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scans_dailyThe penultimate chapter of the first arc. Actually no it's not. It's...the penultimate and a half chapter? The first arc has one more chapter and then there's the chapter after that, which is half the conclusion to this arc and half the beginnining of the R arc. Or something.
Anyway, most of the awesome and weird and bad shit goes down in this chapter, plus we have color pages and all kinds of nifty extras, so you'd best read it.
Color page!
YEAH WE GOT TO SEE THE COWPRINT VEST IN FULLCOLOR GLORY. Lookin' better than ever
As an extra, we also have this nifty character sheet, for the purpose of voting for your fave char! To make things extra complicated, apparently you vote on civilian IDs, superhero IDs and evil brainwashed ID's too, What's your vote? I'm torn, Jupiter would be my fave based on all canon, but Venus would be fave based on just the manga (and you'll soon see why. Also "Endou" because he is hilarious
"I'M ENDOU". See? Hilarious. I am also amused/awesomed by Sailor Jupiter randomly shouting GUTS and Venus's BANG dagger thing. And for the record, the random guy saying "I'm Amano" is from the Sailor V manga. He was basically Mina's Umino...they are clones. I have no idea who the hell Kuri and Yumi are and Kenji and Shingo got their names mixed up. OH AND the art on Beryl and the Shittenou amuses the hell out of me.
Yeah, so Beryl straight up DID melt Mamoru to death and now he's basically a walking corpse powered by evil and the crystal. HOW SCREWED UP IS THAT. Poor Mamoru.
MAMORU ATTACKS and they can't return it lest they blow up the arcade!
Poor Motoki will be confused for the rest of his life over what the hell just happened (Not really, to clarify. He will say it was bad for his heart though).And Mercury...can apparently manipulate dimensions and shit if she feels like it. She's just too awesome for rules!
Meanwhile Usagi is getting strangled by Beryl's hair...apparently Beryl was Medusa in a former life or something:
So yeah, VENUS STABBED BERYL TO DEATH in the past life in revenge for Beryl killing Endymion (and trying to kill Serenity/causing her suicide). Which explains why Beryl freaked out when she saw Venus come back to life. DO NOT SCREW WITH VENUS.
Hey, we all know that attack! Only in the manga, it's the actual chain belt she carries. Minako's not done being badass yet.
YOU'VE MADE HER ANGRY. YOU WON'T LIKE HER WHEN SHE'S ANGRY. AND HAS A SWORD.
Yep, in the manga it was Venus that killed Beryl. By stabbing her in the gut in a truly epic case of history repeating itself. Screw the Hulk, I definitely don't want to piss off Minako. Also, ze jealousy backstory! "I had finally found you my love, by killing you and then brainwashing you, the best way to win guys!"
What's interesting about Beryl is that while Usagi represents honest love, pure love that is used to help and heal and save the day, and Beryl represents that obsessive, dark manipulative love. Usagi is always honest about her feelings, forms a partnership with Mamoru, accepts him as is and strives to protect him as well as her friends- but Beryl skulks behind pillars spying, resents it when he chooses someone else despite the fact she obviously was never able to approach him and thinks the ideal relationship with him is kidnapping him and making him her puppet- a desire to control, rather than a desire to protect. And this is not just how she treats Mamoru, but the Shittenou as well. A lot of the Sailor Moon villians are of the "dark mirror" variety (clearly the Shittenou are dark mirrors of the Senshi in this arc), and for this arc, Usagi and Beryl are sort of the dual sides of the forms love can take.
Anyway, Venus sort of goes into a trance.
Then she passes out and....
Mamoru snatches her up like a creeper and kidnaps her while she's unconcious (pretty much the only way he COULD manage to kidnap her!) and Usagi jumps in the portal after them. The other Senshi use Luna's mad computer skills to follow (and the poor thing is still suffering from being pulped against a wall. GEEZ MAMORU)
Usagi tries to get through to Mamo-chan.
Okay wow, that didn't work.
Fortunately for all, Usagi is the only one cool enough to use the crystal:
Luna comes to help!
