#evil chibiusa

[conjunction-of-crows]

behold, a whole lotta sketches from the last few months bc i'm too tired to draw and wanna post stuff. mostly sailor moon but we got a Leon Kennedy, Pablo from Coral Island, and Nami and Luffy from One Piece (they are separate sketches but if you wanna interpret it as ship then go ahead, I don't care).

[death-rebirth-senshi]

That reminds me idk if I said it but the whole Cereza/Lukaon thing in Bayo origins was so Chibiusa/Helios coded and it really made my teeth itch so to speak

[neogirlart]

Merry Christmas of Hearth Warming Eve!

This is the last MLP holiday crossover as I will start a new holiday crossover without MLP. So, I might be busy for weightlifting class in next year because I do not want to get diabetes. I’m still thinking whether I’ll stay active or not because of this site is not helping to stop cyber bullying. I decide to make new account in different alternative site where I can share my art without getting involved with the others. (I'm talking about DeviantArt)

[centrally-unplanned]

Been watching the original Sailor Moon with partner (@stifledlaughterao3) and there is this character, Motoki:

He is Mamoru's (Tuxedo Mask) genki bff and in Season 1 a crush of Usagi's, and overall is just a general good civilian friend of the whole squad and a recurring character all the way through Season 4. He never appears in Season 5 (I think) for no stated reason, presumably because that season stuffed a healthy dose of new boytoys into its ensemble and needed to balance the scales by putting some others on a bus, but anyway...

In the aforementioned Season 4, the main plot is a Snow White Queen style villain capturing people's "Beautiful Dreams" (shown as mirrors) in a hunt for magic crystal (its Sailor Moon, its always a magic crystal). Said crystal is btw protected by a pegasus/alicorn prince with whom Chibiusa fulfills the deepest fantasy of every eager horse girl in the audience:

Get it girrrl don't let your dreams be dreams. But anyway (again)... the minions of our Distaff Evil Queen raid everyone's dreams hunting Chibiusa's beau, and I mean everyone's; at some points they are just dragging bodies by the truckful to inspect mirrors:

Those are the mirrors - I promise you the piles of bodies they got them from are just off frame. Point is, pretty much everybody has got a beautiful dream, which is why its so hard for these minion girls to find the needle dream in the haystack, insane hairstyles or no.

Season goes on, villain finds the macguffin, fighty fighty plotty plotty and it all culminates with the villain having sealed away all of humanity's dreams in darkness and Chibiusa & Usagi calling everyone to channel the power of their dreams into a planet-wide counterspell. Or Tokyo-wide at minimum, Chbiusa speaks like God from the sky over Tokyo and huge crowds go glassy-eyed to help her:

Even our boy Motoki's sister Unazuki jumps in to help, yelling into space as a confused Motoki tries to figure out what is going on with her:

Which...wait a second, why isn't Motoki helping? Everyone else is! He is the only character on screen in this sequence in Tokyo who isn't helping. Its not just girls, you see plenty of guys, its not just "kids", we see a confirmed late 20's school principal for example doing it too.

I get that not literally everybody had a Beautiful Dream probably, but like everybody the main cast interacts with does! Its used frequently as like an inherent, thematic statement of the essence of humanity, and its lack as a serious problem. So wtf is going on with Motoki! Why doesn't he get a dream?? I thought this would have some like nitpick explanation, but digging in I can't actually find one, I think he just...is dreamless, and therefore by implication kind of sucks.

This is literally the last time you see him, too! Dreamless and confused. My new headcanon is this moment outed him as some form of an alien spy minion and he was summarily executed by the post-dream-apocalypse reconstruction authorities, explaining why we never see him again. Rest In Peace, Motoki - in death may the void of the universe finally meet the void of your heart.

