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I'm not feeling this new Infinity arc

posted 8 years ago by Firelink20
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What worked about the first two seasons (Regardless of animation / style), is that the story was excellent and dealt with the main sailor guardians and their past including a more useful Tuxedo mask... not to mention Time travel and a more serious storyline

Now? Animation / style has improved yes, but the villain has no real threat to the Earth. What are their motivations? Why do they want to kill the Sailor guardians? What is their ultimate plan? Where did they come from? Why is it that the show got alot less serious? No tension.. Just let Sailormoon use her heart attack move and kill all enemies, no struggle.

Perhaps the manga / older anime series tells it right... Right now, Just not feeling this arc

[–] sailorspysedna 8 years ago

Good point. From what I can tell in the 90's anime, they're trying to get the Holy Grail to unleash what's known as the Silence (which is an apocalypse) on the Earth.

IMO this is great, but it's definitely nowhere near as great as S.

[–] evil_silence 8 years ago

Really? I loved Sailor Moon S, but the Infinity Arc of the manga always left something to be desired.

Pharoh 90 wants to make the Earth its home, unlike in the original anime where he wanted to bring a silence and destroy everything. I believe it also wants the Silver Crystal.

The 3 talismans summon Sailor Saturn, unlike in the original anime where it brought forth the Holy Grail. The Death Busters also wanted it in the original anime, to summon Pharoh 90.

I like it so far, animation is great and the music is also fantastic. There is also some nice interaction between the soldiers and we see more of their personality. So far it's following the manga quite closely. I've been enjoying it better than the first 2 arcs.

[–] Takedi21 8 years ago

The ending of S felt anticlimactic to me. After all of her buildup Sailor Saturn finally arrives. We're told that she has this great massive power...but we never get to see her in action in the battle against Pharaoh 90; we just see Sailor Saturn fly off into the red sky & purple sparks of light are seen attacking Pharaoh 90. The same anticlimactic feeling extends to Sailor Moon too as well. We see her screaming out in tears "Crisis, Make Up!" in order to become Super Sailor Moon again, even though she's long lost the Holy Grail by now. That scene is epic, and there's absolutely no question about that at all...but then we just see Super Sailor Moon fly off into the sky, she goes into the Pharaoh 90 ball thing & poof! he just disappears. The latter is what I mean by anticlimactic. Sailor Saturn & Super Sailor Moon are the 2 most powerful senshi of all, but we don't really get to see them in action in the final battle against the boss villain.

There's also something that I was confused about? In the final scene of that episode we see a messiah-looking Super Sailor Moon holding baby Hotaru. The implication here (at least my interpretation of it) is that Super Sailor Moon had brought Hotaru back to life after Hotaru used her ultimate attack as Sailor Saturn in order to kill Pharaoh 90...but I thought that Sailor Saturn was the soldier of death AND rebirth??? Wouldn't Hotaru have been reincarnated anyway whether Super Sailor Moon had intervened or not? All of the outers had died in Silver Millennium and were reincarnated into the present day anyway without the help of Queen Serenity. Also was Super Sailor Moon really necessary to take down Pharaoh 90? The implication that I was getting (and I could be wrong here) was that Sailor Saturn had more than enough power all on her own to destroy Pharaoh 90.

I get why fans of the original anime love Super, and consider it to be (one of) the best & most epic season(s) of the original anime, I consider it to be that too as well, but all of the stuff that I mentioned were my problems with the ending that made the ending of that season feel flat IMHO.

[–] sailorspysedna 8 years ago

I do wish that we got to see what happened inside Pharaoh 90, but I still felt this was an awesome final battle.

Someone said Hotaru actually was losing the fight against Pharaoh 90, and Sailor Moon helped her win.

[–] lukelova 8 years ago

If you were able to get to this week's episode, you would realize that they do pose a significant threat, their origins were explained earlier in the series and Sailor Saturn now poses a bigger threat. The original took wayyy longer to explain the origins and threats than today's anime.