Mars tries to attack, and it just gives her more energy. Venus declares that they have to get the crystal out of Mamoru and attacks too, but Mamoru boings it back at her. Usagi desperately tries to use "Moon Healing Escalation" on him, to no effect.
...well, damn.
:(
(I wonder if this is where Buffy got the idea...)
Okay, so, as you can see I screwed up. Usagi slashes Mamoru, kisses him, and then stabs herself, as you can see by how her hands are posistioned. I'd ORIGINALLY thought this was how it went down, but then changed my mind for some reason (I think the sword reversed itself in my braaain I'm going crazy)
So anyway. Yes. Very sad. I KNOW KILLING YOUR BF SUCKS BUT DON'T DO THAT USAGI OKAY. Ah but instinctively reliving past lives, such fun.
Anyway, tune in next week- just a heads-up, I'll be switch scanlations because this is where the one I've been using stopped updating- fortunately, there's another currently updating one that will release chapter 13 next week so I can post it! But yes, you'll probably be able to tell the switch from the difference in font and the fact the new scanlation will leave out honorifics and translate "silver crystal" properly (which will make ONE of you jump for joy judging from the epic debate of last post)
(however, I'm glad I was able to use this scanlation up til now because I went back to read how they handled the scene where Usagi and Mamoru decide to call each other "Usako" and "Mamo chan" and SO AWKWARD. "Maybe I should call him Mamoru from now on!" Whoa, calling him by his first name, don't move too fast in this relationship, dear....it just pretty much ruined the feeling the scene was supposed to convey, which is why I feel honorifics should be left in- it's often directly important to the plot or content and awkward dialogue just ruins it. An entire episode in the Sailor Moon live action (PGSM) revolved around character's use of honorifics, after all. Plus, cute nicknames are cute. BUT OH WELL, the point is we'll be using a different scanlation from now on, is what I'm saying)
HOW CAN WE STILL HAVE A MANGA IF OUR HERO HAS STABBED HERSELF IN THE HEART? AND ALSO KILLED HER BOYFRIEND? HOW WILL THEY DEFEAT THE WORLD DESTROYING VILLIAN? FIND OUT NEXT TIME!
Anyway, most of the awesome and weird and bad shit goes down in this chapter, plus we have color pages and all kinds of nifty extras, so you'd best read it.
Color page!
YEAH WE GOT TO SEE THE COWPRINT VEST IN FULLCOLOR GLORY. Lookin' better than ever
As an extra, we also have this nifty character sheet, for the purpose of voting for your fave char! To make things extra complicated, apparently you vote on civilian IDs, superhero IDs and evil brainwashed ID's too, What's your vote? I'm torn, Jupiter would be my fave based on all canon, but Venus would be fave based on just the manga (and you'll soon see why. Also "Endou" because he is hilarious
"I'M ENDOU". See? Hilarious. I am also amused/awesomed by Sailor Jupiter randomly shouting GUTS and Venus's BANG dagger thing. And for the record, the random guy saying "I'm Amano" is from the Sailor V manga. He was basically Mina's Umino...they are clones. I have no idea who the hell Kuri and Yumi are and Kenji and Shingo got their names mixed up. OH AND the art on Beryl and the Shittenou amuses the hell out of me.
Yeah, so Beryl straight up DID melt Mamoru to death and now he's basically a walking corpse powered by evil and the crystal. HOW SCREWED UP IS THAT. Poor Mamoru.
MAMORU ATTACKS and they can't return it lest they blow up the arcade!
Poor Motoki will be confused for the rest of his life over what the hell just happened (Not really, to clarify. He will say it was bad for his heart though).And Mercury...can apparently manipulate dimensions and shit if she feels like it. She's just too awesome for rules!
Meanwhile Usagi is getting strangled by Beryl's hair...apparently Beryl was Medusa in a former life or something:
So yeah, VENUS STABBED BERYL TO DEATH in the past life in revenge for Beryl killing Endymion (and trying to kill Serenity/causing her suicide). Which explains why Beryl freaked out when she saw Venus come back to life. DO NOT SCREW WITH VENUS.
Hey, we all know that attack! Only in the manga, it's the actual chain belt she carries. Minako's not done being badass yet.
