#48 Short End of the Glaive

MoonSticks #48 Saturn's Exciting Return featuring the outer senshi Sailor Saturn/Hotaru Tomoe, Sailor Uranus/Haruka Tenou, Sailor Neptune/Michiru Kaiou and Sailor Pluto/Setsuna Meiou

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162 thoughts on “#48 Short End of the Glaive”

  1. She should have taken Galaxia’s implication as a bluff and tried her destruction power anyway. Uranus and Neptune only needed one target to prove their loyalty.

    1. that is her job, when awakened destroy and everything then sleep again. She is the infamous senshi. I think the manga showed it , so i think crystal will show it too, i havent watch the latest episodes of crystal so i dunno.

  2. My poor pupil… at least she got screentime! ERGH! I HATE BEING IN THE SUN! I SHOULD OF STOPPED MY COUSIN GALAXIA!!! :P I feel you Saturn, I feel you…

  3. after readin this ive called them the galorus and super cool outer senshi my mom get relly anoyed but i don’t care

  4. I love your stuff!

    I just don’t get why Saturn wasn’t featured enough in Stars. I love Saturn to death. She has that mystic-loner quality that I can sort of relate to.

  5. I hate how she never appeared during the middle of Stars. IT would’ve been cool to see her blast some Phages and get feisty

  6. In the manga Michiru was in charge of food and health stuff, Sensuna was in charge of education, and Haruka.. was in charge of diapers and being Hotaru’s playmate….

  7. Yes indeed! I was really disappointed that after the first six episodes of Sailor Stars, Hotaru barely shows up at all except at the end. I also loved Haruka’s line in the last panel!

  8. If they let Saturn fight then they may have won faster… I still cant believe they where able to kill her and pluto. They do not have pure hearts if you ask me… I wouldnt turn against my friends then kill them.

    But I still love your work jen!

  9. Poor Saturn, she was always the cool one but doesn’t get a lot of screen time. D: SHE DESERVES IT DAMMIT! but that’s a bit too late since the show aired like more than a decade ago….

  10. Poor Hotaru, she looks so eagered and happy.
    Pluto and Saturn need more love!
    Hahaha Haruka so blunt

  11. lol poor hotaru T-T the best she can ever hope for is always dying!
    It’s not fair that the starlights got 2 or 3 different versions of their attacks and henshins and saturn got none!
    And poor pluto sympathizes, she never got a new attack either.

  12. Well well.. back again :D Sorry for being late.. holidays in italy! It was great. But now i’m happy to be back.. (damn.. i realy need to learn better english.. i takes me ~5 minutes and a lot of google work to “create” only one sentence xD)

    Pooor poor hotaru-chan! Alway on the last place.. although she’s sooo powerfull! O_o thats just not fair. I realy like her charakter.. she’s one of my favorite soldiers :) Her eyes… *Q* <3

    Anyway! Haru-chan is realy mean xD but.. i realy belief that she would say that.. Sometimes Haru-chan is .. yeah.. just mean xD don't know how to describe it better :p

    I like the comic! More Hotaru!! :D

    Great Artwork.. like always ;)

    <3<3<3

    1. Welcome back Selichan! Hope you had a fab holiday ^_^ I’d love to go to Italy one day!

      I think you’re doing a fine job, your English is fine =) And yes, Hotaru does have pretty eyes, they’re quite distinctive compared to the other girls (I think the other outer senshi eyes look very similar to each other)

  13. Poor child. Possessed by an alien overlord for an entire season only to be turned into a baby at the end and then finally when gets her chance at the limelight, it’s all scrapped in the favor of Haru and Michi’s “coolness”. *sigh* I’d argue for Setsuna too, but the woman did get a sufficient spot before the rest of the subteam a season earlier.

      1. I guess Setsu-chan would be kind of pissed at that. But seriously, for the short amounts of time that the Outers DO show up, it’s always Haruka and Michiru! Setsuna and Hotaru deserve some love too…

  14. OMG!!! I love this comic, it just way too cute!! She’s so adorable!!

    I love how Saturn speaks/thinks exactly how feel haha. Poor Hotaru though “and let us kill you” XD, good she didn’t hear that part! lol

    YAY for another Sailor Saturn one!!

    Keep it up!

  15. I notice that haruka just kind of adds in that “We’re gonna kill you.” part. I always wondered if saturn not hearing well was one of her sicknesses! xD

  16. jajajaja!!! When I began to see SM Stars (a while ago!!!) I was excited ’cause at least we could see ALL the outer senshis in action and what happened… saturn just appeared at the end to be killed, what the hell?!!!

  17. This is why Sailor Saturn is an Ensemble Darkhorse.

    She’s so awesome yet we never see enough of her.

  18. I understand why Pluto is bullied (being a small *planet* XD) but Saturn is so much bigger and has all the nice rings all around..needs more respect lol :giggle:

  19. Lol. Awww. Poor Hotaru…always getting the short end of the glaive. Maybe she should threaten that she’ll drop the glaive if she doesn’t get some cool new transformation sequence and a new power! lol.

