Things That Don't Make Sense About Sailor Moon
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2024
- For today’s video, I wanted to touch on things from both the Sailor Moon anime and manga that have always confused me.
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00:00 Introduction
00:38 Reincarnation
02:17 Sailor Cosmos
04:00 Sailor Crystals
05:31 Transformations
07:29 Disguises
08:59 Sailor Starlights
09:40 Ending - Розваги
As an artist I can explain why naoko ditched the unique outfits and disguises: its because it's easier to draw the same thing but slightly different, especially if your characters exist close together as a group 😅
Though, Jupiter's Rose belt is absolutely gorgeous and she deserves to have it
@@L3onking 100% agree
@@L3onkingjust like sailor Venus’s chain
For the Sailor Cosmos bit, Sailor Moon decided that spending time with her family and friends was worth the endless war. Basically that she would power through the bad times, to have the good times. Destroying the galaxy cauldron would eventually but an end to everything. It would be peace, but not the peace she wanted.
Lifelong Sailor Moon fan here. The idea for them to change hair and eye color when they transform was scrapped because they knew from basically the beginning of the SM manga that it would get an anime and that each character having multiple designs would become difficult to animate on a regular basis. The animation turnaround time in Japan is much tighter than it is here, often times with episodes back then being completed just days before broadcast. I know its not a great explanation but thats just how it is.
With the in-universe explanation they do remark on a RARE occasion that they somehow do look different (possibly older or some kind of moon magic? IDK). I remember specifically in the dub that Sailor Venus (who met the group while they were all transformed and had to find them in civilian form later) that they all look "So different" as civilians. Take that as you will haha
It could also be a personality thing. Like, the girls do tend to act a little bit more adult and confident when they are transformed. But yeah, it's probably also a glamor thing
That was the old times when Toei was still in their old ways of creating anime. Now they have Pretty Cure where some girls have distinguishing designs.
@@mystique9130 have you seen Crystal's animation its a bit of a mess, Toei tends to focus soley ON Precure. Crystal had tight animation schedules.
As for me if you look at sailor moon and usagi side by side i could argue the tiara's do shape their faces a bit, especially in the 90s anime where the tiaras are MASSIVE. not entirely to be a totaly different person visually imo but its almost similar to how glasses, hairstyles, and a bit of makeup can alter your appearance and vibe slightly.
Also yeah they were make-up and it's implied to be heavier make up when transformed, so that could also play a role in their appearence.
Almost every senshi also wa splanned to have a mask! Usagi had one in the early chapters but *always* tossed it off which was kinda redundant imo.
Is that why they used so much stock foptage and recycled animation?
Like even when she does her famous "Ill punish you." line, it doesn't use the background of wherever place she was seconds ago. Would it really have been hard in 1992 to have the recycled animation pasted onto a more unique background that fit continuity of the scene?
@@Knightmessenger There were moments of her speeches being done in real time thiugh not often. It's all Spectacle and a Stage essentially as well as being simply stock footage. lot of anime don't have time to use the Backgrounds of the current shot
1) In the manga the reincarnation works like this
In the silver millenium case, all the Sailors were killed either by the war or by Saturn, so they went back to the caulderon and were reborn on Earth. In the end of the 5th act the caluderoun was filled with the Lambda so my guess is than it was able to revive them at their age of death since it was full of Sailor Moon healing powers.
2)Sailor Cosmos is the Sailor Moon of a distant future much much more distant than Chibiusa's, she gise back in time to solve the Caos priblem at its routes, but after Sailor Moon sacrifices herself she understand than at not evrything is lost and than she needs to hold on to hope.
3) The Sailor Crystals are the Sailor's soul's even if they can't use them they've always had them, just like Sailor Moon used her powers even if she didn't unlocked her silver Crystal the sailor can do it too. When they use the power of their own Crystal they are however much stronger.
Words cannot explain how fast i cliecked on this video
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honestly the weirdest thing about reincarnation to me is how everyone looks the same through thousands of years though it's very understandable from a marketing perspective. it would be so confusing if usagi was a yellow bunhead in silver millenium and suddenly an emo girl in present day
Good thing Usagi was a silver haired girl in the silver millenium.
@@arcyarcanine different versions
You could think of it like how many variations of snowflakes you'll see before you find a perfect identical match. A reincarnation is an identical doppelganger to their last lives making them the ideal vessel for a Soul that has more work to do.
Yes I agree they should all have different skin tones and in the original concept art we saw that but simplified they look similar.
@@L3onking Skin tones? They talking about hair color dude.
@@arcyarcanine I'm talking about reincarnation theory. Migrations to different regions will affect the genetics of the bloodline but the facial features should still remain similar as the bone structure hasn't changed.
Recessive genetics are the only factor that would make a rare hair colour a noteworthy find .
In the sailor moon parallel side story kousagi and her "friends" appear as carbon copies of their mothers the job of Guardian falls
No one recognizes them due to magic. Usagis dad didn't even recognized her when she went to that party disguised as a young woman in a nice dress. Definately a trick of magic.
