First, a word
about the story:
Well, it is hard
to call this a "story"...
Everything is a bit confusing, this might be because I don't speak
Japanese, but what I see are short scenes stuck together to a one
hour show. I think, everybody needed some more experience. ^_^
We start with
the opening song "Mystery Sagashi", sung by the five soldiers.
A nice song, but the choreography isn't very exiting. They are disturbed
by the arrival of Queen Beryl and the four generals. This is the
time, the soldiers start screaming - they will hardly stop until
the end of the musical. Queen Beryl talks a lot about the silver
crystal and so, and hurt the soldiers - serious it seems...
The next scene
contains Luna and Artemis, in panic all the time, running and jumping
on and off the stage. They seem to be very worried.
The next cut is really confusing. The girls are on stage, happy
during a shopping tour. Only Usagi seem to be very tired. Didn't
they had a fight? Oh, alright, this was only a dream of Usagi! After
she has told the others about her dream, their teacher, Haruna-Sensei,
appears. She is so sexy, she can hardly move in this skirt, oh,
no! They all sing a song about summer vacation, during which Rei
seems to get worried about Haruna-Sensei...
No one believes her, so she has to prove it with her "Akuryo
Taisan!" speech. Now we can see it, too: Haruna-Sensei is a
monster, one of the DD-girls, I think. The girls want to transform,
but they all get hurt by the DD-girls, no way to shout their transforming
speeches...
Now this is the time for a new appearance: the great Tuxedo Kamen
enters the show, singing a song about his roses with Usagi and the
Youma...
Luna and Artemis
use this situation for talking about the lost Silver Millennium,
and this history is shown right after this: Serenity and Endymion
are dancing together, the soldiers join them with Endymion's Generals.
During the royal couple's kiss, Luna and Artemis jump into the ballroom,
telling them about Queen Beryl's attack. The soldiers run off for
protection, but they turned as they see the generals don't join
them. Bad decision, because their lovers had turned against them
and injure them for Queen Beryl...
Back in the present,
Luna and Artemis, always in hurry, are looking for Usagi, discussing
her and Endymion.
Minako meet a nice guy, who remembers her about her first love,
she sings a song about this. The guy has got three friends, who
joined them for rock-n-roll dancing with Ami, Rei and Makoto. Usagi
cries for being the only one lonely. The couples leave, Usagi is
left alone and really sad. Her wet tissue "meets" Mamoru,
who enters the scene in this moment. They seem to be very close
already.
Next is Luna and Artemis again, Luna sings something about girls
love...
In the meantime, the four girls discover that their guys are no
one else as the for generals, to late, because they are already
in their trap. Queen Beryl finally appears in reality, no dream
this time. She hurts everyone real bad and catches poor Mamo-chan,
who wanted to help. The soldiers look very weak again.
But they decide to go for rescue, during "Sailor War",
my favourite song in this musical. They cheer up each over and will
go as a team...
Queen Beryl, wearing an awful special dress, sings her image song
in her Dark Kingdom, Mamoru is tightened to a cross. The soldiers
appear one after another and fight against their formal lovers and
the DD-girls. This scene is really missing singing, dancing and
background music make me think of a Russian folk dance...(Ha! Ha!
Ha! Ha!)
Every former couple has got its own showdown while Usagi frees Mamoru.
The soldiers are forced to attack their former lovers with their
magic speeches, some think they could free them of the bad influence,
but they are all betrayed - and killed. Venus - Kunzite is very
sad, she has to kill them both with her Venus Love Me Chain.
Sailor Moon is left alone with Mamoru. Queen Beryl attacks them
and kills Mamoru, who wanted to protect Usagi. Usagi's last hope
is the power of her silver crystal. Although Luna and Artemis are
not kind with this idea - it will kill her, as we all know - she
takes her Cutie Moon Rod (This one is not cute after all, it is
huge!).
The dead soldiers cheer Usagi up and give her their powers, so Usagi
is able to defeat Beryl in a very, very long but unspectacular fight
with "Moon Princess Hallation".
Luna and Artemis AGAIN. They seem so know and to explain, what has
happened. They run off for see the girls.
In the meantime,
Usagi is dying. She is dying for a long time. Forgive me Anza, but
this scene is more silly than heart moving...
Luna and Artemis
arrive, shouting the girls' names. And there they are! Everybody
reborn, jumping around happy during "La soldier". Everything
is fine at the end.
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A word in
general:
Is it necessary,
that everyone is screaming 80 % of the show? Luna and Artemis are
always in panic, they disturb the story's ongoing.
There is no real storyline. No one would understand without knowing
the manga or anime. Just a collection of some scenes and songs.
The final battle is silly, that's all, not exiting, just overdid.
Well, it was
a nice try, and has some good moments, yes. But I wonder how this
show could become the great happening the know from the following
stages. It is astonishing, what they made out of their first mistakes.
Don't get me
wrong, I enjoyed this one. But there is no equality to the following
ones...
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