[themattress]

This was literally the episode before the anime tried to redeem him through death. -_-

[damnfandomproblems]

Fandom Problem #4435:

If I see one more post in any Sailor Moon fan group where people freak out over Chibiusa/Wicked Lady being attracted to and kissing Mamoru in season 2, I am going to SCREAM. "It's so gross and wrong that she's into her dad like that--" THAT'S THE ENTIRE POINT. "How could Takeuchi write something like that?!" BECAUSE SHE WAS WRITING A VILLAIN BEING A VILLAIN!!! Because Chibiusa was BRAINWASHED by Wise Man so her innocent feelings for Mamoru became so dark and twisted she would act on them to mess with Sailor Moon!!! Y'all complaining about Wicked Lady acting like a villain after being brainwashed just completely erase Wise Man from the narrative! Takeuchi wasn't promoting incest! If anything, she was DOING THE EXACT OPPOSITE AND SHOWED HOW AWFUL IT WAS FOR A TRAUMATIZED CHILD TO BE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF AND ENCOURAGED TO ACT ON FEELINGS IN INAPPROPRIATE WAYS!!!

(P.S. I know Chibusa's evil form is actually "Black Lady", I just use the DiC term Wicked Lady because I think it sounds better and is more descriptive)

[des2dream]

Thoughts on Sailor Moon's Film Trilogy

I really have to give it to the animators who had to work on three OVA films while also working on five seasons of the anime because they were all released in between the series run in 1993, 94, & 95. Massive props to them! Personally, I love each of these films! They're at least an hour long, but they have a lot to give and so much to enjoy. Sailor Moon R: The Movie gives us the terrifying performance of Fiore who acts like a crazy, possessive ex boyfriend who wants nothing more than to rip Mamoru away from Usagi so he can have him all to himself. There were even a couple scary and emotional moments that got my heart racing. While Sailor Moon S: The Movie is based on a short story by Naoko Takeuchi, I love how this film focuses on Luna (Usagi's mentor and dear friend) who deserves more recognition. Her growing crush on Kakeru, watching The Sailor Guardians & The Outer Guardians fight together against an evil ice queen, Luna's human form, the fact that it takes place during the HOLIDAYS?! Can you tell this is my favorite out of the bunch?! Sailor Moon Super S: The Movie is a lot of fun while keeping with the dream theme for Sailor Moon Super S. We have fairies taking children to be locked inside their own dreams, Usagi's determination to save Chibiusa, The Sailor Guardians teaming up with The Outers again, & the utter joy I get from Perle's character and his design! Each film is amazing so I highly recommend you watch them. There's actually a recent DVD release of all the films together if you're interested.

[runeystatic]

Muses:

My Hero Academia:

Katsuki Bakugou (aged up 26), Izuku Midoriya (aged up 25), Toshinori Yagi, Shouta Aizawa, Tenya Iida

Pokemon:

Archie Aogiri, Augustine Sycamore, Maxie, Professor Turo, Director Clavell, Guzma

Miraculous Ladybug:

Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Ladybug, Gabriel Agreste, Adrien Agreste, Chat Noir

Ace Attorney:

Phoenix Wright, Gregory Edgeworth, Miles Edgeworth

Kuroshitsuji:

Sebastian Michaelis, William T. Spears, Ronald Knox, Grell Sutcliff

OC: Rayn (Joker's Son)

Resident Evil:

Piers Nivans (Post RE6), Leon Kennedy

Monster High:

Draculaura, Cleo De Nile, Lagoona Blue

Winx Club:

Stella (Age 22), Musa (Age 20), Bloom (Age 20)

Sailor Moon:

Ami Mizuno / Sailor Mercury, Mamoru Chiba (Tuxedo Mask), Chibiusa

Kingdom Hearts:

Kairi, Aqua, Luxord / Rould, Sora, Eraqus, Vexen, Axel, Saïx, Vanitas, Xion, Namine, Marluxia, Larxene, Zexion, Roxas, Demyx

Castlevania:

Mathias Cronqvist, Succubus, Leon Belmont, Vlad Tepes, Lisa Tepes, Ronaldo

Sonic Muses:

Rouge the bat, Amy Rose

911 (FOX)

Eddie Diaz, Evan Buckley, Athena Grant

Disney Muses:

Tinkerbell, Lord Milori, Elsa, Rapunzel, Ariel, Jasmine

Rune Factory:

Karina, Pia, Carmen, Lucas, Fuuka, Lucas, Arthur, Ethelberd, Jones, Kuruna, Ondorus, Gaius, Zaid

Clannad:

Nagisa Furukawa, Fuuko Ibuki

OCs:

Tsuko Kasamine (Naruto OC)

Cyan Mizuno (Fandomless Merfolk OC)

Kazu Yamamoto (Kingdom Hearts OC)

Cerulean Mizuno (Fandomless Merfolk OC)

Elyon Snow (Fandomless Experiment OC)

Damien Darkar (Fandomless King of Hell OC)

Crest Velvetine (Castlevania / Partially Fandomless Vampire OC)

Flora Morningstar (Fandomless Princess of Hell OC)

Ophira Velvetine (Fandomless Vampire OC)

[kittyplushy]

"A letter, phone call, or court appearance will not protect you!"

I'm obsessed with how John Darnielle reads out loud the divorce papers in that one No Children Bootleg. Top 10 Mountain Goats Moments.

[sailorfuncomics]

THE BIRTH OF BLACK LADY

Tanoshii Youchien, March 1994 Release date: February 1, 1994 Based on: Episode 85

The villainous Wiseman uses the evil power of the Black Crystal to transform Chibiusa into the wicked Black Lady. Will Sailor Moon be able to change her back?

Please don’t repost to other sites without permission.

[fairygeek777]

You know what is fun about these two pages being the last ones of act 46?

If Dream arc wasn't a movie set, this crazy shot would happen and then the episode would end. Leaving a week for Anime-onlys to go "wth?" In much the same effect that Chibiusa not breathing at the end of act 33 had.

Not only is this shocking that there's 2 holes in our main couples chests but its also at the end of a very fluffy Mamousa chapter. This is a very evil cliffhanger. If I'm not mistaken, manga readers had a month wait for the next chapter 😅 considering the last time something similar happened Mamoru fricken died? I'd probably be mad concerned.

Honestly this is kinda just telling me Eternal lost a lot of impact by making it 2 movies and having break neck speed for pacing.

[silvermoon424]

I think... sailor moon season 4 is a lot like Snow White. Nehelenia is the evil queen, obsessed with appearances and having what she thinks she deserves. She feels entitled to the golden crystal and to the prince (Helios).

Just like the evil queen, she spends her time looking into the mirror, talking to Zirconia. Nehelenia herself says, "I'm sick and tired of seeing your face in the mirror." Which makes sense, Zirconia is Nehelenias' reflection, the thing that set her off in the first place and made her go evil. Every single time she sees Zirconia, it's essentially the mirror telling her she's not the fairest in the land.

The Amazon trio are like the huntsman, sent to take the princess' head (chibiusa's dream mirror), but at the last minute, they have a change of heart.

Chibiusa is, of course, snow white herself. Young, pure hearted, and the one that the prince truly loves. Nehelenia is incredibly jealous and knocks chibiusa out and throws her off the floating circus to try to kill her(much like how the queen poisoned snow white).

But with the love of the prince (Helios) and the princess,(Usagi) chibiusa wakes from her slumber.

There's not really a point to all this. I just thought it was an interesting comparison.

Very interesting analysis! I actually wrote a whole analysis post on the parallels to Sleeping Beauty in the Dream Arc.

The 4th arc in general is very fairytale-coded, even moreso than the rest of the series.

[themattress]

The Brilliance of Sailor Moon Cosmos

Because I watched it on Netflix last night and I'm sorry - I ain't done talking about it!

First off, some background: the Stars arc is the fifth and final story arc of the Sailor Moon manga. According to Naoko Takeuchi's editor, things in the worldbuilding such as the Galaxy Cauldron were a thing in Takeuchi's head since starting the series, and that he was the one who convinced her to make the Stars arc to wrap things up after she initially intended on ending the series at the fourth arc (which was after initially intending to end it at the third...and before that, the first. The second arc was the only one not designed to potentially be the end, despite half of it ironically transpiring at a later chronological point than the other arcs).

