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main opposing force is one Souichi Tomoe, a crazed professor, concerned
mainly with destroying the senshi with the help of his assistant, Kaolinite
and ,later, the five Witches. His cunning plan is to use these people to
drain the energy of the famous by taking their 'Heart Crystals' out of
them. These crystals represent the goodness in people, and without them,
they will soon die. With these, he hopes to retrieve three Talismen. Kaolinite
soon finds a way to get these precious heart crystals herself (via a strange
cannon/gun contraption) and get in with a chance of finding the "purity
chailace". This can be obtained through the possession of three particular
Heart Crystals, together with talismen of a mirror, a sword and a gemstone
(the three holy symbols of Japanese mythology, don't you know). The Sailors
task at this point is to keep retrieving the Heart Crystals and figure
out what is going on. The two most significant things of this series then
show up. Michiru AKA Sailor Neptune and Haruka AKA Sailor Uranus. These
two are considerably older than the original five scouts and study at the
local University. They are after the talismen too, and have a close bond
with one another. Without wanting to cause any kind of feeble controversy,
these two sailors are lesbians. "Phenomenal" though the original
Sailor's mental capabilities are, they are baffled by the fact that these
two are pretty much neutral in comparison with themselves, and would rather
stay out of battle. Neptune and Uranus become much more concerned than
the Inner Senshi when a Heart Crystal is stolen and usually set about retrieving
them before the others. Kaolinite, the professor's assistant, is eventually
won over to a more moral walk of life and the prof appoints the oldest
of the Witches 5 as his new assistant, namely Yuziaru, who inherits Kaolinite's
Heart Crystal cannon. Kaolinite and Eudial then die to reveal the Talismen
to the senshi in a special two-part episode. Eventually, one of the 'special'
Heart Crystals in Sailor Neptune and receive the Deep Aqua Mirror Talisman.
Convinced that she holds another herself, Uranus shoots herself in the
chest with Yaziaru's cannon, despite Sailor Moon's protests. Uranus succeeds
and they obtain the Space Sword, the second talisman. However, in keeping
with the vices of this series, Neptune and Uranus will soon die without
their Heart crystals. Mamoru stays with the dying sailors while Sailor
Moon fetches the mirror and sword, at which point Sailor Pluto appears
and retrieves the third talisman using the Garnet Orb. Now that all the
Talisman are together, the sailors finally get the Holy Grail. Moon can
use this to transform into Super Sailor Moon, hence the title of this series.
A cunning plan, by any standards. Meanwhile, Yuziaru is killed by her jealous
sister Mimetto, who takes the brakes off her car. On to the next part of
the plot. Chibi strikes up a friendship with one Hotaru Tomoe, an diseased
girl with strange powers. She is of course the daughter of the crazy professor
Souichi, but Chibi fails to realise this. Mamoru helps the scouts to find
out that the local University, where Souichi Tomoe (the crazy Prof.) teaches
and Haruka and Michiru study is the HQ of all the inter-dimensional invasions
of enemies. The dimensional door was accidentally opened by the Prof.,
through which the demon Mistress 9 eventually passes to cause trouble.
She steals Chibi's Heart Crystal and possesses her body. The leader of
these invasions is Pharaoh 90, a black sphere of energy, who needs the
energy of the Seihai (namely Sailor Moon) to pass through in to our dimension.
As a matter of course, Pharaoh 90 plans to annihilate all life on Earth
once it's passed through (can't they just get along?) so it falls on a
certain group of Sailors to Save the World, again. The sailors take a minute
to polish off the Witches 4, as they now are, when suddenly a possessed
Hotaru (the Prof.'s daughter) steals Chibi's Heart Crystal and transforms
into Mistress 9, pictured left. D'OH!. Can't be helped, I suppose. Sailor
Moon grabs Chibi's lifeless carcass and gives it to Mamoru, who can sustain
her life with his own energy as long as he stays with her. A somewhat irrate
group of Sailors go to confront the opposition, including Uranus and Neptune,
who help the professor fight Mistress 9's counterpart, Gerumtoido. The
professor has been possessed by the latter, but is excorcised within minutes
of the two scout's arrival. Mistress 9 is causing the group serious problems
in that she isn't beaten on the instant. Faced with this unprecedented
situation, Sailor Moon gives the now perfectly sane professor her Holy
Grail which he uses to awake the sleeping spirit of Hotaru within Mistress
9, but she just takes it off him and opens the portal for Pharaoh 90. Oh
no! The Sailors don't stand a chance. It is Hotaru,who saves the day by
infiltrating the evil from within and beating Mistress 9's spirit, by transforming
into Sailor Saturn. She returns Chibi's Heart Crystal before sacrificing
her own life to banish Pharaoh 90. She springs into the ball of energy
and is soon followed by a panicking Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon manages to
retrieve Hotaru as a baby and hands her back to the professor. Sailor Neptune
and Uranus then start blasting Sailor Moon and, having been defeated by
Sailor Moon and Chibi, admit that it was just to see whether she was strong
enough. Convinced of Sailor Moon's power, Haruka says that Usagi could
well be the Seihai. |