I mean given Crystal and Eternal’s track record then it’s probably going to happen exactly like in the manga but re-reading all the manga when I got to Stars and they all get killed off I was like ‘This is like the Black Moon kidnapping all over again!’ It feels like cheap storytelling in some ways.
However I suppose it is also effective in the sense that we get to see how it effects Sailor Moon’s psyche and slowly breaks her down over the course of the arc. Not sure how well a short 70 minute movie could pull this off effectively without it feeling repetitive like it did in Eternal but we shall see.