Attack Descriptions

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How would you describe attacks as in their appearance and what they do?

Sailor Mercury

Bubble Spray: A blast of bubbles the produce foggy frigid mist upon bursting. If powerful enough, it can lower the temperature to freezing. Can also work as a protective barrier.
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Shine Aqua Illusion: A blast of liquid the looks like bubble soap that freezes its target. Has been shown to circle around the target before exploding upwards.


Aqua Rhapsody: Similar to Shine Aqua Illusion but Mercury is able to control individual strands by playing a beautiful Rhapsody on a harp.


Shine Aqua Mirage: Several aqua orbs that chase you down. Once one of them make contact it surrounds you with water and either collapses on itself or and turns you into water then explodes.
 

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I watched the first season in Portuguese (dub) and her Sabão Spray (Soap Spray) attack was translated to Mercury Bubbles.

Soap spray doesn’t make sense as the name of an attack, does it? In any event, I prefer Soap Spray or Sabão Spray.
 

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In russian voiceover we had (and then later dub of s1) Mercury's first attack was always translated as Soapy Rain :P:lol:
 
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Sailor Moon

Moon Tiara Action: Sailor Moon's Tiara. When it spins rapidly enough to turn into a disk of light. She has been shown to be able to control its trajectory. It seems to have healing properties and can exude those properties through dust.


Crying Attack: If Sailor Moon cries hard enough they'll channel through devices on hair that transmit yells of desperation but will echo the cries as loud sonic waves.

Moon Healing Escalation: emits healing light and sparkles after forming a circle made of light. The Silver Crystal makes it more powerful and as it capable of exuding a blast of healing energy.


Moon Princess Halation: Similar to the blast version of Moon Healing Escalation except it also has crescent shaped projectiles in it making it an offensive attack.

Moon Spiral Heart Attack/Rainbow Moon Heart Ache: Sailor Moon preforms a dance where she rapidly spins while twirling around her wand. Several hearts then build up into a giant heart that slams into the opponent. In Rainbow Moon Heart Ache the hearts are emitted in a film connected together it also has a rainbow.
 

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The Japanese anime magazines give some interesting info about the attacks such as:
Ami decreases the temperature around her to incredible levels to unleash the Shine Aqua Illusion,

Rei's Fire Soul has a heat of 10,000 degrees and the Fire Soul Bird is the culmination of Rei's ability to freely use her fire,

Rei's Burning Mandala consists of her igniting Mars' fire power in the atmosphere and materializes it into 8 balls of fire which she then imbues her fighting spirit into, turning each of them into rings of fire that she launches,

Makoto's Sparkling Wide Pressure has 10 times the power of the Supreme Thunder.
 
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Sailor Moon

Moon Gorgeous Meditation: Sailor Moon thrusts forward her kaleidoscope weapon with the power of Pegasus/ the Golden crystal to unleash several shards of glass at hyper speed. The glass seals the monster inside. A temporary version of the attack shows it as a sphere a pinkish flickering light [similar to the one that defeated Queen Beryl]
[second gif isn't Moon Gorgeous Meditation but Queen beryl being defeated with a pink flickering ball]


Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss: Sailor Moon Tiare emits a powerful pink light that surrounds the area. Can fluently go between advanced healing and offensive.


Silver Moon Crystal Power Kiss: I guess the same as the last one but its more powerful and emits a golden light.
 
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We should do parody descriptions too!
Sabao Spray:
Mercury strains really hard to create a bubble in her hands before pushing it at her enemies, causing it to burst releasing either more bubbles (that don't really do much) or an effect similar to turning on the air conditioner on high.
Oh, it also reduces visibility, can sometimes make mirages and in a last ditch effort can keep the user alive a few seconds if they get hit with a wave of lava. Sometimes, she launches it along with the other girl's attacks to pretend she can kill monsters, too.

Mercury's first attack always gets made fun of, but I've always felt it was one of the most useful attacks the girls had in their arsenal.
It's incredibly versatile when compared to any of the other attacks, including her own upgrades.
Despite what I said above, breaking it down, it does a lot.

The mist, for one, is useful throughout the series, unlike a lot of the other powers that become redundant. Not only does it reduce visibility for enemies trying to attack them, it opens the enemies up to getting attacked. It was key in defeating Cyprine and Ptilol.
Reducing the temperature might not seem like much, but it's a bonus that can weaken some enemies or at least add to their distraction.
The bubbles can also cushion/block some projectiles or cause some types to deactivate all together. Combine that with the mist reducing visibility and most projectile attacks become useless against Mercury.
Then we have its upgraded form where the bubbles freeze whatever they touch, making enemies immobilized for the others to take out.
Add on the fact that she can create a barrier shielding herself from a wave of magma, and I'd say this attack is anything but weak.
Offensively, it might not do much, but for tactical and defensive uses, I'd say it's one of the best attacks they have.

The only other attack that kept its usefulness was Love Me Chain. Also, because of versatility.
 

