Sailor Moon Crystal Episode 11
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heavenly_pearlReally liked this episode!
- You know the drill by now.
- Usagi hugging Luna is so cute!
- Evil!Mamoru/Endo has reddish brown eyes... Interesting. (And, you know what? I just got the similarity between the names Endo and Endymion. -_-)
- Reika has pink hair now? Don't tell me fans are going to come up with crazy theories that she's Chibi-Usa's real mother... But she is pretty! (And very different in personality from her previous anime incarnation, but actually faithful to her manga characterization.)
- Hehe, I just have to laugh at seeing Minako carrying that big stone sword around town.
- Loved, loved, loved the scene in the lobby of Ami's apartment complex. The characterization of the other senshi besides Usagi hasn't been as strong as I would have liked in previous episodes, but they were portrayed really well in this episode, and especially this scene. I loved Rei scolding Usagi for bringing so many snacks and Minako goofing around and asking if she looked suspicious carrying a huge sword around. (I actually prefer that over the manga having Minako trip and scratch the marble floor with the sword. Usagi's already the klutz of the group; no need for Minako to be one, too.)
- Little disappointed that Ami didn't say anything about her mother not caring about them breaking her diamond ring because she has so many of them. Crystal really is determined not to use any of the humorous parts of the manga...
- You know, if Evil!Mamoru is pretending to be Motoki's college friend Endo, why did Usagi run into him wearing his high school uniform earlier in the episode? Well, it's possible that it wasn't him, since we just saw the back of the guy in the uniform, but it was heavily hinted with the watch starting to work again that it was him. (In the corresponding scene in the manga, he's just wearing regular clothes, so I don't get the choice to put him in uniform, especially since they gave him two other civilian outfits this episode. Certainly he could have worn one ot those instead? Maybe it'll be fixed for the physical release.)
- I like that Rei noticed that his eyes were different, since a lot of times when characters are possessed/turned evil/etc, their friends and family just seem to ignore really obvious physical transformations. You'd think Usagi would notice as well, but I guess she misses Mamoru so much that she's just seeing what she wants to see.
- Evil!Mamoru was really creepy during the arcade scene.
- So totally in character for Makoto to decide to confront Evil!Mamoru on her own.
- I think they've tweaked the transformation sequences a little. I'd have to rewatch to be sure, but the issue with Ami's hand that kept annoying me in previous episodes seems to be fixed, and I actually liked Venus's henshin more than the first time I saw it.
- First time we get to see Venus's Love-Me Chain, performed with her actual belt like in the manga instead of being an energy attack like in the first anime.
- The battle over the crystal between Evil!Tuxedo Kamen and Venus, Mars, and Mercury was pretty exciting!
- Poor Luna! That had to hurt!
- And Beryl appears in the command center! Things are about to get serious.
- No discussion about the shitennou this episode (other than when "Endo" and Reika were discussing crystals), which really surprised me. With the girls finding out last episode that they used to be in love with them in their past lives, you'd expect them to at least talk about how they feel about that and maybe make plans about how to save them, but...nothing. I'm not hugely invested in the sen/shi romances either way, but it really makes me wonder what was the whole point of that plotline was, if they aren't going to do anything with it.
After the "original to Crystal" revelations last episode, I'm surprised that this episode stuck so close to the manga and didn't reference those events at all, but as an adaptation of the original manga chapter, it was well done for the most part, with much stronger characterization for the senshi. Next episode should be the beginning of the final battle, yay! And then after the next couple of episodes, we can get to the part I'm really looking forward to seeing, the Black Moon Arc.
- You know the drill by now.
- Usagi hugging Luna is so cute!
- Evil!Mamoru/Endo has reddish brown eyes... Interesting. (And, you know what? I just got the similarity between the names Endo and Endymion. -_-)
- Reika has pink hair now? Don't tell me fans are going to come up with crazy theories that she's Chibi-Usa's real mother... But she is pretty! (And very different in personality from her previous anime incarnation, but actually faithful to her manga characterization.)
- Hehe, I just have to laugh at seeing Minako carrying that big stone sword around town.
- Loved, loved, loved the scene in the lobby of Ami's apartment complex. The characterization of the other senshi besides Usagi hasn't been as strong as I would have liked in previous episodes, but they were portrayed really well in this episode, and especially this scene. I loved Rei scolding Usagi for bringing so many snacks and Minako goofing around and asking if she looked suspicious carrying a huge sword around. (I actually prefer that over the manga having Minako trip and scratch the marble floor with the sword. Usagi's already the klutz of the group; no need for Minako to be one, too.)
- Little disappointed that Ami didn't say anything about her mother not caring about them breaking her diamond ring because she has so many of them. Crystal really is determined not to use any of the humorous parts of the manga...
- You know, if Evil!Mamoru is pretending to be Motoki's college friend Endo, why did Usagi run into him wearing his high school uniform earlier in the episode? Well, it's possible that it wasn't him, since we just saw the back of the guy in the uniform, but it was heavily hinted with the watch starting to work again that it was him. (In the corresponding scene in the manga, he's just wearing regular clothes, so I don't get the choice to put him in uniform, especially since they gave him two other civilian outfits this episode. Certainly he could have worn one ot those instead? Maybe it'll be fixed for the physical release.)
- I like that Rei noticed that his eyes were different, since a lot of times when characters are possessed/turned evil/etc, their friends and family just seem to ignore really obvious physical transformations. You'd think Usagi would notice as well, but I guess she misses Mamoru so much that she's just seeing what she wants to see.
- Evil!Mamoru was really creepy during the arcade scene.
- So totally in character for Makoto to decide to confront Evil!Mamoru on her own.
- I think they've tweaked the transformation sequences a little. I'd have to rewatch to be sure, but the issue with Ami's hand that kept annoying me in previous episodes seems to be fixed, and I actually liked Venus's henshin more than the first time I saw it.
- First time we get to see Venus's Love-Me Chain, performed with her actual belt like in the manga instead of being an energy attack like in the first anime.
- The battle over the crystal between Evil!Tuxedo Kamen and Venus, Mars, and Mercury was pretty exciting!
- Poor Luna! That had to hurt!
- And Beryl appears in the command center! Things are about to get serious.
- No discussion about the shitennou this episode (other than when "Endo" and Reika were discussing crystals), which really surprised me. With the girls finding out last episode that they used to be in love with them in their past lives, you'd expect them to at least talk about how they feel about that and maybe make plans about how to save them, but...nothing. I'm not hugely invested in the sen/shi romances either way, but it really makes me wonder what was the whole point of that plotline was, if they aren't going to do anything with it.
After the "original to Crystal" revelations last episode, I'm surprised that this episode stuck so close to the manga and didn't reference those events at all, but as an adaptation of the original manga chapter, it was well done for the most part, with much stronger characterization for the senshi. Next episode should be the beginning of the final battle, yay! And then after the next couple of episodes, we can get to the part I'm really looking forward to seeing, the Black Moon Arc.