Naoko Takeuchi served as the supervisor of the Sailor Moon Crystal web series, which became the Crystal: Infinity TV series, then the Eternal film duology, and finally the Comsos film duology. One particularly cool thing is that Sailor Moon Crystal begins including this shot:

It's the Milky Way galaxy....and Sagittarius A is very noticeable, setting up the end stage from the very beginning, which shows Takeuchi was dead set on adapting the entire manga.

What the preceding Dream arc, adapted in the Eternal films, did perfectly was set things up for this final arc. Things appeared to come full circle as the Sailor Senshi faced an evil queen nemesis to the Silver Millennium that predated Beryl and Metalia, the source of Mamoru's power and connection to Usagi's power was revealed as the Golden Crystal (Golden Crystal and Silver Crystal, Golden Kingdom and Silver Millennium...perfect symmetry!), the Inner and Outer Senshi were fully united, Chibiusa came into her own, and the goal Usagi's had for a while of reaching Neo-Queen Serenity's level finally transpired with her becoming Eternal Sailor Moon, with a heavy emphasis on how it's her loved ones who give her that power.

The end message seemed to be that nothing was more invincible than a Sailor Senshi.

So how does the final arc begin?

An evil Sailor Senshi rips out Mamoru's Golden Crystal, and he fucking DIES!

Oh, wait, sorry; that wasn't how it begins. It actually begins with a meteor shower.

Sound familiar? Well, no, not if you've watched Crystal sadly. But in the manga:

It's a way of saying "Oh, you thought the Dream arc brought things full circle? Just wait."

Now, I didn't care for the Sailor Starlights in the manga. I didn't hate them like in the anime, but I didn't really see the point of them. They were primarily build-up to Princess Kakyuu's character, and there's nothing they did that couldn't have just been given to Kakyuu if she was out and about from the beginning. However, I actually liked them in Cosmos! I think getting to hear their voices in things like their songs plus getting fully animated facial expressions did a lot for them, as did the big change in how they ultimately get taken out. In the manga, they were knocked unconscious by Sailor Lethe and stay that way even as Sailors Phi and Chi eliminate them to take their Sailor Crystals. In Cosmos, they are awake and take an active last stand in protecting Kakyuu, reaffirming that this is their life's mission and that they are proud to fulfill it. It's a stronger send-off and a far better emotional moment for Kakyuu, who now has to watch them die for her rather than simply watch them die.

Chibi Chibi is a fantastic subversion of expectations. She enters as a little pink-haired child from the future with an umbrella, which gives even the characters the impression that she's a Chibiusa retread of sorts. In reality, she couldn't be further from that, as we will later see.

So, Rei and Minako are absolutely a couple. I just can't take this scene any other way.

Another interesting thing to note about the Dream arc in relation to this one is that Usagi, quite deliberately, did not have much of a character arc. Chibiusa took center stage instead, with Usagi's role being more about proving how much she's matured and cementing that, in the words of Kingdom Hearts, her friends are her power. It perfectly sets her up for now, where she has a character arc that shakes her to her core and puts everything that she is to the ultimate test. Those friends are gradually and methodically taken out, starting with her true love. She actually represses that memory and lives in a haze of denial for a good while before finally being forced to confront reality. All of the strength and maturity she's developed seem to be failing her, her hope and faith are threatening to be crushed, and she is tempted to give in to feelings of rage and hate toward Sailor Galaxia. It's all as Galaxia herself plans, as she knows that to claim the Silver Crystal from Sailor Moon, first she has to break her.

