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I just fricking drink vodka and cry over situationships.

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Im in the mood to re read every book i ever fell in love with.

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August 2022 dump

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ayuuprismo · 2 years

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reddit explains sailor moon

LionessHotcakes · 6 yr. ago

Bear with me, this is a bit convoluted.

The Sailor Moon universe of the manga runs on constant cycles of death and rebirth.

Prologue: The Silver Millenium falls to pieces because of Nehelenia's curse and Beryl's actions (both those women are agents of Chaos). Princess Serenity is so broken by Chaos that she commits suicide. The star seed bearers are reborn in present day.

Sailor Moon Arc: Beryl tries to bring down the world again, kills off all the Sailor Scouts, leaving Sailor Moon alone to fight (the same way she is stripped of all her friends during the Stars Arc). Usagi resets the world and everyone is reborn.

Sailor Moon R: The whole business in 30th century Tokyo where another agent of Chaos (Wiseman) kills or disables everyone of meaning to "his" current Sailor Moon: Chibi Moon. He is defeated and Neo Queen Serenity promises Chibi Moon that her closest friend, Pluto, will be given a proper rest. And then Pluto and the other Outer Senshi are reborn on present day Earth as the gang comes back from the 30th century.

Sailor Moon S: Saturn awakens and takes down Pharoah 90 (Chaos) - as she is sealed away, she even says: "With every end come hope and rebirth" (in the most recent Kodansha translation). She gets reborn as a baby with no earth shattering powers.

Sailor Moon SuperS: Nehelenia, another Chaos incarnation, comes along and messes with shit. The gang defeats her.

Stars: The bloodshed factor ramps up and Sailor Moon loses everyone meaningful to her to Galaxia. In the end, despite Usagi knowing that if she jumps into the cauldron and embraces her fate of being reborn to face Chaos once again - potentially losing everyone again, over and over in an infinite cycle - she chooses to stay on the cycle and leave the Galaxy Cauldron intact.

Sailor Cosmos is the natural extension of Usagi in the future that extends past 30th century Tokyo and her reign as Neo Queen Serenity. Chaos has been reborn again (possibly several times over and with many agents that make her life hellish), and she has to fight it once more. Eventually, like Princess Serenity, Usagi as the now Sailor Cosmos gives up hope. Cosmos abandons the fight with Chaos and time warps back to the Stars arc, where she has a chance to obliterate the Galaxy Cauldron and alter her future by eliminating the rebirth cycle altogether.

Cosmos says: "Every time I wavered or fretted, I'd recall my battle 'here'. And think to myself, 'if I'd just obliterated the Cauldron back then, could war and suffering have been eradicated? I regretted it so many times that I ended up coming here. To do things over for real, this time. The me of 'this era' was also always lonely and in pain, which is why I nestled up to and supported her, intending to make her choose the correct path this time." [Emphasis mine]

But on reflection, Cosmos finds hope in what Usagi does and remembers her own strength:

"If I can attain the same courage as Eternal Sailor Moon, to throw away and take in everything, that is when I shall truly become Sailor Cosmos."

She presumably returns to her era to pick up the eternal fight against Chaos once again. She remembers the most important thing that can't be defeated: hope.

Mamoru's lines on the last two pages of the manga somewhat clinch it for me in the thematic sense:

"Even if one day, we all have faded away, and new Sailor Guardians...new stars are born...Sailor Moon, you likely will be forever immortal. For you are the most beautiful shining star of all time."

She is the answer to Chaos and Death in every arc and cycle, the element that opposes and defeats them every time: hope and rebirth.

Sailor Cosmos is the Usagi who forgot that 'with every death come hope and rebirth'.

[Seriously, who the hell thought 'heavenly bodies' was a good translation?]

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