Sailor Moon

The outers also have patron :P

Yeah. Who the fuck is that anyway?

I think I missed what Saturn did in the Silver Millennium. She was summoned and destroyed... something?

Was it that Queen from Dead Moon Circus?

Yeah. The Silver Millennium.

As in after everyone died during the Dark Kingdom's invasion, she was summoned by the three Talismans and destroyed it.

Though I think I understand what's going down:

She's not calling them together to destroy the world again. She's calling them together so she can properly awaken and kick Mistress Nine's ass out of her body.

Saturn destroyed basically all civilization that existed at that point - putting the fallen Silver Millennium out of its misery and wiping the slate clean for Earth to make a fresh start. She's more or less considered to be what happens when a world has gone so wrong it's beyond saving and the only thing you can do is nuke the whole thing and start over.

This also provides some explanation for why the Golden Kingdom is shown to be far more advanced than the historical cultures which supposedly came after it, and why it does not exist in any of the modern Earth's knowledge of history.

So she's canonically why the Moon is a crater-filled frozen rock as per real life?

Then something something cyborg. That element seems so odd to me, only knowing of the 90s anime..

I mean, how do transformations even work? Do they form around the cybernetic parts? Do those get frills too?

None of this is probably ever shown I"m assuming.

I believe the Cyborg problem will be dealt with soon.

Like most of the characters in this series, she die and be reborn, but without the cybernetics of her old body.

I'm not sure that cybernetics would necessarily have any conflict with magical girl transformation, especially as she's obviously still human-shaped and barely distinguishable as a cyborg except for that brief period after surgery (for whatever reason).

I mean, unless you want to assume that the body's material composition actually changes somehow when the girls transform. I guess I could see the argument for that, in the sense that it would go along with how they need to transform to use their magical girl powers, but at the same time I feel like that's making things more complicated than they need to be in a series that mostly runs on fairy tale logic.

Fair enough. It's just when I think magical girl, cyborg's not really something that comes to mind. Just seems kind of random.

Then you haven't watch Nanoha Strikers I take it?

That series is pretty big on Magical Girl Cyborgs.

Well, their magic is technically a case of Magitek. Or Magic from Technology. It's not exactly clear at times if "magical energy" is just the common name for a scientifically quantifiable and manipulable form of energy, or really does mean what immediately comes to mind and they did develop technology to harness it.

It may be high on the cyborgs, but it's low on the magical girls, if we're going by a more traditional benchmark.

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edited 29th May '16 6:45:18 PM by supermerlin100

When you put it that way...yeah it can be kinda riske sometimes.

From what I've seen of the various Pretty Cure seasons, it plays things very squeaky clean for the most part and became more traditional Magical Girl as the violence of the first few shows were being toned down, albeit with a consistently high budget that allows for fluid fights and dynamic attacks, especially by the genre's standards.

I'm still saddened we get a fully uncut retranslation of the franchise with a new cast while PC has an alright dub of the first series and Glitterforce to its name.

I really do think there's a market for Magical Girls that aren't named Madoka or Usagi, localization companies just seem like they're too scared to take the plunge.

New episode, and another version of the opening theme (with added Super Sailor Moon) and a new ending theme song.

Also, the other Senshi are still worthless. I thought they were supposed to defeat the Witches 5 in their re-matches?

Well...temptation!!! :O

Also, Eudial apparently never heard of personal space.

Wait, there's Sailor Moon villain that can comprehend the very idea of "personal space"?!

Usagi, Mamoru, please stop making out over your daughter's corpse.

It could be worse, Mamoru could've raped her.

....

I don't think that could ever happen.

There was that crazy manga panel of the illusion where Mamoru tore Chibi-Usa in half.

Clearly for those in the United States, they released this episode on Memorial Day for us to remember the fallen Sailor Chibi-Moon

&Who shot who in the what now?

Wow, after years of seeing Sailor Moon scrambling around like a chicken with her head cut off, we finally see her dodging like a pro.

And the Inner Senshi continue to get shat on.

So their only significant victories are murdering their own ex-boyfriends eh?

And that didn't even happen in this series, so they've essentially accomplished nothing.

That's really really sad.