30 Day Sailor Moon meme...Day 17
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azuriteOkay, the honest-to-God truth is that I'm a teeny-tiny bit late with this. Two hours late. (But I'm backdating it so it appears properly in my archives. *cheater! cheater!*) It's the first and hopefully only time, so forgive me 'kay? I've been playing Star Ocean 4 a lot today and trying to complete a lot of sidequests....
Once again, another day in the 30 Days of Sailor Moon meme, brought to you by the inimitable Frizzy of Sailor Failures.
Damn, this is a tough one. And there's simply no way to list every single attack out there by every villain, big or small. It took quite a long time before we saw the best-of-the-best with many villains--the epic final battle with them usually. And while youma attacks could be interesting in many ways, they usually weren't memorable in a good way (anyone remember U-choten? "Onegai!" got VERY very annoying after a short while.)
Whether you're looking at the anime, which had many attacks with no names (villains don't waste their time with shouting out attacks, probably because it's a HEROIC Japanese tradition in media); the manga, which had way more characters, including evil Senshi in great numbers, with their own special attacks that we only saw once; or PGSM, which, as previous posts have clearly indicated, was a beast of its own! Oh, and then there are the video games, like my personal favorite Sailor Moon: Another Story, the RPG (shortened to SMAS RPG). We had all sorts of fun link techs in that game, which gave names to some of the combination attacks we saw in the anime, like Moon/Mercury/Mars and Venus/Jupiter, among others.
If I were only to consider those attacks that I've already listed as favorites...
* Death Reborn Revolution (Saturn)
* Fire Soul/Fire Ignite (Mars)
And possibly consider SOME villains...I don't know. Beryl's attacks never had a name, nor did any of her Shitennou, as far as I know. Kunzite/Malachite had that scary dome thing that he did in the episode right before Venus showed up, and I thought that was a pretty scary attack, but when you compare it to nuclear fire bombs like Koan's/Catzi's Dark Fire, Eudial's Fire Buster gun or Viluy's Mosaic Buster, which reminds me of the Replicators from Stargate SG-1 or Borg nanites from Star Trek, it's like "uh, yeah. And then?"
In SuperS/the Dream arc...the villains were more fun that frightening, even though Zirconia and Nehellenia could get pretty scary.
And then there was Galaxia. The baddest of the bad, Chaos incarnate. And her attack? Galactica Super String. It reminds me of sparkly fizzy foaming string. Silly String, isn't it called? And Galactica Inflation is strong enough to cancel out Eternal Sailor Moon's strongest attack with the Eternal Tiare, Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss, but all it is is negative energy in the form of crackling. Maybe it's 'cause it's the manga, and there's not a whole lot you can do to make manga attacks truly look cool or frightening. They are either performed cool--with a neat weapon or phrase or both--or they're not.
So in the words of Shania Twain, "That don't impress me much."
I would say I really like the link techs of SMAS RPG the most. Can you imagine how much more powerful the Senshi would have been if they'd tried attacking together instead of separately, one at a time, as they usually did in the series? Plus the combination names would be cool....
My favorite from the game is Mars, Jupiter, and Uranus. Take your most naturally destructive Senshi--Mars with fire, Jupiter with thunder/lightning, and Uranus with earthquakes and wind--and you get Fire Thunder Shaking. In the game, it's pretty damn powerful, but the description is what makes me smile: "Three attacks! An old man?" It's a Japanese pun that unfortunately doesn't translate very well. I think it has something to do with the characters for the words earthquake, lightning, and fire. (Old man is "o-ya-ji" but I'm not sure about the characters used for the original Japanese attack.)
Once again, another day in the 30 Days of Sailor Moon meme, brought to you by the inimitable Frizzy of Sailor Failures.
Damn, this is a tough one. And there's simply no way to list every single attack out there by every villain, big or small. It took quite a long time before we saw the best-of-the-best with many villains--the epic final battle with them usually. And while youma attacks could be interesting in many ways, they usually weren't memorable in a good way (anyone remember U-choten? "Onegai!" got VERY very annoying after a short while.)
Whether you're looking at the anime, which had many attacks with no names (villains don't waste their time with shouting out attacks, probably because it's a HEROIC Japanese tradition in media); the manga, which had way more characters, including evil Senshi in great numbers, with their own special attacks that we only saw once; or PGSM, which, as previous posts have clearly indicated, was a beast of its own! Oh, and then there are the video games, like my personal favorite Sailor Moon: Another Story, the RPG (shortened to SMAS RPG). We had all sorts of fun link techs in that game, which gave names to some of the combination attacks we saw in the anime, like Moon/Mercury/Mars and Venus/Jupiter, among others.
If I were only to consider those attacks that I've already listed as favorites...
* Death Reborn Revolution (Saturn)
* Fire Soul/Fire Ignite (Mars)
And possibly consider SOME villains...I don't know. Beryl's attacks never had a name, nor did any of her Shitennou, as far as I know. Kunzite/Malachite had that scary dome thing that he did in the episode right before Venus showed up, and I thought that was a pretty scary attack, but when you compare it to nuclear fire bombs like Koan's/Catzi's Dark Fire, Eudial's Fire Buster gun or Viluy's Mosaic Buster, which reminds me of the Replicators from Stargate SG-1 or Borg nanites from Star Trek, it's like "uh, yeah. And then?"
In SuperS/the Dream arc...the villains were more fun that frightening, even though Zirconia and Nehellenia could get pretty scary.
And then there was Galaxia. The baddest of the bad, Chaos incarnate. And her attack? Galactica Super String. It reminds me of sparkly fizzy foaming string. Silly String, isn't it called? And Galactica Inflation is strong enough to cancel out Eternal Sailor Moon's strongest attack with the Eternal Tiare, Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss, but all it is is negative energy in the form of crackling. Maybe it's 'cause it's the manga, and there's not a whole lot you can do to make manga attacks truly look cool or frightening. They are either performed cool--with a neat weapon or phrase or both--or they're not.
So in the words of Shania Twain, "That don't impress me much."
I would say I really like the link techs of SMAS RPG the most. Can you imagine how much more powerful the Senshi would have been if they'd tried attacking together instead of separately, one at a time, as they usually did in the series? Plus the combination names would be cool....
My favorite from the game is Mars, Jupiter, and Uranus. Take your most naturally destructive Senshi--Mars with fire, Jupiter with thunder/lightning, and Uranus with earthquakes and wind--and you get Fire Thunder Shaking. In the game, it's pretty damn powerful, but the description is what makes me smile: "Three attacks! An old man?" It's a Japanese pun that unfortunately doesn't translate very well. I think it has something to do with the characters for the words earthquake, lightning, and fire. (Old man is "o-ya-ji" but I'm not sure about the characters used for the original Japanese attack.)
