History Headscratchers / SailorNothing

** As [[StarWars Randy Stradley]] put it, "When you define, you confine." Since there can be no realistic explanation for the powers the Sailors, Yamiko and Dusty display, and the story tries to be realistic overall, the only way I see to avoid pissing off a considerable chunk of readers is not to offer any explanation at all, prompting the reader to come up with explanations that satisfy them (anything from AWizardDidIt to ImportedAlienPhlebotinum to... more controversial stuff, if desired).

* Remember {{FairForItsDay}}. This is ancient by fanfic standards (it's not a fanfic, but was clearly written with that style and audience in mind), and it uses the storytelling conventions of fanfiction at that time. It grates on the sensibilities of modern readers for a variety of reasons, but this is the way things were written then, and it actually did better than many of its contemporaries as far as culture is concerned.

* All is explained in the last few chapters of the story: [[spoiler:it's not that she's strong, it's that with the strength of will she gets in her Main/UnstoppableRage her very touch becomes an anti-yamiko weapon - the amount of actual strength required is no more than that to tear wet tissue.]]

If losing Magnificent Kamen's support turned Sailor Salvation into a Main/DarkMagicalGirl, why didn't Aki and Shin become ''Dark'' Magical Girls, too?

** Could you imagine the scenario if Himei walked into a therapist's office? "So, Himei, tell me what's bothering you?" "Well, I'm secretly a soldier in a war against evil, and I go out every night to fight yamiko, and the guy who raped me is the yamiko/dark side of my boyfriend." "....um, right. * quietly recommends that Himei be institutionalised* "

* This troper saw it as a deconstruction of a very specific series of events common in magical-girl anime and manga, often happening at least once per season: [[BreakTheCutie The heroine experiences some kind of ultimate crisis]], [[TenMinuteRetirement gives up her quest]] in a [[HeroicBSOD cathartic meltdown]], [[ShesBack only to be brought back into action]] by either ThePowerOfFriendship or ThePowerOfLove (the latter in this case). Whether or not it works from a storytelling sense is a very good question, but also part of the point: Himei's reactions are quite well-reasoned and rational, but to the point of being in the {{UncannyValley}} of human psychology. Even some of the cast members, most notably Seiki, are uncomfortable with it. One could see it as a demonstration of just how broken Himei is -she recovers so quickly because she's ''just that far gone to begin with,'' or as an attempt at pointing out just how ridiculous it is that the main character, often portrayed as fragile and/or vulnerable before the sequence in question, suddenly finds massive inner strength.

Main/LampshadeHanging aside, why did Kamen leave Dusty around with his "sailorification" powers, even if he did expect Himei to [[spoiler:commit suicide]]?

** As [[Main/StarWars Randy Stradley]] put it, "When you define, you confine." Since there can be no realistic explanation for the powers the Sailors, Yamiko and Dusty display, and the story tries to be realistic overall, the only way I see to avoid pissing off a considerable chunk of readers is not to offer any explanation at all, prompting the reader to come up with explanations that satisfy them (anything from Main/AWizardDidIt to Main/ImportedAlienPhlebotinum to... more controversial stuff, if desired).

* It's still magic, just not the Franchise/FinalFantasy style casts-the-spells-that-makes-the-peoples-fall-down type of magic.

* [[WhatmeasureIsANonHuman But a common one]].

* The [[Main/DistinguishingMark black]] [[Main/ChekhovsGun eye]].

* This troper saw it as a deconstruction of a very specific series of events common in magical-girl anime and manga, often happening at least once per season: [[BreakTheCutie The heroine experiences some kind of ultimate crisis]], [[TenMinuteRetirement gives up her quest]] [[HeroicBSOD in a cathartic meltdown]], [[ImBack only to be brought back into action]] by either ThePowerOfFriendship or ThePowerOfLove (the latter in this case). Whether or not it works from a storytelling sense is a very good question, but also part of the point: Himei's reactions are quite well-reasoned and rational, but to the point of being in the {{UncannyValley}} of human psychology. Even some of the cast members, most notably Seiki, are uncomfortable with it. One could see it as a demonstration of just how broken Himei is -she recovers so quickly because she's ''just that far gone to begin with,'' or as an attempt at pointing out just how ridiculous it is that the main character, often portrayed as fragile and/or vulnerable before the sequence in question, suddenly finds massive inner strength.

* Considering that this was in [[MindScrew chapter]] [[AnachronicOrder eight]], it's easy to miss, but they DID sense the birth of a yamiko, but they couldn't find it and assumed it got away. And once it's born, they can't distinguish a yamiko from a regular human.

