Quote:If that's what you seriously think Sailor Moon endings are all about, then you've completely missed the point of Sailor Moon.
The grand lack of detail in that statement is disturbing... not that I was terribly specific myself. So let me be a bit more clear. First off, anime series only for me... though a mix of dubbed through the Pharaoh 90 mess and the tail end from fandubs years ago. I don't have access to them anymore as my brother was the one harvesting them and the footballer, not soccer, in the hybrid fuku shooting explosive magic sweat balls from his arm pits traumatized him enough to delete the series rather than burning it. That covered, lets move on to correcting a Gloobleflarg.
The ending I'm referring to is not the ones like how apparently in the dub, Tuxedo Mask and Artemis managed to move around 500 people out of a building before it collapsed... which would be great and all, except they'd all had the thing holding their souls to their body removed and eaten. Thus meaning at best they just managed to rack up huge bills for families with lingering coma patients... meaning up to several hundred families are bankrupted by bills or slaves to the medical community. Okay that is bad, but not quite what I mean. At least its not a canonically a Bleach crossover... or half a thousand instant Hollows were just dumped into the middle of a major metropolis. That or its much much easier for the authorities to collect the bodies... Though I'd imagine leaving hundreds of undamaged corpses, a demolition school building and no explanation is a political nightmare. I'm suprized I've never seen a fic were they are hunted for questioning. They refuse the be publicly outed, so the Japanese governemnt has no choice but to track them down.
Anyway, the ending I'm referring to is the last five minutes of the subbed ending I saw. Basically Sailor Moon lets a purified Galaxia go. Galaxia promises to repopulate all those planets she slaughter with no explanation what so ever. Yeah! The baddy is redeemed and everything is happy, happy! Only we do know what happens in the future. One that wins out over the one that results in Sailor Chibi-chibi. We know that Usagi marries Tuxboy and not one of the Starlights. Chibi-Usa is the future. That future being that eventually Crystal Tokyo is founded under a Magical Girl Matriarchy and most of the planet is apparently depopulated. Also they eventually are owned by a group from the nonsailor senshied tenth planet Nemisis. Pwned eenough to get their past selves to come to the future and kill off the enemy leadership. We also know Nemisis is made of suck.
Lets leave canon for a bit and bleed into rampid speculation mode: So why did people people move to planet Suck of all places? I don't know that this is answered beyond a place not of the MGM's ownership. It must have taken something major to make them move there... some have suggested that its Usagi magically brainwashing people so they can live in the CT. I don't think that is what happened. I think its a case of people simply voting with their feet. They had to leave the MGM controled area as something dangerous... or at least depopulation of Earth happy.
My pet theory is that Galaxia kept her word. She did repopulate those planets... by removing Earth's population and sending them to those planets. How much infrastructure she took with them is pehaps why there are no real ruins. Galaxia ran off with entire cities and sent them elsewhere. CT and Nemisis are populated by those that Galaxia didn't get her hands on. Maybe the senshi eventually managed to off Galaxia. Thus solving the problem too late. The Doom Phantom is just a mad prophet that gave the people of Planet Suck someone to rage at. In reality they could have just moved back to somewhere on Earth... they just don't know or believe that Galaxia is toast. They are suffering from their own paranioa... and the beseiged CT just after they'd won one war.
This makes sense to me, far more than Lawful Affable Evil Corrupt Usagi. They sent Chibi-Usa back because she was not needed for defense... Chibi Usa just got distracted by the shiney populated world and never got around to telling them that polotics behind the fight they needed themselves as back up for. A fifteen minute history lesson could have averted this. But they didn't get it in their past so they didn't tell theirselves what happened. Thus basically forming a time loop. Saturn is friends with Chibi Usa and Chibi Usa is her first good friend. However an alternate future is possible... its just there wasn't a reason to send anyone into the past... as Galaxia died then. Then their timeline was attacked by the Langoleers or something and they sent back the sword child to get past Usagi to just stab her already. Solving the abduction issue altogether.
