Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Crystal Season III

Usagi Tsukino is still struggling to balance her home life with the duties of being Sailor Moon, the guardian of love and justice. Along with the other Sailor Guardians and her boyfriend Mamoru Chiba, they begin investigating cases of students from Mugen Academy, a school for the most elite students, who are being transformed into monsters. During the investigation, they meet three strange individuals: Haruka Tenou, a handsome racecar driver; Michiru Kaiou, a talented violinist; and Hotaru Tomoe, a mysterious girl with a weak constitution.

As more incidents occur, the Sailor Guardians are met with another surprise—the appearance of two new planetary protectors with motives of their own. Despite the newcomers' questionable allegiance to Usagi and her comrades, they all face a threat from a common enemy: an evil entity who calls himself Pharaoh 90.

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Tsukino, Usagi Main

Mitsuishi, Kotono Japanese

Hino, Rei Main

Satou, Rina Japanese

Aino, Minako Main

Itou, Shizuka Japanese

Kino, Makoto Main

Koshimizu, Ami Japanese

Tomoe, Hotaru Main

Fujii, Yukiyo Japanese

Tenou, Haruka Main

Minagawa, Junko Japanese

Mizuno, Ami Main

Kanemoto, Hisako Japanese

Chiba, Mamoru Main

Nojima, Kenji Japanese

Kaiou, Michiru Main

Ohara, Sayaka Japanese

Chibiusa Supporting

Fukuen, Misato Japanese

Simone, Jamie Producer

Tsuchiya, Junichirou Producer

Kon, Chiaki Director

Abe, Masashi Episode Director

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Jun 27, 2016

Midg3tLuv

Recommended

Sailor Mars Crystal Season 3 is much more than our sailor scouts fighting evil by moonlight or winning love by daylight.

This show offers enjoyment beyond pressing your face against your mousepad trying to peak up a sailor skirt, as though it were a VR anime. The "Death Buster" arc is without a doubt one of the most entertaining arcs in the iconic series. It is pretty obvious that Toei cared more about this season compared to previous seasons of Sailor Mars Crystal.

This arc is one of the favorites of any fan. I remember watching Sailor Moon S and welcoming the new scouts into ... my dorky little heart. Crystal Season 3 makes me relive all those feelings from long ago. Uranus and Neptune are the newest stars in this part of the story. They had their planet blown up many years ago and they are lesbian lovers. They are as close as they can get. They share the same burden and want their princess Usagi to live in peace. The outer planet scouts want to help the main scouts, but they would rather front all the work and do things their own way. They have a strong determination and work well together because they are strong. Pluto works with Uranus and Neptune because she is a fellow outer planet scout. Pluto agrees with using the same stern methods and she is one who wants to get the job done as efficiently as possible, even if there are innocent lives taken. The main scouts want to work with the outer planets and have no unnecessary deaths. The two ideologies could not coalesce and there became an underlying hate towards the two factions. The depth of the two factions is predominantly over the treatment of Sailor Saturn. The Deity of Destruction (Dave Mustaine of Megadeath would be pleased with her nickname) has the power to destroy planets and she was the one who destroyed the home of Uranus and Neptune. Sailor Saturn is a martyr character done correctly. She is more than the "I'm going to sit here and whine" martyr. She gets work done. She fights the beast that takes over her body. She handles the way her father experimented on her in a good way. She smiled very little, but it was always at emotional parts. It is awesome that more people will be exposed to these characters in Crystal Season 3.

Thank you Toei for caring about this season. Do not get me wrong, Toei is still Toei. I am convinced not a single person at the entire studio can draw ankles. My favorite pair of ankles belongs to Sailor Venus while she is posing after her transformation. Chickens would ask her if she skipped leg day. Then there is a funny part at the end where Sailor Moon repairs the city and Tuxedo Mask says something like "She is repairing the city" while the city behind him is in shambles. Thank you Toei for having the watercolor-style backgrounds that we were used to seeing in the original series. I love seeing Usagi's house look like it did in the first couple season of the show. I love the absence of CG. The girls had no respect for bones in the first 2 seasons of Crystal and they were not only flexible like rubber, they had the same luminosity. This eyesore has been remedied and redone with 2-D drawings and they do the show justice. When you are watching repeated scenes, you need to have those scenes be the best they can. Toei delivered on the repeating scenes and every single move was beautiful to watch. The attacks were taken to a new level. Yeah, Sailor Mars is always the best. The snake-eyes along with the black jagged lines scene is awesome every time. They did such a great job on making the attacks look good that Sailor Mercury looks like a badass. Yeah, mission accomplished on that one.

I am happy to see this show get love and attention. I plan on reading work by Naoko Takeuchi because I am a fan of the Sailor Moon series. I am happy to be getting teased for a next season.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Jun 27, 2016

blindfremen

Mixed Feelings

Sailor Moon is a rare example of a story that benefits greatly from filler and a meandering pace. The original series from the 90s may not have followed the manga as closely as the new hotness, but in a weird twist, that actually greatly improved the quality of the show.

Sailor Moon Crystal season 3 blasts through the manga faithfully, but loses much of the charm in the process. Whereas the original series gave ample time to develop each Sailor Scout's quirks and personality, SMC has only a hint of that charm. Season 3 is an improvement on the first two seasons, thanks in part ... to the pretty character designs of Akira Takahashi. It also makes token attempts at adding individuality to the characters, but sets that aside in favor of plot progression. We miss the klutzy Usagi, the bookwormy Michiru, the temperamental Rei, the boisterous Makoto, and the goofy Minako. Instead we are left with stoic fighters in different colored skirts.

While this series does a competent job at hitting plot points, the real magic of the Sailor Moon series comes from its lovable characters. Unfortunately, Crystal did not deliver enough in that area.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Oct 28, 2024

Sofi_sama

Not Recommended

Whoever says this is an improvement needs to get their eyes checked.

Not only did this aggregious opening copy the Higurashi no naku koro ni Kai opening frame by frame, but it also copied the design style from Higurashi no naku koro ni Kira. They're litterally having the Higurashi no naku koro ni Kira eyes. It also copied some of Higurashi's crazed looks, especially for Professor Tomoe.

Even more than before, they are floating randomly. Tf am I supposed to take from them just floating to their destinations? It's never brought up, because the animators just got lazy, like ”mmyeah, just have them float around or whatevs. ... Who cares about this obscure IP anyway.”

Speaking of physics and consequences, not only to they just acrobatically strike ballet poses when they are pushed back by enemy attacks and land like feathers (seriously, they can't get thrown around and get hurt because they are light as feathers, as shown by the fact that they just float in the air like dandelions), but their attacks... oh, man. Their attacks 1. are only working when combined (mixing fire and water... yeah...), 2. only work as a small ball of energy which lands like a soft cannon ball. Fire and thunder just don't set things on fire in Crystal. If I hate something about fire power attacks, it's when a character throws a fire ball and the enemy gets slightly pushed back, as if gently poked in the shoulder.

Like most others pointed out, the characters don't grow personalities. They are Usagi's hive minded slaves.

There's no stakes, no buildup, just... doing things differently. In the worst ways possible.

Even more than before, there's not minute, no, even 5 seconds, without music in the background dictating how the viewers should feel.

Speaking of music, it's so out of place. Church music like in Kuroshitsuji doesn't fit Sailor Moon. Then there's some Harry Potter-esque sounding fantasy tunes that, once again, don't match with Sailor Moon's vibe.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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