Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal The Movie Part 2

This review will contain some spoilers. So the dream arc is my favorite story arc of sailor moon. I even adore the supers adaptation of it. The second movie does an excellent job of adapting the remainder of the dream arc. It has beautiful animation and character designs, a beautiful soundtrack with some nostalgia thrown in and a fantastic story. The second movie is where the plot really starts moving forward. So the dream arc offers some backstory and world building, highlights the individual guardians, with this second movie focusing on the outer guardians as well as some development for both mamoru and Usagi. Get preparedto learn more about the silver millennium, Mamo and the Golden Crystal. The Golden Crystal's role is quite different from the 90's anime and far more interesting. People have complained about mamo being useless for far too long. It's about time he gains the ability to truly stand with his love. It's too bad it took so long, we won't be seeing much of it in this movie or hereafter. Now Nehelenia is a petty woman and I adore her and her circus. The Amazoness Quartetbis such a fun group and I'm thrilled to finally see them in all their guardian glory. The old anime redeemed them as well but made the bad choice to not reveal that they are sailor Guardians destined to fight with Chibiusa. It instead chose to lightly hint that they'll meet again and then never show it. Unlike in the supers arc adaptation, Nehelenia is completely defeated here and won't be an opponent in the stars arc. She also has no tragic backstory bit is instead quite similar to Maleficent, the wicked fairy, from Sleeping Beauty. While she doesn't have a tragic story this time around, she does offer an interesting perspective when paired with Queen Serenty. Alas, for all this movie does right, it's tight run time hinders it. The film goes by at a rapid pace. You'll want to give it your full attention so you don't miss anything. Sadly the movie, much like crystal cuts some fun moments, as well as some backstory and explanatory content. If your left slightly confused by anything, I encourage you to give the manga a read to fill in the blanks. My honest oppinion though is that you'll comprehend everything fine. For example, I believe in the manga the guardians visit their castles or at the very least we get a view of them. Each one has a fantastic design and we're a gift from Queen Serenity upon the birth of each guardian. The anime cuts the backstory and were just sort of told they have castles and need to channel their power to help sailor moon. For those of you wondering, yes saturn has a transformation at last. And it is completely underwhelming. It's animated beautifully, there's just not really much to it. They could of kept it relatively the same but with a little more oomph. Like have her state on the crystal rocks around her or something. We waited years for this and will only see it once. Helios and chibiusa are portrayed excellently here. Their romance is truly a highlight and a personal favorite of mine. The resolution to their character arcs is far stronger here and it it climaxes with a moment that heralds back to the iconic Usagi and Mamo moment in arc 1 where the silver crystal reveals itself and saves him. Only this is Chibiusa's moment to shine. Now the soundtrack, anyone feeling nostalgic should definitly watch the credits. While the first film used the first ending of super s the second film used the second and it's just as fantastic as you'd think. It will make you want to dance like the guardians did in the old ed visual.. The other song played during the credits is another character song that can be found on the soundtrack. Please give it a listen. Well that's it for now. The movies were fantastic despite their faults. Let's hope we see the stars arc soon. I'd be happy for wither a few more movies or a season. As long as it comes fast. "Inside each of us is a star"

I think the movie format only brought out the weak points that the story of Dream arc already had, so direction is not to blame. The postproduction is fine, the character designs are nice, the music is very repetitive and you can clearly hear all the other Yasuharu Takanashi works in the soundtrack. I will never understand how this guy gets so many jobs being as repetitive as he is, but whatever. Outer Sailor Senshi introduction rules though. This is fine, but just fine, and only thanks to the quality of animation. There isn't much more that could have been squeezed out of such sourcematerial. Therefore, thanks Toei, now give us Stars (original Stars arc is a blast!) <3 MANGA SPOILER I really wanted to see the Shitennou cameo :(

FINALLY we've been blessed with these two films. For those who were waiting for this arc to have it's reboot, the wait has been, like their tittle, eternal. But I'm glad I'm here now to give my opinion about them after all these years. One of the things I'm not very happy about them is that I'm still not convinced that the movie format was the best for it. Specially in the first film, you can clearly see that episodic style and how the original manga chapters were made. Even though I've read the manga I believe everyone could notice that. If they would havemade a 8-9 episode series it could have been better. But who knows. Anyway, I also don't agree about the animation quality. The problem isn't that the production doesn't seem to be made during 5 long years, but I'd directly said it has too many flaws to be a film. Normally anime films are more detailed and cared. But, of course, I'm not saying these two are bad films. As always in Sailor Moon, we've got a very emotional and bittersweet story with lots of action, love, and superpowers. And it's a really pleasure to finally see a Sailor Saturn's transformation sequence. If you are a Moonie, you'll obviously enjoy this so much.

Honestly, this arc is not its job if Chibiusa doesn't get thrown down an ever climbing platform with Usagi jumping after her. And why th are adult vision-Chibiusa's curles behind her ear yellow instead of pink? Since it's her hair. This whole Crystal business relies way too much on side art, which isn't canon elements developed in the manga, instead of the heart of the story. I wanted to see a far more connected story. The screenwriters continue to overlove Minako and underlove Rei as they have done throughout all of Crystal. I have no hope for Cosmos. Not to mention all that listing off of names isso cringe... Mercury...... Mars...... Jupiter...... Venus...... Uranus...... Neptune...... Pluto...... Saturn...... Ceres...... Pallas...... Juno...... Vesta..... Pegasasu...... Eriosuuu......