I think the reicarnation is more understandable in the manga rather than the 90's anime. In arc 3 its hinted that it was due to Sailor Saturn as the Guardian of Destruction and Reicarnation that all the Sailor Senshis as well as Prince Endimion and his guardians could reborn in earth after Metalia destroyed the Silver Millenium (probably sending all their stat seeds to the Calduron of life), being the exception Sailor Pluto as she needed to keep protecting the Space-Time door until she died in the future in Arc 2 and her soul was sent back in time by Neo Queen Serenity (who also probably sent her star seed to the Calduron of the past), but in Arc 5 the Sailor senshi of the Solar System aren't reborn per se, they are resurrected by Usagi's power, which we saw she could do as Neo Queen Serenity both in Arcs 2 through 4 as she revived people killed by the Chaos encarnacions/spawns. In regards to the Sailor Crystals my guess is that they were always within the Senshis and they just manifested their powers through their pens/sticks until arc 3 (in the manga the sticks were erased at the end of arc 2, probably because Naoko also felt them redundant and the outers necer had sticks) and in Arc 4 they finally could manifest their Crystals thanks to their inner guardian selfs, althought in Mars case probably Phobos and Deimos kept it around to protect Rei but they were always around her in theory she always had her Sailor Crystal and in Venus case she manifested thanks to Artemis and not her inner self.
That’s exactly what I think too
Also, something that always bugged me - Chibiusa's like...entire "legacy" so to speak. For starters, why she had to be the next/second Sailor Moon when Earth still had no proper sailor guardian? she's the rightful heir of BOTH crystals, yet the Moon had priority for...main character privilege I guess. I would've liked if she was actually Sailor Earth and will always be salty about it. And even then, it turns out her pink crystal isn't either the Earth or the Moon but "her own" so...what is it?? did she just create her own planet that doesn't even exist yet? or is that just even more inconsistency all around.
its a confusing inconsistency at best but I take it as she is both sailor earth and sailor moon, especially cus her speech says she a future guardian of both. as for having her own crystal thats because sailor crystals and star seeds in general are peoples souls, she has to have her own to be alive. of course Naoko wasnt thinking about it when she made this up cus originally the ginzuisho was a family heirloom passed down by generation and Usagi can literally just take it out without losing her physical form at all, so in the older chapters logic, Chibiusa wouldve inherited the ginzuisho. ChibiUsa in geneal I think is meant to be seen as some sailor anomaly.
Also there *is* technically a Sailor Earth, its Tuxedo Mask. He has the earth crystal he just identifies as a man so he cant be a sailor senshi with the sailor collar, but he CAN transform magically and has magic powers cus of his Crystal. Arc 3 and 4 shows he can transform on screen. so yeah he is by definition a ailor senshi and therefore sailor earth. Its even in his namesake like the other senshi.
In some old fandom panel though i believe someone asked if Naru was Sailor Earth and Naoko responding with something like she'd be a decent pick. But Naoko also confirms Mamoru is Sailor Earth.
though I noticed the "male" or masculine aligned sailor crystal holders do wear capes. the shintennou wear capes and theyre technically Mamoru's guardians to parallel Usagi' guardians, and they too have crystal like items representing their souls. Tuxedo Mask/Endymion wears capes, and when Haruka was presenting herself as more masculine in the early chapters of Arc 3, it was reflected in her senshi form with both a sailor collar *and* a cape. As she is both a man and a woman.
@@stephanos6128 Chibiusa is definitely an anomaly because in the end she'd have the silver, golden, and pink crystals, and all 3 work as her star seed, while also her parent's somehow....? it's really confusing.
As for Tuxedo Mask, I'm aware he's technically Sailor Earth, but he was never really acknowledged as such, and it's specially noticeable whenever they have to do the sailor combo attacks, or when they gather to power up their forms - yet Chibiusa is, since she's an "actual" sailor guardian.
@@kou7191 hes acknowledged as Part of the Team in Arc 4 i believe, but never as a sailor senshi cus he literally cannot *be* a senshi he identifies as a man, its not really even a technicality fr Naoko even says hes sailor earth. Arc 4 he does a lot of senshi things, he uses his power to power everyone up just like everyone else.
sometimes its not about the costume or title. like how Venus had moon based powers back in Sailor V despite being Venus by title (before she became a sailor moon charcter i mean)
Arrite, finally watched it! Thanks, I much anticipated and appreciate it :D
My additions:
1. In the Anime, it makes no sense at all for the girls to get nail polish right at the beginning of the transformation. They wear gloves anyway lol.
2. It makes no sense Luna's looking for Sailor Moon on earth. There was no Sailor Moon in the Silver Millenium, only Princess Serenity and the four Inner Senshi guarding her. At least she should have been suspicious of the presence of a fifth guardian. Also not drawing the connection that Sailor Moon is also the MOON princess makes me question if Luna was the right agent for this mission at all ^^'
It was really Artemis that instructed Luna to find Sailor Moon, but I agree, there is no logical reason to search for Sailor Moon.
It could be that the former Queen had been Sailor Moon at some point in her life, she had the original moonstick after all, maybe there had been stories even back then about the legendary fighter Sailor Moon....
I recall reading somewhere that apparently Artemis altered Luna's memories to protect Usagi and let Minako pretend to be Serenity, but even then it's questionable how Luna never even considered Sailor MOON could be the MOON princess, specially if she needs the silver crystal/moon star seed to even transform (granted, that last part was only new lore added in later seasons, but it retroactively only made that plothole even bigger lol)
I think I might be able to answer the why no one figures out their identities plot line. I always thought they had to be extremely close to said person in order to figure out their identity or have that person transform in front of them, and the reason no one can tell their tiaras have some sort of glamor charm on them making it so no one really puts the pieces together
My fan theory is that what we the viewers see is the image of how the senshis looked in their past life and that they actually look very different in their civilian forms. Like I invision usagi looking alot like her mother... probably really having blue hair tied up in her odongo style hair. So we never see how they truly look as civilians but when they transform they actually transformed to how they looked in their past lives. So basically we the viewers are always seeing them as how they look in their past lives but in reality they look very different.
@@juststeve2579 It would definitely explain how her Japanese parents never question why they have a blonde haired blue eyed kid.
