For my own purposes, I've been trying to find some sources to help me make sense of where all the characters stand across the series (specifically the 90's anime). The conventional logic I've followed up to now is that the villains in the later arcs obviously overpower the ones from the previous one, but I dunno if that's entirely the case.
Example: Where would the Phantom/Ayakashi Sisters stand compared to the Shitennou? It's hard to actually gauge if the Sisters are stronger or weaker, considering any fight against a single member of the Shitennou required several of the Sailors to really stand up, whereas the Sailors are regularly shown able to hold their own against the Sisters in single combat. Of course, the Sailors supposedly gain a significant power boost prior to any major fights against the Sisters, so again, hard to gauge.
Then there's the Death Busters, where as far as I can gather, a single MotD Daimon apparently trumps almost everything the Inners had dealt with up to that point. Extrapolating further kinda leads me to theorize that the Outers could've just steamrolled the entire Dark Kingdom if they decided... :/ As for the Witches, I'm kinda hanging up the topic at the point... >.>
...BUT, fast forward to the 30th century invasion, one has to assume everyone's exponentially more powerful at this time, and had the Black Moon successfully invaded the 20th, an armada as large as they had would have to spell trouble for anyone up to and including most of the Death Busters, but again, it's killing my brain trying to pin this all down... @_@
So, are there any sort of concrete sources on any of this to help me out here?
Example: Where would the Phantom/Ayakashi Sisters stand compared to the Shitennou? It's hard to actually gauge if the Sisters are stronger or weaker, considering any fight against a single member of the Shitennou required several of the Sailors to really stand up, whereas the Sailors are regularly shown able to hold their own against the Sisters in single combat. Of course, the Sailors supposedly gain a significant power boost prior to any major fights against the Sisters, so again, hard to gauge.
Then there's the Death Busters, where as far as I can gather, a single MotD Daimon apparently trumps almost everything the Inners had dealt with up to that point. Extrapolating further kinda leads me to theorize that the Outers could've just steamrolled the entire Dark Kingdom if they decided... :/ As for the Witches, I'm kinda hanging up the topic at the point... >.>
...BUT, fast forward to the 30th century invasion, one has to assume everyone's exponentially more powerful at this time, and had the Black Moon successfully invaded the 20th, an armada as large as they had would have to spell trouble for anyone up to and including most of the Death Busters, but again, it's killing my brain trying to pin this all down... @_@
So, are there any sort of concrete sources on any of this to help me out here?