful than the Trio were, and use billiard balls to smash the dream mirrors out of their victims. Even Zirkonia is wary of them, and realizes they could beat him if they attacked together.... like the Trio before them, the Quartet have a tendency to summon a 'Demon of the Day' to distract the senshi while they make off having failed (again) to find Pegasus. All the while, Zirkonia is having to answer to Nehelenia, the spiritual queen who is after Pegasus and who is getting increasingly irritated with the constant delays. She wants the gold crystal embedded in Pegasus' horn to cause trouble. Ho-hum. Towards the end of the series, Parapara, one of the Amazon Quartet, manages to turn Chibi into an adult (again) and Usagi into a kid. This renders Pegasus pretty much useless, because as a woman, Chibi can't get to him anymore. Pegasus comes to Chibi in a dream and tells her that the Dead Moon Circus are starting to infiltrate his Dream World. He also tells her that he was caught by Nehelenia while he was human and only managed to escape through Chibi's dreams (that's some escape route) and taking on the form of a Unicorn. Pegasus reveals himself to be Helios, guardian of dreams. Chibi soon finds a way to break back through into childhood via a metaphysical portal. (She falls in love with Helios eventually. The kid needs some romance too, guys.) I won't go into the details of the conclusion save to say that Nehelenia gets the gold crystal by sawing off Pegasus' horn and uses it to aid the destruction of the Dream World with the Dark Moon. It later turns out that Nehelenia is a evil sister of Queen Serenity, Sailor Moon's mother, thus revealing her to be the heroine's Aunt. And so ends Season Four, Sailor Moon Super S. Oh yes, I forgot to mention that Pegasus gave the senshi new powers. If you have seen pictures of them dressed in fukus with longer bows that actually look much cooler, it's because of him that they have them. So, now, one more season to go. The Sailor Moon Sailor Stars series is thought by some to be broken up into two sections. The first section is the conclusion to the Sailor Moon Super S series while the second section involves the Starlights. For the sake of ease; this summary of the Sailor Moon Sailor Stars series is broken up into its two story arcs. ***Sailor Moon Super S Series Conclusion*** The final series begins with the girls preparing to enter high school; all of them have completed their entrance exams and have passed (including Usagi ^_^). Also at this time, Chibi-Usa and Diana (daughter of Luna and Artemis) are preparing to leave for the future and are saying good bye to Mamoru and the Inner Senshi. During this exact time, a mysterious figure (later revealed to be Sailor Galaxia) releases Nehelenia from her mirror prison (I didn't mention that at the end of Sailor Moon Super S, the senshi trap Nehelemia into a mirror.).The figure shows Nehelenia the Senshi in civilian form which angers her greatly. She forms her own heart mirror and due to the advice the mysterious figure gives, breaks the mirror causing shards to fall to Earth. One of the shards falls into one of Mamoru's eyes, shining a strange yellow colour. Another one of the shards hits Haruka, who is walking in a park with Michiru. Michiru kisses Haruka and sucks out the shard. Other shards surround them and these shards then form into monsters; Haruka and Michiru transform and try to fight them. However, the paredory reform themselves. Sailor Pluto appears with Hotaru and aids Haruka and Michiru; however, all three Senshi are soon overpowered. Hotaru then releases a beam of energy that allows Haruka, Michiru and Setsuna to become their "Super" form. In the "Super" form, the Outer Senshi are able to easily defeat the monsters while Hotaru begins to quickly grow up from her young form (Remember Sailor Moon S?). Glass shards also surround the Inner Senshi, who are all together, capturing all but Sailor Moon and Sailor Chibi Moon. The Outer Senshi arrive and Super Sailor Saturn (whose appearance surprises the Inner Senshi) tells them that they need to combine their power to awaken the "real Princess" of the moon. Through this energy, Sailor Moon is able to take her very powerful "Eternal" form and defeat the paredory. Some time later, people in Tokyo are acting strangely; they are all staring into mirrors. This applies to Mamoru to a greater extent due to the fact that he has one of the shards of Nehelenia's soul mirror in his eye. Soon, the Senshi realize that Nehelenia is involved and rush to Mamoru's apartment. After a brief struggle, Nehelenia successfully captures Mamoru and transports him into a mirror. Some discussion follows about the importance of Mamoru after Chibi-Usa grows weak. Without Mamoru, Chibi-Usa obviously cannot exist (duh. He's her father.) Affected by this information, Usagi runs out of the apartment crying. One of her tears hits her broach which enables her to transform into Eternal Sailor Moon. As you have all seen, Sailor Moon has wings in this form and she flies after Nehelenia. The rest of the Senshi follow Sailor Moon and teleport after her. After the teleport, all of the Senshi find themselves in a void separated into five pairs: Mars and Neptune, Venus and Pluto, Chibi-Usa and Saturn, Mercury with Uranus and Jupiter with Moon. Each group of Senshi are tested via obstacles set up by illusions created by Nehelenia. Each pair succeeds but is trapped into different mirrors. In the struggle between Nehelenia and Jupiter with Moon, Jupiter saves the princess by taking several attacks. Jupiter is finally dragged into a mirror but in the process, loses an earring. When Usagi, who is currently hypnotised by Nehelenia, sees the earring, she remembers Tuxedo Kamen (the earring is a rose, in case you all don't know.) Usagi struggles towards Nehelenia and begs her to kill her (Usagi) in exchange for her friends' lives. Nehelenia is very surprised at this and lets her guard down. The Senshi escape from the mirrors and Mamoru regains his senses. Sailor Moon transforms to her "Eternal" form again and destroys Nehelenia's soul mirror. Nehelenia then reverts to being a little girl and awakens from a bad dream. And so ends the first part of Sailor Moon Stars.The next part reveals why exactly this season is called SM Stars.It also places the senshi into a sh*tload of serious trouble. ***The Starlights*** This storyarc begins with the arrival of the pop group the "Three Lights" arriving in Tokyo. The group, consisting of Seiya, Yaten, and Taiki is very popular. The Inner Senshi are all infatuated with them save for Usagi who is still in love with Mamoru. Helping to increase the level of infatuation in the Inner Senshi, is the fact that the "Three Lights" transfer to the Inner's (save for Mars') high school. Near the beginning of the season, Mamoru leaves for America to attend Harvard (BOSTON BABY, YEAH!) and is not scheduled to return for a year. Before he leaves, he gives Usagi a ring which could be interpreted as an engagement ring, although it's not. En route though, the plane Mamoru is in, is captured. Later, it is revealed that Sailor Galaxia is behind the kidnapping. Sailor Galaxia is the horrible villainess in this season. She is trying to discover the three star seeds found in the foreheads of three individuals. To find them, she sends Sailor Iron Mouse. To find a star seed, Sailor Iron Mouse shoots a beam at suspected carriers. A flower comes out revealing a small crystal that remains pure (if they are carriers) or the crystal turns black and the individual becomes a monster (if they are not carriers). In Sailor Moon's first fight against her, Sailor Iron Mouse is able to escape. However, while Sailor Moon is fighting the monster that Sailor Iron Mouse leaves behind, three women in leather outfits show up calling themselves the Sailor Starlights: Sailor Star Fighter, Sailor Star Healer and Sailor Star Maker. Usagi defeats the monster and asks the Starlights to help her fight; the Starlights say they do not care about this world and walk away. Throughout the series, Seiya makes advances on Usagi; Usagi rejects these advances for the most part. She does eventually go on a date with Seiya and has a very good time; however, she still loves Mamoru very very very much and is quite upset when her letters don't get answered (due to Galaxia's capturing of Mamoru's plane). After numerous failures on the part of Sailor Iron Mouse, Galaxia decides to eliminate her; She does this by taking Iron Mouse's golden bracelets thus causing her to vanish.(They're sorta like the bracelets Genie has in Aladdin ^_^) One day, a little girl with red hair styled in the fashion of Usagi's odangos, falls out of the sky, much like Chibi-Usa had and meets Usagi and Luna in a park. Usagi finds the girl cute and then walks home. The little girl follows them leading Luna to ask who she is; the only words she says are "Chibi Chibi". Usagi looks behind later and sees the girl has disappeared. At home, Usagi is surprised to have her mother chastise her for not taking her little sister, Chibi Chibi out. This little sister is the same girl that Usagi meets in the park. (Duh.) Some time later, the Inner Senshi are looking at Chibi Chibi and speculating on who she is. Ami suggests that it is Chibi-Usa's sister but Setsuna says that Neo Queen Serenity (Usagi in Crystal Tokyo) has only one child. Anyway, after Sailor Iron Mouse's death, Galaxia then calls on the Anima-mates to find the rest of the star seeds, with which she would be able to achieve Galaxy domination. (I guess her goal is much greater than the rest of the villains', eh?) The first Anima-mate assigned is Sailor Aluminum Siren (who is very cute and I don't know why, but she reminds me of Petz, the second youngest of the Four Dark Moon Sisters.). Also appearing is Sailor Lead Crow. Eventually, it is revealed that the Sailor Starlights are in fact the "Three Lights" with Seiya as Sailor Star Fighter, Taiki as Sailor Star Maker and Yaten as Sailor Star Healer. The Outer Senshi try to get the Inners (especially Usagi) to stay away from Seiya because of his unknown motives and because he is an intruder into the solar system. Nonetheless, she still continues