It’s just that she’s the most mysterious one of the characters and has unique powers, and hopefully the readers will just be happy to see her back. Sailor Pluto did not use her Time Stop ability until the thirty-fifth episode of the third season. In the manga, Crystal, and the musicals Tanjou! So we don’t know she was involved.”. She is first seen contacting Chibiusa through Luna-P in the anime; this does not happen in the manga or Crystal. In fact, as soon as Uranus and Neptune show up in the anime, Pluto loses her independence and does whatever they do, despite not being as harsh towards the Inners for their idealism. While you’d naturally assume that this would give her a lot of leeway to engage in excellent adventures and bogus journeys, unfortunately for her, she’s bound by what’s known as the Three Taboos: The first two are “rules” to the extent that covering your mouth when you sneeze is a rule — it’s the right thing to do, but nothing bad will happen to you if you don’t. Hotaru is first introduced when she becomes friends with Chibiusa. We know Setsuna calls him father. [23], All of Sailor Pluto's attacks require the use of the Garnet Rod, which is shaped like a giant key as a symbol of her stewardship over the Door of Space-Time. Why Did Usagi Become Queen of Crystal Tokyo at 22? "[15] In the manga she eventually gains her Pluto Crystal and this phrase changes to evoke "Pluto Crystal Power". Note the confusion between Cronus/Saturn, god/Titan of the harvest, and Chronos, god of time. Por outro lado, a história de Sailor Moon não teria começado. Sailor Pluto was the sixth Sailor Senshi introduced in the series. When charged with this duty by Queen Serenity, she was given three "taboos", rules which she was forbidden to disobey: she must not travel through time, she must not abandon her post at the Door, and she must never cause time to stop. How Did Miyuu Sawai Feel About Playing PGSM’s Sailor Moon? In the stage musicals, Setsuna has been portrayed by Miwa Hosoki, Rei Saitou, Yuki Kamiya, Seiko Nakazawa, Teruyo Watanabe, Yuko Hosaka, Yukiko Nakae, Miho Yokoi, and Mikako Ishii. Sailor Moon Crystal Act.25: Sailor Pluto's Death. Subscribe now and be the first to know when new articles are added! Over the course of several cut scenes in the manga, we see Queen Serenity explain to Sailor Pluto what her role of the Space-Time Door gatekeeper involves and the Three Taboos that she’s subject to.4 A charitable reader of the manga could probably argue that she was merely passing long the rules, but things get a little clearer when you dig even further into the founding of the Silver Millennium. More incongruously, however, she is listed as skilled in sewing, with a dream of becoming a fashion designer. She did not have friends until she met Chibiusa and Usagi. Her bangs are in front of her forehead only parting a bit on the left side to show a sliver of her tiara. As to why the first two rules are no big deal and the third one is, I can’t posit any explanation other than Queen Serenity perhaps knew how things would play out and it was part of a “divine plan”…. Sailor Pluto (セーラープルート, Sērā PurÅ«to) is a fictional character in the Sailor Moon manga series written by Naoko Takeuchi. But it could also have been a penalty/curse (depending on how you see it) given by either QS or Chronos to ensure that she wouldn’t be tempted to misuse it (like if too many time stops could be harmful to the space time). Uses the Garnet Orb. Norma Mcgee. *GULP* Anne was the most easy meal Sailor Pluto ate all court, her slim body slid down her throat easily. There was a sacrifice… but it is okay, because Hotaru was reborn as a baby and no one cares about poor Pluto (her death won’t save the world and her existence won’t destroy it, so who cares, right? The first two taboos concern the Space-Time Door itself, which Queen Serenity presumably created and had power over. However, there being a heart-shaped region on Pluto was an accident as there was no way for Takeuchi to know what Pluto looked like in real life until 2015. Ela não teve más intenções, mas os planos foram mal-executados, senão , quem sabe se o Milênio de Prata não estivesse em pé até hoje? First appears in act 31. The orb is one of three items necessary for Sailor Saturn's awakening and a reference to one of Japan's Imperial Regalia: the jewel. She is identified as the "Guardian of the Underworld" wearing a black-themed sailor suit. [27] Likewise, Setsuna is never actually shown to enjoy shopping nor to dislike cockroaches, eggplant, or the study of music, yet all of these things are delineated by Takeuchi well after the character's introduction. Second, Sailor Pluto herself states that only denizens of the Silver Millennium — which apparently includes Princess Usagi Small Lady Serenity by extension — can enter through the Space-Time Door.7 A door located within the deepest recesses of the Crystal Palace, might I add. [38], Setsuna as Sailor Pluto in her original uniform, with the Garnet Rod, as drawn by, In Episodes 110 and 111, she helps Usagi locate Uranus and Neptune so that Usagi will be present to get the Holy Grail. Pluto is supposed to prevent anyone from messing around with time… and that needs to include Pluto herself. 