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Galactica Gale that was shown in the ZIP! segment on greatest cinema show the 4 brainwashed inners confronted Sailor Moon and the 4 joined in forces unleashing their power and the zero star was shown and all of spinning unleashing a brutal yet colorful attack against Sailor Moon. However, she blocked it with her tiare.
 
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I watched the first season in Portuguese (dub) and her Sabão Spray (Soap Spray) attack was translated to Mercury Bubbles.

Soap spray doesn’t make sense as the name of an attack, does it? In any event, I prefer Soap Spray or Sabão Spray.
You mean Brazilian Portuguese.
In the European Portuguese dub, the attack was called "Espuma de Sabão" (Soap Foam).
 
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The Japanese anime magazines give some interesting info about the attacks such as:
Ami decreases the temperature around her to incredible levels to unleash the Shine Aqua Illusion,

Rei's Fire Soul has a heat of 10,000 degrees and the Fire Soul Bird is the culmination of Rei's ability to freely use her fire,

Rei's Burning Mandala consists of her igniting Mars' fire power in the atmosphere and materializes it into 8 balls of fire which she then imbues her fighting spirit into, turning each of them into rings of fire that she launches,

Makoto's Sparkling Wide Pressure has 10 times the power of the Supreme Thunder.
It would be nice if I could find these. I'd love to put them together for a good read.
 
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It would be nice if I could find these. I'd love to put them together for a good read.
You can find them on Minitokyo.
You have to comb deep though, there's 3000 + scans of Sailor Moon over there!
Interestingly, there's also a 2 page spread about the Star Power Make Up! which features a recolored version of Usagi's Prism Make Up nails.
The background colors are also different.
https://flic.kr/p/2oV1RfW https://flic.kr/p/2oV2j6H
It seems the initial background art planned for the Inners was significantly different, everyone except Mars had a change.
https://flic.kr/p/2oV2AT5 https://flic.kr/p/2oV296j
It is kinda amazing the amount of work that went into the stocks behind the scenes.
 
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While I prefer the Japanese names from their attacks, many don't make any sense in English but I like them both, sometimes one better than the other. Anyways, my personal take on a few of their anime attacks. Personal opinions.

Mercury

Bubble Spray Sounds strange considering the bubbles arent tiny drops of liquid even if it does look like a bubble. However, Bubble Spray makes sense based on the aftermath since the fog are tiny molecules of water vapor. I prefer Mercury Aqua Mist because it sounds more accurate, then I pick Bubble Blast because it "sounds powerful" and fits the motion of her arms in the 90's anime. Though, Bubble Spray is often regarded as a weak attack, it really isn't considering how extensive it is. Including Bubble Spray Freezing which freezer on contact meaning she drops the temperature below 31° F which is enough to kill a human, however, we are dealing with supernatural beings, so upon it's first appearance, Bubble Spray core temperature must have been lower. I tend to consider Mercury formidable because she can change the surrounding environment, cast illusions, has a computer that can pinpoint weaknesses, and is extremely intelligent. The only thing "holding her back" is that she isn't aggressive.

"Shine Aqua Illusion" kinda makes no sense in English to me and should be Shining Aqua Illusion, Shining Ice Stream, or Shining Ice Illusion.

I like Mercury Ice Storm Blast as it does carry the the Blast suffix of her previous attack.

Shine Aqua Illusion is a collection of freezing water and ice which to me is an ice version of Jupiter Coconut Cyclone when she forms it into a storm which she seems to be able to do in the 90's anime.

In the English version, the Senshi made a remark about a monster they were battling having ice powers that were more brutal than when they were in the North Pole (I know that doesn't make sense for obvious reasons) but it does show how powerful Mercury's Shine Aqua Illusion attack is if she can counter that evil Snow Fool. It also makes me wonder about its usage during the S movie because well....


Jupiter

Supreme Thunder brings forth a lightning bolt. Lighting destroys the human nervous system, and can cause blood vessels and arteries in the brain to rupture and burst and create "burns" all over the body. For the most part Jupiter seems to use it to stun, and only does a true fatal bolt of lighting in the last episode against the DD girls. Lighting can get hotter than the Sun (the upper part) so it's interesting how Jupiter's attacks are considered some of the most powerful. Her bolts of lightning travel faster than Mars' fire, and can travel around Mercury's water and cover more range imo. I prefer Jupiter Thunder Bolt over Supreme Thunder and Jupiter Thunder Crash.

Supreme Thunder Dragon - an underutilized attack of a dragon made of pure electricity which more massive than almost any form of lightning she has created. I'd imagine it's power must be similar to the fatal bolt she created in Classic. This could take out multiple enemies as it pretty much would eat and electrocute them to death.

