[Starscream Gaga]

I still have a very real dislike of the manga. The Dark Kingdom Arc was just so badly written that it left a bad taste in my mouth for the rest of the read. I cannot believe crap like Tuxedo Mask coming into her room and taking her to the battle followed with a big "shocking reveal" that he knew Usagi was Sailor Moon the next chapter got past the editors. Plus Usagi's world destroying weakness and selfishness in the fight against Metalia was just too awful to comprehend. Stars was also pretty "meh", not because it was necessarily badly written (although I would argue it wasn't fantastic) but because it was so bleak and everything was glossed over so quickly that the ending wasn't anywhere near satisfactory. Special S was the only time I really thought the manga had a better story then the anime and even then you had to sacrifice all the character development of the villains to get there.

I'm really hoping Crystal starts to goes away from the manga, starting next episode. Its slowly showing signs that it'll be going in its own direction, which I think is nothing but a good thing. It'd be ironic that the lyrics of the opening talk about "not needing to have a prince" and they keep in Sailor Moon committing suicide because she couldn't bear to fight on and save the world without her prince. Usagi is a phenomenally stronger character in the anime and PGSM compared to her manga counterpart.

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Originally Posted by WhiteRanger

And that's good thing at the same time 3 of the scouts in the manga never made it in the anime, well there villian forms did as part of the dark circus but the good scout forms did not, I hope if crystal does well we see there scout form finally in the anime

The Asteroid Senshi didn't do anything though. They were kind of pointless and nothing was really missed by not including them, beyond having Chibiusa not present for the final battle of the series.