Sailor Tin Nyanko of Shadow Galactica is utilized to show how the Sailor Animamtes aren't evil at heart. When Sailor Galaxia attacks their planets, she gives them the sadistic choice of perish with the rest or assist her in destroying everything, with those who accept having mind-controlling bracelets that grant them power put on and their Star Seed holding their soul extracted, meaning that if the bracelets go, so do they. Nyanko is the only of the Animamates that still feels a connection to her soul and still has good intentions behind following Galaxia: to ultimately get her Star Seed back and the bracelets removed, and become the new Sailor Mau on a new planet to honor the memory of the old one and her old planet. After seeing Sailor Moon protect Luna, Artemis and Diana, she lets her live...at the cost of her own life.

My favorite of Takeuchi's story arcs, the Black Moon arc, gains even more relevance in this final arc. First of all, we have Usagi still haunted by Safir's words that she and her Silver Crystal are the cause of everything wrong, which is a sentiment that goes hand in hand with Nehelenia's words in the preceding Dream arc about how light will always beget darkness.

We then get a huge fix to an issue from the previous two arcs: the Black Moon arc set up a definitive future where everyone makes it out OK, so the stakes of the Infinity and Dream arcs feel neutered when you remember this. But here, Sailor Galaxia point-blank challenges the notion that the future is set in stone...and indeed, what we see transpiring in the future shows that she might just be on to something, a theme that is revisited with Chibi Chibi's character.

And finally: Wiseman / Death Phantom! The series' best Big Bad returns with a major role in Sailor Galaxia's backstory. Projecting himself from the future with the Malefic Black Crystal's power, he is the one who guides Galaxia to the Galaxy Cauldron...and, of course, to Chaos.

While both Eternal and Cosmos do the same thing of dividing the manga arc in half, with the first movie being the first 5 and 1/2 chapters and the second movie being the next 5 and 1/2 chapters, Cosmos does it better. Eternal had to close out its first film with the second half of its 6th chapter and open the second film with the first half, which made it feel a little disjointed and caused the first movie to end rather abruptly. Cosmos, meanwhile, has its first film just end on the first half of its 6th chapter, which is a way more appropriate place to finish given that it follows a battle with Sailor Galaxia herself and has Usagi firmly rediscovering her heroic resolve, cutting off just before she and her new friends leave Earth to go into space.

I love Sailor Lethe and Sailor Mnemosyne. They have a sad and understandable backstory regarding how they joined Shadow Galactica and what they seek to gain from it, the compellingly tragic factor of Lethe hardening her heart and bloodying her hands all for Mnemosyne's sake with the latter having to anguish over this, and a great redemption with Mnemosyne finally stepping up to stop Lethe and undo the damage she's caused which is shortly afterward followed by the previously stubborn Lethe finally standing down after Usagi is willing to allow herself to be killed in order to secure a better future for them. I also love that after they are killed, they are included in Usagi's flashback to all of the friends she has lost.

Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon is the definition of a One Scene Wonder. She's only on screen for two minutes, but my God: the butterflies in a funeral procession, the graveyard of all Sailor Senshi that Shadow Galactica has killed, the gravediggers she has digging fresh graves for Usagi, Kakyuu and Chibi Chibi, the way she fucking crucifies them and then tries to burn them alive all as she relishes it....it's simply unforgettable. But OK...she goes out like a bitch. One-tapped by the Sailor Quartet doing a circus routine kind of puts a damper on her overall.

The Inner and Outer Senshi as mind-controlled zombies is a twisted but perfect penultimate hurdle for Usagi to overcome: can she kill her precious friends, the source of her strength? But I will admit to groaning when Mamoru showed up as well. "Whaaaat? Tuxedo Mask is brainwashed and evil!?" Haven't seen that before! No, wait, we've seen it twice before! It's no longer effective. He really could have just stayed vacantly at Galaxia's side and not said a word before getting shoved to his second demise and that would have been perfectly fine.

The animators spared no expense on this battle. Hot DAMN.

Bad touch, Galaxia! BAD TOUCH!

Speaking of Galaxia, her plan is brilliant. She not only deliberately broke Usagi down, but she also fully counted on Usagi building herself back up, which would make it all the more devastating when Galaxia melted all the loved ones she sought to revive into the Galaxy Cauldron, followed by Chaos revealing the truth about itself to her. Usagi would then be so unstable that her power would go out of control. When Chaos then tries to possess her and the Silver Crystal, Usagi would wipe Chaos out along with herself, leaving the Silver Crystal and control of the universe for Galaxia. Another full circle type moment calling Beryl and Metalia to mind. And it would've worked, too....were Chaos not fully aware of it, of course.

