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mk-wizard · 3 years

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Future Sailor Moon Reboot: Usagi must NEVER become queen!

Hello

As a huge Sailor Moon fan who firmly believes that even now, it is the best magical girl anime series ever written and still withstands the test of time as being feminist, feminine positive, progressive, LGBT+ positive and promoting the message at how love can make us heroes. And it is safe to say that the Crystal and Eternal reboots will not be the last time this exquisite series will ever be brought back to life because Sailor Moon isn’t just a series, it is a franchise and an icon like Wonder Woman, Batman, Spiderman and more.

However, just because I do think so highly of it doesn’t mean I am blind to its flaws or ideas that could have been better hence why I am open to another Sailor Moon series taking a different route altogether kind of like the live action Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon TV series did. Nobody has to agree with me on what I am about to get off my chest and I warn you now that if you have never read the manga or seen any of the anime, you are in for some spoilers.

I believe it would be best for a modern retelling of Sailor Moon if Usagi Tsukino NEVER becomes queen and instead lives out her life as an ordinary person and I think everyone else should do that too. And here are the following reasons as to why and before you get ideas, Chibi-Usa is one of my favourite characters in the series and I want her to stay as she adds a lot to the story. More about how she still fits in and benefits from Usagi never becoming queen.

1- It is not Usagi’s duty or life purpose to become queen anymore anyway. - The original Queen Serenity didn’t reincarnate everyone to just go back to their old failed lives. She did so because she wanted everyone to live happy peaceful lives which meant being reborn as normal people. She was ok with them never becoming Sailor Guardians ever again or remembering their old lives. All that she wanted was for them to be happy and for her daughter to finally be with the man she loved. The queen even said it herself that the end all be all of Usagi’s life meaning is as a normal girl. She even gave Beryl a second chance at finding happiness in life, but she gave into temptation again which required the gang to rebecome Sailor Guardians and in the case of Usagi, become (the first ever) Sailor Moon. When you stop and think about it, Usagi is not really princess Serenity. She is just the princess reborn. Her life, her personality, her ambitions and even duties are completely different. Usagi’s true obligation in her current life is to be Sailor Moon Earth’s guardian hence why the story is even called “Sailor Moon” not “Princess Moon” or “Princess Serenity”.

2- Usagi and the rest of the Sailor Guardians as well as Mamoru are better this way. - Usagi going back to her old life means everyone else to go back to their old lives too. And while Usagi is living the dream life as a queen with Mamoru as her king at first glance, everyone is actually getting cheated at their second lives especially when it comes to everyone else. For one thing, the rest of the Sailor Guardians cannot find love, have families or be anything else beyond being guardians, and it was established that everyone was on their way to building their lives as normal people including Mamoru. And that’s especially rough for the Outer Guardians who would then have to go back to just being bound to a post for all eternity all alone. This is really sad for Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune who fell in love because it means they are destined to eventually separate for life. Also, nobody has a shorter stick in Usagi becoming Neo Queen Serenity than Sailor Saturn who will literally have to spend her existence being in some enchanted coma and only awaken to destroy worlds. Nothing about this is romantic or beautiful for anyone really. Everyone is actually getting cheated including Usagi and Mamoru. More on this in the next point. As for what Usagi does with her life when she becomes an adult, she simply lives out her life and marriage happily with Mamoru who becomes a doctor just as he was studying for while she becomes a housewife like her mother does which is completely ok while they have kids together. And at that point, retires from being Sailor Moon because all evil has been eliminated for now while all the other Sailor Guardians also retire and live happily ever after doing what they want to do. If you ask me, that doesn’t sound so bad.

3- Usagi already decided she just wanted to be an ordinary person since the end of the Dark Kingdom arc which was the first arc too. - I have reason to believe that Naoko Takuechi herself was open to the idea of Usagi just remaining Usagi hence why in the first anime, Usagi turned back time one year and wiped out her own memories and in the manga as well as Crystal anime, she outright turned down the offer to be crowned queen once the Dark Kingdom was defeated. She did this because she knows what she is and what her limits are. Usagi respects her previous life and appreciates it very much hence why she takes being Sailor Moon seriously, but I since that moment, I go the impression that deep down, she doesn’t see herself as Princess Serenity or as a princess at all and I find that admirable. Accepting that this isn’t who she is anymore is in fact mature and intelligent. Not to mention she also letting go of the tragic past and moving on to the life she was really meant to have. And what I find even better is that Queen Serenity accepted that and considered that as the right choice. Having Usagi still become queen after she made her choice is contradictory and suddenly makes her choice lose all meaning.