1. Sailor Moon‘s galactic reset button! But wait…that would make him Saturn…oh…the mythology in Sailor Moon needs filling in! Various situations in the musicals have shown Pluto's unrequited love; for example, Tuxedo Mask's actor, YÅ«ta Mochizuki being leaned on by the actress of Sailor Pluto, Rei Saitou, and commenting on his new year's resolution: to be by Pluto's side. Before you say Helios, yes, I know. Queen Serenity had probably known or suspected that so while she gives Pluto three taboos, she puts some extra stress on the last one. She nearly kills Sailor Moon before realizing who she is, stating that "all who break the taboo must be eliminated. 4 Or, you know, death/the afterlife.. Where have I heard about a Senshi like that before? Perhaps there was a greater reason why she would place these rules on the gatekeeper of the Space-Time Door other than purely for the sake of it. Sailor Pluto vs Viperion is a death battle putting two-time manipulators against each other in a battle to the death! Were the Sailor Senshi Dating Endymion's Shitennou? [22] In each case, she sacrifices herself on pain of death, but is reinstated later in the series. Actually I’m not that surprised that only breaking the third rule had such dire consequences. Sailor Pluto reveals that she was revived by Neo Queen Serenity and returned from the future by her request as she, Uranus and Neptune explain their mission to Usagi, who transforms into Princess Serenity, of dealing with threats beyond the Solar System; the Death Busters being one of these threats. The earrings and her brooch shine bright like the red Garnet Orb. Ankoku no Princess Black Lady (Kaiteiban)-Wakusei Nemesis no Nazo, she uses it to stop Prince Demand from touching the Silver Crystals of the past and future together, which would destroy the universe in a time paradox. All she could think about was saving her friends from eminent destruction." But stopping time could be something that actually effects the user’s body with actual consequences. Chibiusa usually calls Sailor Pluto by the nickname "Puu" (subtitled as "Plu" in the S season subs). Maybe not… but a very serious penalty ensures that Pluto would never be tempted to use that power, unless something far more important than her own life was at stake. There’s also Chronos. "Crystal Power" starting in act 39 when she acquires her second uniform. In the anime, she stops time to save Haruka and Michiru’s lives in a scene that is much less dramatic than her death in the manga. In any case, it just further cements the fact that Sailor Pluto was given a pretty rough lot in life. If she does stop time, her life is forfeit. Sailor Pluto is one of the Outer Senshi in Sailor Moon, so viewers of the anime spend a lot less time with her than with the members of the Inner Senshi, who are the main characters and have a lot of space for character development.This makes Sailor Pluto seem mysterious and cool, especially since she’s the oldest member of the Sailor Scouts. She is the Guardian who guards the Gates of Time. In fact, this ability of Luna-P's is anime-only. queen serenity tells sailormoon that she is the one the humans refered to as selene, she was the niece of cronus, plutos father. Therefore, the time stream is something far broader than just Pluto’s Time Gates, and thus the Time Gates’ control of the time-stream, and thus the degree of control over the time-stream that Queen Serenity “exercised” and then passed on to Pluto, was obviously limited, as the time-stream was something far beyond even Queen Serenity herself, and therefore it’s obvious that her getting some degree of manipulation of it would come at a price. She wields the Garnet Rod, a gigantic key which is topped by the Garnet Orb and a heart. Her sailor suit theme colors are black and garnet and in its first iteration has no sleeves and a jewel hanging from the choker. Hotaru’s physical body was diminished and only reformed as Sailor Saturn for the ability to bring destruction and Pluto died to help save the world. If she could, her troubles with the Black Moon and Shadow Galactica would have been easily resolved. Princess Kakyu was killed in Episode 195, Sailor Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Venus in Episode 196, Sailor Saturn and Pluto were killed in Episode 197, Sailor Uranus and Neptune in Episode 198 and Sailor Chibi Chibi Moon was semingly killed in Episode 200. Btw sorry for the low-quality Viperion images I couldn't find a good transparent one. Act 15 - After Sailor Jupiter transforms into a stronger version for the first time using her Star Power Stick, she uses her Supreme Thunder against 3 Droids. [10] In the manga and Crystal, it can only be inferred from depictions of Pluto blushing while around King Endymion and her reaction when he runs to comfort her during her death. Sailor