It's a very mixed bag of Sailor Moon episodes this week on Moon Makeup. First we begin with one of our favorite episodes of the season so far, Episode 19 Usagi's Joy: A Love Letter from Tuxedo Mask. It's a big plot-moving kind of episode, as Sailor Moon and Tuexdo Mask have some of their longest scenes together and really have an actual conversation for the very first time. Plus the Senshi learn the identity of Nephrite's human cover and Naru begins a very unfortunate love story. But from that we go to the very definition of filler in Episode 20, The Summer, the Beach, Youth and Ghosts. The Dark Kingdom can't even bother to show up for the first of many swimsuit episodes, but honestly this one isn't really even that good at fan service either. It's just a very boring, very nonsensical story about a tiny child psychic and her abusive dad. Things get a little better in that at least the Dark Kingdom is back for Episode 21, Protect the Children's Dreams: Friendship Through Anime, but this is still mostly filler. We meet two animators, one of whom of course gets turned evil and comes up with the world's dumbest plan to somehow force an animated film director to kill off a character against their will simply by drawing it. Yeah, uh, that's not how that works! So hear us like some stuff, hate some stuff, and be kind of ambivelant about some stuff, this week on Moon Makeup!

Timestamps

0:58-5:04: Introduction

5:39-32:30: Episode 19, "Usagi's Joy: A Love Letter from Tuxedo Mask"

33:06-49:08: Episode 20, "The Summer, the Beach, Youth and Ghosts"

49:44-1:08:09: Episode 21, "Protect the Children's Dreams: Friendship Through Anime"