Comments on: Sailor Moon Crystal Act 33, Infinity 7 – Transformation – Super Sailor Moon, review

By: Niko

Niko — Tue, 31 May 2016 00:54:19 +0000

I wonder if the “patrons” joke was a 4th wall breaker? Meaning they have sponsers for the manga/anime itself. That or sponsors for the things they do but it wouldn’t make sense why michuru would be mad and sailor moon not understand what she meant by saying that.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sun, 29 May 2016 17:33:51 +0000

Well, the word in Japanese is “danna”. A wife can refer to her husband as danna as it means husband but it’s more rare these days.
More commonly it was used for a older wealthy man that often would sponsor a geisha (woman trained in traditional arts not a prostitute) and in most cases she would become his mistress in return. So the word might have a certain “ring” to it that can raise a few eyebrows.

By: Starscream Gaga

Starscream Gaga — Sun, 29 May 2016 10:29:34 +0000

I’m not too fussed with the hair, as Season Three is clearly a new animation direction to the first two seasons, so I’m not going to be upset of hair colour changes.
As for Saturn, I believe she was inconsistently coloured with either purple or white, but her “Eternal” form consistently is drawn with a purple star, so I suppose they decided to have her stick with purple for the entire series. I too prefer the white gem the original anime stuck with, but I can deal.

By: Aurelia

Aurelia — Sat, 28 May 2016 12:37:57 +0000

Glad to see I wasn’t the only one to be annoyed by Neo Queen Serenity’s new hair colour !

Also, you’re right, Saturn’s tiara gem should be white. I too was annoyed by this “detail”.

Hope both those mistakes will be fixed in the next episodes !

By: Moonashine

Moonashine — Fri, 27 May 2016 20:17:42 +0000

I really really hope that the hair colour is just a mistake and they’ll correct it for the Blu-ray. If it’s just because of 90’s… Well I don’t like it that they change things so that it would be more like 90’s anime. >_<

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 27 May 2016 18:46:41 +0000

Hmmm… This is Sailor Moon, not DBZ. But power-ups have always been a big part of Sailor Moon.

5 arcs, a new power-up each season (2 included with Infinity).

This is relevant in both series and the manga.

Sailor Moon would never be able to defeat her enemies without her upgraded attacks each arc. It is very relevant.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 27 May 2016 12:56:24 +0000

I agree- it’s super annoying that in this episode and the last, they’re starting to make these sloppy lazy mistakes again. What the heck toei?

By: zackc

zackc — Fri, 27 May 2016 06:24:08 +0000

let me just say, i love that you type “sailormoon” as one word, the way naoko intended. youre a true OG sailormoon fan!

By: Madd

Madd — Fri, 27 May 2016 05:05:16 +0000

This episode was better than the previous episode. In terms of execution it was still lacking. Animation quality was not all that great. Character models were off sometimes. They repeated the same scene at least twice with Saturn and those flashbacks were unnecessarily repeated. I can’t believe I waited that long for them to basically repeat the attack animation of moon spiral heart attack for the Rainbow moon heart ache. At least the 90’s version changed up her final pose. Seeing how season 3 is only 13 episodes, I was hoping they would create a new attack animation. Especially since we know they will reuse the attack for several episodes anyway. I am tired of seeing the moon spiral heart attack animation. Toei is so cheap and lazy. With no Pluto transformation or introduction sequence in sight, this was another disappointment. They could have even made a shorter new attack sequence for Rainbow moon heart ache. Some dialogue with the inner soldiers saying that the Outers have no right to end Saturn’s life was sadly left out. I think those would have been some nice moments.

The fight with Cyprine in the manga was terrible and here it is just as bad. Realistically Cyprine would have attacked her before she gather’s the other Soldier’s powers, but the whole time she is too busy floating with her sister. Doing nothing. This was one of the things they could have tried to do better in Crystal. In the manga it was a very unrealistic death as well. With how well the past witches seemed to be killed this is the least believable death.

The only good thing about this episode is seeing Saturn and her back story. Although it was confusing in both the manga and crystal. I’m assuming Pluto died during that time and was reborn at the time door. The problem with the manga in general is the fact that Naoko never planned it beyond the first arc which made the other acts much more confusing because she never got to do the story as a whole story. Crystal probably could have had her consult or she could have been more involved to fix her story, but I guess it’s too late for that.

Mistress 9’s introduction was the best part of this episode. There were some issues with the whole execution of her scenes in this episode, but overall good job. They elevated the manga scene. In the manga you don’t really know if the hands were some magic summoning but here they made her hair form the hand that rips out Chibimoon’s crystal and soul. I’m glad they showed the soul being given to her, although I wish they showed it better. In the manga it isn’t as clear that Mistress 9 didn’t just take the brooch and it ended up killing Chibimoon. Here they made it clear that her soul was also stolen.

The ending battle scene if you can even call it that with Super Sailormoon, Tuxedo Mask and the Outers hiding in the tree was terrible. Super Sailormoon did what she did in the Pluto episode when Tellu tries to kill Chibi Moon. She just stands and screams instead of actively doing anything. At least this episode she got a new attack so she could have used that without the stock footage of course. The Outers are strong but yet all they do is hide in the tree and do nothing. Even Pluto who is Chibi Moon’s friend is too busy having a chat instead of actively doing something. Even the manga made the scene just as lame tried to have it seem like they tried to stop MIstress 9, but got blasted with energy. It’s not made all that clear, but it feels like that is what the author was trying to show even if it looks nothing like that. Here all the soldiers do absolutely nothing. The only person that tries to do something is Tuxedo Mask and as expected it didn’t work out.

Either way this episode was better than the last episode but the Rainbow Moon Heart Ache reused stock footage, recycled footage, constant Flashbacks of Saturn as if we haven’t seen the scene twice before, Lackluster battle, and ending scene made this episode only slightly better than the previous episode. I’ve noticed they start talking while the commercial break eyecatch/episode title is on screen. I wish they would not do that. I hope they stop with the extended recap footage too.

By: saintfighteraqua

saintfighteraqua — Thu, 26 May 2016 21:21:58 +0000

That would make so much sense!