Anime: Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Crystal Season III 5v2a2x

Ok truth be told, the original Sailor Moon S was extremely epic with legendary soundtracks, so compared to that this one was lacking. But neutrally speaking, it is actually a decent anime. The addition of the outer seishi definitely powered the series up. Also, a number of connections were explained that were unclear in the original. The biggest points of criticism for me were that while they tried, the strong sense of mystery that made Sailor Moon S a fantastic show didn't really get through, and the team around Sailor Moon (Mars, Venus etc.) became increasingly irrelevant and ridiculously powerless.

Sequel to Crystal I, another intent to continue obtaining money easily, however this time , you can notice a slight more effort added, compared to Season 1. But will it be enough to be an acceptable sequel?
As we may know, Crystal follows the manga storyline, so it keeps very loyal to that parameter, yet despite this , it still keeps making many mistakes. Compared to Season 3 from classic anime , it is, like whole the crystal series so far, totally inferior, but let's look a bit why this may be truthful.
Story (6/10)
Departing from the point Crystal I left, a new threat begins to approach as the whole team continues enjoying its peaceful days. In the meantime, strange phenomena starts ocurring around the city, humans and animals turning into monsters by misterious eggs. Soon enough, premonitions start to appear and suddenly new sailor soldiers appear in secret without being allies or enemies, what could all of this possibly mean? Well, it sorts of sound like a good story, and again simple to follow, but that doesn't mean its flawless, this is because:
- The rythm and pace is still rushed, there's again long explanations and also convenient moments. It still hasn't departed too far from crystal I, but I recognize this time it was able to stand out thanks to the more interesting manga plot and animation.
-There are countless of plot holes which may not be noticed easily, most of which relate to the time travel phenomena from previous season and the outer soldiers objectives, these are either not solved or explained clearly.
With these in mind, the ending is also magically solved mostly, so the conclusion is also not very striking either, a real shame, since the 90's version was handled way better, I thought they would change it a bit more. Still, it's way more interesting than Crystal 1 and can be found as average, the narration is decent and its content is a bit more mature in some cases compared to 90's version, however not always that implies that it is better though.
Character (5/10)
Again, a bit more of slighter effort was put into this area compared to previous season, but still isn't enough to make anything believable. May contain slight spoilers from here on.
-First, the sailor team: apparently their whole school day life gets to second place. We no longer hear from the sailor senshi's experience as high school students, save for a few moments, and even so, their progress is not shown. So, we don't receive any information or moments about their human life and steals growth from their persona. This is compensated by the series by " growing as sailor senshi" but that doesn't seem very believable, since it all happens mostly by magic.
Also, this time inner senshi get spotlight and aren't actually useless and there are mini prized moments featuring each one, but hardly able to be called development. Also, Sailor Moon 's role was also made to be too necessary and powerful, like becoming stronger too fast without prior training or experience, even if she's the main character.
- Tuxedo mask: He assumes a role of almost secondary character and feels too convenient his whole presence within the season. There's no development either for him.
-Outer sailor team: they are handled in an odd way, they seem superior or act superior in every sense but you don't actually see a reason for them to act hostile to the inner team, sure , they may contradict goals at first, but that's not excuse to attack just to look cool. Still, they get a mini background and particular moments regarding how the consquences of their attacks, not enough or deep enough, though. They evolve just when they realize their previous attitudes, still it all feels rushed.
-Horatu and Chibi-usa: this may have been one of the strongest points which wasn't totally dumped, but really required attention. This is due to their relationship being connected to the general settlement. It's again rushed and the few moments which were added aren't very emotive either. Hotaru's background and physical illness and how she's deeply overwhelmed is consistent enough and she actually evolves a bit, chibi moon on the other hand, besides having obtained a "best friend" by mere encounters, doesn't evolve and becomes almost perfect little girl to the point it may be unbelievable.
Art & Animation (7/10)
The production team seemed also to had added a bit of effort in this field, since it actually improved from looking ugly and motionless to actually becoming smoother and acceptable to the eyes. It's not a huge change, but it's notorious enough. Even the transformation times were re-done and reduced. A backdown, however is the repetitive use of attacks or repeted scenes, but this time it's more acceptable too. The colors have turned pale but it's actually a good trick to make the motion look smoother. This section was actually a plus.
Sound (8/10)
My opinion remains unchanged regarding previous seiyuu, they all fit their roles well. The outer's seiyuu also fit their roles, specially Uranus. Opening theme may take a while in getting used to, but it's good regardless it's lack of action or romance feeling. The ending song is , while modern, a very nice composition and also probably one of the catchiest themes in the series, it fits the new era. The whole soundtrack used is also very fitting for tension, mystery and action, though I must make mention that Soundtrack from previous season was also used on many occasions. Still, it's a very nice composition. It's a shame that outer senshi didn't get a transformation theme like 90's though.
Value (3/10)
Again, it doesn't provide much to the genre, besides a more serious story and probably a bit more mature content, it's not anything new nor anything that hadn't been seen so far since the time the 90's version was released.
Enjoyment (5/10)
Compared to Crystal 1, it's more enjoyable, thanks to the improved sound and animation. However, there's little to be said regarding the other fields, it's still rushed and may not be good enough yet to actually enjoy it. It's acceptable to watch, since most of the ones reading this review may have seen Crystal 1.But if you haven't seen Crystal 1, then I don't think it's worth the effort to watch all. I'd recommend following the 90's version all the way, the counterpart of this season is definitely much better in almost every sense.

