#saitou sugao

[real-life-senshi]

May I ask for your headcanons of Reinako’s relationship after canon? Could be for manga or PGSM!

Hello friend! Thank you for dropping by and giving me a prompt to gush on Reinako even more! XD

First off, here are two sets of PGSM Reinako headcanons for those who haven't seen them before. They are all connected. XD

Reinako Headcanon 1

Reinako Headcanon 2

And thanks to this ask, here is a brain dump of more headcanon:

PGSM Reinako Headcanon Part 3:

Timeline/stages of life of the Reinako development:

Following directly after the Final Act, during the girls' 3rd year in middle school, Minako was a bit awkward about how to act casually around the Senshi team. Rei helped her out the most before the group dynamic fully settled - e.g. never stopped inviting Minako even if Minako often needed to miss out on group plans due to work without making Minako feel bad (not that the others intentionally make Minako feel guilty, but they just try too hard, versus Rei doesn't make a big deal about it); calling Minako out when Minako holds back on sharing her candid thoughts or feelings with the team for some silly reason or due to occupational hazard of being an idol; calling Makoto and Usagi out when they fangirl too hard and was making Minako feel awkward, making it a struggling for Minako to balance building a genuine friendship or treat them as fangirls. (Ami was also a bit shy with Minako at the start, so Rei had to run some interference there, but Usagi and Makoto were the troublemakers.)

I struggle to make up my mind on which is the better high school scenario: if Minako went to Juuban with Ami, Makoto and Usagi just like manga canon, or because of her fame and celebrity status she ended up going to T*A academy for high school with Rei (better security because of all the politician’s and big businessmen’s daughters in the school, etc), Regardless, high school period is when Rei and Minako really settled as best friends, getting to the point they practically know everything about each other and would be in contact almost everyday.

By the 3rd year of high school approaching graduation, Minako starts to realize she has romantic feelings for Rei. She suspects Rei might actually reciprocate her feelings, except Rei is too dense to realize or too scarred by his dad's abandonment of Rei and Rei's mom to consider exploring a romantic relationship. Knowing both Rei's and her own career trajectory would take them away from Tokyo with limited contact after graduation, Minako decided to not broach the topic.

Rei and Minako drifted apart a bit after high school graduation until the Special Act. After the kiss at the hospital (see Headcanon Part 1), and then UsaMamo's wedding, they both matured enough to face their feelings and started seriously considering starting a relationship. They had to do a lot of soul-searching and shared really candid conversations to get through all the emotional baggage, personal barriers and doubts they both carried, but they eventually got there.

And then they live happily ever after following what I described in Headcanon Part 2. haha (My actual headcanon of post-Special Act Reinako is drastically different from my fanfic, coz apparently I thrive most in writing angst and battle. LOL)

High school era PGSM Reinako:

While Rei took the lead in helping Minako find her place in the Senshi team dynamic and getting comfortable with just being a normal teenager during their middle-school period, Minako was the one that instigated most if not all the shenanigans that led to their deepened friendship in the 3 years of high school, elevating their relationship from just-friends to best friend status.

I always imagined Minako pranked Rei by surprising her on a school visit at T*A to "check out options for a new high school". Minako and her manager Saitou Sugao are being led on a school tour by a nun, and when they spot Rei, Sugao (who is of course in on the prank with Minako) makes a whole scene of barging into the classroom trying to scout Rei into stardom in front of all of Rei's peers as if it's his first time meeting Rei and exclaiming he has found the next shining star of Japan, after Minako of course! Rei was absolutely mortified, though the Senshi team had a great laugh when Minako shared the story in their next hangout. Rei was not pleased.

