Synopsis

This musical is based on the Nehelenia Arc of the Sailor Stars anime. Instead of Galaxia bringing back Queen Nehelenia, she revives Queen Beryl from her sleep. Beryl brings with her both Kunzite and Zoicite with her. As tribute, King Endymion is brainwashed and given to her as her love slave.Galaxia also revives Sailortinnyanko, Sailortitaniumkerokko, Sailortheta, Sailorchi, and Sailorphi. This musical is also based on the later part of the SailorStars anime. Chibi-chibi makes an appearance and the Sailor Starlights eventually find their lost princess.Chaos also makes an appearance; serving as Galaxia's buffoonish slave and eventually transforming into his true form when she is defeated. Galaxia, rather than searching for Star Seeds, focuses her attention on getting the Silver Crystal. The Animamates and Beryl's two generals disguise themselves as students from Juuban High school while Chaos doublecasted himself as both the director of a production at Juuban High and Juuban High's sports coach. They causing trouble by blaming Rei for the attack of a high school student. Sailorphi disguised herself as Rei in a priestess outfit while Sailorchi disguised herself as the hurt student. Eventually the plan is brought to light and the evil forces make themselves known. Soon after, Galaxia steals Endymion's Star Seed, making him truly evil, and kills not only Kakyuu, but all of the Inner Senshi, her Animamates and Beryl's generals. Uranus and Neptune are given Galaxia's evil bracelets but are killed when they both turn on her. Beryl eventually realizes the error of her ways and that she's just a pawn, but before she could anything, she's killed by the now evil Tuxedokamen. In the final battle, only Sailormoon and the Starlights are alive, aided by Sailorchibi-chibimoon. Galaxia transforms into her final form and Sailormoon transforms in Eternal Sailormoon and defeats her by using Chibi-chibi in the form of a sword. Chaos hold on her is released and he evolves into his true- the strongest star in the universe and spawner of evil stars. He almost destroys Sailormoon and the Starlights until the newly reborn Senshi intervene. He is defeated by the combined power of the Senshi's Planet Power and Sailormoon's Silver Crystal Power. All are reunited and peace and happiness is restored..

I admit the first time I saw this musical, I wasn't that wild about it. Before I bought it, I saw clips of the Final First Stage version (although at the time, I didn't know they were clips of the revision). I bought the tape and found it was nothing like the clips. I had to watch the tape a couple of times to like it. It's actually pretty good (but the revision is better and funnier).

Ooyama Anza-sama just keeps getting better and better as Usagi-chan. She really blossomed into the role She has incredible energy that never falters throughout the course of the show. She has the cute innocence of the Usagi of the anime and the maturity of the Usagi of the manga. Next on the list is the great Morino Ayako-sama as Ami-chan. She's been with Ooyama-sama from the beginning as she's just as talented and cute. She looks so cute in her duet with Zoicite (Itsuwari no Forevermore); her eyes squinches when she smiles. Kotani Misako-sama was great as Rei-chan, as always. I'm glad that she was given more to do in this musical, she deserves it. Ooyama-sama, Morino-sama, and Kotani-sama are a dynamic trio and it's sad they won't be back after the revision. I liked the Mako-chan in this musical, Tonegawa Akari-sama; she was pretty cool. Miyazawa Akiko-sama was a great find as Minako-chan; she had the spunk and comedic skill to carry off the part (Kun-kun!!!) Kimura Sanae-sama was pretty good as Haruka. She's gotten better in the role. Harada Hiroko-sama was great as Michiru; out of all the actress to play Neptune, she's the best and it's a shame she couldn't stay for future musicals. Kimura-sama and Harada-sama really look good together. Saito Rei-sama got a lot better as Setsuna-san; the slightly sad side of Setsuna was shown, especially when she spoke of Endymion. She looked and sounded both cool and sexy in her solo in Kick Out a Bloody Mystery. I truly disliked Chihiro Imai-san as Hotaru-san; she just was not right for the part. She makes strange faces and looks like she's about to charge whenever she has a line. It's a good thing that Takeda Keiko-sama returns in the Final First Stage version. Mochizuki Yuuta was pretty good in his usual double role of Endymion/Tuxedokamen. He made a very convincing bad guy. Kawasaki Mao-sama was adorable as Chibi-chibi, although she was a little tall for the role. She's a pretty good dancer (Kick Out a Bloody Mystery). The Three Lights were HILARIOUS in this musical. My favorite scene with them is the detective scene. Katayama Sayuri-sama played Seiya-san as the straight man while Ono Hikari-sama played Taiki-san as the slick comedian and Okuyama Momoko-sama as the buffoon. All three actresses have great chemistry, comedic flair, dancing ability and they all look good in their Three Lights/Starlights uniforms. And the Starlights have a new attack- STARLIGHT FUSION TEMPEST(actually, that's Kakyuu's attack in the manga when she becomes a senshi) Speaking of Kakyuu, the actress who played her was wonderful. Yoshioko Sakoto-sama not only looked exactly like the lost princess but she had the grace and elegance to carry the role. She has a crystal clear speaking voice and an absolutely beautiful singing voice; both of her solos added an touch of sophistication to the musical. I really liked Matsumoto Tanami-sama as Galaxia. Unlike the previous Galaxia, she didn't have to scream to make herself sound tough; she had the look, the voice and the presence to carry off the role. She reminded a lot of the Galaxia of the anime. It's cool that in this musical we saw the bad Galaxia and good Galaxia and Matsumoto-sama performed both aspects very nicely.Also liked the actress who played Queen Beryl. Nishina Yuri-sama is one of the few people in Seramyu history that looked better than their anime counterpart. Nishina-sama gave dimension to the character making her much more interesting; she almost makes you feel sorry for her, especially during her death scene. She has that evil villainess look and voice and speaking of voice, she has a pretty singing voice, although her voice sounded strange during her last solo (Onna no Ronsou) She was really into the role and you can tell she enjoyed performing it. I wasn't all that fond of the two actors playing Beryl's two generals; neither one looked or acting like the two guys. Tomemori Akari-san has a nice, classical singing voice, which is probably why he was given the role. He didn't play Zoicite effeminately but Zoicite was around Kunzite a lot though and his "duet" with Ami-chan was a ploy-still makes you wonder. Asano Hideka-san was okay as Kunzite but they could have found someone better (what's up with the wig?) Hosokawa Toni-san was a pretty cool Tinnyanko and looked kinda sexy in her uniform. Wakamatsu Megumi-san was okay as Titaniumkerokko, better than the last one- I'm just not all that fond of the character. Kasahara Ryuji-sama was HILARIOUS in this musical; he stole the show and his comic skill helped make this show a success. From his switching back and forth as "director" and "sensei" to his dressing up as Ami-chan, everything he did, he did with great skill. His Chaos costume freaked me out though. He, along with the Three Lights, made this musical really funny (they're even funnier in the revision) Lastly, the three back-up dancers seem more lively in this musical; the two new dancers are prettier than the ones in the Stars musical and Endo Ado-san is great as always(she must really like being in Seramyu; she's in just about every musical!)