Then again they also never question the pink haired red eyed child either and she doesn't have a transformed version until later
My idea was that it was just too obvious so they passed on that theory
@@onishojo9430 sometimes the most obvious answer is the correct answer
@@genera1013 because that kid used some kind of brain washing power, right? So probably they see her as someone different...
@1:41 Being reincarnated and being resurrected from the dead are two different things.
As a self proclaimed Moonie for many years, I actually didn't even really understand the reincarnation bit until now and it's still confusing. Since you mentioned the Starlights, I'm surprised you didn't mention the asteroid senshi who eventually become Chibiusa's inner senshi (and started as an enemy). Also Hotaru x ChibUsa vs Helios x ChibiUsa, what are your thoughts? Plus I just realized that Hotaru would be significantly older (at least looks wise) to ChibiUsa in the future. Another thing that always confused me was the timeline jumping that ChibiUsa did.
I never even really realized there's a number of plotholes in my favorite series.
I'm definaly more for the Chibiusa x Helios BUT I would have liked for the relationship betwin Hotaru and Chibiusa to more clear if they are ment to be read as friends or lovers.
Chibiusa's time traveling is actually one of the most simplistic plot devices in the show, funny enough. Chibiusa's timeline and the timeline of the story we as viewers are following are entirely separate. Anything that Chibiusa does in the main timeline will not effect the outcome of her own timeline. The Usagi from Chibiusa's timeline never had to encounter another villain past Mistress 9, living a life of peace far sooner than the main Usagi. This is further supported by the fact that the inner guardians of Chibiusa's timeline are not in their eternal forms (not even in the Crystal series; years after the manga was finished), but in their star power forms.
I believe Future Trunks in the Dragon Ball series has similar time travel rules, if you're familiar with that show. Both Chibiusa and Trunks can only save another timeline from suffering the same fate, they can't prevent what already happened in their own.
I do have an answer for Hotaru x Chibs! It’s explained that basically Hotaru matches her age to Chibs so they can always be together.
@@arcyarcanine yes! This type of time travel is super common in Japanese series, I think the "Quantum Leap" type time travel a great way to avoid worrying about a paradox, and makes everyones sympathy for Chibiusa's situation makes much more sense.
@@saverna1 MCU could never
Sailor Cosmos new future is that she can fight along side her friends. In her original timeline she ran away from the galaxy cauldron and allowed chaos to get even stronger, and she didn’t rescue her friends out. When Usagi jumps in, she creates a third option where she accepts that chaos can not be destroyed (because the balance must exist like queen Nehelenia said in the dream arc). Even though she didn’t destroy the cauldron like planned, Usagi gave her more hope and a chance to fight chaos alongside her friends.. because unfortunately there is no way to destroy chaos without everyone dying all together. To explain Chaos, Chaos is the source of evil in the world, and it took form of all the major villains of each arc. Since Chaos can not be destroyed, it just takes on stronger and stronger forms to fight Usagi with.
Your part on the planets of the Starlights reminds me of a quote from the manga itself "Sailor Mermaid is from the planet Mermaid." It's pretty likely that their celestial bodies are indeed name Star Maker, Fighter, Healer.
I remember watching Sailor Moon!!!! I know that Season 2 felt weird to me that Mamoru suddenly lost his memories of Usagi, but I found out that it was because the Anime was ahead of the Manga, and thus they just made a storyline up🤣😂. I tried reading the Manga, but it is so many volumes that I am putting it off... Also, most things in the show didn't make sense to me, but I decided to watch it and switch my brain off🤭😏.
EDIT: Chibi-Usa was my least favourite character. In every scene she was in, she annoyed me. Especially when she tried to make Usagi jealous by hanging off Mamoru, even though they are her [SPOILER]...
Parents in the future!!!
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i agree so much on chibiusa, she was always like "oh? you wanted to get ice cream? too bad you don't have money, anyways i'm now going to get ice cream with your boyfried haha eat sh*t"
I know alot of people gave sailor moon crystal some pretty harsh criticism... some rightfully so but it is a pretty good adaptation to the manga if you ever wanted to get a feel for it.. the manga and 90s anime are extremely different from one another and you may be surprised to know that chibiusa in the manga is actually very likable and useful lol.
I really agree with you about Chibiusa. At least the crystal reboot tried to make her character more bearable to viewers. Although I really must question her lusting for her own father. Especially when you also know that she's technically a whole millennium older than both Usagi and Mamoru in the 20th century.
I’m not sure why Chibiusa lusting for her own father was even an idea in the first place.
I really enjoyed the video but I couldn't help myself in sliding in to hopefully give some clarification on certain things :'D
1) The process of reincarnation in the series is different than the resurrection we see in parts. In the Silver Millennium, Queen Serenity used the last of the Silver Crystal's power to give everyone a chance at a much more peaceful, kinder life in the far future. Alongside the cast we know and love, this of course included Beryl who by chance stumbled upon the Dark Kingdom and Metallia and upon reawakening her memories decided to ensnare the Four Generals before they were allowed a chance to remember. Like you said, they're all completely different people from their prior lives and simply share the same soul and memories once awakened. Hotaru is an interesting case of reincarnation wherein it's made clear in the manga that Hotaru was reborn almost immediately after sacrificing herself against Pharaoh 90 because Saturn still has a purpose to some day reawaken again, but she'll be fighting alongside her fellow guardians. She herself reassured Sailor Moon in her final moments that in destruction, there is always the hope of rebirth. The anime was waaaaaay more vague, and if not for her return in Stars I think most people would've just assumed she lived the rest of her new life with her father. As for S1 in classic, it was less that they were reincarnated so much that Princess Serenity used the last of the Silver Crystal to bring the girls back to how they were before. They had died, but she was able to grant them back their lives without the wish of waiting for a peaceful time for them to come back because they were already living in one. It's the same for the end of Stars too wherein Usagi helping Galaxia release the stolen Star Seeds back to where they belong resurrected everyone without issue because it was just their physical bodies that were gone, their souls were still alive in the form of the crystals.
