OH YES YOU HAVE FINALLLY MET PRINCESS SAILOR MOON. Any thoughts on her in the 4 minutes she spended blowin’ shit up and being possesive and angry?

OKAY YOU ASKED FOR THOUGHTS YOU ARE GETTING THOUGHTS. (No spoilers please, I’m just going to talk for a little bit!) 

First of all, I love that this show makes it VERY CLEAR that Usagi and Serenity are completely different people. As far as I remember, the anime never really addressed this, and the two were functionally interchangeable. Here, they are distinct in looks and in personality. You can even see the moment when the switch happens: 

Usagi, her feathers ruffled, and then

BAM BLAM KABOOM SERENITY IS HERE AND SHE TAKES NO PRISONERS 

Serenity takes over as soon as her possession of “Endymion” is threatened. She seems to have a single-minded focus of MIRACLE ROMANCE, while Usagi’s interests are slightly more varied (friends, food, cats, family, et cetera). And yet, her obsession doesn’t seem like love; it seems like control. She’s the dormant goddess of horrible all-consuming jealousy that was living in Usagi’s subconscious for millennia. 

Sailor Moon also becomes WAY more powerful when under Serenity’s influence, just throwing around balls of flame and creating bolts of energy like it’s just another Tuesday morning. But this massive amount of power comes at the expense of a loss of control. Serenity only wants this one thing, and is willing to risk a lot to get it. Usagi wants many things (the aforementioned friends, food, cats and family). Things that Serenity would perhaps sacrifice if she needed to. 

Where I am a little lost is where the MIRACLE ROMANCE is involved. Serenity and Endymion fell in love, and their reincarnated souls found each other again in the bodies of Usagi and Mamoru. So why is Serenity’s portrayal so different from Usagi’s? Maybe Serenity and Usagi DO share a personality, but they choose to focus on different goals. Usagi has a part of her that is dangerously uncompromising, but she pushes it to the side because she wants everyone to be happy. Serenity loves her friends and family, but the bitterness of two young lives cut short turned her mind from love to revenge. 

I’m just throwing around words. I don’t really know what’s going on, but hopefully the story will take me where I want to go. 

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replied to your photoset “AMI YOU ARE SINGLEHANDEDLY THE REASON IT TAKES ME SO LONG TO WATCH 1…”

LUNA’S FACE IN THE LAST CAP

SO YOU HAVE FINALLY MET MIO! What’s your opinion of her so far?

Of course, she’s a massive bitch. But she is also the PERFECT antagonist to Usagi. She takes Usagi’s strengths (trust, friendship, unconditional love) and uses them against her. The monsters of the week can overpower Usagi with brute force, which isn’t all that interesting. But to deny Mio’s friendship would be to go against Usagi’s core values: namely, helping people in need and showing kindness to the lonely. By calling Usagi’s own convictions into question, Mio is making Usagi work against herself, like a human virus. She’s a terrible person, but a great character! In any case, I hope that Usagi learns that Mio takes advantage of her unconditional friendship soon. Those fake tears may work on Usagi, but they don’t work on me, the shrewd viewer with a razor-sharp intellect

If it doesn’t bother you, may I ask what is your opinion of the conversation in the tree between Sakura and Li?

Being asked to talk about things never bothers me!

First things first: SAKURA HOW DID YOU ROLLERBLADE INTO THAT TREE

First they establish that magic people are attracted to magic people, which is why they both get ~butterflies~ around their fake math teacher. How is she magical? I don’t know! She has a giant bell though! Next, Sakura mentions that she has the exact same feeling around Yukito. Now instead of drawing the obvious conclusion that Yukito is also a magic person, Li-kun here gets all flustered and jealous. Less than thirty seconds ago you were telling Sakura how silly she was for thinking her affections were genuine, and look at you, fallen for the guy who’s already banging Sakura’s brother anyway. Denial isn’t just a river in Egypt, you wacky child!

Anyway, I imagine this mutual acknowledgement that they are both after the same unattainable guy will be the gateway of Getting Over Him And Falling In Love With The Rival For Your Affections™.