Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Eternal Movie 1

The Dead Moon Circus has arrived in Juban with the hopes of liberating their queen, Nehellenia, by stealing the Legendary Silver Crystal for themselves. Using "Lemures," the Circus begins to convert people's dreams into nightmares in order to collect enough energy to plunge the Earth into darkness and turn it into a planet of death. In order to stop the Circus in their tracks, Usagi Tsukino and her friends must reprise their roles as the Inner Sailor Guardians.

When Mamoru Chiba suddenly falls ill after the appearance of a total solar eclipse, Usagi and Chibiusa encounter a pegasus by the name of Helios who is desperate to unseal the Golden Crystal, which Helios claims is the only way to save their world from the impending threat. Meanwhile, the Sailor Guardians discover that they can no longer transform following the eclipse and begin to fall victim to the Circus' Lemures. Will they be able to recover their powers in time to stop the darkness from taking over?

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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

Mizuno, Ami Main

Kanemoto, Hisako Japanese

Chibiusa Main

Fukuen, Misato Japanese

Tomoe, Hotaru Supporting

Fujii, Yukiyo Japanese

Tenou, Haruka Supporting

Minagawa, Junko Japanese

Chiba, Mamoru Supporting

Nojima, Kenji Japanese

Kaiou, Michiru Supporting

Ohara, Sayaka Japanese

Urasaki, Nobumitsu Producer

Kon, Chiaki Director

Watanabe, Hiroshi Episode Director

Fudeyasu, Kazuyuki Script

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Jan 8, 2021

LacrimaMosa666

Recommended

Long awaited and hyped adaptation of 4th Sailor Moon arc is finally out.

To put it simple - technically breathtaking. Looks gorgeous, smooth and frickin' beautiful. Definitely best looking Sailor Moon installment ever and may be as well the best installment (or very, very close one, even it has some flaws) in general.

But there's no suprise, movie adapts best arc of the manga and follows it strictly (considering runtime and the cuts, of course), after all this is what makes remake of Sailor Moon better, or supposed to as Crystal had some really big issues with proper execution and pacing, following the source in the ... stricter matter isn't always best.
Movie fixes what didn't really work in the Crystal series from the technical point of view, especially animation and awful CGI, nah, no more shite. The movie shines, attacking with pastel color palette and some of the best and smoothest animation I've seen in this series. Plus it's bloody gorgeous, it's amazingly beautiful and colorful. Designs are, finally, executed to the point, flawless and frickin' hot. I waited years to get what I got. In the technical quality terms. It's just hot.

Dead Moon arc is the best (and considerably darkest) arc in manga and was already adapted in Sailor Moon SuperS from 1995, which is one of my least favourites Sailor Moon installments, probably cuz of my high expectations and, well, love to the original. But well, here we are focused on Chiba-Usa and unlike previous adaptation she finally shines and is not small annoying cunt which u wanna smash every single time she pop up on the screen.
Character development is smoothly continued from the Crystal III plus Dead Moon Circus ain't annoying no more as well, beauty. And the whole writing is finally focused on the story and proper arc execution. However few cuts are feeleable and unnecessary, that's unfortunate payment for making it into two part movie and probably 3 hour long runtime for the whole arc. It might actually work.

Soundtrack is hot as fuck, main theme song is now my all-time favourite Sailor Moon song. And seiyuu work is an work of art, no suprise here tho.

Is it having a problems? Well, yeah, it's rushed a bit, first movie clearly building hype for the second part, which is good, but as well losing it's clarity and pacing once or twice. I would add about 20 minutes runtime to properly focus on Dead Moon Circus as intentions of them were always, well, bit childish, so good 'ol more detailed backstory would help, on the other hand second part will bring closure (I hope) for questions and, well, will leave doors open for the final arc - STARS. But I'm afraid, that future of it lies in the movies success. And none of the 3 screenings I've been earlier today were full, in fact one of em was pretty empty. I guess tomorrow families will strike the cinemas. I honestly hope so.

But is it a good movie? By all means - yes. It's the best Sailor Moon ever, even after the cuts, rushing it still manages to be a great entertainment, especially for mahou shoujo fans. And definitely for Sailor Moon fans. But it is as well for die hard fans and them alone (except kids of course, which are main audience of this franchise), it's impossible to get into this movie without watching Crystal and will be completely out of space if someone will watch this movie by chance. But it ain't nothing bad, it's just how it is, the sequel after all.

