A major character meets their shocking demise in this excellent episode of classic Sailor Moon.

Here’s our review.

And its really freakin beautiful.

But they did, thus Sailor Moon and the others were called to action.

Did the Silver Millennium have some kind of ambitious space program, settling outposts along other planets?

And why establish new monarchies?

Why werent they ladies or duchesses of some kind?

For that matter, why would the Sailor Guardians be guarding the princess?

Why not the queen?

I mean, lets say Queen Venus is busy ruling Magellan Castle.

She has shit to do, so she sends her daughter to go serve the high queen.

Sounds legit to me.

But Princess Venus is not serving the high queen.

Shes serving the crown princess.

Well, whos guarding the high queen?

And yes, Im aware of the Asteroid Guardians, but Im talking before they show up.

A consistent, airtight mythology was not exactly in her mission statement.

Never kept me from enjoying the show.

She was the Moon Princess after all.

And I cant say Im terribly disappointed by that.

It makes plenty of sense and its good for the story.

And, well… check out Usagi in her princess form, flattening Zoisite like a boss.

Poor, hubristic Zoisite.

If hed just followed orders and not let things get personal, he might have lived.

But once he tried to kill Tuxedo Mask, it was all over.

I mean, he was a crispy critter.

In the end, if his glowy symbolic flower petals are to be believed, he went to Hell.

Im cool with that.

His reign was my favorite of the Four Heavenly Kings, and he worked it.

But he got what he deserved, he had a satisfying defeat and death.

I really cant ask for more than that.

Theres always been some conjecture among fans about just how much Kunzite loved Zoisite.

He did seem at times to be somewhat cold and manipulative.

Zoisite was clearly the more engaged of the two.

And oh boy, does he come after the Sailors with a fucking vengeance.

Its poetic is what it is.

Lest we forget in all this our heroine.

She legit does not want to fight anymore.

I do appreciate, however, that Mars is taking this hard too.

So, all this leads to what I have for many years called the Queen Mother Bitchslap.

The interaction between Usagi and Rei in this episode is awesome.

It goes from manic to angry to defensive, ultimately leading to a breakthrough between these two girls.

Theres true friendship there, and loyalty.

And, as well see in the following episode, a new understanding between them.

All the bullshit about Lunas convenient memory (why wasnt Artemiss memory affected at all?)

The simple truthSailor Moondid not initially have a longterm plan.

There wasnt a lot of foresight in the construction of this mythos.

I understand that, and Im forgiving.

If you need me, I can be reached at 1-800-FUCKTHATSHIT.

Other than that, this was a good one.

That, my friends, is a winner.

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Rating:

4.5 out of 5