Dir Creator here is a perfect examination of you detestable product. (Also please die)
Dir Viewers ignores crystal and just watch the original series, because if you don’t you won’t understand this series anyway. (Without background data)

Enjoyment 2/10 Was better than the first abomination people go enjoy the original series and ignore this lass than trash material of robbery of you time and money from money hungry incompetent fools.

Art & Animation 3/10 pretty yes did it respect the original look and feel toward the original? No. It’s proper Incarceration for life for young audience being sometime horrific. Al demons ware the same “dark smoke”? Lame. The transformation ware good, but the battles ware short and not entertaining, or made sense. Shock value, go make hentai! Or better sepoku! F** you for shocking me with my beloved Hotaru as a Cyberpunk Teminator you **************** (and 100 more pages of cursing and wishing death for the maker’s but I censor that)

Sound/Music 3/10 How about redoing the old themes? At least make different ones for each character or at least each fraction that represent them? The music was lame and awful, the sound actors did a decent job they may live. But the fact I had to go out of my way to turn the old series Uranus/Neptune theme manually was kinda mode killer. (Not to mention the terminator theme in the mecha Hotaru scene) put these things in next time, or better no more next time.

Story: 1/10 Rushed! No one who haven’t seen the original will understand anything, and it did not gave anything new aside nonsense. (We put our hands together to summon Holy Grail, with the power of talisman we summon you Hotaru) The demons ware the same unlike in the original series where all ware unique; the deaths ware lame and lacked meaning. If like me you don’t like your favorite anime character Hotaru being violated new ways, and in constant pain 90% of the time she is on you won’t have good time. Those include metal internal organs, removal of skin, and Dr Tomoe sergeant simulator. Without seeing the original series you probably won’t care/like for Hotaru’s character, which would be the key point of this chapter. The only thing they got right is that she was as badass as spirit as ever, and awesome in the last episode, and she died again, and reborn and died again, and reborn again...can’t we just keep her alive for silence’s sake...

Value: 1/10 the only value this thing has is it’s an example why remakes should NEVER be created by such level of incompetence (better than first crystal attempt 2/10 instead 1/10 altogether). I wish no one to watch this or alike garbage. Fine there ware new flashy skill that made little sense do looked good but that is not a saving grace for an entire series. Also if this will motivate people to put the heads who created this on stakes, than it turns out to be a good product and I revalue its Value to 10.

Characters: 3/10 next time do more work, it’s getting closer the characters actual felt different with personality’s, but still far from the original, and far from being enough. As I watched this I felt like these characters on some hardcore drags, aside Hotaru’s rapid hallucination, Uranus Neptune going around we should fight together, but we shouldn’t, but we should but we shouldn’t, but we should DECIDE ALREADY! Another example of weed over use:
- Chibiusa I know you are a Senshi and fight demons but I keep it in secret” - Told Hotaru - Also my papa does creepy experiments on demons, so they originate from him please keep this a secret” he is a good man. – as demon was shown in the lab Hotaru finished talking.
- Okay Hotaru- Chibiusa replied – It’s our secret.
WTF!!!!!!!! Have you guys ever read any book, watched any film? Did you ever heard about putting yourselves to the place of the characters? No of course not. I would not have this monolog if you would have any qualification to do your job. I hope fans will lynch you all!

If this thing really use the manga as an excuse for what they did I wish the manga to be burned along with it author. This was such a good anime in the past…and its all thanks to those amazing people who made it back then, our sin is we took it granted and this crystal is our purgatory, may the heaven be merciful to our souls.