![]() ![]() Their depiction, while sometimes amusing, points up the overall weakness of this arc. Based on characters who appear only briefly in the comic, they are depicted in the cartoon as wannabe ladies’ men who drink heavily and only willingly chase people with “beautiful dreams” if they happen to be attracted to them. First, we meet three men called Tiger’s Eye, Hawk’s Eye, and Fish’s Eye, known as the “Amazon Trio,” which is curious because they’re male. The Amazon TrioĪlso in keeping with the format of previous seasons, there are two sets of villains, each of whom occupy approximately half of the series. A villain prepares to invade someone’s dreams.Īs the story develops, we eventually learn the true nature of Pegasus and why the Dead Moon Circus is after him for anyone who has watched the previous series in the franchise, these revelations will hold few surprises. I kind of hate the term because-at least according to the internet-it originally referred to the material of a unicorn horn, but let’s get this bit of trivia out of the way nonetheless.)Īnyway, the evil Dead Moon Circus is on the hunt for Pegasus, but Pegasus lives in “beautiful dreams,” so much like the villains of the previous arc who were looking for “pure hearts,” these villains have to threaten random people, people with beautiful dreams, in the hunt for their McGuffin. (And incidentally, fantasy fans have in recent days decided that the term for a magical horse with both wings and a unicorn horn is “alicorn.” This usage was apparently coined by Piers Anthony and also got canonized in My Little Pony thanks to fan input. This winged unicorn is called “Pegasus,” perhaps because the story’s creators think that is a generic term for a flying horse, or maybe because they’re just making a mythological reference. At the same time, young Chibi-Usa, Sailor Moon’s daughter who has traveled back in time from the future (it’s complicated) begins having visions of a winged unicorn. In so doing, it loses some of the subtlety but is also able to develop its characters more thoroughly.ĭuring a solar eclipse, an evil organization called the Dead Moon Circus gets free of its prison in the moon. The story expands considerably on the material from the manga and also departs from it in many respects. ![]() She is simultaneously a sidekick to Sailor Moon and a miniature version of her (she is actually called Sailor Chibi Moon), but although she appears best suited to a peripheral role, she has a habit of upstaging the rest of the cast-and in Super S, she takes over. She is more popular in Japan, which is unsurprising given that country’s obsession with cuteness, mascot characters, and little girls. Chibi-Usa prepares to punish you, redundantly.Ĭhibi-Usa earned a lot of hate from American viewers back in the Nineties due to the DiC dub. A microcosmic coming-of-age story, this arc is arguably important to Sailor Moon’s overall themes, but that doesn’t prevent it from being uneven-the primary reason for which is probably Chibi-Usa herself, whose presence in Sailor Moon is, even at the best of times, redundant. Built loosely on the “Infinity” arc of the manga, it focuses on Sailor Moon’s daughter from the future, Chibi-Usa. Sailor Moon Super S, the fourth series of the Sailor Moon anime from the Nineties, is probably the weakest entry in the popular franchise. Starring Kotono Mitsuishi, Aya Hisakawa, and Michie Tomizawa. Sailor Moon Super S, written by Yoji Enokido et al. ![]()
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