Speaking of Chaos and the truth about itself: it's a being that failed to make it out of the Galaxy Cauldron and become a star, which warped it and turned it into pure evil, negative energy. While still unable to escape the Cauldron, parts of Chaos have been able to leak out of it, and they became all the major enemies Sailor Moon has faced. The point is that so long as Chaos exists, so too will conflict. The battle between good and evil will rage on forever.

After Usagi defies all of Galaxia's expectations by saving her life from Chaos, we get one of the story's biggest, most subversive twists. Chibi Chibi, in reality Sailor Cosmos, the Big Good, has all this time been waiting for the moment at hand where she can urge Usagi to destroy the Galaxy Cauldron in order to destroy Chaos...even though this ultimately means the death of the galaxy since no new stars will be born. She is the advocate for the wrong solution. And then Galaxia, the Big Bad, becomes the advocate for the right solution through a resigned acceptance that no matter how much power you have, you cannot control the nature of existence. Even if this galaxy dies, another one would be reborn, and the conflict between good and evil would continue. Destroying the Galaxy Cauldron is not the answer.

This also leads to Galaxia's death scene, and despite how horrifically evil she has been, it still got me a little misty-eyed. Galaxia was not born evil, she was shaped that way through a truly hellish life on a barbaric medieval planet, and she always sought to heal the wounds it left on her soul with more and more power, attempting to make herself into a god in order to finally feel a sense of belonging. But only now at the end does she see that Sailor Moon, the person she had tried so hard to break, is actually the true sort of person she wished to become, and that true security and belonging lay in her values of compassion and acceptance. She is the star Galaxia has sought for so long, but as she puts it, she can't reach it. It's far too late for her to be that sort of person. But at least she can hope that Sailor Moon will last forever, since as long as she does then wretched souls like her can still find salvation in her light.

I mentioned before that this arc and its thesis statement is sort of like Puella Magi Madoka Magica, but there's actually another comparison to be made: to Neon Genesis Evangelion. The messages of "so long as life goes on, as existence exists, then there will always be hope no matter how dark things get" and "every human at their core yearns to be with others and achieve a sense of belonging" are in both. And Usagi's epic final act displays this beautifully: combining Galaxia's Sailor Crystal with her own so that even she too can be reborn, she dives into the Galaxy Cauldron and pushes the ascendant Chaos back downward, her heart resonating with the Cauldron's power in the process. She succeeds in causing the Cauldron's energy to erupt like a geyser and send all the Star Seeds within back into the galaxy, and even attempts to embrace and purify Chaos, who pushes her off and accepts falling back into the primordial sea rather than be redeemed. It's a stunning and truly inspirational conclusion.

Can I just say how hilarious it is that all of the Sailor Senshi, including Sailor Moon herself, die in this arc....except for the Sailor Quartet, who somehow manage to outlive all of them and never once get killed and reborn. Never underestimate those four circus trolls, it seems!

When I originally read the manga, the whole Sailor Cosmos stuff was the most confusing to me, but the movie clarified it a lot better. Sailor Cosmos is the future version of Neo-Queen Serenity, who has achieved the highest possible level of power due to tapping into her bond with the Cosmo Crystal (the Galaxy Cauldron's own Star Seed) and Guardian Cosmos (basically God) that she achieved through this big sacrificial act. The Japanese version was far more blatant about this connection, as Sailor Cosmos had Guardian Cosmos' voice.

