Luna Quotes

The page sets two English versions of this flashback side by side, and they disagree about what the Silver Crystal costs. In the DiC block Luna warns that using it will leave the queen without any strength, and Queen Serenity answers that she must sacrifice her kingdom. In the Viz block the warning is death, and the answer is that her life does not matter. DiC's script puts the price on a realm rather than a life. That is a softer price and the wrong one, since the page's next exchange, in the version that calls the princess Serena, still ends with the queen dying. The Viz wording states a rule the season needs. In the very next episode, Princess Serenity draws on the same crystal against Super Beryl, and the stage direction records that she dies as the blast engulfs her. Luna's warning, too late to stop the mother, is the clause that tells a viewer what the daughter is spending. Lose it and the finale plays as a power-up. Viz's script has it, and the finale plays as the same death happening twice.

Artemis raises the objection inside the scene. He calls the girls' return a miracle, tells Luna they always have the chance to become good friends again, and she agrees with him. The case is strong: the girls are back, alive and ordinary, which is all the crybaby of the first episode ever asked for. Concede most of that. Luna is mourning memories of a war the girls are better off without, and a cat who spent forty-odd episodes pushing a reluctant girl into battle is an odd advocate for those memories. What survives the objection is how narrow her grief is. She does not mourn the powers, the mission or the princess. The loss she names is the time they spent together, the one thing the reset cannot hand back for free; the girls can meet again, but they cannot have chosen each other already. The DiC block gives Luna a flatter inventory and then turns to the plot question of Serena and Darien. Viz keeps her on the friendship, and that is why the sad line earns its place beside Artemis's cheerful one.

Jupiter calls the group privileged to have met Pluto. Venus calls Pluto's life lonely. Both responses follow Luna's explanation, and their difference keeps the encounter from becoming a simple celebration of an impressive post. The visitors can value a rare meeting while the person they meet bears the isolation that makes it rare. There is a strong objection to Luna's pity: it risks reducing a guardian with an extraordinary responsibility to someone who lacks company. Mars supplies that other emphasis when she responds to the scale of the duty. Yet Luna does not deny its importance, and Venus gives the emotional cost room alongside it. The exchange allows admiration without requiring everyone to envy the appointment. Its restraint matters, too. These are other people's assessments; Pluto does not give her own account in this passage. Their sympathy is a reason to look beyond the honor, not permission to declare what she thinks of her life.

Joe returns to normal before Luna explains what the wand represents. Sailor Moon has used it to break the spell, Jupiter recognizes him, and he faints. The recovered person gives the later statement about leadership a concrete referent. This symbol has already done something other than announce rank. The order makes the otherwise ceremonial explanation worth keeping. Luna could identify a leader through superior force; this exchange instead places the claim after restoration. Joe's return is the evidence available when the title arrives. Even Sailor Moon's delighted reaction comes before the lesson in what she is carrying, so the meaning grows out of an experience she has just had rather than a speech she has to accept on trust. That does not establish that every use of leadership in the series is restorative. It gives this particular emblem a standard: the scene first makes a person recognizable again, then asks its heroine to understand the authority associated with the instrument.