Sailor Stars high session 3

Episode 173
Mamoru gets killed on his way to America where he was going to study abroad... Usagi has no idea...
This is where the main plot of this season begins.
The senshi are all going into high school now... and they go crazy over a popular idol group called The Three Lights...
Sailor Iron Mouse, a hilarious new villain enemy, is attacking people to gather Star Seeds... A Star Seed is like, similar to the pure hearts from season 3 I guess...

Sailor Stars high session 2

Episode 170
Mamoru gets taken through Nehelenia's cursed mirror...
Sailor Moon turns Eternal, and is now able to fly... she flies toward the new moon to save Mamoru.
Even though Chibimoon is disappearing due to the time paradox of Mamoru being in danger, she resolves to help out Sailor Moon still, and joins the rest of the senshi in a Sailor Teleport to go help Sailor Moon fight against Nehelenia...

Sailor Stars high session 1

Episode 167
The fifth season, Sailor Stars, starts right where the 4th season leaves off...

I'm the one who embraces everything.

Setsuna came and took baby Hotaru from her dad. She's starting to awaken already, and is having visions of the future... calls out for Eternal Sailor Moon...

Sailor Moon manga - Stars Arc highlights/summary

Stars Arc story highlights + summary

I've read through all of manga alongside the series while high on weed... The first 3 arcs are pretty similar to the anime, with only a few differences... The 4th arc is where it starts deviating a lot from the anime, and this arc is pretty different too. It's better in some ways, such as the villains being more fleshed out, and the lore of the Sailor Senshi being expanded for more than the anime ever goes into... but it's not as good as the anime in terms of side stories and character development and all the non-villain-related plot elements that it adds.

Here's my abridged summary, just highlighting various parts of the story that I liked or wanted to comment on: