The
first opposing force are Fiol and Kisenian, two strange alien-types who
go to Usagi's school. They arrive in a pod that crash-lands in Tokyo,
bringing with it the 'Doom Tree'. Kids can be so sweet. Before long, Fiol
has a crush on Usagi and Kisenian one on Mamoru. Sheesh. Once that little
inconvenience is out of the way (they decide it's not in their best interests,
which I reckon represents a victory for common sense), we learn that they
are after a piece of the human race in order to sustain their life tree.
They do this by means of demon-ridden cards, each more sly and malevolent
than the other.
Before
long, they have found out about Fiol and Kisenian, at which point things
start to get nasty. Kisenian kidnaps Sailor Moon herself with the intention
of draining her of her energy like an orange in a blender. Her brother
Fiol is opposed to this and before long he gets Mamoru involved too, thus
completing the life tree they need. The scouts face the tree, which suddenly
decides to kill Kisenian. The tree then tells the senshi about how it used
to be a life-tree tree, and gave birth to an entire civilisation. But his
children's minds became warped, and they turned evil. Their thoughts twisted
the (nice) life-tree to a (nasty) doom-tree. Fiol and Kisenian were the
only two survivors of the race, and the tree needed energy to survive.
So it came to Earth. Fiol listens, and promises to mend his ways. The tree
revives Kisenian, because its cool like that. The tree then asks Sailor
Moon to heal itself (with her crystal). She does, and it turns back into
a seed. So Fiol and Kisenian promise to take care of the seed, and let
it grow into another beautiful life tree. So ends the first half of SMR.
Things lighten up when the crew get a futuristic visit from Chibi-Usa,
a pink-haired sprog which we later discover to be the future daughter of
Usagi and Mamoru. In one of the most memorable scenes Sailor Moon has ever
had, Chibi-Usa falls out of the sky and spontaneously pulls a .45 pistol
on Usagi and shoves it between her eyes (remember the pic on the profiles
page?). She demands that Usagi gives her the Silver Crystal so that she
can save her mother in the future. Chibi-moon hypnotised Usagi's family
into treating her as their daughter. Mamoru says that he feels there is
something familiar about Chibi and recommends they keep an eye on her.
Little does he know he's talking about his own daughter. Chibi-moon seems
only to be concerned about getting back to wherever she came from and saving
her mother. She concentrates on annoying Usagi in the meantime, not knowing
that she is talking to a past version of her. Because of Chibi forming
a link with the future, a new Sailor comes into play, namely Pluto who
doesn't fight but just sits there and guards the time portal. A herd of
adversaries make it through the portal to fight the sailors, just to make
sure they can fill in another 20 episodes. They are human in appearance,
albeit with black half-moons on their foreheads and are named after gemstones.
Their purpose is to change the past in order to, you've guessed it, achieve
global domination. the enemy's only real achievement is to transform Chibi
into a grown woman, dubbed 'Black Lady', and turn her against the Usagi,
the other sailors and her parents. This series really runs out of steam
towards the end and it isn't really made clear when it finishes. |