If Cosmos is God, then Chaos is the Devil. And in the far future, Chaos finally escapes the Galaxy Cauldron and incarnates as Sailor Chaos. Rather than just be grateful that she's now a star, Chaos continues to lash out in resentment of all those who became stars before her and wreaks destruction as she tries to conquer the universe. The brutal war between Sailor Cosmos and Sailor Chaos lasted so long that for all her great power, Sailor Cosmos lost all hope of prevailing, which is why she transformed into Chibi Chibi and went back in time in order to persuade her past self to destroy Chaos and the Galaxy Cauldron. But witnessing her past self's hope and faith utterly shamed her, making her realize that she can never truly be the ultimate incarnation of Sailor Moon unless she recovers that same hope and faith. Honestly, this is an ingenious Izuru Kamakura-style deconstruction of a Power Fantasy - Usagi can become immortal, insanely beautiful, and powerful to the point of being a living god, yet still end up as a failure and a coward who is outshone by her greener teenage self.

The movie adds this scene of Usagi going home and reuniting with her family and Luna to address two long-standing fan complaints about the manga. The first was that we never saw any of the cats after their death, which I always found to be oversensitive: we confirm that the Crystal Tokyo future is coming to pass, meaning Diana will be born, so of fucking course Luna and Artemis are alive again; everyone who died in this arc was revived when the Galaxy Cauldron erupted and the Star Seeds released. But the other, which is far more valid, is that we don't see Usagi's Earth family again following the scene where she leaves to go to space and Ikuko starts crying because she feels like it will be the last time they ever see her. This feels like a more valid complaint, since it feels cruel to have that scene be indeed the last time Usagi's Earth family ever sees her on-screen, plus it reinforces their importance to her.

Finally, I appreciate how the scene where Usagi wakes up in bed with Mamoru frames her as having forgotten much of what transpired in the arc as a result of her going in and out of the Galaxy Cauldron...not everything, of course, but a lot of it is now hazy. This means that she most likely doesn't remember Chibi Chibi, which in turns means that will allow her to become Chibi Chibi when she's Sailor Cosmos in the far future. It seems to reinforce that in the setting of Sailor Moon, time travel is in fact incapable of changing history, only fulfilling it. Crystal Tokyo and Neo-Queen Serenity wouldn't have happened without the Black Moon Clan trying to destroy them in the past, Neo-Queen Serenity also couldn't have come into being without the Holy Grail which was partly made by a time-traveling Chibiusa, Sailor Pluto couldn't have been on hand when she was needed had she not died in the future and gotten reincarnated in the past, Galaxia couldn't have met Chaos and set everything in motion if Wiseman hadn't projected himself from the future to tell her about the Galaxy Cauldron, and Sailor Moon couldn't have made her big decision concerning the Galaxy Cauldron if not for Sailor Cosmos as Chibi Chibi being there trying to push her into making the opposite choice.

Bravo, Naoko Takeuchi. I know it was a pain to have to keep working on Sailor Moon for longer than you ever anticipated, but you could not have ended it on a more perfect note.

[schala-la]

I just made a huge observation about myself:

Me, as a young girl, OBSESSED with Pegasus from Sailor Moon, a winged horse with a golden horn, imprisoned in some sort of crystal prism, who visits Chibiusa (who takes care of the prism) in her dreams for midnight talks and midnight feels and also protecting her from harm and giving her strength and special powers for her fights against all evil.

Me, as a young girl, EVEN MORE OBSESSED with Pegasus after the reveal that Pegasus is actually not a horse but a boy called Helios who disguised himself as the flying horse in order to hide from his dangerous enemies who want him dead and he still protects Chibiusa and her friends against all evil.

Me, as a woman, OBSESSED with the dream guardian, a handsome fella in golden armor, imprisoned in a strange prism, visiting my Tav in her dreams for midnight talks and midnight feels and also protecting her from any harm, giving her strength and special powers for her fights against all evil.

Me, as a woman, EVEN MORE OBSESSED with the dream guardian after the reveal that he is actually an illithid who disguised himself as a handsome dude in order to hide from his former enslaver and their minions and seeking for his and my Tavs freedom and he still protects her and her friends with his psionic powers against all evil.

What can I say, I truly have a type and I genuinely love that for me.

