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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xoxo
~Jewely

Jewely and Naoko's Birthday Celebration 2014 - Day 12

Happy 50th post to my Japanimation Nation!

Episode 200 (Season 5/Sailor Stars)
"Usagi's Love! The Moonlight Lights Up the Galaxy"

Original Air Date: February 8th, 1997
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 Uranus/Haruka-Megumi Ogata
Sailor Neptune/Michiru-Masako Katsuki
Sailor Pluto/Setsuna-Chiyoko Kawashima
Sailor Saturn/Hotaru-Yuko Minaguchi
Sailor Star Fighter/Seiya-Shiho Niyama
Sailor Star Maker/Taiki-Narumi Tsunoda
Sailor Star Healer/Yaten-Chika Sakamoto
Sailor Chibi Chibi/Chibi Chibi-Kotono Mitsuishi
Endymion/Mamoru-Tohru Furuya
Sailor Galaxia-Mitsuko Horie
Princess Kakyuu-Sakiko Tamagawa
Luna-Keiko Han
Artemis-Yasuhiro Takato

This is the final episode of the Sailor Moon anime.

Sailor Chibi Chibi is floating above ground sending out waves of energy to Sailor Moon. The Silver Crystal hovers over Sailor Moon and slowly returns to her body.
Sailor Moon finds herself floating in space, and a shadowed figure is in front of her explaining that Sailor Moon must use the light of hope to light up the galaxy one more.
None of Sailor Moon's long-time comrades are fighting with her. She is accompanied by Sailor Star Fighter, Star Maker, and Star Healer.
I am not going to go into details with this episode as it is the last one, and I know lots of people haven't seen it. But here it is so that you can watch it:

This episode is one of my favorites, because it shows how much strength is in Usagi's love. She can warm even the coldest of hearts.

Here is "La Moon" from The Sailor Stars musical:

xoxo

~Jewely

Tenchi The Movie: Tenchi Muyo in Love! and Tenchi The Movie 2:The Daughter of Darkness

TGIF! Sorry I didn't post anything yesterday. I had a lot going on. I had my first stick-shift lesson with my husband! I got the car moving and braked. Hopefully I can get up to gear shifting next week! :)

So today is a double post, since I didn't get to yesterday. I just watched "Tenchi The Movie: Tenchi Muyo in Love!" and "Tenchi The Movie 2: The Daughter of Darkness". I haven't watched these movies for about 4 years, and the last time I really invested in them was when I was in Junior High, so these brought back lots of memories.

Tenchi Muyo in Love!:
This is the first film in the Tenchi movie collection. A lot of you remember these characters from the OVA's and Tenchi Universe. "Tenchi Muyo in Love!" was released in 1996.

The story starts out with the Galaxy Police HQ, where there is a prisoner named Kain, who has been trapped in sub-space for 100 years. Kain breaks out of the sub-space prison, and obliterates the Galaxy Police HQ. He then, sets out to destroy the house of Jurai to make sure that there will never be one who will have power to surpass his own.

That takes us to Tenchi, who is just starting his daily routine, but then he starts to vanish. His vanishing spells are an effect of something happening in the past. Tenchi is a prince of the House of the planet Jurai. He gets that from his mother's side. The prisoner, Kain is trying to eliminate Tenchi's mother from the past.

Washu, the science genius, figures out a way to send them all 26 years in the past to 1970. It is there where Achika, Tenchi's mother, is due to disappear. Ryoko and Ayeka become classmates of Achika and Nobiyuki(Tenchi's father). Mihoshi assumes the role of their teacher, while Kiyone gets to be the janitor. Sasami helps hide Tenchi so that he doesn't come in contact with his mother.

Tenchi and his friends follow and protect Achika, til the precise day that Kain sets to attack her. They set a trap for Kain in Tokyo Tower, and he gets pulled into a dimensional prison. Unfortunately, Kain pulls Achika and Nobiyuki into the prison with him. Washu then has to figure out a way for Tenchi, Ayeka, and Ryoko, to go save them from being killed, and save Tenchi from non-existence.

The Daughter of Darkness:

This is the 2nd film in the Tenchi movie collection. It was released in Japan in 1997.

The film opens with Yosho(Tenchi's grandfather) as a young boy, with a little girl who is giving him a gift for "Startica" (a Juraian version of Christmas). When she shows him her gift, they are ambushed by Juraian guards. They take the girl, beat her, then kill her. When she is killed she merely sheds her human form, and re-appears as the true demon of darkness she is.

The opening scene is a dream of the past from the demon. She wakes up and decides to look into the outside world. It is Christmastime, so she can see everyone is cheerful and having a good time. She then sees Yosho among the humans. She vows to get revenge on Juraians because of what they did to her. She pulls out one of Tenchi's hairs and her own hair and creates a young girl.

Tenchi is finishing up at the shrine and starts to walk down the stairs. He sees a young girl sitting there. He says hello to her, and she replies and calls him "Daddy". This of course throw him into a storm of shock and confusion, and throws all the women in the house into a storm of anger.

The young girl's name is Mayuka. She has a lot of energy and is very naive. She loves Tenchi (Daddy), but can't remember a thing about her mother. Washu pulls a hair from Mayuka to do a DNA test, and sure enough, she is in fact Tenchi's daughter.

Little does Mayuka know that she at times is being controlled by the demon, Yuzuha. Yuzuha commands her to bring the "Prince"(Tenchi) to her. The way that Mayuka does that, apparently is to sexually seduce Tenchi. (O.o weird)

After time, Mayuka becomes aware of the bad things she's doing and runs away. Sasami goes looking for her, but Mayuka is already being controlled by Yuzuha. She then takes Sasami into the lair of darkness to her "mother". Tenchi and Ryoko then set off to rescue Sasami from Yuzuha and Mayuka.

Thoughts:

My favorite out of these first 2 movies (there are 3 in the collection), is Tenchi Muyo in Love!. I love how everyone works together for the sake of saving Tenchi. This was my first time watching any "Tenchi" in Japanese, and I do believe this is the one series where I actually prefer the dubbed version. The 2nd movie is ok, it's just a little bit too weird for my liking. I watched this one in the English dub, and still can't believe how perfect the voices are. (especially Ryoko's)

The Verdict:

"Tenchi Muyo in Love!": 9.5/10! Great movie!

"The Daughter of Darkness": 5/10 OK movie.

These movies, especially the 2nd one, are not children appropriate. So these are something you may want to watch when your kids are already asleep or not home. You can find both on hulu.com. You can also buy the movie trilogy for a great price at http://www.rightstuf.com/1-800-338-6827/catalogmgr/4ANTtu6x5gSyZq963w/browse/item/74087/4/0/0 .

If you want to know more about the multiverses of Tenchi, I am currently going through and watching them all. Follow me on tumblr: http://jewelyjay.tumblr.com/.

Hope you all have a great weekend! I will be back with more on Monday!

Hugs and Kisses!

~Jewely