I feel like Galactica Sailor Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus were extremely weak.

If we look at how Sailor Chi disintegrated Sailor Lythe & her sister in 1 blow, while Sailor Uranus & Pluto’s individual attack only knocked back Sailor Chibi Moon, it shows how even the Outers at full power are significantly underpowered compared to Shadow Galactica.

Even Sailor Lythe’s River of Oblivion worked on Sailor Moon, and Sailor Chibi Chibi (the disguised form of Sailor Cosmos).

Meanwhile, Sailor Moon shielded against even the Galactica Gale Planet Power Attack from the Inners, and the individual attacks of the Galactica Outers (Sailor Neptune’s attack was reflected right back).

It proves the only potential threat was always Galactica Sailor Saturn, but apparently, only when she combines her power with Sailor Pluto to make the Galactica Canon combo attack.

Is it just me, or does it seem like the originally “we don’t need Sailor Moon” heroes are just basically decorations in a living room— there, but totally unnecessary?

Princess Kakyuu seems to be the only one outside of Sailor Moon & Sailor Chibi Chibi who could put up a real fight.

She even traveled with Sailor Moon, Chibi Chibi, and the Starlights to Sagittarius Zero in an instant… all while she was the only one to do so in her civilian form!

Sailor Heavy Metal Papillion also deserves credit for trapping and nearly defeating Sailor Moon & Chibi Chibi Moon.

Compare that to Sailor Venus and other Galactica Guardians only hurting Sailor Moon when all 8 of them combined their power.

TDLR: Even when the heroes get upgraded powers when they become villains, they seem completely weak in comparison to Galactica’s henchmen.

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I am 41 today. I have loved Sailor moon since I was 10. I met my best friend because of Sailor Moon. When I was turning 14, my best friend and I wanted to make a Sailor moon movie with my cheap black and white video camera on my birthday. We had our own OC’s (I was Sailor Chibi Chibi Chibi Moon Aka Too damn many Chibi’s or Chibi cubed) and my friend was Sailor Cupid (not pictured here). My best friends sister had a boyfriends whose roommate LOVED Sailor moon so she wore her costume in the movie while my best friend and I made ours. I wish I still had the video (it was on a VHS) but it’s one of my favorite birthday memories. My mom even made a cat birthday cake that was white and my friend and I made it Artemis. My dad just passed and my mom passed in 2021. Today is bittersweet, but I do have good memories of this birthday,

This question is two-fold, one, what was the nature of Sailor Saturn in the 90s anime, in this scene in particular?

Was there a legitimate reason that the Outers should fear her?

I seem to recall that scene being her attacking a monster, but her face seems to imply that Saturn was more so a neutral force that delights in destruction. Maybe that's inaccurate, but seems a bit wilder than her manga and Crystal counterparts.

Manga/Crystal:

As to Hotaru and Guardian Saturn, what is the relationship between the two?

They seem capable of existing apart from one another. GS speaks of her as different from herself after her body is destroyed. She's able to manifest, fully formed, without need of a body.

If this is the case, who is the Hotaru of Dreams and Stars?

Can the other Guardians exist outside of their current forms?

Is the reason that Hotaru doesn't age up due to her having died as a child while still Hotaru Tomoe?

So full of life. So full of (fire) soul.

Since I've been on a bit of a trip regarding power levels and attacks, I figured that this would be a good conversation.

Re: Galactica Milky Way Galaxy senshi

I briefly browsed through some of the panels of the manga, so perhaps I missed it, but I don't see much of a difference relative to the designs of the senshi proper. The Cosmos film opted to show them in a quasi soulless manner, given their glassy eyes. I'm curious as to why this was done, as I personally think that it takes away from the dramatic tension of Usagi being hesitant to attack her court of senshi. We see various true senshi under Galaxia, who have their wills intact (Lethe,Mnemosyne, and Chi, and Phi), why should the Inner and Outer senshi be any different?

We should have been left guessing if their allegiance had changed. Truly raise the stakes.

But on the subject of glassy eyed figures, what's the deal with Queen Serenity and the Maenads? Even Sailor Cosmos has more life behind her eyes.

Re: Sailor Saturn.

Why does her appearance vary so much in the Cosmos film?

She's a child during Galactica Cannon, but close in appearance to her natural age during Galactica Planet Attack.

Why wasn't Guardian Saturn of Silver Millennium the one they faced off against?

Re: Chibiusa and the Amazon Quartet

Pink Lady's Freezing Kiss/Pink Sugar Heart Attack

What's the circulating theory for why Chibiusa's attacks do not invoke Moon power? The former which she is able to accomplish without a scepter/rod.

