when your flashback isn’t dramatic enough so you have to retroactively add rain

guardress:

sailormoonsub:

#194 #idk how to feel about this #is this some kind of test that usagi has to pass to prove her undying love to mamoru #or is it challenging the concept of destiny and predetermined lives #(both endymion and serenity as soulmates and the future crystal tokyo) #i feel like if seiya had pursued any other senshi i would have been more okay with it #especially haruka omg #but because usagi already has a distinct future with another person #it’s pretty clear that it’s not going to work out between them #and if it did #then it would kind of defeat what the first four seasons were working toward #mIrAKuRU RomANsU and all that #mamoru even appears in the opening credits for this season so he’s not out of the picture #unless that’s the red herrings to end all red herrings #even so #having usagi get together with seiya would be really interesting #but only if they hadn’t already invested so much in preserving the life of chibiusa and the love of mamoru #what
would it take for usagi to discard the promise of crystal tokyo and
cast herself into an aleatory future where nothing is certain #these tags have gone on long enough i suppose #DISCUSS
      

This will not be the only moment that the actions of the characters and the choices the writers made effectively throw The Story So Far out the window….

WELL THAT’S REASSURING

I mean, I’m all for challenging and potentially controversial plot points. I’m just not here for completely invalidating the previous four seasons.

The whole Mamoru or Seiya/Are Mamoru and Usagi only together because of destiny stuff is really only in the anime. PGSM only did the first arc so Seiya kinda never existed in that continuity. In the manga, their love was shown before they found their destinies, plus Seiya had a lot less screentime and her feelings for Usagi weren’t that big. But most of the animators are male, and one of the directors really hated Mamoru and wanted Usagi to persue a yuri relationship instead. (???)

It’s fascinating to see how deeply outside factors can influence a product. Especially having a director who dislikes a main character. I can’t help but imagine what that was like.

“Now, in the next scene Tuxedo Mask is violently disemboweled by the monster of the week.”

“No sir we can’t do that that’s not even in the comic”

“Okay then he falls into an active volcano instead.”

“How did he get anywhere close to an active volcano”

“Fine. He becomes the victim of identity theft. He has to cancel all his credit cards, and his insurance rates go up by a lot.”

“What narrative purpose would that serve”

“WHO CARES”

oncecolourful:

sailormoonsub:

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I always assumed that she was incense burner itself. Kinda like how in Transformers they turned into cars. Well she transformed into that!

I really like this idea, because who doesn’t love the idea of the Transformers as intergalactic space princesses? But in the same scene ChibiChibi is shown to be still holding the burner. Unless she transformed really fast, and then transformed back again. That would be truly admirable.

also these are just gundams not transformers but

CLOSE ENOUGH

ugly-ducking
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Your tags are amazing!

I’m just glad to know someone actually reads the tags.

nanenna
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I heard once that Naoko regretted doing the future arc because she thought Mamoru was boring and if she hadn’t done it Usagi would end up with Seiya but I can’t remember when or where I heard that. Or maybe it wasn’t Naoko, one of the anime peeps?

This is really interesting! Regardless of who said it: I totally agree that having an arc that takes place in the future, especially so early in the series, severely limits the options for how events can proceed. 

If it was a matter of staying true to the soulmate of a past life, I don’t think Usagi would have too much of a problem with that. She can forge her own path and fate shall have no sway over her. It would actually be a really cool denial of the notion of “destiny.” However, now that she has the duty to protect the timeline that she has already worked so hard to preserve, her every move puts the future in jeopardy. She has a duty to give Chibiusa existence, and to give the citizens of Earth Crystal Tokyo. And all I had to worry about in high school was missing the bus.

dressedupanimals
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Yes she goes (went?) to a public school so it is public property. She wrote “Mamo-chan” 😉

I should have known she would clearly label her love interest. Usagi is the type that I wouldn’t trust unsupervised with a label-maker.

prismatic-bell:

sailormoonsub:

I have yet to decide if this is an intentional continuity flaw, or if Usagi just has several incredibly similar photos stashed in various locations around her room.

HEY GUESS WHO FUCKING ADORES ANALYZING THIS STUFF

I’m going to go with deliberate.

The frame in the first and fourth pictures are the same, as are their outfits (Usagi’s uniform is very slightly different, but that can probably be put down to an actual error–her back bow is missing and her sleeves aren’t puffed.) In fact, in only one of these photos are the outfits different, and that’s the third one–which is also the only one with a different background. Likewise, it’s the only one with an “odd” frame–Mamoru and a wood frame would seem to go together (his fashion sense is terrible but his vehicles are on point, and in the first season when we see his apartment it’s pretty plain but in a “simple” way, not a “hideous” one), as though perhaps he gave this to her; Usagi and her rabbit frame, of course; but that purple frame? Totally not Mamoru, way too plain for Usagi.

I haven’t seen Stars and I don’t remember the episode numbers you gave, but were I to guess, I would say that the third picture is the moment Usagi is farthest away from being able to save her family; the fourth is the closest to that original picture, and needs only Chibs to complete it. This is when Usagi is most convinced she will reach her goal.

Great ideas! I also like to think that the future is always changing in subliminal yet overarchingly connected ways, whether choosing an outfit or having a daughter. At first I wondered why Usagi wouldn’t notice if Chibiusa was suddenly missing from the picture, but then I realized… if her past changed, then her memory of the past probably did too. And somehow that makes everything even more sad; not only can she not remember her daughter, she never knew her at all.

Minako: GET SOME USAGI

Ami: that is… really not appropriate right now

*cue Mamoru dropping from the sky between them à la Chibiusa*