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wickedgrumpy's review
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
This might be the weakest entry yet, but I still enjoyed it and plan to finish the series in it's entirety.
I think my main qualms always deal with Chibi-usa.
In case anyone reading this cares about spoilers:
She's 900+ years old, but stuck in the body of a child, so she's treated like a child, but also weirdly sexualized. Her relationship with her future dad Mamoru is full of cringey infatuation (until she sees a cute boy and then that finally tones down). Her entire personality is to be Usagi but worse, since her goal is to "grow up" and "be a real lady". I guess in this volume the technical age gap between her and Helios is only ~100 years, but if they were to meet up again in the 30th century (her real current time) he would be ~2000 years older than her, but also, why does she need a potential love interest. Oh, not Chibi-usa related, but another gripe I have is that Usagi and Mamoru get shrunk by the enemy but then they are almost immediately are restored by Helios. I know the outcome was that Helios used up the last of his power and exposes Elysium but like, why have that consequence come about that way? I probably have more that I'm forgetting while I write this, but it's already quite long.
I think my main qualms always deal with Chibi-usa.
In case anyone reading this cares about spoilers:
Content Warnings
Minor: Fatphobia, Body shaming, War, Death, Sexism, Torture, Bullying, Confinement, and Violence
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