* It's also possible that the excessive "American-ness" of the story might have been deliberate. The heavily Westernized nature of the English ''Sailor Moon'' dub, which went as far as to imply against all logic that the series was set in the US, was a major source of SnarkBait among anime fans at the time. So the author of ''Sailor Nothing'' might have decided to satirize that fact by inverting it and setting their ''Sailor Moon'' parody in an InNameOnly version of Japan.

* Ooh! Maybe we can convince ourselves that this is a deliberate inversion of how the ''Anime/SailorMoon'' dubs went out of their way to try to convince us that the show took place in the US!

* I don't see how it's DoingInTheWizard. It's still magic, just not the Franchise/FinalFantasy style casts-the-spells-that-makes-the-peoples-fall-down type of magic.

I like the story, but the "priestess revelation" Just Bugs Me. I preferred it when the "magic" was unexplained. When it was, it went past "magic" and into "oogie-boogie new-agey stuff" -- a rather clumsy version of Main/DoingInTheWizard.

I just read this after seeing it linked from here. I enjoyed it, but "it just bugs me" that practically every pop culture reference has to do with the United States. Without even looking I know it mentions ''Series/MissionImpossible'', Film/JamesBond, Creator/HunterSThompson (several times), ''{{Shrek}}'', ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries'', the American legal system--heck, the main love interests even go to the US for a visit. The chef at "Le Chapeau" is also American, and we get to read the author's analysis of the difference between the perception of the death peanalty in Japan vs its perception in the US. I assume the author is American, and Japan DOES have "America fever" much of the time, but it seems excessive coming from a story set in Tokyo with Japanese characters. Why no other international influences? Korean? French?

I just read this after seeing it linked from here. I enjoyed it, but "it just bugs me" that practically every pop culture reference has to do with the United States. Without even looking I know it mentions ''Series/MissionImpossible'', Film/JamesBond, HunterSThompson (several times), ''{{Shrek}}'', ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries'', the American legal system--heck, the main love interests even go to the US for a visit. The chef at "Le Chapeau" is also American, and we get to read the author's analysis of the difference between the perception of the death peanalty in Japan vs its perception in the US. I assume the author is American, and Japan DOES have "America fever" much of the time, but it seems excessive coming from a story set in Tokyo with Japanese characters. Why no other international influences? Korean? French?

* I don't see how it's DoingInTheWizard. It's still magic, just not the FinalFantasy style casts-the-spells-that-makes-the-peoples-fall-down type of magic.

* Nope. I used a japanese/english translator to turn character appropriate words (shin=truth) into names. I think my Slayers fics have proven I've got no love for Evangelion... :) -- {{Twoflower}}

* Simple enough: the author hadn't taken into account the anachronism factor. Whoops! Signed, {{Twoflower}}

* Ooh! Maybe we can convince ourselves that this is a deliberate inversion of how the ''SailorMoon'' dubs went out of their way to try to convince us that the show took place in the US!

* A parody of Main/ThemeNaming seen in anime, like how the villains in the first season of Main/SailorMoon were named after minerals.

When Seiki walked into the Journalism Club Room and saw Shin's captured footage of the Sailors by accident, he immediately thought it was an episode of Magical Princess Sailor Rose Wand. But isn't that show an in-universe anime? Wouldn't the footage of the real-life Sailors be in live action? The characters seem to reference anime as an unrealistic medium in itself, so it's hard to believe that they themselves exist as anime characters who watch anime characters on TV and somehow accept that they're different but the same or maybe they aren't really... FlatWhat.

I just read this after seeing it linked from here. I enjoyed it, but "it just bugs me" that practically every pop culture reference has to do with the United States. Without even looking I know it mentions ''Series/MissionImpossible'', Film/JamesBond, HunterSThompson (several times), ''{{Shrek}}'', ''ThePrincessDiaries'', the American legal system--heck, the main love interests even go to the US for a visit. The chef at "Le Chapeau" is also American, and we get to read the author's analysis of the difference between the perception of the death peanalty in Japan vs its perception in the US. I assume the author is American, and Japan DOES have "America fever" much of the time, but it seems excessive coming from a story set in Tokyo with Japanese characters. Why no other international influences? Korean? French?

Are the names "Shin" and "Seiki" references to ''[[NeonGenesisEvangelion Shin Seiki Evangelion]]''?

* Presumably, yes. Since he had free will, he wasn't really a yamiko anymore. He wasn't ruled by darkness, aka the queen. Thus, her death didn't mean his end.