Sailor Moon SuperS, Part 2, Disk 1 functionally ends my interest in this entire season, with an episode that is supposed to be about Hawk’s Eye seducing Makoto, but ends up being about Ami seducing Makoto and Makoto seducing Hawk’s Eye, which I am fairly certain was the actual intent of the episode. Bad lessons about waiting for someone aside, I have always loved the image of Makoto and Ami dancing.

(When this series is all over, I will draw up the *actual* relationship chart. The Stars pamphlet was not just wrong about Haruka and Michiru. ^_^)

The rest of the disk is given over to the literal humanizing of the Amazon Trio, who learn that they are anthropomorphized animals, but decide that they do have a dream after all…to become human. I find this completely unbelievable. What animal wants to be human? We can’t swim, or fly or run, we can’t smell, we’re feeble compared to animals. But whatever, they get their dream as they are removed from the story, leaving us to wonder can hawks, fish and tigers be genderqueer? This is not, probably, the actual intent of the episode.

We are then introduced to the second set of bad guys whose story is not appropriately told and who desperately need a 21st century rewrite. Not for their sexuality, but for their history which will be dumped over our head at the end of the arc, like Gatorade at the conclusion of a sportsing thing. The Amazoness Quartet are important! Why do they get such a shitty arc?!? Chibi-Usa is the point of this whole forsaken season, you’d think that these being her Senshi might get a fucking mention. But that is definitely not the actual intent of this season, more’s the pity.

Back to this disk. Ami’s power-up episode was so much-better drawn than anything else on the disc, someone really put time and money into her. Rei’s episode was over-colored, like they had fixed it post-broadcast. But in every way Viz had control of, the disk was as good as SuperS can be.

Ratings:

Art – 6 Weirdly inconsistent
Story – 2
Characters – 4
Service – Ami and Makoto dancing is my kind of service
LGBTQ – 4 for Ami and Makoto, 0 for the rest of the season

Overall – 5 This low score is no fault of Viz or the VAs or anyone, I just really dislike this season from here forwards.

I was sort of half-assedly live-tweeting me watching this on Twitter and people were actually following it for some reason. So I’ll probably keep doing that. But the part I want to tell you about was my dream.

I had a dream that I was going to some amusement park where there was going to be a Sailor Moon Store with everything that had ever been sold. When we got there, it was actually some guy’s collection, so we couldn’t buy any of it. BUT – and this is the important part – there was a set of white matte bisque china plates with each Senshi shown in silhouette, half of their face on the plate rendered in their color. No lines, just the color cutout of half their face on the plate. I can see them vividly and thought they were the most beautiful things. I want someone to make them so I can own them. Anyway, that was the dream.

I sat through probably a dozen “Rashiku Ikkimashou” playthroughs of the end credits Saturday and I still don’t hate it. I have no idea why.