    1. They even gave Sailor Chibimoon a full henshin (used once for the S movie and another in a random episode..)

      WOuld’ve been a bonus to see Saturn henshin once

  20. She can crack a planet in half if she drops the Glaive. Does she really need more power?

    (That said, let’s hope Hotaru keeps a firm grip on that thing…)

  21. I always preferred to theorize that Saturn and Pluto were so awesome and special they didn’t need new attacks or transformation sequences.

    It was really all I could do to explain away my disappointment. :(

  22. Saturn sure did always get the short end of the stick!
    But that’s why we love her. :D

    And that’s why we love Pluto, too; no new attack while Uranus and Neptune get their sword and mirror!

    Maybe Naoko-hime is showing favorites? ;)

  23. POOR SATURN SEREUSLY!!!(SHES MY FAVIROUT SENCHI)
    too bad its true:(
    anyway buy buy blues still love the comic espeshly uranus in the 4th pannle “you can come in during the final battle and let us kill you”
    YOU DREW SAILOR SATURN SO WELL
    thumbs up for me

  24. I loved her so much too. XD I remember being all giddy for Stars and only to find out all she did was die over and over again. lol

  25. Sad but true. I was waiting for it too.

    The Sailor Starlights on the other hand got TWO versions of their transformations and attacks. lulz.

  26. OMFG I died of laughter at “and let us kill you”. XD It’s so harsh… poor Saturn should have gotten more screentime, she was badass.

  27. HILARIOUS as always. =) I love Saturn’s facial expressions here, hehe. And how dreamy you portrayed the Outers in the first panel. ^_^;

  28. Poor Hotaru-chan… And all of the senshi actually. I mean, the anime was such a ripoff for all of them! The Outer’s only good season was S, and they didn’t even appear at all in SuperS… I love you, Outers! ;-;

  29. Hotaru is adorable. Especially love that first panel. XD Us SM fans were totally ALL like that at some age or another….

  30. Aww poor Saturn….I watched her transformation on youtube and it was soo cool! :(
    Too bad it didn’t show in the anime. :\

  31. Haha I feel so sorry for hotaru,but at least she had a big role in sailor moon S,even if it wasn’t as sailor saturn :).

  32. Yay! One for the outers! I love the comic. Poor Hotaru-chan, she didn’t even get a transformation in the anime or an attack that wasn’t all defense or complete utter obliveration. Anyway the outer senshi need more love, especially Saturn and Pluto, so ripped off in the anime. At least Saturn needs more in Stars, her role in Super was fine I guess. One more note I love how you did Hotaru as more hyper and excited when she is usually more mellow and reserved.

    1. hehehe, since being reborn, I always saw her as more cheery and happy person so I decided to make her more ‘alive’ (even though her childhood went by pretty quick @.@)

      I think both Pluto and Saturn got ripped off in the last season, so I blame the fact Uranus and Neptune decided to steal all of the very little time outers are on screen LOL. So what else could they be doing? (Use Pluto/Saturn as house cleaning slaves) XD

      1. I also think Hotaru seemed more cheery for after her rebirth, and I personally like that in her character.

        Yeah, I have to agree with U&N getting most of the screen time for the outers in super. They are more, what is it… radical when a senshi. :P I always thought that Pluto still had to watch the Time gate and Saturn only ever joins a fight when she absolutely have to, as destruction is a last resort. Also I think the animaters wanted to show how dysfunctional Haruka and Seiya were, as it wasn’t that bad in the manga. Seiya/Usagi also not as obvious either.

        Anyway, great comic. I’m glad you did one on the outers again. ^.^ They ALL need some loving. Looking foward to next week.

  33. Awww! Poor Saturn… I feel for you! I mean who doesn’t? I always had room in my heart for little Hotaru-chan! Usagi-chan still my #1 favorite though!

    (I might change my name to ‘the lttle artist’ ’cause i’ve been learnin to be an anime artist!)

  34. Aww poor Hotaru! But so true, I had such high hopes that she’d be super cool in Stars… They need to do a season of JUST the Outer Senshi and just see how wicked cool that’d be!

    At least Hotaru got an attack in stars… Silent Wall :D that’s something!

    1. A season of just the Outer Senshi would be SO AWESOME! In fact, I’d be happy if they made more Sailor Moon in general. I recently finished Stars and I thought “Curses! I’ve run out of Sailor Moon to watch!” I really need to go read the manga now XD The trick is I need to find all the volumes of the manga since it’s freaking OUT OF PRINT [insert angry rant at publishers here] It would be cheaper to buy all of the manga in Japanese! But I’m not yet fluent in Japanese, so I’d have to wait a few years to read it :( Oh well. More motivation to learn kanji I guess XD

      1. go on mangafox.com thats where i read them (u can also read code name sailor v in english on there=)

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