Pluto is not introduced until late in the Sailor Moon R series. Together, they constitute most of the name of the dwarf planet Pluto in Japanese: Meiōsei (冥王星, "dark king star"). Well, seeing as it’s always a disaster when shows/movies do time travel as it opens up plot holes galore (Ex. She froze time to give Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune a chance to escape, and stayed behind inside the helicopter when time resumed because stopping time is a forbidden technique … It’s the subjective timelines of everything and anything other than herself and her pals that Pluto needs to keep on halt – and that could indeed require crazy energy, making her physical body just melt within seconds. But he has the time travel tech and particles necessary to use it… he could have used it to return to the original timeline to hand over the shield. The third one, however, is a bit more serious: violation of this rule will result in her death. Sailor Pluto opened her mouth wide open and swallowed Anne and her muffled scream's could be herd from her bulging cheeks. The What? The other issue is that Captain America created a new timeline where he stayed in the past and lived out his life with Peggy. One thing that’s always bothered me, though, were the circumstances surrounding her death in the Black Moon arc. Browse more videos. If anyone dies or if anything goes wrong, just go back in time and have a do-over. Her devotion to the life of a Sailor Guardian, too, may have cut her off from worldly dreams, as it did with Sailors Uranus and Neptune (which may be the reason she appears to be distant and lonely at first). Huh. Sailor Moon Crystal - Act 27 Part 2 Sailor Chibi Moon. Chronos Typhoon- Sailor Pluto used the Garnet Rod to s… Her civilian identity was Setsuna Meiou, or Trista in the English dub. If Pluto broke any of the first two rules while SIlver Millenium still existed, she’d probably be punished somehow by the queen for disobedience, but that’s it (“no going back in time to make sure you end up being Endymion’s lover instead of my daughter or I’ll slap your paws, girlie!”). 2.1 Sailor Pluto 2.2. She didn’t want people to walk in an out freely to avoid weird paradoxes, so she put a guard in there – and what better candidate than a daughter of the time god himself! It does make sense. Uses the Garnet Rod. She’s literally related to the god of time!” It more, too, because she’s my favorite Senshi ;-; Pssst. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. (Pluto’s reincarnation in the next arc, on the other hand, comes out of nowhere and barely receives any explanation beyond “future Usagi did it”.) Even though Pluto can control who is affected and how long, her energy will be consumed until she dies. She also mentors Ami/Sailor Mercury in the fourth arc, allowing her to power up to her Super form. When she sent everyone to reincarnate in 1990s Tokyo, that was her wishing to set things right. Alan screamed. i remember when dr.t in deathbusters commented in crystal when sailormoon summons the grail, that she wasn’t being torn apart by the power she was gathering. Triston Elsie. As Princess Pluto, she dwelt in Charon Castle and wore a black gown—she appears in this form in manga act 41 as well as in supplementary art. Second… I have to assume Queen Serenity wouldn’t make a rule like that unless there was a very good reason for it. Sailor Pluto’s taboos and isolation at the door was another one of Serenity’s good intentions, bad executions. It retains the Japanese names, unlike the original dub of the original anime. The story kind of implies that Queen Serenity was super benevolent but not necessarily a great mother or leader. She was one of several new characters introduced in the series' second arc (called "Black Moon" in the manga and Sailor Moon Crystal, and Sailor Moon R in the first anime adaptation), which was comparable to a retool to continue Sailor Moon past the point it was originally supposed to end. The Time Keys around her waist look like mini Garnet Rods; these keys are the only way to travel through time. Sailor Pluto's powers over time and space are somewhat tied with the destructive power of Sailor Saturn for astrological and mythological reasons. This is done with Dark Dome Close (冥空封印, "dark sky seal"). She had the ability to stop time but it would be deadly as she was not a true goddess. Playing next. Make sure your Space-Time doors are fully closed, you’ve had your morning coffee or tea, and let’s get going! Sailor Pluto is not introduced until late in the Sailor Moon R series, though she appears earlier in the manga and Sailor Moon Crystal, in the chapter/episode named after her, though this is still at the halfway point. [8] She is ruthless and follows rather exacting laws, executing any intruders who dare violate the underworld in search for the Gates of Time. As a character with different incarnations, special powers, transformations, and a long lifetime spanning the Silver Millennium and the 30th century, Setsuna gains multiple