Sailor Moon Crystal high session 12 (Black Moon finale)

ACT 25 - Showdown -Death Phantom-

Prince Demand now has posession of both silver crystals after getting them from wiseman and Sailor Moon... he's about to touch them together, which would create a paradox crash or something... Pluto comes in just in time to say "Stop"... the third taboo she must not commit...

If you were ever to commit such an act...

...and then the flashback ends.

King Endymion is the first to break through Pluto's power and find out she stopped time... the senshi and Mamoru all wake up soon too... then Black Lady...

Usagi comes up to Pluto... she explains that she committed the one thing that the queen warned would kill her if she did it...

I think I just figured out something about the manga story just now... Pluto dying and being reincarnated again so quickly by the end of s3... then doing the same for Saturn sort of... the outer Senshi, because of their connection to the time key holder, exist farther across in the 4th dimension and can freely travel through that fourth dimension...
okay whatever dunno where I was going with that random high thought.

Pluto yells at Usagi to grab the 2 crystals from Demande... she quickly snags them and runs back to her... does she even know which one is her's?

Pluto on her dying breath...

Sailor Moon... I beg of you, save Small Lady.

Next she brings Diana over with her warping magic she suddenly has? Oh yeah, I forgot she left Diana in charge of the door... She then looks at the king and recognizes how much she loves him as she passes away...

Oh gosh... These feels as soon as Usagi starts bawling her eyes out... and Chibiusa/Black Lady sits there, in total shock... as if time seemed to stop for her...

I am... black lady... I have no friends or allies... I am alone...

She remembers Pluto entrusting her to a very important time key...

And then it flashes back to when Small Lady went and stole a key from Pluto and ran off with it, before she became best friends with Pluto... She got in trouble by her mom for coming to see her even though she said Pluto is a close friend... Chibiusa asks Pluto:

I wonder if mama really loves me?

Hugging and kissing alone are not the only proof of love, Small Lady. Just thinking of someone, and quietly watching over them from afar is also a form of love.

Wow... I saw people complain about the subs in this show but I dunno, I'm REALLY liking some of the long winded speeches in this...

What is this feeling rushing through me? Why... are tears running down my face?

I'm so feeling this right now. holy shit...
This is super feels-land 3 warpio land right here...
and the ep is barely half over...

Chibiusa finally cries out Pluto's name... everyone turns to her... she activates her silver crystal and causes it to start glowing up... oh yeah, that came pretty close to total annihilation there almost forgot.

I totally get it now... The Queen was storing up energy in her silver crystal not so she could use it, but so Chibiusa could awaken hers... Chibiusa/Small Lady transforms into Sailor Chibi Moon for the first time...

I think a good description of this season is like "Dragon Ball Z but with endless plot exposition in place of endless training and powering up and yelling attack names... This scene is reminiscent of the Gohan SSJ2 awakening scene...

Chibi Moon just runs over to Pluto, trying to happily tell her she just transformed. then starts bawling her eyes out as she already knows she can't respond... Sailor Moon goes from sad to pissed and breaks the timespace barrier to shout "Moon Crystal Power Make Up" and transforms...

Wiseman's 2 glowing red eyes that are the only things visible in the darkness overhead... he commends Sailor Moon for brightening up the darkness as much as this. Meanwhile, Chibi Moon stands there in aw of Sailor Moon, not really sure what to do yet... I bet she needs Diana or some Tuxedo Mask equivalent (like, say, Tuxedo Mask) to call out to her...

Then Mamoru comes to Sailor Moon's aid, and 4 other senshi all combine their attacks along with Sailor Moon's... and their attacks just look like little streams of colored lasers compared to her Spirit Bomb tier shit...

Chibiusa looks at them...

This is the power of the Sailor Guardians...

She looks like she's about to help... then suddenly the Wiseman gets vaporized... or does he?

Also holy cow that was the most "still shot" battle sequence I've like ever seen in an anime... Even including ones where it does low budget slideshow animation as joke sometimes... It was just that terrible...

Of course the Wise Man is still not down for good... Suddenly Prince Demande jumps in and shoots his 3rd eye laser at Wise Man's attack just in time... "I know your tricks"... looks like Demande isn't giving up trying to get those crystals... but Wise Man overpowers him.

The guardians all get sucked into Wiseman's inner chamber... where probably not even Demande has gone to before... It's this insanely freaky PD Elvis head shaped planetoid... with a black moon symbol on its forehead... is that Nemesis's true form?

