Hi There! First, I feel like I should apologize if I said anything I shouldn’t ealier, and I set off a discussion and that wasn’t my intention. Second, I have to say I love your blog and the fact that you notice little details that nobody ( or I at least) didn’t, and do that with humour. and lastly, your the first person that I see that pays attention to the cinematography of anything (and one of a 90’s anime) name it that way. I started paying attention now because of you too. xx

Thank you so much! You’re entirely too sweet.

1. Don’t apologize for starting discussion, everyone’s ideas and knowledge are important! 

2. It’s always nice to know that there are actually people who enjoy this miscellany of sarcasm, analysis, and uncategorizable reaction, and I appreciate your saying so!

3. I strongly believe that there is deliberate intention behind every single choice, from scriptwriting to camera angles to the color palate to that one time when Chibiusa was missing from the family photo. Even if that choice is “let’s use stock footage here,” that says something about the uniformity of the episodes, the nonthreatening stakes of the scene, or simply the production value. Often, the best analysis (and humor!) comes from the details.

Well Sailor Pluto is Pluto’s guardian senshi. Venus is Venus’ guardian senshi etc and as well and the planet’s princess. Like Sailor Moon, is the moon’s guardian princess, and the most important one since they all have to protect her. And there are asteroid senshi: Remember the Amazoness Quartet? In the manga they are actually sailor senshi, to protect Chibiusa in the future, they have been woken from their sleep and brainwashed. Oh and when I say planet, I mean that in that in a broad sense

(Don’t worry, this isn’t a spoiler! I already knew the Amazonesses were senshi; they built up the parallelism between themselves and the inners quite obviously.)

I’m still not entirely sure why the guardians of other planets are charged with protecting the protector of the moon. Regardless, I think it’s oddly cute that even the smallest interstellar dust particle floating out in the Kuiper Belt might have someone looking out for it. 

Did anyone tried to explain what a Star Seed is? There’s problably someone better than me, but I’ll try. “Star Seeds” are the crystals, everybody has them, but just one for each planet is strong enough to be called a star seed, and this person is the sailor senshi for this planet. Or in Earth’s case, Mamoru, he has the golden Crystal or golden star seed (you see in the anime with helios), Usagi’s the Silver crystal. In the manga we see each sailor’s crystal and so they are all princess

Awesome, thank you! I assume this also means that every planet/dwarf planet (sorry Pluto) has its own guardian? When new planets are formed, is a new senshi appointed? What happens if a planet is incinerated in a supernova— oh no that’s going into Sad Territory.

It also makes me wonder if every single infinitesimal asteroid has its own guardian. I was going to protest with the common objection, “but the moon isn’t a planet,” until I remembered from my one semester of natural science that, according the the giant impact hypothesis, the moon and the earth were once one large planet until it was struck by a massive celestial body. The moon formed out of the debris that was trapped in a gravitational orbit around what would eventually become the earth. You might say that even though outside forces tried to split them apart, they still found a way to be together in the end.

All this theoretical astronomy is giving me feelings.