Oh...
I overlooked this!!
Whether we like it or not. Sailor Moon Crystal / Eternal / Cosmos brought an interesting story nonetheless and deepened things left unfinished in the 90 anime.
It doesn't. It's your hunger for more SM content what speaks. The reboot has interesting ideas because is copying the manga but it's not interesting at all. Let alone deep. PGSM is deep, Crystermos is crap!
-> Pluto has a real role in the Black Moon arc and does not serve as a flower pot (anime90).
Pluto doesn't play any role because she's just a mere plot mechanism. Once she's introduced to the reader (and Usagi) she's only there to affirm a friendship or a fraternal bond with Chibiusa
through flashbacks. Why? Easy. A simple smile towards King Endymion would be the trigger of Small Lady's tantrum and her subsequent transformation into Black Lady. Pluto's death would also work as such; Black Lady suddenly, SUDDENLY, remembers some words of her dear friend and almost sister Pluto (A friendship that only they know they have. The reader hasn't experienced that bond) that would cause Chibiusa to get back to normal.
Everyone in Crystermos/manga except Usagi & Chibiusa are plot devices. Mamoru too. He doesn't have a character development. He's a stupid puppet. The puppet of Naoko Takeuchi. The puppet of the villains. The puppet of Usagi. She overcomes her struggles and defeats the Big Bads thanks to Mamoru's kisses, his comforting words or a shiny flashback of his bust.
-> The future arc with Crystal Tokyo is better handled in SMC, we finally have real explanations and not just: we can't tell you more, it's up to you to discover.
Oh, yes, it's handled infinitely better with all those time-space rules Takeuchi made up in her improvisation and fell into contradiction.
Usagi isn't able to use the Silver Crystal of the past in the future but surprise, surprise!! she can use it in the last chapters of the arc!! Just because....
Both Silver Crystals (past and future) can't touch each other because it would mean the end of the universe even though there's no real explanation...
When Venus or the cats (don't remember) ask King Endymion about the origin of the BM members his answer literally is: '
I don't know '.
I can keep going. If you want I can list all the plot holes and mistakes as I did about the Stars arc a year ago. I fondly remember destroying it.
The forum was never the same since then.
Sailor Cosmos/Galaxy Cauldron concept lovers wish for my ban as a consequence.
Don't get me wrong Sailor Moon R isn't perfect. It has some flaws, but at least Tomita avoided all those plot holes and unexplained things of the manga that would have worsened the experience.
-> Wiseman is better working in SMC than in 90.
Wiseman has a background in the manga/Crystal. That's all I can say about him. But the way he manipulates the characters in the classic anime makes him more entertaining than a talking cloak wanting, not one, two Silver Crystals... like all the villains in the manga.
-> Pharaoh 90 has a personality, it's not just a ball of fire without conscience.
Personality? What personality? Wanting the Silver Crystal is having a personality?
-> And finally, Chaos is not just a vapor from an electronic cigarette.
No, Chaos like Metallia, Death Phantom and Pharaoh 90 is a stupid blob. Wait, no, it's worse than a blob, it's just some
manga screentone scraps jumbled together. Takeuchi's art at worst.
And finally, we don't have a Sailor Moon who wants to play Mother Teresa.
Of course not. We have a Sailor Moon with a cute personality who
abruptly becomes a stale 80's shoujo manga heroine from act 6 onwards during the first arc.
In the second arc she goes back and forth due to Takeuchi's improvisation and poor storytelling skill; she's jealous then she's not, she gets jealous again, and so on and on until in one panel she realises of her mistake and thinks she's the greatest person ever and the only one who can give lessons to everybody.
In the third arc....................... conveniently and coincidentally..................... the spirit of 90's Usagi possesses Manga!Usagi. It's a complete different Usagi from the first two arcs and no, that's not development, it's a 360° change. If that's a development, please, where's the lost arc between Black Moon and Death Busters?
In the Stars arc Manga!Usagi possessed by Anime!Usagi becomes the Usagi of the episode 199 of the 90's anime;
yelling, fainting, waking up, crying, being rescued by everyone, doing nothing while the rest of the cast die until she faces Galaxia and wants to fight.
Galaxia tells Usagi her tragic past, however Usagi still wants her corpse. Once the Sailor Crystals of her slaves and her husband disappear forever she saves Galaxia because..... she doesn't want to be alone! Another abrupt change in one single panel. She wanted to kill Galaxia 2 seconds ago even when she knew Galaxia had been a lonely Senshi from the start, even before she became a Sailor Senshi and.............Usagi empathised radomly just because the
plot a.k.a Naoko Takeuchi needed Usagi to give her glorious speech at the end of the act 59.
Bravo!!!!!!!!!!
I prefer Mother Teresa version.
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It was a year ago, don't remember the title of the thread. But it was very interesting.