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Plot twist: Motoki’s turtle tank holds the portal of reincarnated souls who he unwittingly recruits as new Karaoke Crown employees.
Kamekichi (the God of Death) welcomes troubled souls who have unfinished business on Earth into Purgatory Crown, where they may sweep away the sins of their past.
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I wanted to see what it would look like if Nephrite worked at Crown in the anime, but what I mainly saw was how little I wanted to learn how to cut out characters properly.
If anime Nephrite deserved a redemption arc, this would be the only way to do it
anyway I can’t wait for Minako to become a part-time employee at Motoki’s karaoke parlor for the recently deceased
PGSM (Please, Girls, Save Minako)
Extremely personal thoughts about Minako and her illness below. Enjoy.
I had a friend who died of brain cancer when she was 17. She and I were close friends in elementary school, but drifted apart in our teen years, as teen years do to friendships based mostly on a similar taste in chapter books.
As I watched PGSM, I noticed many parallels between Minako’s life and my friend’s. Early on, she had fainting spells. She got headaches. No one knew why. Years passed. She was exhausted. She started missing school. The doctors knew why. Years passed. During our senior year, the school organized a rally for her, where everyone would donate gifts and money and wear pins and raise awareness, and the very night before the rally, she died.
This was strangely unexpected to me. The last time I had seen her, she didn’t look “that sick.” There was a still seat reserved for her (assigned alphabetically) in our physics class. She had been selected our homecoming queen. All the signs subliminally pointed to her coming back. But she didn’t. The hand of fate clearly had a strange sense of humor: the smartest girl in class killed by her own brain the day before a celebration of her life. It felt scripted.
Why did this subplot happen in the show? The main characters (apart from Minako) are shown to have a very optimistic view of the future, and they want to do everything they can to effect change on the world around them. But it’s easy to be optimistic when everything goes your way. Nothing is more challenging to this idealist perspective than the prospect of an unwinnable battle; not against an evil monster, but against your own body. Minako’s death is a reminder that it’s possible to do everything right and still lose. It’s possible to do everything you can, and it’s still not enough. Minako did a brave thing by attempting to change her future rather than passively accept her fate, but even this couldn’t save her.
Why did this subplot happen in my life? I’m still figuring that out.
Also, notice Ami in the final shot, and look how she, while devastated, does not look as in much pain as the others. Ami never got the chance to bond with Minako in a meaningful way like Mako, Usa and Rei did.
Good point! She’s the only one not crying in the last scene. (myself included) Is she an emotionless robot girl with no regard for human feelings?
Not at all! She totally IS capable of crying, but only when Usagi is in danger, and only when she thinks it’s her fault. (source: PGSM 28)
I think it was a conscious choice for her to not cry, because she was the only girl who never had a one-on-one conversation with Minako. Everything is intentional and nothing is in accident.
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So:in the spirit of all the torture the Sailor Moon series likes to put us through: Which was more heart-breakingly awful in the best way, this or D-point? :)’
What kind of Trolley Problem nonsense is this
Would you rather watch 1 girl die over the course of 20 episodes, or 5 girls die over the course of 1 episode
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