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This 4½-hour video set is an excellent introduction to the
Sailor Moon series. Serena (Sailor Moon) and the other Sailor Scouts live as ordinary schoolgirls, apparently unaware of their magical powers. We learn that after their last battle with the Negaforce, they've been shocked into amnesia. When evil threatens, they must re-awaken to their powers and responsibilities in order to save the world. As Sailor Venus exclaims, "I feel the strong urge to do something other than run around in circles!" The architects of this new threat are the attractive, green-skinned Allen and Anne. This cool couple is bent on consuming the life force of Earth's teenagers to fuel their jaded passions. With a plethora of minions, ranging from a rather racy minotaur to multitentacled monsters, this dissolute duo is consistently thwarted by the Sailor Scouts.
The plot is simplistic; it is the world Sailor Moon inhabits that makes this series so charming and popular with kids (mostly girls) age 6 and up. It is a place where girls take the forefront and the guys are second bananas. You would expect Serena, as the leader of the Scouts, to be a strong and tough-minded commander, not a boy-crazy ditz; however, she's lazy, crazy, and somewhat superficial. But the other Scouts are ultimately subordinate to her because she has the most important quality for the fight against evil--a kind and generous heart. In the end, it is not strategy or power that preserves this corny world, but love. --Clarke Fletcher
From the back cover
Thirteen continuous episodes in one four-volume set adds up to one awesome and complete adventure. Now available for the first time on video.
Serena meets Alan and Anne, two schoolmates who pass themselves off as brother and sister. Little does Serena know that the couple has a horrible secret--they've been sent by the Negaforce to steal the Earth's energy and feed it to a mysterious "Doom Tree." When Alan and Anne call upon a string of hideous creatures to help them, Sailor Moon and her scouts are called into action... and it turns out to be their biggest and most awesome adventure ever!
Volume 1 Episodes
"The Return of Sailor Moon"
"So You Want to Be in Pictures"
"A Knight to Remember"
"VR Madness"
Volume 2 Episodes
"Detention Doldrums"
"Secret Garden"
"Treed"
Volume 3 Episodes
"Ray's Day in the Spotlight"
"Food Fetish"
"Mirror, Mirror on the Wall"
Volume 4 Episodes
"Cherry Blossom Time"
"Kindergarten Chaos"
"Much Ado About Babysitting"
Not rated, edited, for ages 5 and up. Total running time: 286 minutes.
