![]() All of this growth occurred over a six month period and we get a sense of how quick it has been when Haruka mistakenly thinks they need diapers for their fast aging daughter. This is something we see at the start of SailorStars in the original Sailor Moon anime. ![]() The big thing for the start of the film is fast aging Hotaru. So much to say with a five year gap between Sailor Moon Crystal season 3 and the Sailor Moon Eternal films we can hardly just say it’s 2021 and expect it to make sense that everyone’s just starting high school so the 2016 date seems to work. If they take place in 2013, when the show was originally meant to start, things line up pretty well. Most manga arcs seem to take place over about year which could put the Dream arc around 2017 if the events of the first season really are to take place in 2014. A six month passage of time since the eclipse is suggested at one point during this film so most of it takes place in late 2016. Since the series started airing on July 5th 2014 this makes the first few seasons take place within a few years. So why would the story take place five years in the past? This would probably be because the last new episode of Sailor Moon Crystal we got was on June 27th 2016. There was a total solar eclipse on March 9th of 2016 and Japan wasn’t the best place to see it from. There was also no solar eclipse on April 1st 2016. Any problems with this? Well April 1st 2016 was a Friday in the real world and according to Chibiusa’s calendar it was a Thursday. An article about the April 1st eclipse coming out some four days before makes perfect sense. This fits with the date seen in Part 1 where Chibiusa circles April 1st as her date to return to the 30th century. I will assume this isn’t the actual date of the eclipse but rather the date on which the article was published. While Setsuna is browsing an article about the eclipse we see a date! or March 28th 2016. I also understand that there being some confusion over Haruka’s gender makes sense and is a common theme in the series but are we really going to just pretend that Haruka is not very clearly dressed unambiguously as a woman in this scene? I’m not sure what this was all about. Now I know Japanese doesn’t tend to use gender specific pronouns so this is likely not a terribly literal translation. If I can take issue with the dub for a moment! There’s a character which, referencing Haruka, says that “He’s such a hottie”. We finally see what they’ve been up to, starting with Haruka and Michiru. Last time we saw Hotaru she was a baby being whisked away by Sailor Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. For the most part, like all of Sailor Moon Crystal, this movie is fairly faithful to the manga source material which it was based on. The conclusion to the whole Minako and Human Artemis thing was moved into Part 1 instead of taking place after we get a look at what’s going on with Hotaru and her three moms, which is really where this movie starts off. If it followed the manga more closely it would have ended on a literal cliffhanger as Minako was hanging off of a cliff but stories were moved around to make things fit into movies a bit better. I always used to put episode reviews for Sailor Moon Crystal up within a few days of their release but the nature of these movies means that reviewing them is a bit more work! I call this a review even though it’s really more of a vague recap with random commentary and a sprinkling of what might be considered a review. You can also read my Part 1 review which was posted last month. Sailor Moon Eternal Parts 1 and 2 are both currently streaming on Netflix.
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