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Usagi Quest (CK3/Princess Maker) (Sailor Moon)

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[X][Ami] Instinctive Fighter
[X][Tux] Fine
-[X] But if you subdue him, I will use my power to purify what controls him.
 
[x] [Ami] Calculative Combat
[x] [Tux] Fine
- [x] But if you subdue him, at least let me try to purify what controls him.
 
[X][Ami] Instinctive Fighter
[X][Tux] Fine
-[X] But if you subdue him, I will use my power to purify what controls him.

Instinctive fighter just tickles my fancy. There's something ironic about the most intelligent of the senshi turning her brain off to become an absolute beast in a fight.
 
Manatee supreme said:
So how many Sailors do we now have?
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Inner: Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter. 4, soon to be 5.

Venus is in London, but we should meet her next turn for Operation Slumber Party!

Outer: Neptune, Uranus. 2

Pluto is still guarding the time door, and Saturn is being her cute little cyborg self.


so that's 6 (soon to be 7), + honorary senshi Tuxedo Kamen, and apprentice magical girl (and possibly reincarnated villain) Naru.


We also have Luna playing intrigue support, Kimiko that, after this, is probably going to be an ally (or at least a friendly contact) in the police, Alice as our manager/source of funding.



To this you can add the original precures (which we should meet again in a week or two, can't remember which).





So, in short, we have 4 of the 5 inner senshi right now, and we'll probably talk with Venus next turn, and I imagine she'll come back to Tokyo soon after. Tuxedo Kamen is also basically always there, so we might as well count him as part of the team, especially now that we know his secret identity.

The Queensgard are new enough to their powers that we might actually manage to sort of integrate them into our team, though probably not to the same level of the inner, simply because they're older and busy with their own things.



After that we might be able to integrate the precures and establish a good connection with Kimiko, while Inuyasha and Ranma cast are more or less going to only be occasional guest stars, unless things change.
Lunaryon said:
Mercury, Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune.

That's 6 of the nine, a good 66%.
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It's not nice to not include honorary senshi Endymion!
 
Pittauro said:
So, in short, we have 4 of the 5 inner senshi right now, and we'll probably talk with Venus next turn, and I imagine she'll come back to Tokyo soon after.
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I don't see how this is likely. Sailor V is dealing with the Oblivion guys and the Dark Kingdom (led by Zoisite?) on her own; unless Operation Slumber Party can break both of them in a single turn, she'll probably still be overseas for quite a while.
 
silentorphan said:
I heard she was a cyborg in the manga.
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Pittauro said:
and crystal, that is based on the manga.

It HAS also been mentioned here in the thread at some point, though not in an actual update, that she's probably been turned into a cyborg already.
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Okay, I am only really familiar with the 90s anime and more recently have been watching the whole thing, only 4 eps of Stars to go before I will have seen all 200 eps. I tried to watch Crystal back when it first came out but couldn't get past the fact they had gotten Usagi's original VA to reprise the role. She very much sounded like a 50 year old trying to sound like a teenage girl. I haven't read the manga at all. I was not aware that that was a thing.
 
...Hold on, why do the police sometimes call Kimiko Pikachu? Wasn't Pokémon Red/Green a 1996 release?

[x] [Ami] Calculative Combat
[x] [Tux] Fine
- [x] But if you subdue him, at least let me try to purify what controls him.
 
GoukaRyuu said:
Okay, I am only really familiar with the 90s anime and more recently have been watching the whole thing, only 4 eps of Stars to go before I will have seen all 200 eps. I tried to watch Crystal back when it first came out but couldn't get past the fact they had gotten Usagi's original VA to reprise the role. She very much sounded like a 50 year old trying to sound like a teenage girl. I haven't read the manga at all. I was not aware that that was a thing.
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if you ever decide to try Crystal again, I warmly advise to read the manga for the first two arcs (it shouldn't be that much), and then skip to season 3 directly.

Season 1 and 2 are bad. Season 3 is mostly fine though. A REALLY big jump in quality, it definitely surprised me.

I'd give season 1 and 2 somewhere between 4 and 5, and season 3 a 7. Maybe even an 8 if I'm being generous.


but yeah, Hotaru is a cyborg there. Something about her father changing her into one after an accident, and then basically grooming her to become the new host of Mistress 9 (Pharaoh 90 sort of interrupts the surgery I think, or arrives right after it's been completed.)
 
Pittauro said:
if you ever decide to try Crystal again, I warmly advise to read the manga for the first two arcs (it shouldn't be that much), and then skip to season 3 directly.

Season 1 and 2 are bad. Season 3 is mostly fine though. A REALLY big jump in quality, it definitely surprised me.

I'd give season 1 and 2 somewhere between 4 and 5, and season 3 a 7. Maybe even an 8 if I'm being generous.


but yeah, Hotaru is a cyborg there. Something about her father changing her into one after an accident, and then basically grooming her to become the new host of Mistress 9 (Pharaoh 90 sort of interrupts the surgery I think, or arrives right after it's been completed.)
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Well, let's look at my scores for the anime as they currently stand:

Sailor Moon: 7
Sailor Moon R: 6
Sailor Moon R: The Movie: 7
Sailor Moon S: 8
Sailor Moon S Movie (The one where Luna becomes humanoid): 7
Sailor Moon SuperS: 7
Sailor Moon Sailor Stars: 6

Honestly, unless the first two seasons of Crystal are truly horrendous they probably won't be lower than R or Stars.
 