4- Chibi-Usa needs a better backstory and reason for being anyway. - As I said before, Chibi-Usa is one of my favourite characters and I like her being related to Sailor Moon, but I must be blunt; I hate her backstory especially the manga version. I love her, but I don’t like her being 900 years old yet still a kid, a powerless princess, having a crush on her own dad and putting the moves on him as Black Lady, and being the direct daughter of Usagi and Mamoru yet looking nothing like either of them. Dropping the whole Usagi-becomes-queen idea would in fact benefit Chibi-Usa most of all because she has the opportunity to be given a much better backstory and reason for staying in the past that makes sense. I even have an idea for one;

Chibi-Usa is a very distant descendent of Usagi and Mamoru making her their very great granddaughter. Every single person in her family has powers in them, but remain dormant because since the last Sailor Moon (who was their ancestor Usagi, but that fact remains lost to the family), there has been no need for someone else to take up being Sailor Moon or Tuxedo Mask. The Silver Crystal is a secret family heirloom that gets passed down from mother to daughter to be kept safe and secret. By the 30th century, Earth has become a Utopia where Chibi-Usa��s mother is the ambassador of Japan making her a modern day queen in a way. The Ambassador is a sophisticated lady which Chibi-Usa aspires to be, but falls short because she is only a little girl and is very different from her. When the Black Moon Clan invades Earth, the Ambassador tries to get the Silver Crystal to save the day, but her daughter has stolen it not knowing would happen. Once everything is in ruin, Chibi-Usa cannot activate the Silver Crystal because she doesn’t know how, so she goes to the past to find the legendary Sailor Moon using the time key which is one of the many other relics her ancestor Sailor Moon had. Everything would go down the same way except now it makes sense; Chibi-Usa wouldn’t know that Usagi is Sailor Moon because the true identity of Sailor Moon was lost to history even in their family. Also, her having a crush on a teen Mamoru while having more of a sisterly relationship with Usagi makes sense because they have never met before and their relation is very distant at this point. Heck, even her outfit makes sense! She dresses like an average girl because she really is one and that’s ok! After Chibi-Usa rejects the Black Malefic Crystal, her Silver Crystal activates and he becomes the new Sailor Moon of her time. Once all is well and Chibi-Usa (not her mother) repairs all the damage done to the Earth, she makes peace with her mother and stays for a while in the past to be trained because there are no Sailor Guardians in the 30th century.

Now that I got my idea out of the way, back to the list...

5- Usagi not being queen doesn’t change anything important. - Everything that happens in the story of Sailor Moon happens while she is Usagi Tsukino not as a queen and even the Black Moon Arc can still work with some rewriting as I have suggested. So is it really such a huge loss for her to never become queen? Even with the Dead Moon Circus arc, that was not Usagi ascending to the throne because at the end of it, she just went back to being Usagi. Even at the end of the Stars Arc which is the final arc of the story, she doesn’t become queen. In the manga and in the live action TV show, she just marries Mamoru and even then, as Usagi. Dead Moon Circus arc was more like a story that showed Chibi-Usa’s growth as a Sailor Guardian as well as putting the last bit of the Sailor Guardians tragic previous lives to rest.

So that’s my argument. I say let’s not add frosting to an already iced cake. What do you all think and what is your input on this subject or perhaps your counter arguments? I would love to hear them.

Thank you for listening and as always, stay safe and have a great day.

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sailorfailures · 5 years

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January 27th is Haruka Tennoh/Sailor Uranus’s Birthday!

So how can you celebrate?

♅ Rewatch or reread your favourite Uranus-centric chapter, episode, or musical! She and her girlfriend Michiru Kaioh/Sailor Neptune are key characters in the entire S season, and episode 106 shows the backstory of how they met. Episode 98 follows her getting stuck handcuffed to Sailor Moon and separated from the other Sailor Soldiers as they avoid the monsters of the week. Also, she does this.

♅ Sailor Uranus has two official image songs in the original anime, Kaze ni Naritai [”I Want to Become the Wind”] and Initial U. While Kaze ni Naritai was performed by her voice actress Megumi Ogata, Initial U was performed by vocalist Risa Ohki - though Megumi later released her own song Kaze ni Naru [“Become the Wind”] with a very similar melody to Initial U. In the Sailor Moon musicals she shares a duet with Sailor Neptune, Choubi! Uranus to Neptune [”Super Beauties! Uranus and Neptune”], and also shares the Sailor Moon Crystal season 3 ending with her, Eternal Eternity.

