Sailor Moon Episode 46 - Usagi's Everlasting Wish! A New Reincarnation

So here we finally are. The end of the road. The last episode of the original Sailor Moon series.

There are a lot of words I could use to describe this show, overall. Words that won't be going here, but will go into a nice little piece I'll be putting out next Monday that will act as a final review on the matter.

But for now? I'm going to dive into this one last time, and see how this all finally ends. Even though I'm already pretty sure how it actually ends. I get the feeling it will be entirely too happy, though.

Well, despite it being the very last episode, they decided to just go ahead and let me down, because as soon as the OP is over, they leap right into the episode overview.

Why? It's the final episode. Why would you do that? You started the second season off so strong, did you learn nothing from those episodes?

Sigh. Okay, so in this episode, she thanks her now-dead friends for giving her the courage to move on, and she winds up fighting her twice-dead-not-quite-even-boyfriend, and eventually Beryl, who probably gets possessed by Metalia or something because there's some crazy bitch with teal-colored hair.

When the episode begins proper, she walks up to the crater, thinking of the pile of bodies she needs to step over in order to move on with this thing, and prepares to jump into the Dark Kingdom. After which we get our lovely final title slide.

And for the last time, we set the scene in Beryl's Chamber of Incompetence.

By which she means, being surrounded by complete
morons and tasked with world domination.

Then a red ball flies by and zips Sailor Moon away, transporting her right to Beryl's chamber, because why the hell not at this point. Then Beryl steps out of the shadow, welcoming her, and giving her congratulations for having managed to make it this far. Oh yeah, and she has Endymion totally making out with her hand, because she's a cougar like that.

Yep, they've managed to nail just about every single questionable sexuality trait in this show. Lolicon, shotacon, incest, homosexuality, sugar daddies, and now? Friggin' cougars.

Oh, and she orders him to kill the Princess because that is totally not a big deal whatsoever. So yeah.

Then he straight up tries to hack her in half, and she whips out her magic stick, which has zero effect on him, probably because he has no brain left. Beryl says that it's because she isn't a fully-fledged Princess, however. So even using the Silver Crystal means bo-diddly at this point.

Of course, our buddy Endymion isn't one to  leave a job unfinished, so after failing to cut her once more, he just decides to drop a black rose on her, which turns into a bunch of vines that totally keep her tied up. And electrocute her, because that's a thing now. Then she starts crying out for Mamoru, which is totally not his name anymore, and then the vines burn away leaving her to lie on the ground helpless. So what's he do?

Kicks her while she's down. Literally, he kicks her while she's down, and starts both electrocuting her and choking the life out of her, before casting her aside like a piece of trash.

It's almost a little bit cathartic, seeing this, because she's kind of deserved it for the way she acted through the entire series. But somehow, I can't really get behind it, maybe because, I dunno, this stuff isn't actually her fault for a change? Well, then again, it kind of is, since she was crying about wanting to give up the entire time they were at the north pole and all that, so maybe it is just a little bit deserved.

I'd make a joke about Marie Antoinette, but I'm sure
my head would roll for that.

Our heroine reaches for the Moon Stick one last time, with Endymion hovering over here, blade at the ready, and Beryl taunts her that everything she's done will have been completely meaningless here in about two seconds. Which makes her kind of mad, given her friends just died.

So she up and Tiara's Endymion, which I am sure is a shocking new experience for him.

Seems our heroine isn't quite ready to give up yet, and as Endymion lies there on the ground, he proceeds to begin freaking out due to the dark energy in his body from Metalia. Then there's a lot of screaming, and he just kind of stands there as she holds out the locket, which plays that haunting refrain, and she tells him the story of who she really is. Who he really is. And why it would be a really dick move to stick a sword in her skull at this point.

Even though we never actually saw that for some reason.

Of course, he's still struggling to do what he's ordered to, even though his opponent clearly doesn't want to fight at all. Then he touches the locket, and explodes into light, with all of his memories from all of his lives suddenly rushing back. All of them, which even includes some weird trippy dream sequence involving Usagi saying that she is always by his side.

This is a great time to drop the sword and fall to the ground, having become his old self once more, and recognizing her for being Usagi - the idiotic blonde with the event stupider hair-do.

Clearly, this only serves to really piss of Beryl, because she was so very sure of her victory. I mean, what could ever possibly go wrong, taunting your opponent when the thing you need to secure your victory is literally lying within your grasp? Maybe the terrible decision making runs all the way down the chain.

But technically you stole him from her... twice?

Then she hurls a giant crystal at them, and Endymion is having none of that, so he throws a rose back at her, which shatters the crystal, and stabs her in the chest. Though, in retrospect, maybe shattering the crystal mid-flight was a terrible idea. Especially since some of those shards start sticking out of his back while shielding the young girl.

Every rose has it's thorns...

Beryl just can't understand why he would protect Usagi over her. I mean, if he'd married her, he'd be the king of all the worlds. All of them. Oh, then she starts cracking apart.

Way to actually break a woman's heart, geez.

