Then the romance between Seiya and Usagi. They had that going for most of the season and the way it ends is terrible. At the end Usagi doesn’t even give Seiya a hug, kiss on the cheek, nothing? After risking his life for you and protecting you for a whole season. He was there for her more than the her friends, the inner senshi. They tease us about a possible romance and then it goes no where. In a way, I understand because Mamoru is going to come back but still….in that case they should have given Seiya a spin off because I would have watched lol….

I suggest you read thoroughly the Manga again here in missdream.org not just skimming so that you will understand why Sailor Moon is the brightest star seed in the universe. Visit this http://sailormoon.wikia.com/wiki/Sailor_Galaxia to get to know Galaxia.

Peace

This episode did work in that it gave you a sense of choosing to forgive and heal which is a nice message, but extremely boring to watch. I remember watching this hoping there would be a continuation. Another season with greater focus on the outer soldiers and maybe even the inner soldiers. The soldiers as characters were not fleshed out especially not the outer soldiers in the anime or manga.

After skimming through the manga of the stars arc I realized why Toei decided to give the starlights the main character status. I remember reading the manga author Naoko was surprised they were the main characters. To me, it isn’t surprising because in the manga she basically made all the soldiers except for the star lights useless specifically in the stars arc. They could not even fight the enemy and the star lights always had to save them. In that sense Toei actually did the inner and outer sailor soldiers a favor by actually extending their story to the end. Unfortunately, they also did not give them much development or give them some more screen time especially since they did not really follow the manga anyway they might as well gave the soldiers some better development. I used to think very highly of the manga before I started seeing bits of it. Now I see the manga had a lot of flaws too.

Ironically Saturn or Hotaru and Pluto or satsuna did probably as much as they did in the manga which was not much. Pluto and Saturn didn’t even get new attacks in the manga at least Uranus and Neptune had that going for them.

I thought Galaxia would be much more impressive in the manga, but after skimming through the manga, her 90’s anime counterpart and manga counterpart don’t feel all that different. The only thing is that it seems she seems to be murder the soldiers left and right. Even then Galaxia has plot holes just as much as her anime counterpart. Why wouldn’t she have stolen sailor moon the soldier with a strong sailor crystal first? (Always though Saturn was the strongest, but she doesn’t even get more than one new offensive attack) why would she bother killing them a few at a time? She might as well kill them all.

I used to be very disappointed in Toei for how this season turned out since the whole not having the outer soldiers in superS really bothered me. Then after skimming through the manga because of crystal it disappointed me even more in the manga which is the source. The reasons for the outer soldiers leaving was disappointing at the end of the infinity Arc. When they join the inner soldiers it was fun, but underwhelming since they didn’t even get new attacks save for saturn’s one new offensive and meh defensive attack.

Oddly I have a new appreciation for this take on the Stars arc. Not the with Starlights since I never cared for them or their princess. Also I feel they took up too much of the story. Maybe they should have had an a extra season or story arc right before stars in the anime and manga so that we could get a season story arc of character development before the whole big introduction of all these extra characters. Sailor soldiers as enemies was interesting and the whole war was interesting but overall too much was happening.