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driving force behind the bad guys in SMSS was queen Nehelenia, who would
communicate to them via a mirror. Well, this season starts with this mirror
shattering, Nehelenia escaping and the shards from the mirror falling into
people all over Tokyo, including Mamoru, who catches one in the eye. Those
affected are very distracted, cannot concentrate and have a strange desire
to spend their time looking at mirrors. Nearly everybody in town is like
this and before long, Mamoru has mirrors hanging all over his house. Usagi
is concerned and before long, the scouts take on and defeat Nehelenia,
this constituting the true end of SMSS. It is soon revealed that the one
responsible for Nehelenia's escape was 'Galaxia', who will become of vital
significance to the series very soon. The appearance of this new (and terrible)
pop group called the Threelights, who are made up of the three Star Lights
(you'll have seen pics of them, they're the ones who wear leather bikini
things). Their role at the start of the season is a mysterious one- they
just turn up when Sailor Moon is faced with a ruckus and then disappear
without explanation. The Star Lights are seeking a fourth Star Seed, as
is the seemingly invincible Galaxia, who beats them all. The Star Lights
then join forces with Sailor Moon. Mamoru has left to study at Harvard
(had to be Harvard, didn't it, Naoko? Give me a break). Before he leaves,
he gives Usagi a ring (not as formal as an engagement, but still as significant-
and ridiculous). While he is on the plane to the US, a bright ball of energy
attacks Mamoru and that's all we see of him for a while. Usagi writes to
Mamoru every day, but he doesn't reply and she gets worried that Mamoru
doesn't like her anymore. In between some strange relationship development
between the senshi and the Star Lights, a girl called Chibi-Chibi falls
from the sky just like Chibi-moon did in SMR (only she has red hair and
doesn't pack a handgun. Shame). Chibi-Chibi is even dumber than she looks-
she can only say her on time or mimic other's phrases. Despite this, she
is very powerful, although we do not find out why she has come on the scene
for some time. Meanwhile, we see a dream-like sequence in which Chibi-moon
clarifies a few things. Galaxia is searching for the same Star Seed as
the Star Lights, but for very different reasons and using very different
methods. We learn how she has visited many planets, stolen everybody's
Star Seed (effectively destroying them all) and moving on. One of these
attacks was on the Star Lights homeplanet, although they managed to escape
their dying world with the resident princess. It turns out that this princess
possesses the all-important fourth Star Seed and that she has gone missing
on Earth- the Star Lights therefore disguised themselves as the pop group
Threelights and started searching for her by attracting the princess through
messages in their lyrics. Galaxia needs this fourth Star Seed possessed
by the princess to take over Earth and before long she does just that after
defeating the princess in battle. Galaxia takes everybody's Star Seed on
Earth and it is left to all the senshi and the Star Lights to retrieve
them. The inner senshi are up for the ruck, but are all beaten and loose
their Star Seeds. Galaxia reveals that she plans to take over the galaxy
by taking all the senshi's Star Seeds. If you recall Mamoru's attack on
the plane, it was Galaxia who fought him, won, and stole his Star Seed.
Having seen her inner pals battered, Sailor Moon flees and leaves the fight
with Galaxia to be picked up by the outer senshi. Initially, only Pluto
and Saturn die but Uranus and Neptune are taken prisoner and soon die themselves
(I know, it is heavy). Only five good guys now remain- Sailor Moon, the
Star Lights and Chibi-Chibi. Chibi-Chibi saves Sailor Moon from having
her Star Seed taken. Here, I must enlighten you as to Sailor Moon's role
in all this. Galaxia was the senshi of the galaxy, the strongest of them
all. She sealed a being known as Chaos inside her, which consumed her and
turned her to evil. Before suffering this ill fate, Galaxia sent out her
Star Seed to find a home safe from Chaos, namely Usagi / Sailor Moon. It
is this Star Seed that created Chibi-Chibi, hence her power. Sailor Moon
is commanded by Chibi-Chibi to fight Galaxia and release her from Chaos.
She turns into a glittering sword and tells a reluctant Sailor Moon to
use it to defeat Galaxia. They fight, and Sailor Moon eventually wins,
exorcising Chaos. Galaxia is returned to her true form. All the Star Seeds
Galaxia took are returned to their respective planets and owners and everybody
is reborn, hence the famous scene of all the senshi forming a flying circle
together. And that's it. Sailor Moon was a brilliantly thought out struggle
against the dark forces that exist in her universe and this is her release
from the battling that came as predestined duty to these girls and Mamoru,
and now they have won. |