2) While it's been brought up that Sailor Cosmos is a version of Sailor Moon from the far future long after everything else has perished, the real question is which future that could be. I know a lot of people have made the assumption that it must clearly be our Usagi's future, but given that Chibiusa's time traveling has altered things it isn't much of a stretch to say that Cosmos might just be one of many possible futures for Usagi, separate from taking on the mantle as Neo Queen Serenity. As for the startling appearance of Guardian Cosmos at the end, Usagi's decision to continue living life as they have up to this point and the immediate segue to her and Mamoru waking up in bed together feels like it really isn't too long after the final battle with Galaxia and Chaos. Since Mamoru was seemingly about to propose to Usagi right before Galaxia killed him before her eyes, I always see this aftermath as a proper continuation from that evening out together before he was set to leave for Harvard. Mamo got to ask Usagi to marry him, we skip off to the ceremony and the mention of Chibiusa not too far off from being born!
3) We have to take into account that the manga was being written at a weekly basis, so there's a good chance that Naoko didn't establish the concept of Star Seeds and Sailor Crystals until the Dream Arc neared it's end. The crystals bestowed to the Inner and Outer Senshi then referenced their latest power ups as opposed being the True Star Seeds that represented their souls as Sailor Guardians. Those heart shaped crystals were serving as their new transformation items since after Black Moon, the manga dropped any usage of new pens to transform with. Only Usagi kept getting new compacts and by Stars Arc, she's using the Holy Grail to transform in the manga. The Outers most likely had 'Planet Power' upon their introduction like the Inners for the sake of consistency in the narrative, but of course the Outers had the advantage of their Talismans. The classic anime deciding to keep Star Power for the third season was an odd choice but one they probably went with since NQS didn't bless the Inners with any upgrades at the end of R, and as for Crystal S3? Since there were no new transformation pens for the upgrade, they probably kept them around for the sequences as they did exist in the manga already while the Outers went without since their Lip Liners were a classic anime construct.
4) Metallia, Death Phantom, Pharaoh 90 and Nehellenia are all offspring of Chaos, who were drawn to the brilliant light of the Silver Crystal just as their sire was to the brilliance of the Galaxy Cauldron. Like how the Galaxy Cauldron birthed the stars of the known galaxy and beyond, Chaos is an entity that did the same through the horror, destruction and death that followed it. Nehellenia's exchange with Queen Serenity sheds a bit of light on those origins and how light can never be without darkness. It's why Cosmos was so determined to have Usagi destroy the Galaxy Cauldron even before Chaos merged with it, because without the continued birth of stars... everything in existence will eventually come to an end. Usagi choosing to temporarily halt the inevitable war against a reborn Sailor Chaos in the far distant future was done on the decision that her loved ones, and the galaxy itself, deserved to keep going. She would power through the loss and pain and everything she'd been put through up this point for the sake of seeing everyone again, and that was the mindset Cosmos knew she had lacked and why she referred to Usagi as the 'true' Sailor Cosmos in those moments after she plunged herself into the Cauldron. She did what Cosmos had not been able to do, keep hope despite the odds.
5) Naoko herself actually brought up that the original concepts were scrapped due to the lack of uniform cohesion, as Toei and Nakayoshi were pushing for a look that would clearly signal a team in the similar vein of sentai rangers. There were a lot of physical changes (and complete overhauls beyond looks) done not only to their girls' uniforms but Usagi's hair color in the earliest designs before the manga launched, as she was apparently set to have pink hair/red eyes but Naoko was asked to change it to blonde hair/blue eyes. There's no in-canon reason as for why no one can recognize the girls when they're transformed, but we have gotten glimpses in both the manga and anime of certain characters managing to figure things out with the right cues. Most fans theorize it has to do with the magic of the transformations themselves, creating a sort of cloaking device that blinds civilians and enemies from the truth unless they have something that could figure out one's identity as we have seen in the classic anime (i.e. Eudial uncovering Haruka and Michiru's identities, Aluminum Siren figuring out Usagi's).
6) If not planets themselves, we can at the very least assume that the Starlights are named after some sort of planetary body or satellite surrounding Kinmoku of the same names. With this being the same arc that introduced planets named Chuu, Mermaid, Coronis, Mau and Cocoon... I think anything's possible in terms of naming conventions for the Sailor Moon universe. Especially when we take into account that Galaxia's title was established to be for the most powerful in the Milky Way Galaxy in the anime only. In the manga, she was born on a planet she considered trash enough to blow up upon awakening. An interesting thing to note though, is that Kinmokusei is an elaborate pun (since in Japanese, 'sei' is the ending character for all planets sans Earth) on the plant of the same name meaning 'sweet osmanthus' and with the known parallels between Usagi and Kakyuu as viewed through Seiya's eyes in both iterations of the story, there are theories that Naoko chose the pun because of a Rabbit on the Moon origin story that involved an osmanthus tree and the Starlights themselves might be in relation to the trinity gods of Hinduism. As for Kakyuu's actual name and why it might be the chosen title for her senshi form as opposed to Kinmoku, she follows the trend of the Starlight's civilian names in being references to different aspects of light and/or stars in the night sky, with hers referencing shooting stars, comets, or fireballs!
