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REVIEW: Sailor Moon Short Stories GN 2

Thanks for the info. Can anyone clarify further on this? :O

zeo1fan wrote:

Thanks for the info. Can anyone clarify further on this? :O

I rechecked my French edition as well as the one reviewed here, and it does look like it was the Japanese agency that wanted her to give up and get married. I tend to agree with FullMetalOne that TokyoPop misattributed the line in the first English translation...although it could also be that everyone else "fixed" what they saw as a mistake, given the history cited by FullMetalOne.

Do you honestly think an unmarried Princess bore children for the royal family? O_O

And no. Resurrection implies that they all just popped back up again somewhere in their teenage bodies rather than having their spirits reborn years later on Earth.

zeo1fan wrote:

Do you honestly think an unmarried Princess bore children for the royal family? O_O

No. I meant did she die?

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And no. Resurrection implies that they all just popped back up again somewhere in their teenage bodies rather than having their spirits reborn years later on Earth.

Erm, we are talking about the end of the manga, not the anime, right?

I don't remember such a thing happening in the manga, Remind me where please?

Mohawk52 wrote:

zeo1fan wrote: Why would that be an issue for you? It doesn't exactly seem uncommon that a warrior would swear their chastity to their ruler, and at that time a lot of Japanese women faced pressure to marry and children to further the family line, in a sense, preserving the family, as well as its immortality. So a bunch of female characters who choose to serve as soldiers rather than marrying and popping out babies was a pretty big deal. Do you really think that is a good inspiration for a country where it's birth rate is in free fall? Even Roman soldiers had families, sometimes several. you might remember Venus, and Jupiter lamented that they wanted a love life, but gave up the idea when they remembered their vow to the Moon Princess, but that just made a nonsense of the scouts "regenerating" every generation. How can that be if there is no generation to regenerate from? The only way we are shown is when Saturn pops up as an infant after she closes the portal on the Dark Moon. Do all the others pop up this way too? Even Usagi who has a younger brother? Are they not blood related? See? Just too convoluted. Not a plot hole, but a canyon that never got explained.

It's not a common message in Japanese media that it's okay not to have kids. The reason the birth rate is on the decline is because of because of women being pressured to get married and have kids, but wanting to keep their careers. But also because of the emphasis on work, Japan's ability to turn each part of a relationship into a sellable commodity, the over-emphasis on taking care of the elderly, the emergence of 2D Girlfriends and boyfriends. The birth rate decline was caused by a lot of things, but a message that it's okay to not get married and not have kids was not one of them. And it's reincarnation, not regeneration. They don't need to reincarnate immediately after dying, nor do they even need to be related to their first incarnations. Princess Serenity died without ever having children and she found her way to a new body, pretty easily.

Mohawk52 wrote:

I don't remember such a thing happening in the manga, Remind me where please?

During the first arc? Beryl slew Endymion, Venus slew Beryl, and in her inconsolable grief, Serenity slew herself. Basically, a slew of problems befell the Moon Kingdom. ;D

Mohawk52 wrote:

I don't remember such a thing happening in the manga, Remind me where please?

During the first arc? Beryl slew Endymion, Venus slew Beryl, and in her inconsolable grief, Serenity slew herself. Basically, a slew of problems befell the Moon Kingdom. ;D

zeo1fan wrote:

Mohawk52 wrote: I don't remember such a thing happening in the manga, Remind me where please? During the first arc? Beryl slew Endymion, Venus slew Beryl, and in her inconsolable grief, Serenity slew herself. Basically, a slew of problems befell the Moon Kingdom. ;D

I see what you did there, zeo1fan, and I LOVE IT!

zeo1fan wrote:

Mohawk52 wrote: I don't remember such a thing happening in the manga, Remind me where please? During the first arc? Beryl slew Endymion, Venus slew Beryl, and in her inconsolable grief, Serenity slew herself. Basically, a slew of problems befell the Moon Kingdom. ;D

Hmm. I get the feeling you're leaving something very important out there. I'm at work as I type this and so do not have my books at hand to refernece that, but I will when I get home. I get the feeling it has to to with a flashback.

Mohawk52 wrote:

zeo1fan wrote: Mohawk52 wrote: I don't remember such a thing happening in the manga, Remind me where please? During the first arc? Beryl slew Endymion, Venus slew Beryl, and in her inconsolable grief, Serenity slew herself. Basically, a slew of problems befell the Moon Kingdom. ;D Hmm. I get the feeling you're leaving something very important out there. I'm at work as I type this and so do not have my books at hand to refernece that, but I will when I get home. I get the feeling it has to to with a flashback.

Is it really that uncommon for grief stricken human beings to take their own lives? Especially royals, who are historically dramatic people.

zeo1fan wrote:

Mohawk52 wrote: zeo1fan wrote: Mohawk52 wrote: I don't remember such a thing happening in the manga, Remind me where please? During the first arc? Beryl slew Endymion, Venus slew Beryl, and in her inconsolable grief, Serenity slew herself. Basically, a slew of problems befell the Moon Kingdom. ;D Hmm. I get the feeling you're leaving something very important out there. I'm at work as I type this and so do not have my books at hand to refernece that, but I will when I get home. I get the feeling it has to to with a flashback. Is it really that uncommon for grief stricken human beings to take their own lives? Especially royals, who are historically dramatic people.

Not if they are British. They would have had someone else do the deed, or die in their place. However the Japanese are infamous for topping themselves over the least little thing.