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You know, I’m kind of just spitballing, but if you wanted to go beyond “this balances group shots/group songs,” Chibs could slot into the outer team pretty well, not just because she has two (2) friends and they are both there, but because they all kind of have the common thread of not quite being the senshi they should be. There isn’t supposed to be an outers team at all, Saturn is supposed to exist briefly to be the world’s panic button and Pluto is supposed to primarily guard the time door, and while we’re less clear on Uranus and Neptune, I think at best they’re supposed to team up for big missions and otherwise patrol for threats alone. But this isn’t the Silver Millennium and they’ve carved a new path.

And Chibs, I feel, is supposed to be another Serenity but despite the name she’s too much her own person. She’s pragmatic and cynical at times and she’ll never be the chosen child of the Crystal the way her mother is.

And pair that with the fact that, like the outers, she’s often been dealt the harder hands, I think she’d be drawn to work with them

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So I had a pretty long, stressful week, but I was lucky enough to see a link to the Sailor Moon Coloring Book today. Coloring is always really calming for me, and this sleeping baby princess made it even better. I couldn’t decide which version I liked best, so have both.

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Sera Myu 30 Day Meme
Day Five- Favorite Musical Scene

If I tried to choose a fun or emotional scene, I knew I’d never make the choice. I’m going to say my favorite scene is the Crystal Tokyo bit in Kaguya Shima Densetsu Kaiteban for what it does for the musical AND for the Sailor Moon canon as a whole.

The Kaguya Shima story gets so much stronger with this scene in it. The original KSD has Chibiusa talk about what we see here, and both SKSD shows skim over Chibiusa’s conflicts with Neo Queen Serenity. But this conflict, especially when we see it, makes the other children’s story more poignant. (Especially since in the Kaiteban, their tragedy doesn’t make Chibiusa say she’ll try and get along with her mother more.) This scene juxtaposes KSD’s idolization of motherhood with an example of a realistically complicated mother-daughter relationship without damaging the overall message. The audience gets to see why Chibiusa runs off to the 20th century and how difficult her relationship with her mother is, but they also get to see that Neo Queen Serenity does love her, which is something the original lacks.

I also think this scene does something similar for Sailor Moon as a whole. I’ve always had trouble with the gap between Usagi and Neo Queen Serenity, particularly in terms of motherhood and her relationship with Chibiusa. How could Usagi, perfect wonderful Usagi, not be an amazingly affectionate and doting mother? How could she ever become that distant ideal that she is for Chibiusa?
Part of this, I think, is something I’m coming to terms with as I get older, but part of it is something this scene really made me understand. Fumina is such a wonderful Serenity, because she’s graceful and elegant while retaining much of that core Usagi-ness. It would have been easy to have her only be Usagi-like in the bits where she teases Endymion, but instead Usagi peaks through in the entire scene. Her frustration is a particular selling point for me. It’s toned down, but Fumina plays Neo Queen Serenity’s exasperation very similar to how she plays Usagi’s. This really helps explain Neo Queen Serenity’s relationship with Chibiusa. NQS is mature enough not to snap at Chibs as quickly as Usagi does, but that annoyance still shows through. Combine that with NQS understanding the necessity of things she hated when she was younger because of her duties as a senshi and then as queen, and suddenly all of Chibiusa’s feelings make sense. Chibiusa is similar enough to Usagi to hate studying and brushing her teeth and all of those things, but I think she’s different enough that when her mother pushes her towards those things (with some annoyance), a part of her hears that she’s not good enough (at least early on; by the time this scene occurs she knows Usagi well enough that she knows she’s probably better than her mother was at the same age. Pre-Black Moon/R, though, I can definitely see it happening).