Following the above headcanon, I headcanon that Rei achieves the same intra-school celebrity status by the time she enters her high school division, similar to how Rei is a school celebrity in T*A in the manga. The drastic change from live-action canon was first prompted by the whole stardom scouting fiasco Minako and Sugao caused. Secondly, Minako learned by chance that Rei was bullied at school throughout middle school through Usagi describing how she met Rei. When Minako confronted Rei about it, Rei just shrugged and brushed it off coz she was used to it and the bullies are practically harmless with more bark than bite, but Minako was still so upset about it that she went to post on her public blog (equivalent to celebrity Twitter/Insta nowadays) about how Rei's her best friend and the coolest, kindest person who helped her get through her illness and recovery, etc. She wrote a whole sob story narrative about how thankful she is for having Rei in her life and how Rei was a source of inspiration and a role model to her, etc. etc. and posted some photos she had taken with Rei. Suddenly all of Rei's peers see Rei in a new light and think she's the coolest and want to befriend her for a chance to also meet Minako. The teachers started actually addressing and punishing the bullies and the school atmosphere was changed anew. The whole deal freaked Rei out, while Minako felt very pleased with herself.

Once Rei joined the archery club in T*A's high school division, she gained even more fame from winning archery competitions at the district and then national level. Her achievement adds to the furor Minako caused, and the lowerclassmen in T*A practically fawn over Rei and founded a fan club with merch. Minako loves teasing Rei about it and secretly becomes a fan club member with platinum status from buying all the merch.

^ The fan club is how Minako knows Rei's archery competition schedule, coz Rei is too humble to ever mention it, and also because every time she gets way too embarrassed by how loud the Senshi team is when they cheer for her, because Minako makes sure the whole Senshi team is decked out with inflated thunder sticks and signs whenever they go cheer for Rei at competitions.

Other misc PGSM Reinako headcanon:

Rei's the one who always remembers and is mindful of Minako's distaste for whipped cream, and stops Usagi's rampage on getting strawberry shortcake for every Christmas because Usagi always reminisces on the cake she and Minako had on the Ferris wheel and forgets Minako’s actual food preference. Rei knew coz she actually paid attention to the lyrics in Sayonara ~Sweet Days.

It's very often Usagi and Makoto would drag the girls around town to try out a new cafe or shop that's selling some new sweet drink, pastry or snack (shaved ice, ice cream, crepe, cake, etc. the stuff you'd see people post on foodie social media). If Minako ever bows out of getting something for herself, Rei will make sure to buy something she knows Minako will likely enjoy so Minako can share some of hers (usually strawberry-flavoured coz that's Minako's favourite), and without fail Minako would take some of Rei’s 'just for a taste because she’s curious', and then inevitably eating half of Rei’s. lol And if Rei is buying something for Minako or knows Minako will inevitably take some from her, Rei would always also buy a bottle of water to accompany whatever crazy sweet things Usagi makes them eat/drink - and it has to be room temperature only, for Minako because Minako needs to be very careful with maintaining her vocal cords for singing.

Whenever Minako and Rei get into a serious fight but both struggle to reconcile, they both would separately go to Artemis and poor Artemis can usually help them sort it out after. But if things get really bad and they notice Artemis is feeling caught in the crossfire, Minako would then go to Makoto, and Rei would go to Ami to process their thoughts... or vent. Makoto and Ami's involvement becomes a yardstick of whether "shit's-hitting-the-fan" or not.

Manga Reinako Headcanon...?

I've not thought as much about the manga Reinako headcanon because I perpetually live in PGSM brainrot. But I do think manga Reinako eventually established a partners-for-life relationship in the manga universe as well.

Different from how I think PGSM Reinako eventually enters an openly romantic, crazy-in-love-for-each-other relationship (once they get over their personal crap), I see manga Reinako has a more subtle and delicate soulmate relationship that is built on deep partnership and mutual understanding in life and duty, especially considering their near immortality and role in Crystal Tokyo. Their relationship dances back and forth on the line of being romantic involved in their personal life, and being a kind of kindred spirit in their view and attitude towards their duty. They've dated, and fallen in love with each other, but across the years also realize sometimes they need space from each other to maintain healthy boundaries between private life and their duty. When they enter a break from each other, it's nothing bad and always with mutual understanding, done amicably - stepping away so they don't get "sick of each other" since eternity is a damn long time! But if one of them is ever feeling down or struggling with something, they are each other's default go-to person, their safe place, and they can discard their masks and break when they need it, especially when they start outliving their non-Senshi family and friends while the world they know of slowly changing and morphing into Crystal Tokyo.