It's a very good movie. And do not disappont. IT LOOKS FUCKING AMAZING, one of the most colorful movies I've seen in quite a time. My Sailor Moon nerd inside is satisfied and happy. I think this is the most important and key in my final rating. It's simply amazing.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jun 3, 2021

KursedArcana

Recommended

So the dream arc is my favorite story arc of sailor moon. I even adore the supers adaptation of it. The first movie does an excellent job of adapting the begining of the dream arc. It has beautiful animation and character designs, a beautiful soundtrack with some nostalgia thrown in and a fantastic story.

So the dream arc is generally considered as a fluffy and fun, light interlude to the stars arc where things get extremely dark. As a result the story is less serious and offers some backstory and world building, highlts the individual guardians, with this firts movie focusing on the inners and offers ... some fun character fanservice (not the lewd kind). Each guardian gets a chance to shine against the dead moon circus and pices of their past and dreams are revealed. It's basically what crystal was lacking do to its pacing problem, cuts and bad changes. If you love the inner guardians, you'll love the content this movie offers.

Alas, for all this movie does right, it's tight run time hinders it. The film goes by at a rapid pace. You'll want to give it your full attention so you don't miss anything. Sadly the movie, much like crystal cuts some fun moments, as well as some backstory and explanatory content. If your left slightly confused by anything, I encourage you to give the manga a read to fill in the blanks. My honest oppinion though is that you'll comprehend everything fine.

For example, I believe this will be the first time in crystal we see Rei's grandfather. Which is rather tragic considering he was supposed to have appeared at least once before. For those of you who are familiar with the 90's anime, the manga grandpa is quite different in both design and personality. Sadly Rei's arc also slightly suffers from not having had Cassablanca memories adapted into either anime story. It's a side story that greatly expand on her background and character. It would offer a little context to the information we're given in this movie for her background.

For those of you wondering, Helios and chibiusa are portrayed excellently here. Their romance is truly a highlight and a personal favorite of mine. The old anime dragged out his reveal for far too long but the dream arc quickly reveals him to be a young boy and not a horse. Hopefully this will appease those who took issue with their romance in the old anime. Id also like to point out that both him and chibiusa are centuries old, but in the bodies of a 10 year old and 13 year old (give or take a year or 2). Just want to shut that discussion down fast.

Now the soundtrack, anyone feeling nostalgic should definitly watch the credits. An update on Baby baby love plays after the first song. If you want those 90s chibiusa x Helios feels give it a listen. Then go on youtube and search sailor moon love is in ny heart for the english dub version. The original singer recently uploaded some clean performances for it and a few other songs she did. I also encourage you to check out the official sound track of the movie. It has some great character songs like Minako's I want to be an idol and a duet between chibiusa and Helios.

I'll see you over on part 2. I keep some of the review the same but switch out the parts that focused on part 1 for part 2.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Nov 2, 2022

Pistachiocookie8

Not Recommended

Eternal is an anime that looks good when you look at some still shots and the trailer. The animation is still choppy but with some average improvements here and there. It does not have the power to outshine a lot of modern counterparts in this respect. So someone who has not read the manga would likely drop this within the firs 10 minutes.
This arc was more interesting in the manga, this looks like a vanilla adaptation, everything is serene, no impending sense of doom or scary villains, they all come across as non-threats to our main characters
The funny scenes are very underwhelming, I ... can't pinpoint if it's the VA or the animation.
The music is atrocious, bland chorus music mixed with some random guitar (composer used to be in a rock band so that would explain it) but it really REALLY does not in any way shape or form fit the atmosphere or story of Sailor Moon. Music has consistently been one of the worst things about the remake. Not sure why they couldn't just use the old OST, they sure seemed to enjoy reusing the Sailor Neptune Submarine Reflection attack SFX (in part II)
SM is at times a dark manga with some violent scenes and lots of deaths. This music is not reflective of this at all. It's painfully forgettable.
Re-watch value is 0 despite some of the nicer scenes and character redesigns (which are lovely), there is very little tension/drama going on.
Transformations are just lazy copy-pastes of the 90s version, like it's well known Uranus is the only one who got the entire budget for an amazing new attack. I wanted to see a lot more color, literally there is an artist/animator on IG who has recently done a SM transformation remake and it's painfully beautiful to look at and so I know it could have been better, I don't need to see remake of the 90s content, for that I have the original and it seems until a studio like Cloverworks maybe can access the rights to SM we're never getting a good remake.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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