WOW THIS GOT AWAY FROM ME, I am so sorry for the extremely long comment... wound up talking up a whole dang storm, but that's the curse of being a lifelong moonie I suppose lmao
Again, excellent and extremely enjoyable video! Can't wait to see what you post next
Love your channel and love this video! I agree with you on the disguises part, because it always confused me how Usagi's friend Naru could never figure out that her own best friend is Sailor Moon. However, there is an interesting fan theory I read that theorizes the gems in the Senshi's tiaras have some sort of magic that keeps their identities hidden. This idea still leaves questions and is in no way canon, but it's a fun way to sweep that confusion under the rug.
Thank you so much!!
The fact that Jupiter wasn’t more powerful than everyone always blew my mind.her planet is huge af.
the planet's size has nothing to do with power scale, though.
A lot of your issues with their looks being similar or simplified comes down to production time. Naoko drew a lot of Sailor Moon herself with the exception of a couple of helpers here and there. She was encouraged to simplify their designs to make it easier for her to draw them faster, and for the animation team to draw the anime characters faster without missing key details.
When it comes to the compacts, accessories, and transformation items that DID make it into the show the key is money. They were changed up and diversified to make toys. The Outer Senshi Lip Rods were literally designed like that to sell the toys and have the fun gimmick of being lip chap. The transformations include nail polish to sell toys and kits. Though back in the day, Sailor Moon didn't get as much actual makeup. Today though, there's a full line of makeup using the transformation brooches and wands as inspiration.
The Stars brooches etc are different because they aren't from the Milky Way.
The thing about Sailor Moon is that the manga and the anime were often created nearly side by side. The anime was held up often because Naoko was creating the manga pages at the same time. That's why there's so much filler and random stuff like the Doom Tree arc and the dinosaur episode. Point is, Naoko was in a rush, so as amazingly well researched as the easter eggs in Sailor Moon are, I don't think she thought some of the stuff like reincarnation rules through as thoroughly as we would expect it to be done today. Though, I think Saturn came back as a baby because of who she is. The other Senshi were clearly needed in that specific time. Saturn is a last resort weapon. She's never supposed to be awoken unless necessary. She's considered dangerous and deadly. She was also heavily experimented on in the manga, and that might have been a better option than explaining why she was reincarnated with or without her cyborg components. With makes sense. Without seems harmless, but given Naoko's feminist touch on the franchise she might have considered whether that might have looked like ablism (at least in modern terms).
Never look too deeply into Cosmos. Life time fans have been trying to figure that shit out for decades. If we don't have answers, you won't find answers. We're desperately hoping Sailor Moon Cosmos will explain what the manga didn't, what the anime avoided, and what fans have been asking since the series ended.
Metalia, Death Phantom and Pharaoh 90 and Nehelenia are born of Chaos- Chaos created them all - they are Chaos’s spawns but they are not Chaos- they are just born from Chaos evil energy, Chaos is force of all evil, Guardian Cosmos probably created Queen Serenity to protect Moon and Silver Crystal while Chaos created Nehelenia to steal Silver Crystal and kill Queen Serenity- thats my theory that Queen Serenity and Nehelenia were created in Galaxy Cauldron each with purpose- as Nehelenia said light attracts darkness and darkness attracts light- and since Silver Crystal is most powerful beside Cosmos Crystal Chaos wants the power thats why he created these spawns like Nehelenia and Metalia to steal Silver Crystal.
In regards to the transformation I think the idea for the inners to use fancy items to transform was actually dropped in like dream and stars arc.. they no longer needed them as they simply ether just had their hand in the air or used the sailor crystal to transform. In the manga I don't believe the outers ever had a transformation item. I had always felt the anime did that to simply have products to sell and make money lol.
At least in the anime it's so weird to have them transform without them though cuz the animations were made with them very obviously holding something lol
When I was a kid I always assumed they did what WITCH actually did many years later - having the girls "age up" when transformed. Cuz like, at least Clark Kent and Superman wear completely different clothes, whereas Sailor Moon is essentially just Usagi wearing her school uniform with a shorter skirt lol
One of the things that never made sense to me is that huge parts of Usagi’s personality are her laziness and clumsiness, but as soon as she has to transform she suddenly has boundless grace, flexibility, and elegance. Someone make it make sense
The only thing I was confused about is the first season of Sailor Moon.. If Queen Serenity used the Silver crystal to reincarnate the senshi and send them to Earth before it shattered, then when did she have time to cage the monsters, break the Silver Crystal in to the Rainbow Crystals, and why would she reincarnate them as well?
She technically didn't, it's a mixed bag between the silver crystal granting her wish, Saturn destroying and rebirthing everyone indiscriminately, and the anime making things up
I love your channel and I loved sailor moon
Thank u!
"It makes the effect of characters dying rather pointless". DBZ has entered the chat.
Hii, can you do precure?
most fans think that sailor cosmos was usagi from a bad timeline where she ran away
Hi can u do precure
chibi chibi revealed being sailor cosmos makes sense to me,since we never got to see chibi chibi in the english dub (and I only got to see the sailor stars anime once) I don't remember them ever revealing anything for chibi chibi,so this reveal makes alot of sense to me it gives a real reason why she was there and more to the story that should've been told to begin with,I really like chibi chibi and I wish we got to know more about her so this reveal is exactly what we needed and I wish they did it in the anime when they still had the chance back in the day,I wish I could read the manga though,the only sailor moon related manga I've read was sailor V and I belive I also have volume one of sailor moon but never got the chance to get more
chibichibi in the anime was Usagis second daughter. girl has the worst names for her children
I swear, it's 'magic man' logic (reference to Adventure Time). My reasoning is that Sailor Moon was supposed to show you that the good guys and bad guys are similar in their own intent for fighting. In SM, Serena is always reasoning or defending bad people and it's mostly her most sound judgement.