Once they stopped aging, Minako would still try to find opportunities to enjoy life as a human when it's possible, while Rei was more comfortable just accepting fate and being Sailor Mars for life. When there's no crisis to deal with, Minako makes Rei de-transform and drags Rei out of the palace for a girls' night with her in the city.

I see manga MakoAmi to have a similar partnership as well. Though their way of showing affection for their partner is a bit more overt and less complicated than Reinako's. Rei and Minako are so interesting to me because I feel they are more polar opposites in some ways, yet both are so similar in how deeply layered their personality and backstories are that it complicates their relationship but also strengthens them.

#reinako #hino rei #aino minako #sailor mars #sailor venus #pretty guardian sailor moon #pgsm #sailor moon live action #sailor moon manga #khmyh replies #anonymous #headcanon

[nocturnal-impala]

Best of PGSM: Episode 40, part 1

Minako, you’re still in denial.

Wait, does the company president have a purse?

#sailor moon #PGSM #aino minako #hino rei #saitou sugao #Pretty Guardian episode 40 #gifset by me #part1

[a03-sailormoon]

Negotiations

by commas_and_ampersands

"A joint concert tour with the Three Lights? I'm not sure I like that idea."

Words: 1181, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon | Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon | Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (Live Action TV)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Aino Minako, Seiya Kou, Saitou Sugao

Relationships: Aino Minako & Seiya Kou, Aino Minako & Saitou Sugao

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[real-life-senshi]

The one time I tried to draw a Reinako comic strip while being deeply addicted to playing Breath of the Wild, and then gave up because I realized I have ZERO clue how to do a comic strip layout... Remember that one time I asked what BotW food Minako would want to eat?

A WIP that has unlikely chances of me finishing it. But posting because I liked drawing Sugao. lol

#reinako #saitou sugao #aino minako #hino rei #pgsm #khmyh's fanart #pretty guardian sailor moon #wip #illustration #comic

[real-life-senshi]

So we start off *hopefully* the last round of Act 11 liveblog with Sugao’s spidey senses tingling. (Or is it Minako senses?)

I absolutley love it that the PGSM crew chose to use a fish eye camera to capture  Sugao’s facial expression when he checks on Minako’s footwear.  The slight twisted view and the progression of Sugao’s face as he dawns in horror that his star pupil has escaped just makes everything so much more entertaining for the audience! lol

Given the horror Sugao’s face shows though, I’m considering that Minako had only been doing her disappearing act on him since she remember the past life mission, which mean this is still a relatively new experience for Sugao? Doesn’t necessarily mean that Minako had never just done it for herself before she woken up her Senshi memories, but I can totally see Minako being more calculative and careful in ducking out when she needs to, so Sugao just never found out; if she thinks there’s a chance of someone finding out she runaway, that makes it harder for her to runaway in the future, so might as well be patient to look for another opportunity!  After all, there would have been no “secret planetary gathering with guest V” that dictates Minako’s schedule!  

If anything, Minako’s runaway attempts are easier to leave breadcrumbs now as she juggles her role as Venus because of exterior factor that reduces her ability to exercise finesse in her attempts. 

#pgsm act 11 #aino minako #saitou sugao #khmyh rewatches pgsm #khmyh liveblogs

[real-life-senshi]

Can I just say how much I ADORE Sugao?????? I don’t know if I’m overstretching it and making assumptions or not, but to think that PGSM was willing to portray Sugao as such an eccentric individual that goes against gender norms, it makes me feel that PGSM is way ahead of its time in some respects!

Like this scene, shows Sugao in his more feminine glory with wearing lace sleeved clothes, and painting his nails, sitting beside a giant teddy bear, and even putting his palm out as if gesturing the teddy bear to to blow on his nails for him!

He is such a fucking dork, but a really smart and driven one who appreciates and knows Minako’s capability so well! I see him as one of Minako’s pillars in her growth throughout her teens, climbing through the ladder in stardom while battling an incurable illness, Sugao keeps her focused, driven and motivated, and gives her the tools to thrive seeing the raw talent in her. 

I love that PGSM gives so much love to such a minor character in the series.  Scenes like those aren’t needed. Sugao could easily have been just any villain or any side character, but we see the careful building of a well defined minor character. They may only have minutes on screen, but boy oh boy, when they are on screen, they are going to STEAL the audience’s heart and soul!