This score for this musical was a mix of newly written songs and songs from the Sailor Stars musicals. First off, let me just say that if you're not a fan of La Fatalite Sei Senshi, you will grow quite tired of this musical; there are three actual variants of this song plus the actual song itself. I always fast-forward them. Anyway, one song liked is the new Sailor Tanteidan song, Kick Out a Bloody Mystery (Rei-chan ga hannin?) It's much better than Sailor Busters and funnier; the scene with the Three Lights is hilarious (Shouko! Shouko!) All of the villains' songs were really good in this musical. I liked Yami no Hitsugi, sung by Nishina-sama; she was really into it. I also liked Galaxia Gorgeous; Matsumoto-sama sounded really good singing this. Another song I liked was Tenkuu no Utage; it was great opener for Act II. Mizusakianainin ni Game was a cool song; it reminded me of a theme song for a Japanese game show. This was yet another funny scene. The love duet between Ami-chan and Saito Izo(Zoicite), Itsuwari no Forevermore was a nice song. It was reminiscent of the Broadway musical-style love song. Tomemori-san and Morino-sama both had the voices the carry it off. Another nice song was I Miss You; Ooyama-sama and Katayama-sama sounded really good together. The most beautiful song in this entire musical has to be Toki Michite Kourin. Yoshioko-sama has the most beautiful voice I've ever heard. And her high note at the end is amazing. If you are an opera fan, you will like this song, along with Kakyuu-hime to Surii Raitsu. Both Katayama-sama and Ono-sama sounded great in this song as well. Onna no Ronsou was also a nice song; it brought dimension to both Saito-sama and Nishina-sama's characters, especially Nishini--sama's character. That raps up the new songs. From the Sailor Stars Musical, Eien Densetsu received Chasin After You, in which all of the Three Lights sing together and dance albeit the ever present back-up dancers, and a shortened Sorezore no Elegy and Densetsu Seitan . Another old song added to the roster was To A Brand New World. Although she has a bad actress, Chihiro-san has a strong singing voice, But Takeda Keiko-sama's voice adds a sense of ethereralness and mystery when she sings it. The coolest song/scene was the Curtain Call Medley at the end. It was a mix of background music corresponding to the character taking a bow. (At the very end Ooyama-sama and Mochizuki-sama come out together wearing wedding outfits to the tune of Double Moonlight Romance and they kiss- NO THEY ARE NOT TRULY GETTING MARRIED; in the very last manga, Usagi and Mamoru, or rather Serenity and Endymion get married.)

As a whole, this musical was pretty good; it's not the worst I've seen, but it's not the best. It offered a lot of funny scenes as well as poignant ones. One thing that kept this musical from being better was it's OVERUSE of wires. They used wires unnecessarily; everybody was flying in this musical. I could be wrong, but I counted 11 times during the course of the musical that wires were used. In some scenes, very few, it worked but in most cases, it was just dumb (Why does Usagi-chan have to fly across the stage in order to drop a basketball into a basket?!?!) Another thing kinda bothered was the overuse of colored lights as attacks. Why can't Ami-chan have an Aqua Rhapsody? Why can't Rei-chan have a Burning Mandala or a Flame Sniper? The only attack that looked cool and resembled the actual attack was Star Fighter's Star Serious Laser. Oh well..... In conclusion, this musical was okay but the revision is even better and much funnier. Unless you're a fan of Beryl's two generals and the Animamates, get the Final First Stage version instead of this one. You won't regret it.