YOU'VE MADE HER ANGRY. YOU WON'T LIKE HER WHEN SHE'S ANGRY. AND HAS A SWORD.
Yep, in the manga it was Venus that killed Beryl. By stabbing her in the gut in a truly epic case of history repeating itself. Screw the Hulk, I definitely don't want to piss off Minako. Also, ze jealousy backstory! "I had finally found you my love, by killing you and then brainwashing you, the best way to win guys!"
What's interesting about Beryl is that while Usagi represents honest love, pure love that is used to help and heal and save the day, and Beryl represents that obsessive, dark manipulative love. Usagi is always honest about her feelings, forms a partnership with Mamoru, accepts him as is and strives to protect him as well as her friends- but Beryl skulks behind pillars spying, resents it when he chooses someone else despite the fact she obviously was never able to approach him and thinks the ideal relationship with him is kidnapping him and making him her puppet- a desire to control, rather than a desire to protect. And this is not just how she treats Mamoru, but the Shittenou as well. A lot of the Sailor Moon villians are of the "dark mirror" variety (clearly the Shittenou are dark mirrors of the Senshi in this arc), and for this arc, Usagi and Beryl are sort of the dual sides of the forms love can take.
Anyway, Venus sort of goes into a trance.
Then she passes out and....
Mamoru snatches her up like a creeper and kidnaps her while she's unconcious (pretty much the only way he COULD manage to kidnap her!) and Usagi jumps in the portal after them. The other Senshi use Luna's mad computer skills to follow (and the poor thing is still suffering from being pulped against a wall. GEEZ MAMORU)
Usagi tries to get through to Mamo-chan.
Okay wow, that didn't work.
Fortunately for all, Usagi is the only one cool enough to use the crystal:
Luna comes to help!
Mars tries to attack, and it just gives her more energy. Venus declares that they have to get the crystal out of Mamoru and attacks too, but Mamoru boings it back at her. Usagi desperately tries to use "Moon Healing Escalation" on him, to no effect.
...well, damn.
:(
So anyway. Yes. Very sad. I KNOW KILLING YOUR BF SUCKS BUT DON'T DO THAT USAGI OKAY. Ah but instinctively reliving past lives, such fun.
Anyway, tune in next week- just a heads-up, I'll be switch scanlations because this is where the one I've been using stopped updating- fortunately, there's another currently updating one that will release chapter 13 next week so I can post it! But yes, you'll probably be able to tell the switch from the difference in font and the fact the new scanlation will leave out honorifics and translate "silver crystal" properly (which will make ONE of you jump for joy judging from the epic debate of last post)
(however, I'm glad I was able to use this scanlation up til now because I went back to read how they handled the scene where Usagi and Mamoru decide to call each other "Usako" and "Mamo chan" and SO AWKWARD. "Maybe I should call him Mamoru from now on!" Whoa, calling him by his first name, don't move too fast in this relationship, dear....it just pretty much ruined the feeling the scene was supposed to convey, which is why I feel honorifics should be left in- it's often directly important to the plot or content and awkward dialogue just ruins it. An entire episode in the Sailor Moon live action (PGSM) revolved around character's use of honorifics, after all. Plus, cute nicknames are cute. BUT OH WELL, the point is we'll be using a different scanlation from now on, is what I'm saying)
HOW CAN WE STILL HAVE A MANGA IF OUR HERO HAS STABBED HERSELF IN THE HEART? AND ALSO KILLED HER BOYFRIEND? HOW WILL THEY DEFEAT THE WORLD DESTROYING VILLIAN? FIND OUT NEXT TIME!
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Date: 2011-03-04 06:52 pm (UTC)This x a billion billions.
I'll always like the anime version of Stars better than the manga version, even if I'm in the minority.
If it's any consolation, I'm even more of a minority than you are.
I love anime!Usagi, but I can't stand manga!Usagi. I like Chibiusa. I think Mamoru's rose-throwing is awesome.