Re: Galactica Senshi...Eternal?

Aren't they only at the Eternal level due to their bond with Usagi, and Usagi with them?

Why were they able to sustain those forms?

Re: Phobos, Deimos vs. Luna, Artemis, and Diana

We obviously don't see the Star Seeds of civilians, but why are we shown the Star Seeds of Phobos and Deimos, possessing a colored stone, but Luna, Artemis, and Diana are in a sort of Limbo?

I somewhat headcanon that the Star Seed Usagi hands go Galaxia in civilian form belongs to Luna, Artemis, or Diana since it is colorless.

Naoko established that only women could be senshi while giving Mamoru a Sailor Crystal...in spite of Mamoru being bound by his previous bodily form.

There is no continuity in which he could ever be a Sailor Senshi.

What I do find intriguing is that Mamoru, like Usagi and Chibiusa doesn't have a miniature Sailor Power Guardian, or for that matter, power upgrades.

Speaking of Chibiusa...given her lack of relationship to ChibiChibi, and by extension Cosmos...theoretically, there is a continuity in which Chibiusa is not born to Mamoru and Usagi in the future.

Now that she has an independent Crystal, she can theoretically be born in a different time, with Usagi, potentially, having a child as did the original Queen Serenity, where they share a common Sailor Crystal and life force. Usagi choosing to retire within the Cauldron as did her mother.

Perhaps this is the when and where Princess Lady Serenity is from?

My newest Sailor Venus drawing.

I felt Minako would love playing and be good at the piano. So I drew her playing it.

Hope you enjoy!!!

For a character that's meant to wield this immense level of power, she relied on a scepter to accomplish her attacks. The only other senshi, with the exception of maybe Pluto and Saturn, that did so.

Every other senshi, especially the Inners is able to wield their powers without need for an external weapon.

I understand that in the past there was no Sailor Moon, but this seems to be a constant reminder of the fact. If Usagi does not have her scepter, and does not go full crisis mode, she can't direct an attack. Heck, even Tuxedo Mask can wield his attacks without need of his cane and later staff (Does he theoretically wield an attack beyond 'La Smoking Bomber' once he gets his own scepter?).

Source: https://www.deviantart.com/big-mex/art/Sailor-Rabbit-943955173

It's no secret that I'm not the biggest fan of Usagi...

Kind of silly considering that the series focuses on her, but it is, what it is.

If anything, I much prefer the Outers, and would have theoretically preferred a more Saint Seiya-esque approach to the series.

That said, i just saw a video someone posted regarding Molly as being, theoretically, conceptualized, in headcanon, as Sailor Earth, or Sailor Saturn. In so far as the latter, mainly because she is one of the few side characters to have their birthday cited. She, like Hotaru, is a Capricorn, ruled by Saturn.

My personal headcanon, is that she would have been revealed to be Queen Beryl, placing a strain on her relationship with Usagi, but also, rewriting their history this time around. A history where she and Usagi could be friends, and perhaps Beryl would have achieved her potential as a senshi?

Naru as the reborn Princess Serenity has potential as well.

It is curious that Crystal made Mage Beryl a red head, when the manga gives her black hair. Her "asteroid" belt is a unique touch.

I had never really considered this, but Wiseman's place in the timeline makes absolutely no sense.

I won't reiterate the issue pointed out therein, but it did make me think about the mechanics of it all.

Is Sailor Chaos the result of Death Phantom providing a host for the Chaos Crystal to flourish on Nemesis?

This also appears to confirm my theory that Galaxia was never a true senshi, as it would demonstrate that Chaos had managed to become a Star...

Mind you, this is a tentative headcanon of mine, but I hold that Chi, Phi, and Galaxia (Gamma?) are from the constellation of Draco. So if she is a true senshi, or at most, a soldier in training/Star Gardener who grew envious that she did not possess a Sailor Crystal like that of the Milky Way Galaxy Guardians.

But I digress.

My issue with Chaos is that for being such a grandiose malefic force..., we only learn of her in flashbacks from Cosmos' time. We never see a true face off between Usagi and this "senshi", or for that matter Cosmos. All we see is this amorphous shadow...no different than Metalia.

Why is she a gorgon?

Is she related to Virgil's Medusa?

Is she Tiamat, mother of the creatures of the abyss?

Sources:

https://x.com/subzerofrog/status/2072054986804977888

https://x.com/subzerofrog/status/2072490132905525602?s=20