Not quite. Sailor Moon has a fairly wide array of crystals that can be taken from humans. Each crystal seems to be a separate part of the wiring of humans on a mystic level. The Death Busters are after Pure Heart Crystals. The animal eyes are after Dream Mirrors. Galaxia Star Seeds. Most of the first series started with simple energy draining tricks... except the 7 shadows incidents.
Using a computer analogy, PHC are the cables/power conduits that connect the hard drive (soul/mind) to the rest of the computer hardware (body)... Withour the hard drive connected the computer goes into a holding pattern, then eventual turns off. This is a lethal thing eventually. Stronger people can last longer and in Venus' case she apparently has a back up as her reaction was to grab hers and run away wth it. The purpose of gathering these was to feed them to Mistress 9 and let her gain enough control over Saturn's body/gain enough power channelling ability to summon and End Boss. Heart Crystal in short, contect your mental ability scores to your body. PHC as really, really good quality ones.
Star Seeds are the bit on ones self that let you channel magic, or at least Senshi Magic. Manipulating these will let make magic using berserkers or have intelligent, zombie, magical girl slaves. In computer terms, its the part of the mother board that connect external video and sound card. Most of us only have PC sound and graphics. Galaxia's youma are people who get overclocked and over powered cards slapped in. This is not a good thing for said motherboard.
Dream Mirrors are basically externalized monitors that hack into your hard drive and see your video collection (dreams). Annoying and possibly a form of rape... but ultimately not dangerous as far as magical girl enemies are. The point of getting those was to find a pedosus hiding in one of those folders and not harvesting anything in particular. A manhunt rather than resource gathering. Still soul part manipulation magic though... which is what I use as a qualifier to tell if a series is a magical girl one or not.
Which brings us to the last part of may first paragraphs examples: The 7 shadows and SM's shiny rock of magic Justice and Love. As far as I can tell, the 7 Shadows got sealled by breaking up the SRLJ and it got used as a series of artifical Heart Crystals. Which would explain why it took so long for everyone to get reincarnated... it took forever and a millenium to reformat them and get everyone reborn. The SRLJ had to brute force the proper drivers in and this is why they were normal power level youma and not hulking juggernauts of powerful power. Also the kit bashed nature of the drivers explains why they got civilian powers... which are apparently genetic... which means that Jadeite loses at the airport, because he got driven over by the third generation, overwritten drivers that drove the over running forces tertiary head drivers of the driving force behind the force running of the over running of the over head rulers. That or tech support finally managed to get get back at Jadeite for firing a third of their staff for reasons of reducing overhead.
Okay now that that is out of my system. So in short Jorlem... Galaxia, like most of Sailor Moons rogue gallery, is only harvesting parts of their souls. More connective tissue that organ meats.
Using a computer analogy, PHC are the cables/power conduits that connect the hard drive (soul/mind) to the rest of the computer hardware (body)... Withour the hard drive connected the computer goes into a holding pattern, then eventual turns off. This is a lethal thing eventually. Stronger people can last longer and in Venus' case she apparently has a back up as her reaction was to grab hers and run away wth it. The purpose of gathering these was to feed them to Mistress 9 and let her gain enough control over Saturn's body/gain enough power channelling ability to summon and End Boss. Heart Crystal in short, contect your mental ability scores to your body. PHC as really, really good quality ones.
Star Seeds are the bit on ones self that let you channel magic, or at least Senshi Magic. Manipulating these will let make magic using berserkers or have intelligent, zombie, magical girl slaves. In computer terms, its the part of the mother board that connect external video and sound card. Most of us only have PC sound and graphics. Galaxia's youma are people who get overclocked and over powered cards slapped in. This is not a good thing for said motherboard.
Dream Mirrors are basically externalized monitors that hack into your hard drive and see your video collection (dreams). Annoying and possibly a form of rape... but ultimately not dangerous as far as magical girl enemies are. The point of getting those was to find a pedosus hiding in one of those folders and not harvesting anything in particular. A manhunt rather than resource gathering. Still soul part manipulation magic though... which is what I use as a qualifier to tell if a series is a magical girl one or not.
Which brings us to the last part of may first paragraphs examples: The 7 shadows and SM's shiny rock of magic Justice and Love. As far as I can tell, the 7 Shadows got sealled by breaking up the SRLJ and it got used as a series of artifical Heart Crystals. Which would explain why it took so long for everyone to get reincarnated... it took forever and a millenium to reformat them and get everyone reborn. The SRLJ had to brute force the proper drivers in and this is why they were normal power level youma and not hulking juggernauts of powerful power. Also the kit bashed nature of the drivers explains why they got civilian powers... which are apparently genetic... which means that Jadeite loses at the airport, because he got driven over by the third generation, overwritten drivers that drove the over running forces tertiary head drivers of the driving force behind the force running of the over running of the over head rulers. That or tech support finally managed to get get back at Jadeite for firing a third of their staff for reasons of reducing overhead.
Okay now that that is out of my system. So in short Jorlem... Galaxia, like most of Sailor Moons rogue gallery, is only harvesting parts of their souls. More connective tissue that organ meats.