GoukaRyuu said:
Honestly, unless the first two seasons of Crystal are truly horrendous they probably won't be lower than R or Stars.
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eh, I don't know. THe first part of Crystal has the worst combination of bad/cheap animation, weird pacing, and flat characters (except maybe Usagi and Mamoru, which are actually mostly alright).

Then again, the original sailor moon is STILL a 30 years old series, and the average quality of anime series HAS gone up a lot, especially in terms of animation..

I've only watched the first.. I think 15-20 ep of the original sailor moon, a LONG time ago (plus some random episodes here and there), but from what I remember the whole cast of sailor senshi had a much better developed personality (partly thanks to all the filler episodes. Crystal has about one episode for each of the original senshi, and then we're already halfway through the dk arc)..

If you end up giving it a try, let me know what you think.


silentorphan said:
The QM had Usagi noticing that someone's heart flower looked like a Vileplume in a past threadmark.
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eh, mistakes happen.

silentorphan said:
I don't see how this is likely. Sailor V is dealing with the Oblivion guys and the Dark Kingdom (led by Zoisite?) on her own; unless Operation Slumber Party can break both of them in a single turn, she'll probably still be overseas for quite a while.
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Dk... maybe, especially if Venus/Artemis can locate their headquarter (or at least a major operation site) BEFORE our arrival.

Oblivion it's harder to say.


Funny thing is, all the villains would need to do to, if not actually win, at least progress a LOT in their plans, would be to attack ANYWHERE THAT IS NOT TOKYO.

Sure, we have the silver crystal, but if the DK had youma in literally every country of the world they could get a LOT of life energy BEFORE coming at us for that!
 
Sir_Braazmiir said:
...Hold on, why do the police sometimes call Kimiko Pikachu? Wasn't Pokémon Red/Green a 1996 release?
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Law of Conservation of Good Fiction. With at least three major late '80s and early '90s Japanese IPs disappearing from fiction because they're, uh, fact... Pokemon got timewarped forwards into the early '90s, as one of the first wave of GameBoy games.

Zakenna, During PreCure crossover: "ZAKENNA!"

Sailor Moon: "Wait... are you a Pokemon named Zakenna? Are Pokemon real now? Because I... I don't think I could handle fighting an evil Jigglypuff."

Naru: "I seriously considered devouring a demon to amplify the corrupted dark powers that I strongly suspect I have now, and even I agree that no middle school girl should have to face such a terrible necessity."

Pittauro said:
Funny thing is, all the villains would need to do to, if not actually win, at least progress a LOT in their plans, would be to attack ANYWHERE THAT IS NOT TOKYO.

Sure, we have the silver crystal, but if the DK had youma in literally every country of the world they could get a LOT of life energy BEFORE coming at us for that!
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I suspect the underlying problems with that idea are as follows:

1) We've observed that isolated youma plots, the kind where you plunk down one youma and have them gather energy, are not THAT hard for some random magically empowered individual to trip over and destroy. Even mortal authorities have a chance of neutralizing the plot eventually- by warning away other mortals, if nothing else.

2) Because of (1), for youma plots to work reasonably well in the face of even the kind of scattershot opposition modern Earth is capable of without magical girls blowing everything up the way they do in Tokyo, they need a competent field agent handling things. Someone to make sure the plot won't be outed immediately, and to handle any low-tier opposition the youma themselves isn't strong or smart enough to squash out of hand.

3) To deal with (2), the Dark Kingdom has about four field agents capable of overseeing an important operation. Those four may or may not be able to casually teleport over intercontinental distances without considerable prep time or energy expenditure. Sure, we can do it, but we have enormous reserves of planetary magic on tap and even for us there's a cooldown period. The Dark Generals, who are specifically trying to conserve energy so they can feed it to Metallia, and who don't have the planetary magic wells to draw on directly, may have more trouble.

4) Time zones are an issue for them as well as for us. Youma may or may not need to do things like sleep, but their harvesting activities are necessarily going to be tied into the time rhythm of the communities around them. If a Shitennou tries to supervise operations in, say, China, Germany, and Brazil all at the same time, he's going to spend a lot of time grumbling about jet lag.

5) Furthermore, local knowledge is an issue. The Dark Generals don't necessarily have unlimited translation magic or magical knowledge of all Earthly languages; it's very unlikely that their youma do. For youma to pass as human they have to know how humans behave in the target area; to set up front operations like shops and gyms they have to know how to navigate the local bureaucracy and economy. Figuring this out in each new area represents a further obstacle that must be overcome.

Between (3), (4), and (5), spreading out their operations on any scale much larger than a major metropolitan area or small country might well cause the Dark Kingdom more logistical problems than it solves.

Furthermore, there was simply no need to do anything like this for them until about a month ago, when abruptly Sailor Senshi (and other, entirely unrelated groups of magical girls) started awakening in droves around Tokyo. Which presents the Dark Kingdom with a bit of a dilemma. If they bail out of the Tokyo area and start up somewhere else, they're giving their new enemies (whose command structure they don't fully understand) room to fortify, train, and become a threat capable of coming after them. If they stay in the Tokyo area, they need every tool at their disposal to keep the situation from spiraling hopelessly out of control.

Jadeite definitely seems to be trying the latter- though it may get him killed.
 
[X][Ami] Calculative Combat

[X][Tux] Fine
- [x] But if you subdue him, at least let me try to purify what controls him.
 
[x] [Ami] Calculative Combat
[x] [Tux] Fine
- [x] But if you subdue him, I will use my power to purify what controls him.
- [x] Everybody else focuses on making sure Jadeite cannot escape.
 
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