This week on Moon Makeup we continue our path to the end of season 1 of Sailor Moon! But first we start off with a brief report from Anime NYC, a big anime convention that took place in our hometown this past weekend, and specifically some major Sailor Moon news from Viz Media. Once that's done we turn our attention to our next batch of episodes, starting with #40, The Legendary Lake Yokai: The Bond of Usagi's Family. Usagi's family takes a vacation to a hot spring, but they happened to pick the same hot spring where an ancient monster was sealed away. What a coincidence. Queen Beryl sends Endymion to investigate but he makes a mess of it, as usual for him in his Dark Kingdom service. Then in episode #41, I Won't Run Away from Love Anymore: Ami vs. Mamoru, she gives him another task: to recapture the Seven Great Monsters (from the Rainbow Crystal arc earlier this season!) so they can be used to form one uber-monster! That plot sounds awesome but sadly it's much less so in practice, as it's just the background for a pretty boring Ami-centric episode about her equally boring love interest Ryo. Finally we wrap things up with episode #42, Sailor Venus' Past: Minako's Tragic Love. We finally get to see a glimpse of what Minako was getting up to as Sailor V before she joined the team, as we flash back to her in England about six months ago where she meets a man she falls in love with and an Interpol cop who looks after her like a little sister, and inadvertently brings them together. The Dark Kingdom has turned her evil of course, and then turned her into a giant butterfly because why not. Enjoy some of the last few episodes of season 1, this week!

Timestamps

0:59-12:16: Introduction

12:52-31:40: Episode 40, "The Legendary Lake Yokai: The Bond of Usagi's Family"

32:16-53:13: Episode 41, "I Won't Run Away from Love Anymore: Ami vs. Mamoru"

53:49-1:16:45: Episode 42, "Sailor Venus' Past: Minako's Tragic Love"