Sailor Stars Episode 2 (168): The Awakening of Saturn! The Ten Senshi Come Together
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Still the same opening with Sailor Star Song, but at least no spoiler-ridden intro this time.
Usagi and Mamoru are sitting on a bench. Usagi doesn't get the hint that Mamoru clearly isn't in the mood to talk and just wants to be left alone. She insists. He almost hits her.
Wait, what do you mean this is all a result of Nehellenia's spell? Ah, there she appears as a reflection in the balloon. Right.
The girls gather at the new Specially Designated Girl Meeting Place. Remember it, we'll be seeing it for the entire season. They discuss girly stuff. Yawn.
Haruka and Michiru arrive home with a bag of food. They're greeted by a very disproportionate mini-Hotaru.
A minute later, Hotaru grows back to her real size without changing shape. Okay. She mentions "Haruka-poppa", "Michiru-momma" and "Setsuna-momma", which is one weirrrrd family. Especially given the fact that Haruka can't be a "poppa" for biological reasons and her real "poppa" is still alive. I can only imagine the legal mess they went through.
While the three adults are chatting, paying no attention to Hotaru, she runs after a butterfly and disappears in the bushes. They decide that the most logical explanation is that she ran into the house, despite having run in the opposite direction, make no attempt to search the yard and go straight into the house.
They look through all rooms, and naturally, Hotaru is nowhere to be seen.
They open the door to one final room. It's dark, it's creeeepy. Hotaru is holding some kind of energy ball, which expands and fills a good part of the room with black void. However, the Outers aren't scared.
A "what do you mean it's not symbolic?" sequence follows, involving a model of the Solar System inside the creepy-black-void-ball. Since Hotaru can't simulate events with computer precision, the distances between planets are slightly not to scale.
After Truly Symbolic Sequences, Sailor Senshi are required by the standard plot guidelines to faint, and Hotaru is no exception. Then she regains consciousness and starts saying random mumbo-jumbo about the princess in danger again, only this time, it's even more random, mumbo-jumbo-ish and incomprehensible — all the time violently shaking. I wonder what kind of dubiously legal substance she found in Setsuna's basement this time.
Meanwhile, the other girls are all envying Usagi for having a boyfriend. A very familiar figure is watching from behind the glass, but since they're all facing the other way looking at two "cool guys" passing by, nobody notices.
Mamoru is in his apartment. He's programming. In BASIC!!! Why does Usagi even hang out with that loser anyway?.. Suddenly, some kind of warning appears in Japanese in the lower-right corner, even though the computer is supposedly in text mode.
Frustrated, Mamoru disconnects the keyboard and throws it on the floor while seeking appropriate Japanese expletives for Bill Gates. Then he stands up and washes his eyes; his right one is glowing, presumably tired of looking at small text all the time.
Night comes. Evil Black Hair creep into Usagi's bedroom. Luna is for some reason absent, so there's nobody to warn her. The same Evil Black Hair appear in windows throughout the city. (Windows? I knew it!) The moon is a little too big. It's creeeepy.
Hotaru is sleeping. Then there's a close-up on a slightly bigger Hotaru. Then an even closer close-up on an even bigger Hotaru. Apparently she grows in quantum leaps. The Evil Black Hair appear in the window, but Hotaru wakes up and they disappear.
Now it seems that she isn't that awake after all, because we get to the hypnopompic hallucinations that make Hotaru go "WTF?!":
Get more sleep!
Force Ghost Hotaru uses her finger as a cable to upload data into the real Hotaru's brain, overloading it with more hypnopompic imagery...
...which is not even from her own perspective. But it's okay. How often do you see yourself from the side in dreams? Anyway, good excuse to use recycled footage from the third season.
Haruka, Michiru and Setsuna wake up in another room, and are greeted by Hotaru practicing exhibitionism.
No wonder they're shocked. So shocked, in fact, that they finally gain a boost of common sense and decide to do what they should have done a season ago: go help Sailor Moon and the other girls.
Meanwhile, Rei is reciting a flashback to the other girls. This night, it turns out, she saw the Creepy Hair in a mirror, threw a piece of paper reading "There is no spoon" in Japanese, and since the paper completely obscured the mirror, Rei assumed the vision was gone.
Suddenly, a bunch of NC-17s from the previous episode appear.
They're jumping from the sky in slow motion, giving the girls plenty of time to transform. Wha..?! The cutey-pinky SuperS transformation sequence — with Chibi Moon? Nnnnooooooo!!!