As far as the different transformation items…the only reason they’re different is to sell toys 😝
Exactly...and there's numerous instances of the OG anime inventing extra items to increase toy sales: Lip Rods, Crystal Change Rods, Star Yells & the Crystal Carillon.
I have a question online it says that sailor cosmos is a distant future sailor moon but y the change and y or how did she time travel to the past ? I thought only sailor Pluto could time travel
Sailor Cosmos is shown to be immensly powerfull even as Chibi Chibi, she also tecnicaly has the power of evry sailor in the universe sicne she uses the Lambada power. So consideing how powerfull is she it's very likey than she can just travel in time a she wishes.
@@nuotatorre8741 oh ok I was confused thank you for clarifying that
For the transformation/disguise thing: I took it as the idea that the transformation put an aura around the respective Sailor, so that unless you actually saw them transform before you, or you blatantly told someone like with Minako/Venus in the original anime, the magic wouldn't allow someone to put 2 and 2 together in that regard.
It may be a stretch, yes, but I grew up with 80s He-Man where almost nobody knew that Adam and He-Man were one in the same (at least 80s She-Ra's hair changed length).
Great video! Yeah... there is something I don't get about Sailor Moon villains. They are kinda crazy in the head... why they keep killing their best minions? They don't wanna win? Why don't just amass a large number of monster and drop on the heroes in an ambush? I mean... I know why they don't do that xD but is still funny.
the whole "why can't anyone tell who the sailor senshi are!?!?!" thing is easy
we see them as not really changing.. but in actuality their appearances do change when viewed by others...
or.. like with superman.. the human brain is a magical thing.. you don't look at clark in his navy blue suit and black tie with his horn-rim glasses and think "that dude is superman" because since you can't bring yourself to consider it. you wouldn't notice the resemblances
the same way that if a young child's father always has a moustache or beard and he shaves it the child will be afraid of this "new person" the child doesn't expect to see dad without the facial hair and so can't understand "that's dad"
I think naoko made a bad work explaining those things and is understandable she had to work quickly in the manga because was published almost same time than the anime so toei decided don't try to explain the mess of naoko universe and tried to simplify it, the thing about the identity of the scouts is because when they are in the senshi forms they are covered in a kind of magic that still looking the same but in the eyes of others they look completely different that's what she wrote in a interview in the 90s
Omg the way I waited a day to watch just to mentally prepare for you to speak on sailor moon lol
Some of the questions can be answered by one word, "budget".
My main question that wasn't mentioned in the video is how the Moon Kingdom even functions?????
Like, at the beginning it's presented as a kingdom exclusively on the moon that exists as a parallel to the Earth and the guardians merely drew power from the planets and were presumably also from the moon. But in the Infinity arc, with the introduction of the Outer Guardians, the Moon Kingdom now includes all of the other planets in the solar system (even including some of the asteroids as shown in the Dream arc) and the guardians are not only from those planets but are also princesses and have their own crystals??? What makes the Silver Crystal special and why do the princesses have to devote their lives to protecting Serenity on the Moon? How come Serenity isn't a guardian herself? With that, how come Earth isn't considered part of the kingdom (or at this point, empire) and what is the purpose of Helios and the Shitennou? Why does the Earth harbor xenophobia towards the Moon if it's literally the only celestial object that isn't under the Moon's rule? If it is part of the Moon Empire then why is Endymion forbidden from seeing Serenity rather than serving as one of her guardians like the other princesses are? Why is the Silver Crystal so important if the Earth also has the Golden Crystal, which is said to be equal in power? If that's the case, why isn't the solar system divided between the Earth and the Moon? There are just so many inconsistencies and my brain hurts trying to think about it.
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I feel for the disguise debate is i once read a headcanon that made alot of sense and i've gone with it ever since. The Gems in the
tiaras effectively emit magical energy that shields the senshi's identity. This confuses any on looker into thinking they are someone else. This will give them a look of Don't i know you but not enough to say for sure their true identity. Those who watched the transformation or are told know who the Senshi is but still will be affected by the Gems.
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I'm surprised no one mentions how they just automatically know they're new attacks/transformations with no training whatsoever.
Or why they basically use the same attack set if at the end of the day the only thing that really beats their enemies is sailor moon intervening.
Because everyone understands that the awakening of each soldier also grants them a knowledge of the power they have.
Also the reason Usagi always get to be the one to finish the job is because she's the purifier of the group. Most of the monsters (in 90s anime) are also human so she's needed to purify them back to human once again.
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For the Sailor Crystal's section it would have been better if the cauldron (or however you spell it) had basically divided into how many main planets there are. That, or it's original size was into 8 of that same size, since there's 8 (well 9 because earth was slightly in there). And then each Senshi (I can't remember if the crystal they get is invincible, so if needed to either the crystal comes back or it's undestroyable) is brought from the cauldron, so definitely not human. And whenever one dies, another is reborn, but (this is more of me putting some stuff i would like) still has the memories of each past Senshi, or at last the last Senshi to live. Now I'm gonna copy this for ideas/inspiration.
For the disguises bit.. I'm pretty sure the "magic" that makes them transform also masks their identity in a way.. I used to be able to explain it better but that's the best I got for nos
There's a meaning quote of everything that is happening in the five arcs of the Manga, Crystal, Eternal and Cosmos and that is "Accept the things you cannot change, have the courage to change the thing you can and have the wisdom to know the difference." The Serenity Prayer shows sign of each characters mistakes that by doing things right but it end up wrong that lead unintentional consequence accept something you cannot change but they right trying to fixing with by having the courage to change the thing they can and the wisdom to know the difference with the power of love they make things better, stronger being reborn and it defeat the enemy and that what it means to Sailor Moon.