Here’s a playlist of all these songs and other Sailor Uranus BGM cues!

... and here’s a bonus playlist for her duets with Sailor Neptune!

♅ Enjoy Haruka’s favourite food, a refreshing salad! You can also abstain from her least favourite food, natto - fermented soy beans, a popular breakfast food (if you aren’t Haruka).

♅ Haruka’s hobbies are all about going as fast as possible to “feel like the wind”; you could participate by going for a run or watching/trying (dirt) bike/car racing. She loves virtual racing as much as the real thing, so bust out your copy of Mario Kart or head to the local arcade to blow some change on a moto title.

Haruka is also a talented pianist, so if you don’t dabble yourself, listen to a few classical pieces.

And you could always model for one of your artistic friends!

♅ Dress like Haruka for the day! Consistent elements are to follow the “rule of cool” with loose shirts over a form-fitting bottom half featuring leather-look materials, or keep a casual, sporty look with short/cut-off sleeves and lots of denim. She’s also partial to a two-piece suit, but dresses them down with a casual/unbuttoned undershirt and statement jewellery. She favours all shades of blue, black, and a yellow/gold accent.

She also liked the “pair look” trend of matching her outfit with Michiru’s, so you could style your outfit with your partner, best friend, or cousin.

As Sailor Uranus, her image colours are dark blue, yellow, and gold. She wears a gold hoop earring in just her left ear until her Super power-up, where they get a bit heftier and she gets one for each ear. Her iconic shoes are dark blue ankle-boots with moto-boot inspired straps/belts. As she transformed, her nails turned a deep night-sky blue, and she gained a very pale pink/clear lip gloss - any of which would make a significant accessory on her birthday.

You could also wear a cologne in her honour, as her signature fragrance was so distinct it almost cost her secret identity.

♅ Fav and read some Sailor Uranus fanart and fanfic on sites like Pixiv, Twitter, and AO3 - or contribute your own new content! Don’t forget to tag!

Feel free to reply and reblog with your own ideas of how you’re going to celebrate Sailor Uranus’s day!

Happy Birthday, Haruka!

#Sailor Uranus #Sailor Moon #long post #Haruka Tenoh #Haruka #Amara #the queue has been stocked with good good Haruka content #including this post a couple more times so people see it in time to plan ahead where possible

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sailorsoapbox · 6 years

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@eternal-sailormoon‘s Meme: 10 Favourite Episodes (In Chronological Order)

[05/10 #110 Death of Uranus and Neptune? Talismans Appear]

Why:

The opening scene of Michiru “going off into a world of her own” is almost iconic in its beauty and deceptive tranquility. It’s very much meant to be a ‘calm before the storm.’

Ah, the hands scene. Bring it up to any HaruMichi fan and they’ll melt instantly. Michiru’s loving Haruka’s hands (symbolizing a source of both giving and receiving comfort) is a character trait that would endure to the very end of the series.

Despite this being a major plot episode with a sad cliffhanger ending, there is still some of the series’ best jokes in Eudial’s absurd use of a foosball table as a weapon, and miming playing Bach’s Toccata and Fugue In D Minor on a cathedral organ.

Some of the series’ best character writing for Haruka and Michiru is seen in this episode, as throughout the S season up to that point they had been telling themselves, and others, that they’d give up anything and anybody to save the world. They just never thought they’d have to give up each other.

The scene of Neptune taking hit after hit for the sake of trying to save Uranus’ life is another iconic one. It’s beautiful and tragic, and also quite an incredible moment for Neptune as it shows just how far she will go for her true love. Neptune has a will of pure steel, and nothing shows it better than this scene.

I also really love the art direction in this and episode 111 - the Marine Cathedral is a gorgeous and memorable setting, and naming it after manga Neptune’s Stradivarius was inspired. Makes me wonder if the construction was ever completed on it after Eudial and the Senshi were done messing up the place.

Mari Tominaga, the animation director for this episode , also did some absolutely incredible character animation. The transition of Uranus’ expressions in the final gifset are really subtle and heartbreaking. Tominaga’s work on episode 110 should get as much credit as Kunihiko Ikuhara does. (Ask me more about my “Stop giving Ikuhara sole credit for EVERYTHING good about Sailor Moon as if television animation isn’t a collaborative effort” opinions!)

I took, no joke, more than 14000 screenshots while making this post. I really like this episode.

In conclusion: HARUMICHI

#sailor moon #sailor moon s #sailor moon gifset #sailor moon edit #sailor moon meme ii #haruka x michiru #uranus x neptune #long post #flashing gif #gif warning

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