My name is Death Phantom.
Defeated in the battle for Earth, the blue planet. Driven away to this dim, cold, dark planet. The solitary king. But now... I am the planet Nemesis. An invincible planet filled with the Malefic Black Crystal. I now have the greatest power. This whole universe, the past, and the future are all in my hand with this enormous power!

Mercury:

Phantom's malice was carved into Nemesis for hundreds of years, and now it controls the planet?

ACT 26 - Replay -Never Ending-

Next thing you know, the others are all standing on some surface, saying Sailor Moon got sucked into Nemesis... Mamoru refuses to let go of his belief that Sailor Moon will be fine no matter what... suddenly his hands start glowing...

He just... teleported away to her or something? Then the other senshi notice the queen awakening from the crystal palace... Then they notice the king's spirit teleports away back to his own body... as Neo Queen Serenity comes to wake him up with a kiss.

The queen says she can no longer fight ever since becoming Neo Queen Serenity, and says she needed her daughter to awaken which is why she needed to trap herself in the silver crystal I guess?

The others explain to the queen that Sailor Moon got sucked into Nemesis... and she explains that that's probably where Tuxedo Masaka has gone. She tells Small Lady that she's the only hope for saving their kingdom... Using both the Space-Time key she got from Pluto plus her own hidden power, the queen knows her daughter can save everyone.

I want to be a brave guardian like Sailor Moon... I know I'm only a trainee for now, but... I will fight with Sailor Moon!

The queen even gives Chibi Moon her rod along with letting her keep the silver crystal and the time-key she got from her friend...

Venus: "Queen! We should also"
Queen: *shakes head*
lmao

Let us wait... for the 3 of them to return.

Meanwhile, Tuxedo Mask is holding Sailor Moon in his shield while they orbit Nemesis...

Sailor Moon talks to him...

Did you know? I can only activate the power of the Legendary Silver Crystal in the presence of your power. Because of you, I can be myself for the first time.

They start glowing gold as they kiss and Sailor Moon is saying cringey things like "We'll become one. I can feel it."
Suddenly they are surprised to see Chibi Moon teleport in, carrying a mini moon rod...

I came on behalf of Neo Queen Serenity. I'll fight with you!

Sailor Moon and Chibi Moon give each other twice the confidence...

Moon Princess Halation!

Oh wow... That explosion scene when Planet Nemesis got destroyed completely was amazingly animated... Showing the darkness gradually going away and unwarping the space around earth, showing the stars and everything they way they can usually be seen...

The guardians standing on Earth waiting for "the 3 to return"... They see the queen reviving the whole planet putting it back to the way it was before the Black Moon attacked... but she says it was Sailor Moon, Tuxedo Mask, and Sailor Chibi Moon's power that did this. She grants Sailor Moon's guardians new Planet Powers...

The Queen says she must go back to the palace, as she has no business with meeting her past self... she grants Sailor Moon a new compact to protect her silver crystal, after her old one shattered in the fight to save her daughter...

I grant her Cosmic Power

The 4 guardians greet Sailor Moon and Chibiusa, saying they have to go now since Pluto's powers are gone and time has returned to normal...
Chibiusa:

I'll guide you to the past in Pluto's stead.

Suddenly, Usagi hesitates to leave and keeps thinking that she wants to break the taboo and meet her other self... and the Queen seems to be thinking the same thing... The Queen knows that meeting her does change history, and that meeting her this time was a good thing.

The queens guardians and the king all come to greet their other selves as well at that time... and Diana brings her parents to meet themselves...

Later, Usagi runs away from Chibiusa to avoid having to say goodbye to her...

lol I remember how this went in the manga... Chibiusa is literally back to see her again like in the next chapter making all the drama the 2 of them put on kind of a joke... After they cry together, Usagi agrees to see her off... Mamoru comes to bring her back her Tuxedo Mask doll.. Chibiusa gives Usagi the heart moon rod she was told to bring from her mom... but I bet Usagi probably sees this as Chibiusa's parting gift...

...Yep then right there at the end of the episode, the Luna P-ball drops in and Chibiusa falls right onto Mamoru's lips...
Chibiusa brings a letter from her mom giving the Sailor Guardians of the past the mission of training Small Lady...

Again, this season ends with a direct hook into the next arc...
This was really good... even though the animation was kinda bad at times, I really enjoyed watching an animated version of the manga story. This was definitely worth watching while high. The old anime is still the best though.