Welcome to the Sailor Moon Doodads section, where you'll find the answers to various questions that you may (or may not) have considered. Simply click on a question that intrigues you and you'll be taken right to where the question is on the page (behold Sailor Loulis's...superior mastery of HTML).
What are those round red things in Sailor Moon's hair for?
These adornments to Sailor Moon's meatballs are used for transmitting urgent messages to her. I've only seen them used once, in the very first episode. Sailor Moon hears Molly's cry for help and springs into action. In the meantime, they're used as reflectors for when she goes jogging in the evening. Another theory that Sailor Buben probably supports is that they're buttons for some sort of video game (recall that Sailor Moon's meatballs remind Sailor Buben of handles).
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Jedite? Jadeite? Jaedite? What gives??
How in the world are you supposed to spell the name of this Dark General? It seems as if there are three different ways. "Jedite" is the spelling that the American cartoon uses, but the Japanese cartoon uses "Jadeite", which is the spelling of the rare mineral that he's named after. I've also seen "Jaedite" used, which must be a hybrid of the two. Well, on this website we use Jadeite, and if you don't like it there should be a big sweat appearing on the back of your head.
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What would the Sailor Scouts be like if their attacks were indeed true to the environment of their respective planets?
Mercury is a desolate, dry planet with almost no atmosphere. There's definitely no water there. And one more thing: it's hot, very very hot! During the day its surface temperature is around 330 degrees Celcius (That's right, Celcius. That's what they use in Japan and this is a Japanese cartoon, so ppphhht). Sailor Mercury's attack would be enclosing the enemy in an air-tight vacuum and bombarding it with solar radiation, and instead of Shine Aqua Illusion, it would be called Burn Crispy Illusion.
The planet Venus is much more hostile than the loveable Sailor Scout bearing that name. Its surface is littered with razor-sharp rocks and active volcanoes. The dense atmosphere of Venus consists mainly of carbon dioxide and gaseous sulfuric acid (yuck!), and as a result of a runaway greenhouse effect, the temperature on Venus is a whopping 455 degrees Celcius. Instead of being the Scout of love, Sailor Venus would be the Scout of toxic fumes. She would unleash plumes of sulfuric acid from her mouth which would burn and disintegrate enemies. As a result of carrying all that sulfurous crud in her body, her skin would be a pale green and her hair a dull yellow sulfur color. But the red bow would still be there.
The moon is a lot like the planet Mercury: it's just a huge rock with no atmosphere. During the day, the temperature reaches 127 degrees Celcius and at night it drops to -173. Such drastic temperature changes would surely give someone a gigantic headache. Thus Sailor Moon's special power would be Moon Drastic Temperature Fluctuation Migraine Attack. This would cause the enemy to become very hot on one side and very cold on the other and then spin around rapidly through the hot and cold, causing a fatal migraine.
Mars may have a red surface, but there's no fire to be found here. Nay, the warmest it ever gets on Mars is -31 degrees Celcius. The atmosphere of Mars is extremely thin with an air pressure of only .01 kilograms per square centimeter. This is about one-hundreth of the atmospheric pressure on Earth. Hence, Sailor Mars would enclose her enemies in a bubble and lower the air pressure to .01 kg/cm^2. If she's in an especially sadistic mood, she would lower the pressure slowly, causing her enemies to gradually suffocate from the lack of a sufficient supply of air to breathe. If, on the other hand, she's really ticked off (like she usually is), she would lower the pressure extremely rapidly, creating an intense pressure gradient which would cause the enemies' bodies to explode.
Jupiter is our solar system's largest planet with a diameter of 142,700 kilometers, and has many interesting features. First of all, its sheer size means that its gravitational force has apocalyptic proportions. One of Sailor Jupiter's attacks would have to involve increasing the gravity around an enemy to several g's and crushing it. Second, the core of the planet is immensely hot with a temperature of 24,000 degrees Celcius. Hence, Sailor Jupiter would also have an attack that causes a white-hot core to form inside her enemy's body which incinerates it. Now here comes the fun part. When Io, one of Jupiter's moons, reaches a certain point in its orbit, electrically charged particles flow through the magnetic field between Io and the planet and release gigantic blasts of radio waves. Sailor Jupiter's third attack would involve an antenna popping out of her tiara (as it already does) which sends out deafening blasts of radio wave static. Just before she unleashes it, she would yell "Jupiter Io Electrical Combination Radio Radiation Blast!!"
The planet Saturn is similar to Jupiter but it has seven rings orbiting it at the equator. These rings are made of various frozen particles. Sailor Saturn would spin around rapidly and seven rings made of ice crystals would form around her body. Then she would shout "Saturn Seven Rings!" and the ice particles would fly outward, bombarding the enemy.
Like Saturn, the planet Uranus has rings orbiting it. These rings consist of an unknown black substance. Just for fun, we'll assume that this black substance is antimatter. Sailor Uranus would form rings around her body just like Sailor Saturn would, and when these chunks of antimatter are released, they collide with normal matter, causing cosmic explosions which would destroy the Earth. Obviously, using this attack for trivial things like trying to open a can of tunafish would be a no-no.
Neptune is a planet much larger than the Earth with an atmosphere that's 3200 km thick. This atmosphere consists primarily of frozen ammonia. With the power of this cleaning agent at her disposal, Sailor Neptune would fire blasts of frozen ammonia at her enemies from her fingers, aiming for the eyes. Upon contact with the eyes, the ammonia would liquify and burn right through the eyesockets, blinding the enemy and giving the other Sailor Scouts the chance to attack.
Pluto is a barren, frozen planet on the edge of the solar system. Its temperature is a frigid -220 degrees Celcius, and its surface consists of frozen methane. And, as many of you are aware, methane is the gas we emit whenever we let one rip. Thus, Sailor Pluto would unleash killer farts which, upon being released into the air, would instantly freeze and shatter, piercing enemies with deadly frozen methane shrapnel. You probably wouldn't wanna be around Sailor Pluto after she's eaten hot Texas chili.
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Why don't the bad guys have time to react when Sailor Moon either transforms or uses an attack?
I've wondered this myself for quite some time. It certainly seems like any villain would have plenty of time to react while Serena whirls around transforming into Sailor Moon or while Sailor Moon is twirling her wand around, preparing for a Moon Spiral Heart Attack (attacking isn't as much of an issue for the other Scouts since they tend to get them going more quickly). My theory is that when Sailor Moon (or any other Scout) is transforming, what the viewer sees is a super slow motion version of what would actually be happening. The transformations are nearly instantaneous, like when Clark Kent enters the back seat of a car and emerges through the other end as Superman. As for Sailor Moon's ostentacious attacks, either the enemies are mesmerized by her routines, or this is just a classic example of how in anime time slows down significantly during an exciting moment.
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Has there ever been a time when one Sailor Scout dressed up as another?
Yes. In one episode during the Sailor Moon S season, Sailor Venus borrows the Luna Pen and disguises herself as Sailor Moon to trick one of the witches. Both of them have long blonde hair and blue eyes so it was relatively easy to pull off. Personally, I prefer the Venus version of Sailor Moon over the real thing.
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What would happen if the Sailor Scouts all exchanged transformation wands, used them, and then tried using the other Sailor Scouts' attacks?
You're probably wondering why they'd ever have to do that, but the Scout motto is to always be prepared. Here's my take on the situation. All of the Scouts have some sort of common inner spirit, so the wands, even in the hands of another Scout, would recognize the holder as being a Sailor Scout and would work. Keep in mind, however, that the five girls are not all the same size. Thus, if Sailor Jupiter tried using Sailor Mercury's wand, Jupiter would appear wearing Mercury's smaller outfit (close your eyes and picture this for a good laugh). Now what would happen, say, if Sailor Jupiter then tried using Mercury Bubbles? Holding Mercury's wand would allow her to pull it off. However, Jupiter's inner spirit is that of Sailor Jupiter, not Mercury, and the result would be that any attack that Sailor Jupiter used would have some degree of "Jupiter influence". In this case, she would unleash electric bubbles which would in turn create an electrified fog! They should make new episodes where the Scouts do this stuff and put it in a season called Sailor Moon H (H for Hybrids).
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Why are there so many instances where the Sailor Scouts all say the same thing simultaneously?
Honestly, I have no idea. Maybe they all have a collective conscious that triggers their vocal chords, or maybe they rehearsed it beforehand. At any rate, it's really annoying.
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Does Sailor Jupiter wear underwear?
Many a time have I pondered this issue. If you're really familiar with Sailor Moon's transformation sequence, you'll notice that her white "shirt" is more like a bathing suit than a shirt, as it goes beneath her skirt. Whenever there's one of those underneath-the-skirt scenes with the Sailor Scouts, it's actually the bottom of their sailor top that you're peeping at. The exception is with Sailor Jupiter. Notice that in her transformation sequence you can see way way way up beneath her skirt. And in any of the uncut Japanese cartoons, you can see even further up, so high in fact that you can almost make out a curvature at the top of the legs where the butt would be. I find it extremely hard to believe that Jupiter's white sailor top goes under her skirt, and I find it equally hard to believe that she's wearing anything under her skirt at all! Now now, would anime ever be that raunchy? Of course not............
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If the Moon Kingdom really did exist, why didn't astronauts discover its remains when they went to the moon?
If you're actually expecting an answer to this one, shame on you; you're reading way too far into things. You deserve a spanking from all nine Sailor Scouts at once.
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