Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Review: Sailor Moon Crystal Act 19 - Time Warp - Sailor Pluto

Chibiusa tells Sailor Moon and the others the truth of where she came from and that she needs her help to save her mother and everyone from the future. Artemis tries to get more answers from Chibiusa about how her world was destroyed. She doesn't know, so Venus tries to force her to take them to the future but she refuses. Chibiusa wants to stay with Mamoru for the time being and maybe she will eventually give in and let the others help her.


Back at Mamoru's, he gets her ready to bed. She tells him a bit about her mother. Usagi is also at his apartment in the other room. Usagi tells Mamoru that Chibiusa loves her. Mamoru disagrees cause she is just a kid. Usagi asks Mamoru if she can spend the night too. Mamoru begins to see a vision of Usagi disappearing before he embraces her in a hug.


At Minako's house, Luna is having a dream of the future. Queen Serenity is looking for her and she is in a part of the castle that is off limits. Luna sees a forbidden door that is guarded by a guardian on the other side of it. Luna wakes up and begins to piece Chibiusa's key and the door together.


The next morning at Mamoru's, Chibiusa tells them she is going to the future and asks them to go with her. Later that day in the park, Chibiusa opens up a time gate and tells everyone to hold on to her hand and not let go. As everyone gets pulled in, Sailor Moon, Venus, Tuxedo Mask, and the cats get seperated from Chibiusa.


The Dark Moon notices a strange energy and figure out that Chibiusa is trying to return back to her timeline. Esmeraude sends out Chiral and Achiral to try and finish our heroes as they are now split apart from Chibiusa.


Back with Sailor Moon and the others, they realize they are somewhere trapped in time. They see a huge door in front of them when a mysterious figure confronts them, Sailor Pluto. She vows that she will destroy them if they try to pass her and go through the door. Sailor Pluto attacks them with her Dead Scream attack. Sailor Moon tries to reason with her. Before Pluto attacks again, Chibiusa finds them and stops her. She tells them that she brought Sailor Moon from the past to save her mom. Sailor Pluto is happy that Chibiusa has returned back to her own time. It is revealed that Chibiusa is a princess. Pluto opens up the door and allows everyone to pass. Sailor Moon asks if Pluto will go with them, but she can't leave the door because its her duty to protect it.


In the 30th Century Tokyo, everything is destroyed and dead bodies litter the floors of the city. There is a giant dark crystal that is glowing. Tuxedo Mask begins to hear voices telling him to turn back and not to go any further. As Chibiusa runs towards the crystal palace, a wall of ice surrounds everyone. Chiral and Achiral are responsible and begin their attack on our heroes. As Sailor Moon is about to use the Moon Rod, it doesn't work. All of the heroes get trapped in a column of ice. Esmeraude shows up to retrieve Chibiusa from the group when a mysterious man appears and tells Tuxedo Mask to break the crystal. Tuexedo Mask destroys the crystal and Venus and him kill Chiral and Archiral. Esmeraude retreats and the Crystal Palace then appears before Sailor Moon and the others.


Inside they walk the long hallway to the center chamber where a tomb lays in the center of the room. On the center of the slab is Neo Queen Serenity, encased in crystals. A small cat named Diana shows up and leads Sailor Moon and the others to the mysterious man, Tuxedo Mask from the future.


As a lot of the intersecting plotlines from the previous episode came to a head in this episode, their wasn't too much confusion in direction. Sailor Pluto made a pretty cool entrance, and so did her amazing Dead Scream attack. There was a lot of revelations in this episode too. Everything about Chibiusa's timeline is beginning to get revealed and it should all be revealed entirely with the next episode to follow. Chiral and Achiral I wish put up a bit more of a fight; we don't have many male enemies in the second story arc of the series so to me it was a bit disappointing.

Rating: 6/10

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