We had a full story with a decently paced conflict that was executed and resolved, while opening the door to the next chapter. Our heroes get to show off their new transformations, they attack, they win, and the episode is capped off with the establishment of both a new mission and the plot to the next episode. We’re also introduced to some new characters who provide an organic segue to Mugen Academy, which provides us with the monster of the week. It opens with a hint of the enemy to come, goes immediately into reintroducing our heroes and establishing their relationships to one another. I did a page count, and this episode covered roughly 60% of the corresponding manga act, and as a result it was structured and paced exquisitely. It’s as though the production staff heard my prayers for them to abandon to the 1:1 adaptation of the manga and instead aim for episodes that properly fit the medium. The story was tight, the animation was damn near flawless, and I loved it.
Top to bottom fantastic on pretty much every level. I must also remember where I left my clothes.This episode was fucking amazing. Most importantly, this episode reintroduces Sailor Pluto, who first appeared (and got killed off) in the previous story arc. Fighting in the greenhouse.Ĭhibi Sailor Moon finally gets to launch her Pink Sugar Heart Attack, though the result is disappointingly anticlimactic. Sailor Jupiter discovers the plot, and that leads to the usual confrontation and battle, with plenty of magical attacks. This was significantly less successful than their last harebrained plot. The villain for this week is Tellu, another member of the Witches 5, who creates a magical plant that can suck out people’s life-force. No, they open a flower shop … except it’s an evil flower shop. They don’t send an invading army against Tokyo, nor infiltrate the government.
What is the world coming to, when you can’t even trust the botanical garden? One of the less effective replications of the comic’s imagery.įor the most part, the episode follows the standard monster-of-the-week format typical of Sailor Moon, in which the villains, in spite of their terrible intentions and allegedly impressive origins, hatch a nefarious plot that shows them to be small-timers. Sailor Moon also has another confrontation with Sailor Uranus, but it doesn’t amount to much. And she’s probably under the control of the arch-villain Pharaoh 90. We see a few more hints of what’s up with Hotaru, though they add little to the hints that have been dropped before: she’s not only sickly, but also has super-strength. In this episode, Chibi-Usa tries to give the Holy Grail to Hotaru as a gift, but Hotaru demures. Looking pretty good for an elementary school project. Previously, Chibi-Usa, Sailor Moon’s annoying miniature double, enlisted Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask to help her make a clay replica of the “Holy Grail,” a magical artifact she remembered from the future, and which will become important later in the season. The overarching plot of the season advances only a little here. Sailor Moon spends an awful lot of time looking moody in this version.
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Though this series sometimes looks like a panel-by-panel presentation of the comic, in this episode, it alters the imagery for the better without altering the story. Throughout this chapter, the comic book version has a lot of unnecessary internal dialogue that announces the obvious, but the show simply cuts most of it out and allows the audience to read the mood. The story continues to hew closely to the comic, though I notice in this case that it improves on it considerably. This is, on the whole, a pretty good episode, if slow-paced.
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: Crystal, Episode 32, “Setsuna Meioh.” Toei Animation, May 2016.
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