Chapter Two is up

[Labster]

Honestly, I only even recognized it as "sailor" because of decades of exposure to the English-saturated versions of Japanese that seemed to be the norm everywhere but my homeworld. And boy, won't that give me trouble if I'm deployed to Beta Team again after I get home!
One of my favorite lines in Zipang is the IJN sailors asking why everyone on the Mirai was speaking Japanese with an English accent.

Luna looked at her tea, then at me. "I think I'm going to need something a lot stronger to drink."
Time to pull out the heavy cream.

she would be the most kick-ass combat-capable princess this side of Xena
Sadly, Eris became the official name of planet Xena.  Actually huh, I just got the strangest crossover idea.

I'm worried that if Luna gets her memory back, it will come along with PTSD.  Doug should realize this, given what he revealed on the surface of the Moon.  I always wondered if it was a blessing that Luna's memory had been swiss-cheesed.

Prince Arisugawa Park
Wait wait wait, I thought Utena was the prince, not Juri?

One thing I like about your writing is that you always assume that investigative journalists exist in a modern setting.  This seems to be missing in a lot of Japanese works -- I'm wondering if there's a cultural assumption that the media can be silenced easily by the powers that be, and the extent to which that's true in Japan.  However, foreign press cannot be silenced so easily.

Braga is surprisingly competent as well, actually, and Beryl actually cares about her troops? How can this be?  A more nuanced portrayal of the Dark Kingdom is rare in the extreme, good on ya'.

In the manga, a large proportion of their opponents are intelligent, named baddies. Imagine, being kept alive millennia in thrall to a malign extraterrestrial, trapped in a cave deep beneath the ice of Hyperborea, slowly going mad from the evil energy afflicting you and all of your companions. There's a lot of room to add nuance to Sailor Moon. Nice touch in this story, that Beryl only cares about Jadeite insofar as he has value to herself.