[sailorspica]

my eyes are peeled for dark lady + mistress 9 and chibiusa + hotaru for katrona purposes but we are neither evil or good you see

[mahesiyah]

Tw: Flashing GIFs

Please excuse the poor quality of some of these GIFs — I’ve been using the thing built into the Tumblr app, but if anyone has recommendations for a better resource for making GIFs, let me know! Hopefully today’s life lesson will make up for it.

Let’s jump ahead to Sailor Moon R! In the previous episode, Sailors Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, and Venus get abducted onto the evil Rubeus’ spaceship, and in the first half of this episode, Sailor Moon goes after him to save her fellow senshi, with Chibiusa following right behind her.

There’s actually a lot more to it — this is just a brief overview.

Sailor Moon and Rubeus begin to fight, but our hero is having trouble dealing any damage, as Rubeus blocks her attacks with ease.

To make matters a lot worse, Rubeus then starts altering the gravity of the space, first increasing it to squash Sailor Moon into the ground, then reducing it to send flying up into the air and smacking right into a (randomly-placed) crystalline beam.

While this is happening, Chibiusa notices a very large, dark crystal that glows right at the very moment when Rubeus uses his powers to change the ship’s gravity. She then runs towards the crucified senshi in an attempt to save them (or at least make sure they’re okay) but then OUCH! An electrified force field appears!

As the poor girl is being electrocuted, she manages to turn around, her gaze fixed on a giant glowing crystal, which she concludes must be the source of Rubeus’ amplified powers.

Rubeus fucks with the ship’s gravity once again and sends Sailor Moon crashing back to the ground, but she doesn’t stay down for long. Feeling inspired by little Chibiusa’s willingness to fight, Sailor Moon knew she couldn’t give up, using nearly every ounce of strength in her body to get back up.

In awe of Sailor Moon’s ability to stand upright in his super gravity (as he calls it), Rubeus sets the gravity back to normal, deciding to fight her in earnest.

At the same time, Chibiusa tries to destroy the crystal, but surprise! The crystal also has an electrified force field protecting it. Sadly, this task won’t be as easy as Chibiusa may have thought…

Despite the ship’s gravity returning back to normal, the playing field still isn’t level, and Sailor Moon’s Moon Princess Halation seems to be totally useless against Rubeus’ (unnamed) attack, which completely overpowers her, sending her flying into a wall.

She’s gonna need some serious physical therapy after this.

Rubeus uses this opportunity to go after Chibiusa, who, despite the dozens of volts of electricity running through her tiny body, is still trying to break that damn crystal!! Go Chibiusa!! But Rubeus intends to kill “the Rabbit” — after all, Sailor Moon won’t be getting back up to stop him, right??

Wrong.

Understanding just exactly what’s at stake here, Sailor Moon grits her teeth through the pain and stands back up, using her Moon Princess Halation once again.

Chibiusa also bears the pain of being electrocuted until she (& her mysterious forehead crescent moon powers) destroy that wretched crystal once and for all, rendering Rubeus virtually powerless.

The destruction of that evil crystal also had the added benefit of freeing the Sailor Senshi from their crystalline crosses.

They were truly the entire reason that Sailor Moon and Chibiusa chose to risk their lives and board that ship. Sailors Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, and Venus — Rei, Ami, Makoto, and Minako — are extremely important to them. Neither Sailor Moon nor Chibiusa could give up on them.

Instead of telling herself, “I’m too weak to defeat Rubeus,” Sailor Moon kept going. Instead of saying, “I’ll be killed before I can destroy this crystal,” Chibiusa kept going. They didn’t give up — not with the lives of their friends at stake.

Even though most of us aren’t directly responsible for saving the lives of others (but to anyone reading this who is, seriously, thank you for what you do), I truly believe we can use the lesson learned in this episode throughout our everyday lives. Whenever we feel like throwing in the towel, we just need to ask ourselves: what’s at stake if I give up? If the answer is nothing or not much, then give up, if you want to. But if the answer is a lot, or everything, then try your best to keep going. You might be stronger than you think.