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Based on the Japanese comic books, this two-part story introduces viewers to 14-year-old Serena's millennium-ago past as moon princess. Queen Serenity, the mother Serena/Sailor Moon doesn't remember, reappears to guide her daughter through a vision of what was, in "The Past Returns." Sailor Moon learns the sad fate of her family and civilization at the hands of the evil Queen Beryl's army, as well as the source of her curious connection with Darien. Fueled by her knowledge, she and four other scouts fight Queen Beryl and her Doom & Gloom Girls with renewed vigor in "Day of Destiny." Her cohorts are eventually all captured, leaving Sailor Moon to fight the mean queen one-on-one. The teenage superheroine is victorious, of course, banishing Beryl back to the Negaverse, freeing her friends, and subsequently forgetting her trip into the past--for her own good and that of the future of the WB television series from which this 41-minute video originates. For girls 6 and up.
--Kimberly Heinrichs
From the back cover
Serena, an ordinary 14-year old, discovers that she is really SAILOR MOON, a superhero with an extraordinary past that goes back 1,000 years! But the evil forces she escaped on the Moon have followed her, and each day Serena must battle them to save Earth! The Past Returns the world as we know it is poised for destruction by the Negaverse. During SAILOR MOON's brave battle against the forces of evil, her mother Queen Serenity returns and takes her back 1,000 years to a place that is filled with secrets that answer the questions of the future! Day of Destiny. In a last-ditch effort to win her war, the ominous Queen Beryl dispatches the sinister Doom & Gloom Girls to systematically destroy each and every one of the Sailor Scouts, in the explosive conclusion to this adventure!