So then she's all like, "What is this energy, is his love for that girl destroying me?" Probably, yes. Considering that 'love' made him stab you with a rose at like, thirty feet. But in true evil villain fashion, she is totally not going to accept this crap.

Meanwhile, Endymion is totally bleeding out on Usagi Moon's lap, saying she should hurry up and leave and go back home and be a normal girl and get a cool boyfriend and all that crap. Because, y'know, that's pretty much everything she's ever been asking for since this whole thing started.

I bet you say that to all the guys bleeding to death.

Predictably, he dies within the next five seconds. Which is the perfect time for a commercial break!

When we return from the break, Beryl is begging Metalia to lend her more power, because she clearly can't hack it on her own. Metalia's response? "Yeah, okay, that's cool I guess. I wanted to spread hate and destruction to every living thing anyways. Let's do this."

And then Beryl gets possessed by Metalia.

Upstairs, Usagi almost kisses a corpse, but stops herself, presumably because even she can understand just how freaking creepy that is. But she still has a job left to do, and, well, she might as well finish that up before she leaves, because otherwise her coming here would've been entirely pointless.

So the place starts shaking apart, and she leaves Endymion lying there on the ground, and then Beryltalia finally emerges outside.

Yeah, I guess that's final bossy enough.

So now that she has the power of darkness, and is a flower, she can totally rule the world. Except for one thing: Sailor Moon is like, right behind her.

So she's got a couple dozen stories on you, you can take her!

She declares that Sailor Moon will die this time, and hits her with a giant blast of dark energy, but discovers it only serves to turn her into the princess, and lift her up into the air.

Over in Tokyo, darkness is overtaking everything as the power fails.

This isn't Y2K dude, I think you'll be fine.

Metalia's dark energy has been released! Clearly, that means Luna should go to D-point, because she feels helpless. They can't just stand by and do nothing, because otherwise, Usagi will use the Silver Crystal. Like she was supposed to?

I guess that could be sorta bad maybe?

But there's no way to save the world otherwise, says Artemis. Then there's a lot of back-and-forthing about how much this situation just plain sucks.

Back at the North Pole, Princess Serenity is about to lay the smack down with some serious magical healing.

It's Harry Potter time! Complete with the main theme playing all over again, in case you had any doubts that this was, in fact, the very last episode.

Ah, this makes me nostalgic and I've never even seen
this episode before.

The final battle is the perfect time for the villain to talk to the hero. So she might as well find out why Princess Sailor Moon Serenity Usagi is trying so hard to fight! I mean, the world is already kind of a shitty place as it is, so why bother fighting against the inevitable?

The answer? Because she has faith. Not in anything particular, but she just believes because her friends tried so hard to fight to save the universe and all. So as Beryl's energy begins to slowly overpower her, she decides to ask the Silver Crystal for help, because it's all or nothing time now. If you don't go for broke, you might as well go home. She asks for it... to... help make her believe more... in the world her friends had faith in?

.... that is the WEAKEST god damned thing I have ever heard of in my life. She can't even be half-assed to believe in the thing she is tasked with protecting, so she has to rely on people who've died in order to make a difference?!

Then we're treated with some old memories of all her friends, because I guess the power of love and friendship is key here. Even though our heroine can't even believe in the world she's trying to save. That is just.... ugh.

So Beryltalia is being all defiant and shit, saying she won't be sealed away by the Silver Crystal. Then they start wrecking the North Pole with their fight, and the princess asks for the help of all her dead friends, who suddenly show up being not-ghost-like at all, and they all shout out their power.

That is the light at the end of the tunnel.
The light is a freight train.

So the girls release a giant ball of energy that consumes Beryltalia whole, and Sailor Moon falls back onto the ground as she too is overtaken by the energy she released, and then Mamoru Mask's body is also taken away by the glow, and Usagi narrates her normal, every day life as we see the light slowly expand and eventually consume the other sailor scouts, one by one. All while they play a solo piano version of the theme song, and she wishes she could go back to that normal life.

The next day arrives, and Usagi wakes up, late for school, just as she had wished. It's like the very first episode all over again.

In the end, the sunspots are gone, and all the girls are magically alive again. Except that they kind of lost all of their memories, and have no freaking clue who any of the other girls are. Luna feels bad for them, but Artemis is all "no worries, they just need to meet one another again."

At least the cats know what the hell is going on this time around, right?

Then literally, Usagi goes through the motion of meeting Mamoru all over again by throwing her test away and having it land on his head, and he regards her as the jerkass he's always been, telling her to study more. Then the two friends walk away from him, talking more.

Oh god, not that whole fate bullshit again.

Usagi has her own dream though. A cool boyfriend who will protect her no matter what! Cue credits.

... you know, this episode was a lot less fulfilling than the previous episode. Don't get me wrong, I know why they did these things. But they just kinda... came out of nowhere, y'know? It's like, doesn't matter what all happened, you get a happy ending because anything less would be a real downer and probably drive our target audience into fits of depression. So let's lie to them and say that everything will be fine with zero explanation, because that sends a positive message to the kids.

In the end, they let me down, as I suspected they would.

Tune in Monday, when I finally review this thing, and tell you what I really think about this whole experience.