9:35 Sailor Guardians not having to be from planets is necessary for the title character to exist 😂😂
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the one thing i found bother about the DIC dub is how they edit some episodes or characters from the source material
It's because that when the DiC dub came to North America (first to Canada because much of the voice actors and staff were Canadian), they wanted to mostly target the series to young children. Thus why some episodes were removed, some aspects like breast lines were altered, and the 2-part finale of the first arc was merged into one episode. Additionally, North American television rules required children's shows to have some form of educational content, thus why the "Sailor Says" segments were put in
@@mysticgirl916 at least Media Viz got the rights of the series and stay faithful
Notice hoe massive the Moon is compared to the Earth when looking at other satelites and their respective from the solar system. That's becsuse OUR moon is not a nstural satelite but actually the remanents of a former planet called Thera that got struck by an asteroid so massive it pushed it against the proto Earth and that's how we got our satelite. Maybe the Earth is not the only place where this happened.
Wait... the sailor scouts uses planet power to transform? I though they use it to teleport themselves! They did it in the Dream movie when Chibi-usa became friend with a musician and the bad guys capture kids with magic flutes. So this can allow them to teleport AND transform in the manga? That's confusing 😵💫
"Sailor Planet Power" and "Planet Power *Make-Up*" are two different abilities. "Sailor Planet Power" is a group attack of 2 or more senshi while "Planet Power Make-Up" is the transformation ability used by the individual sailor and that eventually gets upgraded into "Crystal Power Make-Up" but they can still use "Sailor Planet Power" ability in their crystal forms.
Sailor Planet Power and Sailor Planet Attack has been used prior to them have the Planet Power Make Up ability
I always hated the galaxy cauldron arc in the manga...
Every enemy being born again and again from the same being, that every villain Smoon fights is just the reincarnated soul of a very evil person it belittles the motives of all the villains.
One thing that bugs me about the first arc’s villains is that it’s stated that even they got reincarnated to live normal lives until they re woken but all of them died which annoys me because they could of used the sliver crystal to heal/redeem all of them and they continued their reincarnated lives like nothing happened
The BIG issue I had was how instead of being human, Beryl was able to make the 4 kings into humanoids. And then turn back into stones for Mamoru...
Like... Uh Give the girls back their fiance's Mamoru, stop hording crystals you don't even use Mr Smoking la Bomba.
The whole them being "reincarnated" at those moments is more like they're revived rather than actually reborn. It's more like Usagi called their souls back to their bodies and just let the crystal heal them to life basically. xD I hope that makes sense.
Note for the manga's ending, at this point wait until the Cosmos Arc movies or whatever comes out next year, maybe it'll be clearer in animated form.
All I really know is that Sailor Cosmos is supposed to be a mystery even to Naoko herself or something, either way I just hope her colors are correct. Silver eyes and silver sailor collar stripes, for the eyes blue/purple is fine too but they really are silver. Seeing her animated is my sole reason for wanting to see this end. Yup
The hair/eye color a bit.... Originally Naoko wanted Sailor Moon with silver while transformed but her editor said blonde (yellow) was more flashy. Although thinking on it Toei could have at least just done the hair and eyes as different colors between forms but eh, it's different from like Tokyo Mew Mew or most of the Pretty Cure series lol, but that said it's probably why Moon as Serenity has silver hair in the manga etc. at least she got to use on a 'version' or so of moon pre say. =}
As for the transformation items....
Reality: Naoko likely just went with whatever came to mind at the time, dod stuff along the way.
In context the story itself though....
Moon's crystal is likely changing as she does, as for the other girls it's a bit different between the manga and anime, but the focus in general is largely moon's crystal.
The Starlights are from a different star system so their items etc likely function differently from those of the Solar system or something.
That said the only other sailor to use a brooch beyond Moon and Mini Moon is Sailor Galaxia herself. Yeah.
Still hope this all makes sense. XD
I didn’t think much of it until now and I have a headache I seen our version of Sailor Moon never thought anything of it I seen the Japanese version of the animation and then I seen sailor moon crystals and of course with Japanese version of that as well but then I also saw the live action the girls hair is black or dark brown but when they transform their hair color changes like you said in this video but again that’s the Live action so I don’t know if that’s the same lady that created the show but I like your video❤
Good questions, but I can think of some other more important. If the silver crystal was that powerful in the first two seasons to destroy the big bads, why wasn't it used against the ones of S and SuperS? Sailor Moon's power to kill and to heal enemies changes in every season (90's anime) and it's not always clear why she uses an item in one situation and other in different ones. In R, the cutie moon rod was used to heal the Doom Tree, but then for the sisters she used the silver cristal. Why?Why didn't she use the cristal to heal the Amazoness Quartet and Nehelenia? In SuperS, can Sailor Moon and Chibiusa use the meditation without Pegasus? Why didn´t Chibiusa tell Usagi and the others about said horse from the beginning? I could have bought the distrust in R, but not in SuperS.
I also had something that bugged me. In the manga and somewhat anime it is said that the queens of the moon only had one daughter…. But it always bugged me because…
What if the daughter turns evil or proves to be unworthy or unfit to rule then what will they do?
The whole idea not only makes no sense but it is not really a good idea if you ask me.
Even tho i didnt saw alot of sailor moon for me to be allowed to talk about it but i cannot help but to ask.What would happen if the galaxy cauldron or planet get destroyed like will one just came out of nowhere or would it mean that once the crystal dies it will be end for them?
I think in the manga it was suggested that even if the cauldron was destroyed it wouldn’t matter bc a new one would eventually pop up again, so that would take the place of the old cauldron
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The first point would maybe answer itself depending if in SM universe resurrection and reincarnation are the same thing. Though it still doesn't answer baby Hotaru. I agree with the rest of the points though.
