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PGSM - Act Thirteen
It isn't a recap so much as it is just replaying the scene where Venus was introduced as the Moon Princess, and then the girls stare at each other as we drift off into the theme song.
The show starts with the senshi minus Venus at Crown, drinking color-coded drinks as they discuss the Princess, and what she said during the interim between Act Twelve and Act Thirteen: She doesn't want their protection. She has special Princess things to do, and the senshi have youma to fight after.
The girls agree that they will continue to fight youma and protect the earth, but they can't help but look at the fifth - vacant - chair in the room.
Beryl cradles what's left of Zoisite in her hand. She is slightly impressed with the Princess. She must be powerful in order to reduced Zoisite to a stone.
Nephrite reports that Zoisite said something strange before he turned to stone: "Endymion."
Beryl has a powerful reaction to that name. Her eyes widen in shock and all that jazz. She tells Nephrite to forget that name. Her crystal glows, bathing Nephrite in a strange blue light, and puts him in a bit of a trance. When he comes out of it, all he says is "Yes ma'am" although I don't know if he even remembers what he's agreeing to.
She changes the subject, telling him to continue with his work of finding the Crystal, and then she dismisses him.
Nephrite leaves, and leaves Beryl to her musings. It couldn't be Endymion... could it?
But now that she is down to one shitennou, as Jadiete and Zoisite are currently rocks. She holds out her hand and a white flower appears. She didn't want to use the final shitennou, but she has no choice.
Mamoru sits alone in his apartment, pondering Zoisite's last words, along with his dream. Maybe it isn't a dream at all, but a memory. But it's a faint one.
A phone call interrupts his musings. It's a panicked Motoki.
Usagi gets to Crown to discover one completely trashed lobby and one very depressed Motoki. Motoki actually looks a bit like a zombie. His turtle is missing.
Usagi has a mental image of a turtle running away, and decides that isn't possible.
Motoki explains: his turtle was in a bucket while his tank was being cleaned, but the bucket got knocked over and the turtle was gone.
Usagi offers to help.
Mamoru rushes in, and there's a moment of awkwardness between him and Usagi before Mamoru returns to the matter at hand: he may have found the turtle.
The three go to a rather creepy looking white house. Motoki and Usagi are rather jumpy as they sneak around quietly calling for the turtle. Mamoru just walks behind them.
A face at the window scares them and they nearly jump over the fence, but Mamoru points out that it's the resident of the house, holding the turtle and waving them to come in.
Motoki returns his turtle, safe and sound, to it's special carrying box, and then hurries off to feed him.
The man in white who found the turtle stops Mamoru and Usagi before they leave, saying that they are so familiar... he's sure they have met before.
So they stay for tea.
He reveals that he lost his memory. His name is Shin, but he's not sure if that's his real name or not. He can't remember anything.
Usagi thinks that reminds her of Tux, and being the sort of person that she is, she decides she wants to help, so she asks him if there's anything he does remember.
Shin says he remembers he likes white flowers, and green plants, and the sea... but he also says that he doesn't mind not being able to remember anything.
Usagi decides to take him to someone to help him, but he declines, saying that he feels he shouldn't leave his house.
She calls Rei. Rei and the other two are working at the temple. Usagi was supposed to come help as well, and Makoto is rather annoyed at her. In the course of Makoto being annoyed, she manages make a total mess of the temple. I'm not sure how. The camera moves quickly and it's a lot of scenes cut together, but it leaves Rei serenely sitting in the midst of a mess.
So Usagi hurries off on her solo quest to help Shin regain his memories, wether he wants to or not.
Mamoru can't help but think that he and Shin have a lot in common.
He decides to follow Usagi, just to make sure she doesn't bother Shin too much. He follows Usagi as she buys a white flower to give to Shin. That's just the start of her plan.
First she thinks to get him a picture of a forest, but that's too expensive. So she stops at a bookstore, but a book of nature photographs is also too expensive, as is a DVD.
She ends up with two post cards.
Mamoru has followed her through all of this. He says that the flower was a good idea, and he decides to help her, so he gets on his motorcycle and offers her a helmet.
Usagi reluctantly climbs on, and the two speed off to the beach.
While she's riding along, she realizes that hanging on to him is actually rather nice.
At the beach, she fills a jar with sea water, sand and shells, hoping that this will help Shin remember.
Mamoru says that remembering isn't that simple, and he hopes that she won't be too disappointed if this doesn't work.
By the time they get back, it's nearly sunset, so they decide to go visit Shin tomorrow.
Usagi hurries off to buy one more thing, and she returns with a snack to share with Mamoru.
I'm not entirely sure what it is, not being familiar with Japanese snack foods.
The two sit on the wall and watch the sun set into the ocean.
That night, Shin sits alone, staring off into space, in a trance-like manner.
Meanwhile, Beryl is blowing on the white flower, turning it blue. And when we return back to Shin's room, he is gone.
Scene change to a random girl coming home from violin practice. She stops when she sees a mysterious figure blocking her path.
He pulls a lock of hair off his head and drapes it across his hand. It vanishes to reappear around the girl's neck, choking her. Her eyes glow with a purple light in an ominous fashion.
The next day, Mamoru meets Shin in his garden. He brings him the flower and other things he and Usagi collected. Mamoru tells Shin that he knows what it's like to be afraid to remember. But, Mamoru continues, he can't run from the past forever.
Shin says that what he's really afraid of is losing the part of himself that likes flowers and other nice things. He dreamed that he attacked someone last night... except.. He's not entirely sure that it was a dream.
Suddenly, Shin lets out a groan, and drops the flower to the ground. Dark flower petals swirl around the room, and he warns Mamoru away.
At the same time, the girl that was attacked the night before, suddenly sprouts claws and... well I'm not sure what she does, but she makes people run away screaming.
Beryl's now-blue flower is in full bloom now.
Usagi meets up with Mamoru and asks how Shin is. Mamoru reports, in a rather expressionless tone, that Shin regained his memory and left.
He doesn't have to try to come up with more of a reason to keep Usagi from going inside, for Luna calls her, saying there's trouble, so Usagi hurries off.
Inside, the flower petals are still swirling around the room, as Shin is collapsed on the ground. He tries desperately to reach for the white flower, but can't make it, screaming in pain.
The from before is also screaming in pain, as she transforms into a youma.
This creates a bit of a dilemma for Moon. How can she defeat the youma without hurting the girl?
Mamoru returns to Shin's room, but Shin is gone. A man with long dark hair and a golden cape crumbles the white flower.
Beryl is pleased. The final shitennou - Kunzite has awakened. Shin is no more.
Meanwhile, Moon is running away from a youma that looks sort of like a Yeti. She doesn't want to attack it - her - because there's still a human inside somewhere.
But Luna tells her to trust in her power - she should be able to save the girl but destroy the yeti, I mean youma.
So Moon gets a new attack, which looks rather uncomfortable. The attack sequence involves her lifting her leg up to her head. I know it's ballet dancer pose, but it looks painful.
Her new attack is Moon Healing Escalation, and it drives the youma from the girl.
Moon finds the hair around her neck. Maybe that's what turned the girl into a youma.
Footsteps make her look up and she sees Kunzite approaching her.
He introduces himself, and then draws his sword in a dramatic fashion and blasts power at Moon.
Then, he takes another strand of hair.
Tux comes running in just to see Kunzite blow the hair at Moon, and it wraps around her neck.
She collapses and Kunzite vanishes with a smirk.
Tux manages to wake her, but she has the same purple glint in her eyes that the other girl had.
Luna helps us out by telling us what's going on: "Sailor Moon is going to become a youma!"
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