I was originally going to post this because it’s a really interesting introspection into the Black Moon Clan, as well as generally how a villainous group in fiction is set up. And I mean, I still am. You’ve got Sailor Moon, who’s meant to be their enemy, but they’re both letting her escape - but not for the typical reason this normally happens in fiction. Neither are, at this point at least, turning ‘good’, or sympathising with Sailor Moon. They’re letting her go because they don’t want Dimande to have her. Saphir because he’s afraid that his brother’s infatuation with her is distracting them from their original mission, to avenge their ancestors and leave the dead planet Nemesis, and Esmeraude because she herself covets Dimande and doesn’t want Sailor Moon getting his affection. They are both very much still firmly rooted on the ‘evil’ side, but they let the good guy get away. From a narrative point of view, it’s very satisfying to watch.

But I also wanted to post it because for that brief moment before Saphir says “I hate Sailor Moon”, Esmeraude has a face like she’s totally thinking “Wait, so you are gay for your brother, or…?”

Sailor Moon A to Z, MoTD Style: Jamanen

_{Jamanen’s theme and design was uncharacteristically unrelated to the episode’s plot of Petz and Calaveras corrupting a charm shop. She was a gelatinous, shape-shifting monster formed from a glass of wine, with a calm and serious disposition. Unlike many MoTD, she was perfectly content with the idea of dying for Calaveras, her master; her servitude, origin, and a conspicuous bow tie as her only real distinguishing feature all suggest her design might be based on a waiter or bartender.
Jamanen could sink into the floor, walls and ceiling, and used this ability to catch the Sailor Soldiers by surprise, then incapacitated them by trapping their limbs in goo. Though she never got to use it she could also transform one of her arms into a long blade. She was either immune to Petz’s electricity or content to withstand any pain it caused when Petz attacked Jupiter while she was holding her, but was damaged by Mars’s Burning Mandala. She was a highly competent monster and managed to subdue the other four Soldiers, but Sailor Moon arrived and inevitably destroyed her.
TRIVIA: Jamanen was a monster in the Sailor Moon R Super Famicon side-scroller beat-‘em-up game. Retaining her ability to sink into the floor and evade player attacks, she was a tricky monster to beat.}

Sailor Moon A to Z, MoTD Style: Atsugessho

I’ve seen the “Sailor Moon A-Z” meme floating around Tumblr lately and I have shamelessly co-opted it for myself! But I decided to focus entirely on Monsters of The Day. Yes, I managed to find a monster for every letter! A couple of letters offered slim pickings, but most of them were chosen because they’re my personal favourites. I’ll also talk about each one at length, like so.

_{Working to corrupt a cosmetics store destined to be a future Crystal Point, Berthier hatched a plot to sell a new line of makeup that would make the wearer beautiful, but only for a short time – after that they would grow uglier and uglier until the area was contaminated with dark energy. Atsugessho, Berthier’s Droid, was positioned as a sales assistant. She insisted that all men only cared about looks, and that they would fall (back) in love with you if you made yourself prettier by wearing heavy makeup; when Usagi loudly disagreed, Atsugessho flipped out, scaring off the other customers and prompting her to attack Usagi.
Atsugessho means “thick makeup”. Her design was based on a perfume atomizer, carrying the pump attached to the back of her ‘hat’ under one arm. She attacked by squeezing the pump and loosing a jet of hot pink acid from her mouth. She also had an enormous powder puff she used to slam Luna into the wall, and could travel speedily by rolling on top of hairspray cans. It was implied that either Atsugessho’s face or whole body was composed entirely of makeup, with her eyes, nose, lips, etc. merely being painted on; when Tuxedo Mask used his cane to deflect her acid back onto her, all features but her mouth had melted off, and she died trying to hastily re-apply them with eyeliner.
TRIVIA: The store Berthier/Atsugessho took over, Otofukuya/“Elegance Shop”, appeared in the Sailor Moon: Another Story RPG game as a place in Juuban where you could buy items and power-ups.}