Comic by Puchi

Translated by Sailor Scribbles

The continuation one day:

Translator’s Note: Puchi has both a pixiv and a twitter 

A good Harumichi story, though, always needs a bittersweet angle

Because let’s face it, there are no good answers as to why even upperclassmen in high school have literally no signs of their families whatsoever without it being explicitly confirmed that these people are dead, like with Makoto and Mamoru (seriously, the Senshi reincarnation hates parents as much as Disney does).

Add to this if you use the anime backstory (and might as well) that the entire thing hinges on one very determined girl getting her way collateral damage be damned after she was awakened second/first….It was admittedly kind of amusing that back in the 90s/2000s the inevitable ‘break up the lesbian couple’ always had HARUKA as the manipulator/abusive one when in the canon it was MICHIRU who manipulated HARUKA and Haruka is a bit hapless in the face of Michiru, Senshi of Trolling.

Like damn, Michiru never got the respect she deserved for being a magnificent example of the manipulator par excellence.

So there’s a lot of ways to play this off, and since nobody really DOES 'mind control as cheap plot device’ as a preferred course of action like with Mamoru the Reliable Traitor (even if a good twist would be that it’s actually NOT Mamoru for a change because the villains at least partially weaponize their enemies’ misconceptions for LULZ) the Outer Senshi stories, IMO, have a measurable advantage over the Inners.

Plus at the end of the day the Outers are expected to take the harder tasks and make the harder decisions, which means their view of being Senshi is always going to be different to that of the Inners.

In truth though an Outer Senshi-centric story is going to be different from the Inners-centric Sailor Moon canon narrative as is

Due to the in-universe different functions of the Outers and the Inners. The Inner Senshi are guardians of hearth and threshold and the Princess’s group of friends, confidants, and allies. An Inner-centric narrative by default will hinge on the dynamics of the Inners and Usagi and Mamoru, and as I frankly find the Usagi-Mamoru dynamic to be interesting insofar as it switches out the dude for the damsel in distress but otherwise fairly simplistic I just have less interest in writing yet another hetero soap opera.

The Outers exist to guard the Solar System against foreign threats, have far greater relative power and relative responsibility, and have a completely different MO. They also, in a lot of ways, had elements of backstory issues that the anime filled but the manga never really bothered to, as this is one of its main weaknesses at a storytelling level. Takeuchi was making it up as she went along and this is one of the areas where this is very directly shown as the story evolved.

The Outers are also every bit as dysfunctional as the Inners, in very different ways. The Inners all have tragic pasts of loneliness that get filled by their working together as a unit and bringing out each other’s better traits by continuous exposure to each other’s proximities. The Outers have the other problem of codependency with anime canon Michiru a straight up stalker who willfully manipulated Haruka into a path that she didn’t remotely want to take, where manga Haruka basically is a good example of how to not write a lesbian relationship due to her emotional affair with Usagi being taken for granted by Michiru, who far more than in the anime exists only in Haruka’s shadow.

And Setsuna is Senshi Kenny, dying every major issue for drama.

I happen to like the Outers more than the Inners mostly because Haruka and Michiru have an even more dysfunctional dynamic than Usagi and Mamoru so it gets the same soap opera notes without the endless ‘What the Hel are you doing you motherfukers!’

“it aws MIND CONTROL MAMORU”

twist.

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minako aino 愛野 美奈子

(usagi tsukino|ami mizuno|rei hino|makoto kino)

makoto kino 木野 まこと

(ami mizuno|rei hino|usagi tsukino|minako aino)

ami mizuno 水野 亜美

(usagi tsukino|rei hino|makoto kino|minako aino)

rei hino ⛩️ 火野 レイ

(usagi tsukino|ami mizuno|makoto kino|minako aino)

usagi tsukino 月野 うさぎ

(rei hino|ami mizuno|makoto kino|minako aino)

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・・・

“The fairy tale came true”

- Sailor Moon R

(Episode 69: Awaken the Sleeping Beauty: Mamoru’s Distress)

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yamino:

yamino:

What if Mako sparred with the galpals to keep them battle-ready ⚡