Yet More Odds and Ends

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Rumors make the world go round! Not really, but I need to say something witty here.

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"Whoa! This is how rumors get started!"

Mamoru in the anime is a big fat loser who breaks up with Usagi, ditches her for Harvard and favors the little cotton-candy spore over her. He's older, less affectionate and definitely meaner.
Stupid jerk! How dare he pursue an education in order to ensure he will have the financial means to support his fiance! Okay, enough ranting. Mamoru isn't so much less affectionate as he is less romantic. It's his feelings that are genuine - Usagi knows he loves her and he will do anything for her, and frequently DOES. He can't possibly love Usagi or Chibi Usa more than the other because Usagi is his romantic lover and Chibi Usa is his daughter. Two entirely different relationships. Mamoru never insults Usagi or teases her when they date. Even in the break-up period, he never makes it personal (remember WHY he broke up with her in the first place.) He buys Usagi gifts left and right, even when she's nasty to him (i.e. the glass slippers), because he doesn't like seeing her upset. Also, before he leaves for Harvard, he gives Usagi an engagement ring and outright tells her that he loves her. That's not something you do if you're trying to be mean.

Seiya prefers being a guy to a girl.
He never says anything to the effect. He even tells Usagi in the Stars anime before the Three Light's last concert that he is ending his life as Seiya Kou. In both anime and manga, the whole guy disguise was meant to get the attention of Kakyuu. Kakyuu in the anime, upon seeing the Three Light's male forms, asks why they chose "these forms," implying that this is the FIRST time they've been male. If Star Fighter preferred being a man, Kakyuu would not be surprised at seeing her male.

Usagi and Mamoru only broke up in the English dub.
That plotline did indeed exist in the original Japanese anime, as well as all international versions. However, it did NOT exist in the manga.

Mamo-chan doesn't even want Usagi, looks as if he was kind of forced into the whole thing because of "destiny" and he only has a sense of duty towards Usa and feels he must protect her.
I originally had a huge explanation of why this is false, but I've decided to cut it and write a much longer one as a full-length article in the future for Tuxedo Mission. But for the purpose of this site, this implication is outright false and is proven false over and over again during the course of the show. People who say this would do well to actually watch the show before stating such falsities and blatant disregards for the truth about the show. Mamoru repeatedly tells Usagi he loves her, she repeatedly tells him she loves him, their love for each other is constantly shown as an overwhelming powerful force... how do you force that out of someone? Argh...

It is NEVER stated that Usagi is straight, bisexual, or homosexual. I seem to remember a lot of times when Haruka kissed Usagi and she seemed to enjoy it.
Funny, I seem to remember that Usagi actually tended to get quite disturbed the one time Haruka kissed her (in the manga) or when she'd flirt with her (anime.) Uranus only kissed Usagi (as Sailor Moon) once, and almost kissed Usagi as Haruka, but stopped. A third kiss actually occured in a dream sequence. Every time it happened, Usagi would get extremely shocked and upset, as opposed to enjoying a kiss. Obviously, if Usagi is homosexual, she would not be interested in men, period, so we can rule that out easily. She also never shows a romantic interest in women, and her crush on Haruka in the anime quickly disappears when she discovers Haruka's actual gender (which Haruka purposely revealed.) Hence, we would have to conclude she's not bisexual either.

Setsuna is really Mamoru in drag.
No, no, no! This started off as a newsgroup joke and some people started taking it seriously ^_^; They've been seen together in both the anime and manga, so they can't be the same person. It was always intended as a joke and nothing more.

Mamo-chan is homosexual, isn't that clear? He wears pink and purple shirts, treats Usagi like s***, and was clearly Fiore's lover in another time parodox. Either that or he wants to go out with his daughter.
Poor Mamo-chan, nobody seems to like him. So, where to start? If Mamoru was gay, than he wouldn't go and marry a woman...oh wait, I said that already. He never loves Fiore-he even attacked him to protect Usagi. Mamoru does not love his daughter...oh, I said that already too. As for Mamoru mistreating Usagi, no he doesn't, I said that too didn't I? What haven't I covered...oh yea, the shirts! You'd be surprised how many straight men wear pink and purple shirts and how many gay men don't wear those colors. Besides, Mamoru more often wears black sweaters or white-collar shirts than pink or purple.

Usagi's mother's name is Ilene.
Ikuko. Where do people get the idea that everyone in Japan has an English name? Just because a lousy Americanized dub removes just about any sign of the culture does not mean that Japan has an American name for everyone and everything.

Takeuchi Naoko was in charge of the anime.
Manga only. She actually had very little control (if any) of the anime. This is why the anime and manga plotlines veer off into different directions (compare the Dream arc of the manga to the SuperS anime).

Hotaru's name is Helen or Jane in the dub.
Surprise! It's actually...Hotaru. I realize this may be difficult to remember, but please do try.

One of Saturn's attacks is Silent Blaster.
She's only got Silence Glaive Surprise, Silence Wall, and Death Reborn Revolution (Which only appears in the manga.) I don't know where this "Silent Blaster" came from.

Serena's best friend/boyfriend is Molly/Tuxedo Kamen.
Great, now I've got images of that horrible Boston accented freak of dubbing as Tuxedo Kamen. Thank you so very much.

