Review: Sailor Moon Crystal Act 25 - Showdown - Death Phantom

Prince Demande brings the two Silver Crystals closer together, when Sailor Pluto arrives. Pluto uses her power, and freezes time just at the right moment. She undoes the freeze on the Sailor Senshi, Luna, and Artemis. Tuxedo Mask is also free, and regains his normal personality. Because of this, Sailor Pluto broke the most sacred law of time, so now she must die. Before she dies she tells Usagi to retrieve the two Silver Crystals. She brings them back over to the Sailor Senshi and Pluto. Pluto tells Usagi to save Chibiusa. She summons Diana back to her as well and thanks her for protecting the door and apologizes to King Endymion that she couldn't protect Chibiusa before she finally dies.

Black Lady still tries to convince herself that she is alone, when she begins to have memories of her original self when she first went to the past, stealing the key from Sailor Pluto. She begins to remember that Sailor Pluto was her friend. Black Lady begins to cry from the memories, breaking her curse and changing back into Chibiusa. A new Silver Crystal is formed by Chibiusa and she transforms into Sailor Chibi Moon.

Everyone is shocked with Sailor Chibi Moon's transformation, since she can now carry on the legacy of Sailor Moon. Sailor Chibi Moon goes to see Pluto and tried to see if her friend is still alive, but she is not. Usagi transforms back into Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon tells Wise Man she will make him pay for what he did to both Sailor Chibi Moon and Sailor Pluto. She uses her Moon Rod, but it doesn't have much affect against him.  Tuxedo Mask lends his power to her and repairs the Moon Rod. The Sailor Senshi help out as well, all using signature attacks to try and finish Wise Man for good. Wiseman is then blasted away.

All looks peaceful again for our heroes, but then Wise Man resurfaces and tries to attack, but Demande steps in the way and uses his third eye to protect the Sailor Senshi and Tuxedo Mask. Wise Man increases his attack and hits Demande, killing him. Wise Man then traps everyone in a distorted time space, threatening to smash them all. Everyone begins to get sucked into the darkness, where Wise Man's true self is, he is known as Death Phantom, the real form of Nemesis.

This episode saw a lot of things happening. We have the Death of Sailor Pluto, the death of Demande, and Black Lady turning back into Chibiusa, with Sailor Chibi Moon finally making the scene. I feel it was done very well. It reminded me a lot of that moment when Gohan went Super Saiyan 2 in DBZ when Sailor Chibi Moon was finally born. As a whole, there isn't really a lot of plot holes now that we are this close to the end of the second season. I am very happy with the way this season has progressed as well over the Dark Kingdom Arc. It has followed the manga extremely well, and with one final episode left, I can't wait for the explosive conclusion.

Rating: 8/10