to see Seiya. Eventually, Seiya tells about his past and that his planet was destroyed in the action preceeding and that they have come to Earth to find their princess. After many failures performed by Sailor Aluminium Siren, another one of Galaxia's senshi appears. Her name is Sailor tin Cat. Sailor Tin Cat is vindictive, power-hungry and coniving. She pointed out Siren's failures to Galaxia. Lead Crow had to work with Tin Cat and they did not work well together. In one of the attempts to find the star seed, Sailor Lead Crow attacks an individual at Usagi's high school. Usagi transforms, but Sailor Aluminum Siren sees the glitter of the transformation pendant and thinks it is a star seed. Thus, in an attempt for redemption in Galaxia's eyes, Sailor Aluminum Siren attacks Usagi. In the battle, Chibi Chibi enters and touches Sailor Moon's tiara. After a brief dream sequence, Sailor Moon is given the new power "Silver Moon Crystal Kiss" to heal the monster. After yet another failure to defeat Usagi, Sailor Aluminum Siren is killed by Sailor Galaxia and is replaced by Sailor Lead Crow. After examining Siren's old information, Sailor Lead Crow learns that Usagi is Sailor Moon. This leads to a major battle between Sailor Lead Crow and the Senshi. In this battle, Sailor Lead Crow is able to hold the Senshi at bay through a black hole controlled by a crystal. However, Tin Cat enters and breaks the crystal containing the black hold causing Sailor Lead Crow to be killed. At the end of this struggle, it is revealed that Chibi Chibi has the Starlights' Princess in her censer; Princess Fireball. Princess Fireball explains the struggle against Galaxia to Usagi. Princess Fireball says that there is a holy war, known as the Sailor Wars, in which the Sailor Senshi are on the side of good opposing Galaxia. Chaos was, in the action preceding the story, sealed by a Sailor Senshi but now, it has escaped. Princess Fireball continues and says that Galaxia wants to get the star seeds in order to return the galaxy to a state of chaos and finishes by asking for Sailor Moon's help. After some intervention from Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune, Princess Fireball leaves with the Starlights saying that she believes in Sailor Moon. After a few more fierce battles, in which Galaxia kills all of her servants and Princess Fireball, the final battle begins. Firstly, the star seeds of the Inner Senshi are taken thus killing them; they fade away greatly affecting Usagi. Galaxia then flaunts the fact that she has Mamoru's star seed, in representation of the Earth. Next, Sailor Neptune and Sailor Uranus give their star seeds to Galaxia in exchange for the bracelets that keep her servants, in the action preceeding, alive. While they are under Galaxia's control, they kill Sailor Pluto and Sailor Saturn. Finally, they attempt to attack Galaxia and steal her star seed via the bracelets but fail because Galaxia seemingly does not have one. Galaxia then kills them.(Depressing, eh?) Sailor Galaxia summons the Black Sword and wounds the Sailor Starlights. She also attacks Eternal Sailor Moon and takes her star seed. However, Chibi Chibi intervenes and gives Usagi power; it is revealed that Chibi Chibi is the manifestation of Galaxia's star seed that she lost in the action preceeding the series. Finally, in the final battle, Sailor Moon converts Galaxia to her good form again. After Galaxia is defeated, the Senshi, Starlights, Princess Fireball and Mamoru are all revived. (Of course. I mean, our genius Naoko wouldn't have left them dead.) The Starlights and Princess Fireball leave for their home planet. The Outer Senshi share a touching moment watching the Starlights leave while Usagi and Mamoru express their love for each other. End Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon *Sniff* Wow, I can't believe I actually recapped all of this. I can't believe it's over because it took me a pretty long time. And I also can't believe that the series is over. But you know what the smartest thing to do is? Read Fanfics. That is the way that Sailor Moon continues. Fanfics have always kept my interest in Sailor Moon and still do. Oh yes, there are several things, actually many things, that I never mentioned in this summary because I only intended on covering the highlights. However, if you have questions, you can always e-mail me at [email protected] or IM me on AIM at sparklecutey. The names that I used here are the Japanese names. Hmm...what else? Oh yes, Nehelenia's name is also known as Neherenia. All righty then, I tried my best to summary all five seasons of Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon, the anime. However, watching the series is much better, believe me, and much less confusing. |
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| SOURCES Sailor Moon Euphoria- http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Club/4886/ Unknown Title- http://congly.freeservers.com/anime/smoon/summaries/smoonst.htm Sailor Moon Hideaway- http://www.baynet.net/~philip/manga/sailor.htm |
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