[Suzu]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

The Black Moon Family story is absolute horse crap in the manga, so it is just as bad in Crystal. The four sisters had absolute no development and the first three chapters pointlessly gave a new soldier an upgrade just to have them captured at the end, which was bs. It served no purpose and was more annoying than tragic. I really feel like Naoko had no idea what she wanted to do here and was just scrapping from the bottom of the barrel here just to make it different from the Dark Moon Kingdom arc.

Considering that Sailor Moon was never planned to run as long as it did, this is actually pretty understandeable. Being asked to continue, Takeuchi rushed into the following arcs and you sometimes feel that.
Personally though, I never bothered about the Ayakashi sisters too much because not all villains need strong character development imho. They were meant to prove that there's a larger group of rebels from them Black Moon and show the Senshi that they still have to grow a lot more because they are not yet strong enough to take on upcoming threats. And they did just that. Yes, they were plot devices. But personally, I think those are needed too.

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Thankfully, things will get better afterwards, especially when they get to the Dead Moon Circus. However, get read for really creepy gross scenes with Chibi-Usa after this arc is over.

Creepy gross Chibi-Usa? What on earth are you talking about?