#saitou sugao #pgsm act 11 #pgsm appreciation #khmyh rewatches pgsm #khmyh liveblogs

[real-life-senshi]

Interesting that the truck driver has recollection of what happened at all withe the music! You’d think Zoisite would be sneakier to avoid trace of his power? Or maybe because his power relies on human perception (sense of hearing) for manipulation, not direct attack of the mind so it would not be feasible to erase memory of his music???? I don’t know if I’m making sense, but these snipets of information about Zoisite’s magic continue to fascinate me!  Poor truck driver though for now they probably will lose their driver’s license and job because of Zoisite. :/

YASSSSSS! AND SAITOU SUGAO ARRIVES! He. IS SUCH. A JOY. to see on screen!!!!!!

I LOVE THIS MAN TO BITS AND I LOVE WRITING HIM IN FANFIC.

I remember how at first I thought him to be the stereotypical business driven stardom manager that we see in shows, where they are heartless and manipulative with their words, as shown in multiple occasions when we see Minako wanting to suck out of work for Senshi stuff.  He was entertaining to watch given his flamboyant and exaggerated behavior, but I thought he was just a minor character to be a plot tool for Minako’s story arc. But then Act 40 hits and it changed my perception of Sugao SO MUCH AND I ABSOLUTELY ADORE HIM.  While he is still meant to be kinda a plot tool for Minako, his behavior shows SO MUCH MORE on his care for his charge and adds a much needed human warmth aspect in Minako’s lonely path as a sick teenager with the weight of the world on her shoulders, and I LOVE THAT.

PGSM’s writing shows SO MUCH care to its characters and it’s fabulous!

#saitou sugao #pgsm act 11 #pgsm act 40 #khmyh rewatches pgsm #khmyh liveblogs #pgsm appreciation

[nocturnal-impala]

Best of PGSM: Episode 39, part 2

First kisses are overrated.

#sailor moon #PGSM #artemis #luna #saitou sugao #Pretty Guardian episode 39 #gifset by me #part2

[real-life-senshi]

clockworkangel replied to your photo “Confirmation that Venus is Minako’s SECOND Album, so that means the...”

She must have been crazy busy... one way to cope for sure

No kidding.  It does make me wonder if Minako would have been the one who demanded that kind of workload, or if Saitou initiated but Minako just didn’t put up any objections to it.

We don’t have much canon proof to support that, but my headcanon of Sugao as Minako’s manager is he’s one who knows when to push and when to not when it comes with dealing Minako, a very complicated and not-your-typical teenager.

Sugao was introduced to be eccentric and work driven in the early stages of PGSM, but Act 40 his willingness to establish an elaborate plot with Rei made me believe he also genuine cares for Minako as a as person, as his charge who is a minor that works under him. 

#clockworkangel #aino minako #pgsm #khmyh replies #saitou sugao #headcanon

[real-life-senshi]

I know I said I won’t print screen every single shot and dialogue... but seriously this is too good!

1 - Minako’s super on guard, and it’s great. The fact that the Youma charged in without knocking is enough to make Minako jump up.

2 - Realizing it’s Sugao, and yet Sugao is silent, not blabbering about something the moment he charges in?  SHE KNOWS SOMETHING IS WRONG BECAUSE GOD FORBID A NOT-TALKATIVE SAITOU SUGAO THE WORLD IS ENDING RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW.

3 - Great lighting. I love the ominous music and shadowing of Sugao’s face, it setups the atmosphere so well, especially diving in from a really light-hearted cutscene with the Senshi.

4 - it’s such a good comparison to see how quickly Minako can notice something is WRONG, highlighting her Senshi intuition and competency, which helps justify her high hopes for Usagi and help us audience see her perspective, even if it’s unfair especially when her focus was purely on Sailor Moon and not Jupiter when Makoto was around also.

5 - dear lord Youma, you could have just done a sneak attack, like seriously why did you bang the door oPeN??????? I don’t get Youma logic at all.

#pgsm act 12 #khmyh rewatches pgsm #khmyh liveblogs