Chibi Chibi died as a result of her timeline croaking, not combat. Usagi, already knowing her future romantically never dates around. Thus ends up with the guy she did in a past and future life she knows of. No matter how many times she knows it end badly. The future is a matter of a 'Kill Galaxia [Yes?/No?]' choice box epilogue. Perfectly in line with a parody like Sailor Moon started off as. Crystal Tokyo is a shiney military base that is a model of a city Galaxia can't abduct. Their weren't any people around in the future as they are all in bunkers underneath. No one is OOC... just a simple don't kill choice... as a result of not realisizing Galaxia was messsed in the head long, long before Chaos picked her. The Outer Senshi are not in CT as they are doing their historical job, protecting the solar system from outside threats. No random alien invader surprise buttsecks for Earth.
Again pet theory, but it makes more sense than the alternatives I've heard.
---Edit--- added 12: 40ish
Gah.. consecutive update attack. Anyway, don't send them to Mahora Academy to start off with. It comes with several plot issues you may not have thought of... Location. Location. Location. for one. I'm for having certain events occur. Mahora Chao Festival, FMP's first season and let the characters have sometime to end up recognizable and skip needing to make every even fit in. They can notice random kids at FMP's school are giving whispered tell tail signs or something and think its a kidnappers' buffet or something. Combat potential comes later... at great material cost.
What I mean by this is you want to deal with the Nemicites first. They are targeting Usagi and sending them near Mahora is asking to get them killed off pointlessly. Which you may want to do if their distractions or need characters to meet early.. Too many heavily armed mages around. Too many defenses. Though more importantly... if you wait till after Fumafoo you can the second school thrashed and use it as an excuse to dump them somewhere more secure.
Having the school obliterated at the end of the term could be a running gag for the Senshi/Tenchi... its a little less damaged each time though. It will also let you level the cast up to the point that Eva mini estate would have any chance of of getting them inside. Also, it would let Zeke get good enough to be able to make items and manipulate kitbashed enchantments enough to effect her to the point she can even get a block away from campus for a bit or let her use even a minor amount of major at will. The issue is that no one can actually figure out what the hell the thousand master did in the first place. Zeke by that point will be use to not only thinking outside the box on these things... but cutting up lots of boxes and assembling coherent new boxes from the pieces.
Also, if you wait it will give Zeke and Co. enough time to build up enough of a reputation to warrent a new wing in an all girl's school. I'm pretty sure that causing a tornado on interplanetary/international TV on something as widely watched as a Tag Game for the fate of the Earth, is simply too large an event to cover up... too many recorders and too many reporters covering it... and Zeke won't have been privy to the CG cover story... to that end you'll want this after Chao's festival. This will add a nice amount of pressure on Mahora to give into UN demands. Keep Usagi from one shotting the hoard. Of course I'm expecting the Tornado Incident to take place on day five and Alan to bring seven of them (7 days, 7 cardians drama queen attack)... and Lum to join Zeke in the only thing resembling shelter in near existance... then Zeke to tag her just after it finishes raging and moves on.
Specifically he spots a camera pod in with them, remembers what they were doing tags her horns. Which confuses her for a moment... then she flips out and accuses him of cheating. Eventually its decided that random a demon lord type trying to assassinate both contestants, Alan drops a line about offering to run Zeke's severed hand across dead Lum's horns as a insane benifit of not fighting back. Thus Angry Lum is Angry. Enter the 'Darling' treatemnt. This should be embarassing enough for Lum to set that off, without losing her top on said televised event. The only issue then is picking a conversation path wonky enough to let Lum claim 'translation error' on her part (leading to at least a vague proposal of test engagement at least)... Something that can be blown off realistically, but Mr. Invader can say its out of his hands.
Mr. Invader is not going to shoot Lum down when she finally shows interest in a guy, his wife would gut him. If Lum likes guys who can use attacks good enough to take down a space battleship in atmo that is Zeke's fault she is after him.. I'm expecting an F3 here, at least... hard to tell on the ground. This should end up giving Zeke some kind of impressive nickname Strombringer... or something far less generic. Meaning only the crazy and/or strong aliens will show up to challenge him for Lum's affections. At first Lum encourage this behavior... later on it will be discouraged by her (not like those idiots will care, incompatible physiology never stopped them). *shrug* Character development does that.
If Tenshi is in the class of transfers... I'm fully expecting Eva and Ryoko to end up drinking buddies... lots of bonding of it progenitors the screwed up their lives. I'm sure Eva will feel better about her prison sentence thing actually include the ability to move around and have people to talk to.