aspects and aliases as the series progresses. She was born under the sun sign Scorpio, whose modern ruling planet is Pluto,[4] though sometimes Pluto is said to co-rule with Mars, Scorpio's traditional ruling planet. She gets her turn to be reincarnated just like the others. In addition to these powers, when the Space-Time Door has been misused, Sailor Pluto is able to close off passage to other worlds. So she threw in this important rule about how it killed her. Dead Scream- Sailor Pluto used the Garnet Rod to send an energy blast at the enemy. Yes, it’s a reach… but not impossible, so it’s not a definite plot hole. I really wish we knew more about Chronos. And yet, she’s the user of the garnet rod so she not only isn’t stopped – she manages to keep some other senshi going too. Sim. The “stopping time requires so much energy it’ll kill you” idea is the one implicitly used by games like Another Story, where it’s not deadly but does drain all energy points. Guess we’ll have to stick with stopping time consumes her energy as Moonchild suggested. Notice that when Pluto and Saturn are finally reunited with the rest of the senshi, the team is at their strongest. Sailor Pluto is the guardian of the Space-Time Door. Okay, the “Pluto is not a planet” joke is really getting old. No explanation at all, but I suppose it seems fair that she gets to do that too? (Pluto’s reincarnation in the next arc, on the other hand, comes out of nowhere and barely receives any explanation beyond “future Usagi did it”.). Did Usagi's Height Change as Sailor Moon Progressed? In Crystal, she is dark enough to tell she is not the same shade as everyone else which is fairly consistent with how Takeuchi draws her in her color pictures). If anyone could survive spending literal millenia on a doorstep, it would be her. "[36] The scene in which Queen Serenity talks with a young Sailor Pluto about the taboos she must not break was described by Sullivan as an "adorable moment" but that foreshadows "something dire was going to happen". She is also very good friends with Diana, which makes sense considering Diana is to Luna and Artemis what Chibiusa is to Usagi and Mamoru, and occasionally trusts her to watch the Door of Space-Time. Which makes things a lot more complicated. You lost me. [33] In early 1996, with fifty one choices, Setsuna was the twenty-ninth most popular character and Pluto was the twenty-first. Her role in Sailor Moon Crystal is basically identical to that of her manga counterpart, though a line was added where she said she always wished to fight alongside her Queen and the other Guardians. She is first seen contacting Chibiusa through Luna-P. The reason for garnet specifically being associated with Sailor Pluto is probably due to an elaborate pun regarding her underworld-based powers and mythology. I remember being like: “Why does she have to die!? She later cares for Hotaru along with Michiru and Haruka; this happens at the end of the Infinity arc in the manga, but not until the fifth and final arc in the anime (which was shorter than the previous four arcs). When Pluto is reincarnated, she becomes a regular mortal human and loses the ability to stop time. Overall, Pluto in the manga seems to be good with children, which is probably why she ends up working as a nurse at Chibiusa's school in the fifth arc. She is also stated to be the daughter of Chronos, the god of time. Death Phantomnever turned into a massive wave of darkness, nor was he one with Neme… Sailor Pluto has additional, less cited spheres of dominion in her manga and Crystal incarnation, influences that are vaguely suggested in the anime, but never made explicit. The packaging of Irwin dolls released in Canada in 1998 called her by the name Celia. I think it came from her Father who was the god of TIME and when she was born she was the only girl of the god of time and queen serenity went to chronos and asked if she could be the senshi of the space time door and chronos gave her the rules to tell her about the law of time and since stopping time would cause her to die because it 1 stops time and 2 ita uses all her power. Maybe she’s seen Back To The Future, and knows just how badly things can go if you mess around with the timeline… rewriting history or creating alternate realities is generally a pretty terrible idea. According to the manga, it’s actually the Garnet Rod, not Pluto, that has the power to stop time (p. 10 of vol. All the senshi together, not separated by age in the case of the inner senshi and not separated by distance in the case of the outer senshi. What Does the Full Sailor Moon Timeline Look Like? First off, according to statements made by Nehellenia,5 we know that Queen Serenity and her retinue came to the Earth during the planet’s infancy, quite possibly shortly after the hypothesized planetary impact that created the Moon 4.5 billion years ago.6 She describes a desire to watch over the planet though there is clearly no civilization in place at the time on the Moon or seemingly elsewhere in the area.