Pure SuperS zaniness follows, proving that this season is not that much "darker and edgier" after all.
Venus tries to help, but almost fries her allies in the process.
Tuxedo Mask comes to the rescue. The interrupted subtitle prematurely gives away the twist while he speaks.
Indeed, he experiences pain in the eyes due to coding too much BASIC this night, and he forgets completely about those he's supposed to rescue. Meanwhile, the NC-17s prove they're not evil, just misunderstood, by giving the girls tight hugs. Notice how not to scale Sailor Moon and Chibi Moon are, compared to the others.
Meanwhile, a few meters away, the Outers are playing tic-tac-toe, wondering if they'll be able to finish the current round before the Dramatic Moment. They are, and while the Inners are being hugged to death, Uranus just stands there staring blankly into space like a Greek philosopher, making a long, flowery Erik Pflueger introductory speech.
Finally they get to some serious but... er, glass-shattering. World Shaking! Saturn suggests they will all enter Force Meld to reveal Moon's "true form". I don't get it. Isn't her true form that of Princess Serenity, which we saw back in the original season? Which one is "truer"? I certainly don't consider the form with decorative wings of dubious usefulness "true".
Anyway... their state of "unity" is symbolized by dramatic wind and lots of pink. A new, albeit brief, transformation sequence ensues — the naked Sailor Moon becomes purple!
Presumably from the overcharge of Cutie Honey Energy. She reverts to normal during the transformation, though. And the finishing pose:
"Are you an angel? I heard they live on the moons of..." Earth?
The sheer stupidity of Sailor Moon's new uniform shocks the NC-17 so much that they all instantly disintegrate. Sailor Moon and her Rod of Randomly Waving Around change back to their previous forms, and she's really worn down by the weight of the useless decorative wings. She'll get used to that eventually.
Usagi follows Mamoru to his apartment's door, but doesn't make any effort to find out the source of his apathy. When she's gone, he washes his glowing eye again, and... who's this? Ah, it's just the reflection. Nehellenia announces her plans for the super-evil rrrrevenge!
Too bad Mamoru just stands there like a loon and doesn't run like mad to tell everyone. Otherwise, this arc could be a couple episodes shorter.
Still the same opening with Sailor Star Song, but at least no spoiler-ridden intro this time.
Usagi and Mamoru are sitting on a bench. Usagi doesn't get the hint that Mamoru clearly isn't in the mood to talk and just wants to be left alone. She insists. He almost hits her.
Wait, what do you mean this is all a result of Nehellenia's spell? Ah, there she appears as a reflection in the balloon. Right.
The girls gather at the new Specially Designated Girl Meeting Place. Remember it, we'll be seeing it for the entire season. They discuss girly stuff. Yawn.
Haruka and Michiru arrive home with a bag of food. They're greeted by a very disproportionate mini-Hotaru.
A minute later, Hotaru grows back to her real size without changing shape. Okay. She mentions "Haruka-poppa", "Michiru-momma" and "Setsuna-momma", which is one weirrrrd family. Especially given the fact that Haruka can't be a "poppa" for biological reasons and her real "poppa" is still alive. I can only imagine the legal mess they went through.
While the three adults are chatting, paying no attention to Hotaru, she runs after a butterfly and disappears in the bushes. They decide that the most logical explanation is that she ran into the house, despite having run in the opposite direction, make no attempt to search the yard and go straight into the house.
They look through all rooms, and naturally, Hotaru is nowhere to be seen.
They open the door to one final room. It's dark, it's creeeepy. Hotaru is holding some kind of energy ball, which expands and fills a good part of the room with black void. However, the Outers aren't scared.
A "what do you mean it's not symbolic?" sequence follows, involving a model of the Solar System inside the creepy-black-void-ball. Since Hotaru can't simulate events with computer precision, the distances between planets are slightly not to scale.
After Truly Symbolic Sequences, Sailor Senshi are required by the standard plot guidelines to faint, and Hotaru is no exception. Then she regains consciousness and starts saying random mumbo-jumbo about the princess in danger again, only this time, it's even more random, mumbo-jumbo-ish and incomprehensible — all the time violently shaking. I wonder what kind of dubiously legal substance she found in Setsuna's basement this time.
Meanwhile, the other girls are all envying Usagi for having a boyfriend. A very familiar figure is watching from behind the glass, but since they're all facing the other way looking at two "cool guys" passing by, nobody notices.