Does Princess Serena have white hair in the future? Well in some of the pictures you see she does and sometimes the rest of the sheshies have red, green and other color hair. In the future she has hair which are blond like now, but eventually they will turn white when she gets old… BTW her mom(from the moon kingdom) have white hair!
Okay, I'd like to know when Usagi/Serenity/Sailor Moon's hair has ever been red or green. No, art book pictures where everyone had alternate hair colors don't count! Anyway, in the anime, Usagi's hair is always blonde no matter whether she's Sailor Moon, Princess Serenity, or Neo-Queen Serenity. In the manga, Usagi has blonde hair as Sailor Moon and Usagi, but as Princess Serenity and Neo-Queen Serenity, her hair is silvery white. Takeuchi mentions in the first artbook that she originally planned to have Sailor Moon have blonde hair when transforming and silver hair when she was actually Sailor Moon. However, she was told that silver would look too plain on the artbook and tankubon covers, so she switched the hair color to blonde. She kept Serenity with silver hair, and all incarnations of Serenity are shown with silver hair.

Sailor Moon destroyed the Imperial Silver Chrystal.
Then what is she using to transform with for the rest of the show? The maboroshi no ginzuishou (Mystic Silver Crystal) is around during the entire series, anime and manga, and it is the crux of Sailor Moon's power.

Dr. Tomoe is blind in one eye.
Actually, that weird eye of his is where the daimon Germatoid is. Towards the end of S, Germatoid actually flies out of the lens of Dr. Tomoe's glasses and attacks Uranus and Neptune. Tomoe can see perfectly fine with or without Germatoid in there.

Wiseman turned Chibi Usa(Reenie) evil because having her on his side would definitely work to his advantage over the sailor senshi, and she would be a powerful asset to his army. He told Chibi Usa that Usagi didn't love her. He kept on reminding her of all the times that Usagi was mean to Chibi Usa,(don't forget that Usagi wasn't aware that Chibi Usa was her daughter at those points) and Chibi Usa beleived that Usagi hated her which is how Wiseman took control of Chibi Usa to turn her evil.
Wise Man wasn't showing Chibi Usa memories of Usagi being mean, especially considering he didn't even know who Usagi was. He was actually showing Chibi Usa warped versions of memories of her family in the future and made her think that nobody loved her, especially her parents.

No one knows for sure about Uranus and Neptune's relationship. Some people say that they are and some not, I personallly think that they are lover from the way they act, but hey, let your imagination decide of it.
Or you could try actually watching the show or reading the manga or reading the interviews with Takeuchi in which she says explicitly that they're lesbians, or read the article in the common legends section dealing with the censorship in the dub, or look at all the romantic pictures of the two of them...look, there's not one shred of evidence that they're not lesbians. It's that simple. Unless you're watching a foreign dub that has removed this element, they are lesbians. Get over it.

Sailor Moon was censored because the US goverment highly believes in censory and a lot of the stuff in the show wouldn't be "appropriate" for little kids. Death scenes where cut out, and some partially nude scenes too(like we women have never seen breasts before).
Government my foot. According to the Communications Act of 1934, the FCC may not act in a censorship role. While they can threaten to revoke the license of a network that is running obscene or indecent material, they've gotten very lenient as of late. It is the dubbing companies alone that decided to censor the show, for fear that parents wouldn't let their children watch it. Money talks in the world of entertainment. And will you people stop assuming there was graphic nudity left and right in the original show? Japanese television has network restrictions on content too, you know, it's not just us. Even in the last episode, when Usagi was flying naked, you could see that her body was drawn with very little detail. As for the rest, there wasn't any graphic nudity to cut, though the dub did cut short some of the daimon star sequences.

Zoisite was a guy in America.
Japan. He's a guy in the American version of the manga, though.

Zoisite is in love with Neflite.
Kunzite. Zoisite killed Nephrite, remember?

Chibi Chibi is Galaxia's star seed in the manga.
No, she's Sailor Cosmos in the manga. She's a star seed in the anime. Come on, do your research!

Dark Dome Close stops time in the manga.
Dark Dome Close is actually used by Pluto to close the opening to the Tau Galaxy at the end of the Infinity Arc. Remember, Pluto is the senshi of space-time, so she also deals with openings to other dimensions and galaxies. The Time-Space Door does indeed close, but after it sucks up the entrance to the Tau Galaxy. It has nothing to do with stopping time.

Queen Serenity couldn't send herself to the future with the Senshi and the people of the Silver Millenium because someone had to activate the ginzinshou(silver crystal).
Actually, it's because using the ginzuishou's full power kills the user, as seen at the end of the first season and in the R movie. Queen Serenity couldn't send herself because she was dead from using the crystal. Sailor Moon hasn't died permanently because something always revives her.

Uranus and Neptune's civilian IDs are Harnka and Micharu.
What the heck?! Haruka turned into a car horn! *harnka, harnka!*

At the end of SailormoonS Sailormoon transformed Sailorsaturn into a baby because she was trying to destroy the world and this was a way to prevent her from doing so.
No, Saturn was not trying to destroy the world. The Death Busters were the people trying to do that. Saturn was turned into a baby, most likely so she could restart her life free from the tragedy that marred it before.

Professor Tomoe injured his eye in a lab accident that also killed his wife and that evil spirits from the Tau system entered his body through the injured eye.
No, Tomoe Keiko (Souichi's wife and Hotaru's mother) was already dead by the time the explosion took place. Hotaru was the one who died in the explosion. The entity offered Tomoe a chance to revive Hotaru. He agreed and THAT'S when he and Hotaru were possessed. Again, Tomoe's eye wasn't injured, the lens is where the daimon that possessed him went to.

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