Jewely and Naoko's Birthday Celebration 2014 - Day 14

Episode 172 (Season 5/ Sailor Stars)
"Power of Moon Love! The End of a Nightmare"

Original Air Date: May 4th, 1996
Cast:
Sailor Moon/Usagi-Kotono Mitsuishi
Sailor Mercury/Ami-Aya Hisakawa
Sailor Mars/Rei-Michie Tomizawa
Sailor Jupiter/Makoto-Emi Shinohara
Sailor Venus/Minako-Rika Fukami
Sailor Chibi Moon/ChibiUsa-Kae Araki
Sailor Uranus/Haruka-Megumi Ogata
Sailor Neptune/Michiru-Masako Katsuki
Sailor Pluto/Setsuna-Chiyoko Kawashima
Sailor Saturn/Hotaru-Yuko Minaguchi
Endymion/Mamoru-Tohru Furuya
Queen Nehellenia-Yoshiko Sakakibara
Young Queen Nehellenia-Wakana Yamazaki
Luna-Keiko Han
Artemis-Yasuhiro Takato
Diana-Kumiko Nishihara

Sailor Chibi Moon and Sailor Saturn confront Queen Nehellenia who tells them that there is nothing she can do to take the curse off of Mamoru and the only way would be to remove the piece of glass from his eye.
Chibi Moon starts to beg Mamoru to come back to normal as she begins to fade from existence. She tells him that he has the same dream as Usagi and that if he doesn't wake up, she will die. Mamoru appears to be struggling with the curse. Saturn tells her to call out to him more. Nehellenia sees this and zaps his eye with more of her magic, which strengthens the curse. Mamoru pushes Chibi Moon away.
Sailor Saturn blocks the magic with "Silent Wall" but it's too late.

Seeing no choice, she tells Nehellenia that she will kill her. Nehellenia laughs and says that Saturn will die too. Saturn knows this, but raises her Silence Glaive. Nehellenia looks at her, shocked, and tries to shield herself.
Sailor Saturn uses "Silent Glaive Surprise" which releases a huge amount of energy and blasts the entire castle. As she drops her Glaive, everything stops.
Nehellenia looks over at them and sees that Chibi Moon stopped Saturn from finishing the attack. Chibi Moon whispers to Saturn not to kill herself and believe in their prince and princess. Chibi Moon then falls to the ground.

Nehellenia takes this time and knocks Saturn's Silence Glaive out of her hand and traps her in a mirror.
Usagi then arrives, having made her way through the thorns. She runs to Chibi Moon who is fading away. She holds her but it's too late. Chibi Moon fades away, then Usagi begins to cry.

Back in Tokyo, Artemis tells Luna and Diana that the people affected by the curse are now trapped in their own mirrors.
Usagi demands to know what Chibi Moon did to Nehellenia. Nehellenia tells her that she wants revenge on her for sealing her away and for taking her mirror away. She then goes on to explain that while she had loyal subjects in her kingdom, she had no real friends. The mirror and her beauty were her only companions. Since her mirror was taken away, she is now all alone.
Usagi tells her to take her revenge on her but leave her friends alone. Usagi says they would understand and be her new friends when she is gone. Nehellenia strangles Usagi. Usagi looks at her with sad, teary eyes. Nehellenia yells at her to stop looking at her like that and throws her against the wall.

Usagi stands up and closes her eyes and senses all the senshi feeling for Nehellenia. Suddenly, Mamoru's eye begins to glow and the shard of mirror removes itself and shatters, which frees him. All the mirrors holding the senshi also shatter and they all appear in a circle around Nehellenia. Mamoru stands up as Chibi Moon appears next to him.

Sailor Mars tells Usagi that they all know what to do. They all hold hands.
Nehellenia becomes furious and blasts them all with her lightning. While she's attacking, Mamoru transforms into Endymion. Usagi then transforms into Eternal Sailor Moon and extends her Eternal Tier.

All the senshi focus their energy. Sailor Moon asks Nehellenia to concentrate on her true dream. Nehellenia begins to cry and remembers that she had always wanted friends and a lover who would understand her.
Pink energy goes up to the Moon, finishing the eclipse and making a New Moon. Nehellenia fades away to start her life over.The mirror that had corrupted her life, shatters.
She wakes up as a young girl on her throne. Her kingdom and subjects have been reborn. She says she's sleepy and asks if someone could read her a story. A woman says that she would love to. Little Nehellania smiles.
On Earth, Mamoru says that Nehellenia's life is now truly starting. Sailor Moon gives Jupiter back her rose earring and thanks her.
Above Earth, the evil voice that had awakened Nehellania laughs evilly.

(Couldn't find a good clip for this episode, sorry!)

This episode is one of my favorites because it is the first time you see all the senshi fighting together. It is also the last episode that ChibiUsas/Sailor Chibi Moon appears in, other than flashbacks or dream sequences.

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~Jewely