Mamoru is in his apartment. He's programming. In BASIC!!! Why does Usagi even hang out with that loser anyway?.. Suddenly, some kind of warning appears in Japanese in the lower-right corner, even though the computer is supposedly in text mode.
Frustrated, Mamoru disconnects the keyboard and throws it on the floor while seeking appropriate Japanese expletives for Bill Gates. Then he stands up and washes his eyes; his right one is glowing, presumably tired of looking at small text all the time.
Night comes. Evil Black Hair creep into Usagi's bedroom. Luna is for some reason absent, so there's nobody to warn her. The same Evil Black Hair appear in windows throughout the city. (Windows? I knew it!) The moon is a little too big. It's creeeepy.
Hotaru is sleeping. Then there's a close-up on a slightly bigger Hotaru. Then an even closer close-up on an even bigger Hotaru. Apparently she grows in quantum leaps. The Evil Black Hair appear in the window, but Hotaru wakes up and they disappear.
Now it seems that she isn't that awake after all, because we get to the hypnopompic hallucinations that make Hotaru go "WTF?!":
Get more sleep!
Force Ghost Hotaru uses her finger as a cable to upload data into the real Hotaru's brain, overloading it with more hypnopompic imagery...
...which is not even from her own perspective. But it's okay. How often do you see yourself from the side in dreams? Anyway, good excuse to use recycled footage from the third season.
Haruka, Michiru and Setsuna wake up in another room, and are greeted by Hotaru practicing exhibitionism.
No wonder they're shocked. So shocked, in fact, that they finally gain a boost of common sense and decide to do what they should have done a season ago: go help Sailor Moon and the other girls.
Meanwhile, Rei is reciting a flashback to the other girls. This night, it turns out, she saw the Creepy Hair in a mirror, threw a piece of paper reading "There is no spoon" in Japanese, and since the paper completely obscured the mirror, Rei assumed the vision was gone.
Suddenly, a bunch of NC-17s from the previous episode appear.
They're jumping from the sky in slow motion, giving the girls plenty of time to transform. Wha..?! The cutey-pinky SuperS transformation sequence — with Chibi Moon? Nnnnooooooo!!!
Pure SuperS zaniness follows, proving that this season is not that much "darker and edgier" after all.
Venus tries to help, but almost fries her allies in the process.
Tuxedo Mask comes to the rescue. The interrupted subtitle prematurely gives away the twist while he speaks.
Indeed, he experiences pain in the eyes due to coding too much BASIC this night, and he forgets completely about those he's supposed to rescue. Meanwhile, the NC-17s prove they're not evil, just misunderstood, by giving the girls tight hugs. Notice how not to scale Sailor Moon and Chibi Moon are, compared to the others.
Meanwhile, a few meters away, the Outers are playing tic-tac-toe, wondering if they'll be able to finish the current round before the Dramatic Moment. They are, and while the Inners are being hugged to death, Uranus just stands there staring blankly into space like a Greek philosopher, making a long, flowery Erik Pflueger introductory speech.
Finally they get to some serious but... er, glass-shattering. World Shaking! Saturn suggests they will all enter Force Meld to reveal Moon's "true form". I don't get it. Isn't her true form that of Princess Serenity, which we saw back in the original season? Which one is "truer"? I certainly don't consider the form with decorative wings of dubious usefulness "true".
Anyway... their state of "unity" is symbolized by dramatic wind and lots of pink. A new, albeit brief, transformation sequence ensues — the naked Sailor Moon becomes purple!
Presumably from the overcharge of Cutie Honey Energy. She reverts to normal during the transformation, though. And the finishing pose:
"Are you an angel? I heard they live on the moons of..." Earth?
The sheer stupidity of Sailor Moon's new uniform shocks the NC-17 so much that they all instantly disintegrate. Sailor Moon and her Rod of Randomly Waving Around change back to their previous forms, and she's really worn down by the weight of the useless decorative wings. She'll get used to that eventually.
Usagi follows Mamoru to his apartment's door, but doesn't make any effort to find out the source of his apathy. When she's gone, he washes his glowing eye again, and... who's this? Ah, it's just the reflection. Nehellenia announces her plans for the super-evil rrrrevenge!
Too bad Mamoru just stands there like a loon and doesn't run like mad to tell everyone. Otherwise, this arc could be a couple episodes shorter.
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