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You lost me when you confused reincarnating with reviving
What about PallaPalla from A Dentist of Terror PallaPalla’s House
1:25 no. no no no. its toe-mo-eh
I always wondered why Chibiusa didn’t have access to both the silver and the golden crystals given that her parents were the guardians of each one, why the rest of the scouts except for Uranus and Neptune were allowed to have love lives. Why and what is Elysium, Naoko left a lot unsolved and she refuses to add more lore to a story that is very much still half written
You have to watch the original Japanese Sailor Moon, for all the cultural references and skipped over episodes. Also watch the Sukeban shows and Pop Idols of the 80's and 90's.
Maybe the Starlights are from a binary star system that is a star system with more than one star that orbits each other.
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I love sailor moon my favorites are sailor Mars and sailor Neptune
How about the starlights in civillian form are men but are women when they transform. Like wtf? It is said in canon that only girls are sailor scouts. Are they supposed to trans or non binary? Im so confused how they go from no boobs to boobs
That was toei's choice, in the manga they were always girls. Just worn manlier clothing. Naoko did not like that toei did that.
@@darklight1611 hence why it doesnt make sense that it was done
@@oliviaoborne576 I know, I have no idea why they did that. I guess to them it was weird that girls wanted to wear manlier clothing.
@@darklight1611 possibly but in the end we are still confused
@@oliviaoborne576 I never watched stars yet, so I have not been confused just yet lol.
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I agree, I agree... There's much (MUCH) about Sailor Moon that doesn't makes any sense. At all. (I still love it to bits. Don't get me wrong, everybody)
The final chapter of the Manga is still a mystery to me. The whole... thing. I just don't get it. Including Serenitys origin. Where did her Mom take her from? Who`s her Dad? IS there a Dad?! It's just... confusing.
I decided to try not to think about it too hard, for I really can't untagle it.
Kinmoku(sei)= sweet osmanthus from the incense lamp
In many East Asian religions, the concept of reincarnations aint about soul and people. Itz about people and memory. Dead souls will travel to the underworld, drink or eat whatever that erases your past memory and be reincarnated to the life depending on your past karma. With this understanding, everyone in the present Sailor Moon universe is also everyone in their past, just without the memory. The body of Hotaru will always be Sailor Saturn, the body of Usagi will always be Sailor Moon/Princess Serenity. Their identities might vary tho
Discussing two deaths in the anime, if i remember correctly, when the silver crystal is used, it will cost the life of the user, but grant them a wish. Usagi before dying wish they could return to the happier time, living a normal life. Thatz why they came back as their grown-up pre-senshi versions, without having to go through reincarnations again
The second deaths in Stars arch, technically Starseeds r the essence of a sailor senshi. Unless destroyed, their owners will never technically die. So yes, the senshis didnot die at all, they just lost their bodies as the carrier of the seeds. This is proven when Galaxia sliced the silver crystal and Usagi did really die there. When being freed, their bodies will return as normal.
I love Sailor Moon a lot. But like most magical/mythical shows, there's bound to be some confusion. Like Chibiusa/Rini. Usagi/Serena had blonde hair (originally going to be silver, then pink, but that's beside the point.) And Mamoru/Darrien had black hair. How does that create pink hair and red eyes? I would understand giving her silver, or maybe purple hair since Neo Queen Serenity and Endymion have silver/purple hair. But I don't understand why Naoko chose pink..
Usagi was originally going to have pink hair, so Naoko gave the pink hair to Chibiusa(Rini)
I just don't get why there isn't a Sailor Earth(Sailor Terra) tbh
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The only confusion I have is Sailor Cosmos, is she a different version of Sailor Moon or an upgraded version of Neo Queen Serenity?
She’s like ultimate sailor moon, the most powerful + oldest version of her in an alternate universe where crystal Tokyo disappeared? From what I got from the manga anyway
@@typhonicparagon so uh like i said, upgraded neo queen Serenity then
@@rinxmacaroni2085 no shes a reincarnation of Usagi Tsukino, just like how Usagi is a reincarnation of Serenity. Cosmos or Usagi X as I like to call her is from a future far beyind the 30th century, though if we go with the idea that Chibi Chibi was how she looked when she was younger, her pink hair implies she is a biological descendant of ChibiUsa.
The best way to explain Usagi X is like our present day Usagi going back in time to save Princess Serenity. Sailor Cosmos IS NOT Usagi/NQ Serenity or ChibiUsa. She's her own person, just a reincarnation of Usagi (and I guess NQS since NQS is just Usagi older)
The only real mystery is we don't know *who* she was as a person or how she became Sailor Cosmos or what her fate is when she returns to her future.
Magic means the normal rules do not apply. You can't apply logic to magic
Welcome to the magical girl universe
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I’m going to say it.
This UA-camr is so confused that I’m confused at what he’s talking about.
I guess the American translation is responsible for his confusion.
I’m from Europe, so I grew up with the original material.
Yes some things are confusing but not to that point.
But yeah, he confused me.😂😂😂😂
My thaughts exactly too as well! 🤣🤣🤣😆😆
I love this series, but holy crap *Sailor Moon is confusing as hell and doesnt make sense* 😂
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You should shouldn't stretch or distort the footage. The original anime is 4x3 and it really looks ugly squashed.
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Yes like where are the sailor men? They are all female protectors of celeatial being but only Endimion isbthe sole male protectoe of one planet (earth)
Naoko confirmed herself that only females could be sailor scouts/soldiers
@@luvsolarr yes but who's Serenity's father then? And the rest of sailors? Where they just civilians of their own planets?