September Moon - 'Short Stories Volume 1'

WELCOME TO SEPTEMBER MOON! 🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙

It's short story time!

(With a shorter rereview.)

And what silly, amusing, rambunctious and endearing comedy stories are contained in 'Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Short Stories Vol. 1', and in them are early '90s examples of self-aware and meta humour.

September Moon - 'Volume 12'

WELCOME TO SEPTEMBER MOON! 🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙

"The incredible amount of power that the hands, bodies, and words of one's comrades and loved ones possess! That I've been able to get this far, keep on living, and continue fighting as a Sailor Guardian, is all thanks to my comrades and loved ones! That's what a Sailor Guardian is!"

I'll try to keep it brief this time, in spite of 'Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Vol. 12' being the final volume of 'Sailor Moon', and therefore it should be blown up and celebrated like a fireworks display. But sometimes less is more, and simpler is better.

Rereview link.

September Moon - 'Volume 11'

WELCOME TO SEPTEMBER MOON! 🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙

The cover of 'Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Vol. 11' features Sailor Chibi-Chibi Moon, the most innocent of all the Sailor Guardians. It could not be more misleading.

The final arc, starting from Act 50, does not mess around. Usagi/Sailor Moon ends up losing, well, everyone. She is in the deepest depths of despair, and barely processing and recovering from all the trauma she has suddenly suffered.

But by the end, with Sailor Guardians she hardly knows from outside the solar system, from the far reaches of the Milky Way, she is determined to find and fight Sailor Galaxia, the evil Guardian of destruction responsible for so much loss and calamity in the galaxy.

And maybe, just maybe, she can save her loved ones, who were taken from her by Galaxia.

The battle to save the galaxy - the universe - is on, at the center of the Milky Way itself.

It's Sailor Guardians vs Sailor Guardians.

In the name of the Moon, and the Milky Way, let's bravely move forward and onward, everyone. My friends.

Rereview link.

September Moon - 'Volume 10'

WELCOME TO SEPTEMBER MOON! 🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙

Is the whole Dead Moon Circus arc a metaphor for growing up and adulthood? I think it is. One of the reasons this fits so well is it's the penultimate arc of 'Sailor Moon'. Amid all the silliness and sweetness, there is a pervasive sort of sadness and bittersweetness to it, as well; lingering, about to pounce.

I also keep forgetting to mention just how funny this arc is. The series blends comedy, drama, action and worlds-and-beyond-saving high stakes so seamlessly and spectacularly.

Anyway, onto 'Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Vol. 10'. Yay, I'm on the double-digits now, and coming up to the final 'Sailor Moon' arc - the finale, the finis - of the canon series. I enjoyed volume 10 immensely on a reread.

Here's my rereview, linked.

September Moon - 'Volume 9'

WELCOME TO SEPTEMBER MOON! 🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙

I'm halfway there!

Now it's onto 'Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Vol. 9', where the circus is in town. The Dead Moon Circus, that is.

Sure, it has quite a few flaws, but I enjoyed myself the further I read.

Rereview link.

September Moon - 'Volume 8'

WELCOME TO SEPTEMBER MOON! 🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙

A 'Sailor Moon' manga a day keeps the September blues away.

I was right: 'Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Vol. 8' is lighter and breezier than 'Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Vol. 7', and it's a good sign.

The Death Busters arc quite literally ends with a bang three quarters of the way through, and we are immediately thrust into the charming, funny, waiting arms of the Dead Moon Circus arc. 'Sailor Moon' is silly and pretty again!

In the name of the Moon, let's get to rereviewing!

'Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Vol. 8' rereview link.

September Moon - 'Volume 7'

WELCOME TO SEPTEMBER MOON! 🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙

I can't believe it only now just occurred to me:

Has it really been a decade since I last read and reviewed these 'Sailor Moon' manga? Even longer than that if I read them all the way through in 2014 or 2015? No wonder I'd forgotten a lot of the details.

And in the case of the Death Busters arc, and 'Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Vol. 7' in particular, it turns out there is a lot of detail that went over my head.

It is a very heavy manga with a great deal going on. Volume 7 may also the darkest volume yet.

Let's dive into 'Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Vol. 7' - the rereview, linked here!