Try and top that ;P
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Date: 2011-03-04 07:35 pm (UTC)I don't hate Manga Usagi, but I don't find her anywhere near as endearing, entertaining or even interesting as Anime Usagi... the character flaws that stop Anime Usagi from being a total Mary Sue in my eyes are quickly shoved aside and kept firmly in the background in the manga, only showing up once in a blue moon for a single joke and then vanishing again.
The anime version might have exaggerated her klutziness and turned her into pure comedy relief at times, but in my eyes that was what saved her as a character for me, even after she became the Most Important Person Ever in Everything.The manga version didn't have such a failsafe and I must admit I tend to get a little bored by her.
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Date: 2011-03-04 07:47 pm (UTC)Honestly, I just kind of meld the anime and manga in my head and they make a perfect canon for me. They're both great in their own ways.
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Date: 2011-03-04 07:56 pm (UTC)The whole rose-throwing thing makes sense thematically because Mamoru's powers are connected to the earth. Plus the tango-esque intro music was kind of neat, so it never bugged me. It's that he never got his actual attack powers that bugs me. Plus, anime!Mamo is a dickpickle, so there's that.
I also like Chibiusa, but probably wouldn't if the anime was my only exposure to her. She's a brat from hell in the show, but at least she does eventually cool it. I think that combined with her open fear and vulnerability from the manga are what makes the character for me.
On the subject of Chibi Chibi I understand why the show did what it did, and it works in context, but to me the implications of Sailor Cosmos were much more interesting.
Wow, sorry. Didn't mean to ramble, I just found your opinions really stimulating I guess.
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Date: 2011-03-04 08:13 pm (UTC)I'll just say that I don't think anime!Usagi keeps making the same mistakes over and over again, I think she definitely develops and improves a lot; she simply does so without losing her entertaining and endearing humanity, unlike her manga version.
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Date: 2011-03-04 08:44 pm (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3J0tmHE
Time and time again, it's sailor moon's empathy that brings about victory, she is not the most powerful. hell her heart isn't even the most "Pure" (though it has its own special glow) its that her heart is the most loving. Hell a villain could literally mop the floor with her and the girl will STILL get up and ask for more, if it meant protecting some one, hell it doesn't even have to a friend or some one she likes, she would do that for ANYONE.
i vote we post kick as usagi moments :D
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Date: 2011-03-04 09:04 pm (UTC)Though it did remind me of the ONE thing I hate in the anime. The one thing that genuinely upset me, the thing that outright pisses me off.
The fact that Hotaru's poor innocent father gets the shittiest end of the shit stick.
Seriously, poor guy lost everything, literally EVERYTHING, except his beloved daughter... and Pluto just goes and takes the baby away? Jesus! I wouldn't be surprised if the guy committed suicide after that! DDD:
Granted, it was an emergency. But Pluto could have at least tried to get him involved instead of kidnapping the baby. Hotaru's fast-aging isn't something that he could have prevented, and with the World about to end I'm sure he would have wanted her to learn to use her powers, if only to save her life. If the problem was that the writers didn't know how to write him in the story, he could have easily been made into a background character.
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Date: 2011-03-04 09:27 pm (UTC)you tube actually has some versions of this in REALLY high quality
yeah i kinda agree, but didn't he kinda freely hand over Hotaru? i mean yeah he didnt want to but pluto didnt forcibly take him
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Date: 2011-03-04 09:39 pm (UTC)Hotaru's father was lovingly taking care of baby Hotaru, Pluto showed up out of the blue, he asked Pluto who she was, Pluto replied "I'm here to take Hotaru". End of scene. We never see the guy again. When we next see Pluto, she has baby Hotaru, Michiru and Haruka ask her why she has the baby, Pluto replies "I took her," and Michiru and Haruka are outraged.
It definitely seemed to me that she kidnapped the baby, and it really left a bad taste in my mouth :(
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Date: 2011-03-04 09:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-04 10:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-04 10:37 pm (UTC)Really, this could have been so easily solved. The animators could have just had Pluto say "even her father understood" after she explained the situation to Haruka and Michiru. A single short line. Just a single short line, and all would have been well.
As I said, I LOVE the anime. But that one thing, coupled with the fact that it could have been so easily avoided, really angered and saddened me.