This week on Comically Rough Japanese Translations Theatre is Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos The Movie (now on Netflix), an anime epic that could really use a colon or a dash in there somewhere. This two-parter debuted theatrically in Japan in 2023, the latest a/v outing in the Sailor Moon franchise, which, like so many anime franchises before it, sprawls across many decades and many media formats, from manga to stage musicals. The pair of 80-minute movies function as a sequel to the Sailor Moon Eternal films, and an official wrap-up of the Sailor Moon Crystal series.
If this makes sense to you, then by all means, read on. If not, beware, because it only gets more convoluted from here! PRETTY GUARDIAN SAILOR MOON COSMOS THE MOVIE : STREAM IT OR SKIP IT? The Gist: Sailor Moon, aka Usagi Tsukino (Kotono Mitsuishi), mooshes face with her boyfriend Mamo (Kenji Nojima) beneath a sky streaked with meteors. ELSEWHERE, a woman with evil hair, Sailor Galaxia (Megumi Hayashibara), schemes dastardly, as all evil-haired women in anime sagas do, mu-hahahahahahah! It was the last night for Usagi and Mamo to be together, at least for a while.
They’re at the airport. Mamo’s going to the U.S.
to study at Harvard. He gives Usagi a ring and she just about EXPLODES because she’s so in love multiple exclamation points!!!! But before he can pop the question, Galaxia turns him into dust, snatches his golden crystal and poofs right back to whatever planet it is where she schemes dastardly .