Sailor Moon R episode 78 review
This Sailor Moon episode is set in the year 2020. Everyone’s wearing masks, and there’s the hope of a vaccine on the way that’s going to make everything right. Two people are immune to the virus, though, those being Minako and of course Chibi-Usa. Apparently those two have been playing sports nonstop, because it is impossible to catch the virus on the field, but the instant you take the bench you have to put your mask on and stay six feet from everybody. (Only the part about Minako and Chibi-Usa playing sports did I make up.)
Most of the episode is a humor episode with Minako trying to play nurse to everyone. Esmeraude, who gave everyone the virus, now has a vaccine to give Chibi-Usa that way she can catch it too. I wish I was making this up. Eventually, Chibi-Usa awakens as the Rabbit, while Sailor Venus gets pinned to the wall. But Sailor Moon suddenly gets healed just in time for the 2022 midterm elections, I mean, just in time to deal the finishing blow to the Monster of the Week.
If this episode didn’t scare the living daylights out of me as to what is probably coming in the near future, in a year that just so happens to be an election year, it would have been an all-time classic for how funny it was. Even so, I guess I can sit back and laugh, as I get locked down in my house for two weeks to flatten the curve, which turns into two months, which turns into two years.
Best Sailor Guardian of the episode: Venus (4)
Episode rating: 8/10
Tommy A. Phillips 