Comments on: Sailor Moon Crystal Act 18, Invasion – Sailor Venus, Review

By: Aurelia

Aurelia — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 17:33:34 +0000

Thanks Ashley for your contribution .

Venus was the last Senshi to reveal, and as you answered to saintfighteraqua, she didn’t even have the chance to destroy Beryl with the holy sword… However she did it in the manga, and it was clearly stated that she was the only Senshi to be able to lift and use it… so what was the point giving that honor to Sailor Moon in Crystal ?

I feel sorry for her, in a way. In fact, I feel sorry for the four girls. (Especially for Mercury since I like her a lot, I think she has always been shown as the weakest Senshi in terms of power and ruthlessness, just because she is an introvert… but that’s another subject of course)

By: Ashley

Ashley — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 10:54:48 +0000

I agree, and it’s very disappointing. I was looking forward to a series that didn’t need Sailor Moon to finish off every enemy, and while this series has otherwise done well in the battles, we haven’t really seen the other girls finish up anything on their own.

I was very, very disappointed that we didn’t get to see Venus shove that sword through Beryl.

By: saintfighteraqua

saintfighteraqua — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 03:00:51 +0000

That’s what I was thinking back when they cut out Venus attacking evil Endymion, that they might be saving it for this arc since Venus didn’t get a new attack in the manga.
I’m sure you’re right.

By: saintfighteraqua

saintfighteraqua — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 02:59:14 +0000

I enjoyed the episode, but wow this series makes the senshi feel so weak! They blast off useless attack after useless attack
How many effective attacks have they even had so far?
Mars burned Jadeite but he survived. (the attack was lethal in the manga!)
Jupiter blew up the dress dummy.
Venus KO’d Motoki, but he’s just a regular guy.
They had a few fight scenes against the kings but they really didn’t accomplish much besides getting hair wet.
I can’t wait until the next two arcs when we get to see the senshi and the outers get to do some actual damage. (Please let us get that far!)

By: Ashley

Ashley — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 00:56:55 +0000

I felt the same about the Venus focus. We didn’t really learn anything new about her as a person or even as a senshi, whereas the other girls got some character development in their episodes.

By: Aurelia

Aurelia — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 20:50:53 +0000

About the Shitennou, what happened with Zoisite’s voice actor ? Is he dead, was he sick ? Because Zoi clearly was the only King to say anything to Mamo-chan.
Maybe he has been traumatized by the fact of becoming a stone and the result is that his ghost is now unable to speak XD .

Otherwise that was a good episode. Not as good to me as acts 15 & 16 however, but can we really compare ? I guess not.

Venus’ action was rather minimalistic, from that point of view it’s not really following the act title and it’s a little disappointing. I think she would have deserved better.

Rolling Heart Vibration is a beautiful attack, as well as La Tuxedo Smoking Bomber (Mamo-chan having powers is great to see), but to me they both lacked intensity here :”( .

And I feel sympathy for Chibiusa, whereas I used to hate her in the former anime. That’s a good point for me, since I was afraid to dislike her again in Crystal.

I was happy to see Calaveras at least, and those tragic Kings again.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 12:29:24 +0000

I must have been thinking about the manga then. I’ll update that part. Thanks.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 12:28:56 +0000

Since Momoko’s parents own a Chinese restaurant I think it fits. The way it fits is a bit inappropriate in my mind. Reminds me of the Amazoness Quartet. They were ridiculously animated in SuperS.

By: Erik

Erik — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 07:13:21 +0000

I think that the reason is simple enough, the changed the part of the story where she uses it in the dark kingdom arc. In the manga she follows sailor moon through the portal to the north pole while in crystal she stays with the other senshi to to confront the shitenou. Since none of them use any attacks during the confrontation they naturally didn’t show Venus using rolling heart vibration.

Another thing that I’ve always found weird about this arc is that they actually don’t follow the natural order for the personal episodes. For some reason mars is first and then mercury. I guess it could be that mars is suposed to be the one to first notice the threat with her supernatural powers.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 05:52:01 +0000

I think they waited until now, because they want a new attack for all the senshi on every arc and make it debut on a episode called after a senshi… maybe?