Sparkling Wide Pressure (Jupiter Thunder Clap Zap in English) is mentioned by another poster to be 10x stronger than Supreme Thunder which should pretty much scare you enough to not be hit by it. However, it really suffers (imo) because it can be dodged. It also is (imo) not as fast as Supreme Thunder, at least imo...
I would totally liked if she included this move with her martial arts attacks, similar to how she attacked a Diamon in S with a blast right to the gut. I prefer Jupiter Thunder Clap (I just don't like the Zap part much) I like Sparkling Wide Pressure too but I'd like it to be called Electric Wide Pressure or Thunder Burst Shock or whatever.

Mars

As someone posted, Fire Soul (Mars Fire Ignite in English) can get hot and it can be as hot as the first layer of our Sun. This makes me believe that like Mercury, Mars can control the temperature output of her attack. This attack is way more powerful than the general Super Mario Bros 3 fireball. I've seen her create small sparks of fire but on her first appearance she was killing monsters and created a column of fire and set two DD girls ablaze like old mail with a wall of fire. I prefer Mars Fire Ignite over the other chants. It just flows better.

Fire Soul is a pretty attack in the way it has been performed. The R movie has the best version of it and its just an overall devastating attack since she has a variety of ways to use it. In the S season it can wipe out waves of enemies which is what she should have done during the S movie on the Snow Dancers but ya know....

I think it is more effective than Supreme Thunder and Bubble Spray because it covers more area while also devastating multiple enemies. It can distract and destroy.


Fire Soul Bird is pretty much a Phoenix being thrown at you but like Fire Soul it can be dodged depending on its scale. When Mars adds her spiritual powers through her scrolls though, it become a hitman. It doesn't have to be throw at you, it's coming after you directly now since it has gained some intelligence. It will dodge all your attacks because it wants to devour your soul and there is nothing you can do but stare at it in shock like all the enemies do in the show...

Fire Soul v2 (Mars Fire Star Flash in English)
Supposedly this was much powerful version of Fire Soul. It was mentioned Sparkling Wide Pressure is 10x stronger than Supreme Thunder. If that's the case, and adjusting Mars Fire Star Flash power output 5x -10x should be about 50,000 - 100,000 degrees of death (if it's that high of an upgrade.)


What I'm about to say is blasphemy but I don't find Burning Mandala useful enough in the 90's anime. It just looks pretty and that's it. The Crystal version (Season 3) of it looks and operates better. A barrage of massive fireballs, which are more powerful than her original attacks is good stuff. If Fire Star Flash had temps between 50,000 - 100,000 but was matched by Koan's Dark Fire, and Koan's Dark Fire was dismantled by Burning Mandala it means they are real hot since blue fire is the hottest type of fire. Her rings can move in different directions and I guess that cool.... I think.

Venus

Crescent Beam collects energy from the Sun which means Venus can give you some serious sunburn from those UV rays. She pretty much kills all the your living skin tissue and from lifting only one finger which means big ouchies for enemies. Crescent Beam is also the fastest first attack of all the Inner Senshi and unless she intentionally decreased the beams energy, this move is supposed to kill whatever it hits on contact. I prefer Venus Crescent Beam Smash over just Crescent Beam. With Smash added it kinda lets you know whatever it is about hits is about to be utterly destroyed.

Crescent Beam Shower (Venus Crescent Beam in English) is pretty much a Crescent Beam army(maybe that wasn't the right word....) but so many that you don't have enough time to even pull out your SPF 50,000. So this is pretty much a machine gun of powerful light that can once again kill multiple enemies on contact but seems really scaled down in the anime but from what is shown it can be really devastating. I prefer Crescent Beam Shower over Venus Meteor Shower.

Love Me Chain looks really nice but as with the other attacks (outside of Mercury) even though they are states as being more powerful, the look like downgraded versions of their previous attacks. However, it's imo, the most useful attack every created outside of the disguise pen. It can be used as a weapon for both hurting or restraining enemies, a method of rescuing allies, and can heal/stun (at least manga and Crystal). It can cover long distances, it can support an unknown amount of weight, and I'm wondering if it can suspend itself in air if she wants it to, it can be used as a swing or to play jump rope. This attack is actually one of my favorites from the first two Seasons (Wink Chain Sword is my favorite of hers power wise).
 
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The Japanese anime magazines give some interesting info about the attacks such as:
Ami decreases the temperature around her to incredible levels to unleash the Shine Aqua Illusion,

Rei's Fire Soul has a heat of 10,000 degrees and the Fire Soul Bird is the culmination of Rei's ability to freely use her fire,

Rei's Burning Mandala consists of her igniting Mars' fire power in the atmosphere and materializes it into 8 balls of fire which she then imbues her fighting spirit into, turning each of them into rings of fire that she launches,

Makoto's Sparkling Wide Pressure has 10 times the power of the Supreme Thunder.
I am assuming that is Celsius, which would be 18,000 F. At that point the difference between Celsius and Kelvin is basically academic. Also, fire itself probably can´t actually get that hot. Oxyacetylene in ozone can get about 5000 degrees C. But lots of other processes can get that hot. And much, much worse. Nuclear fusion in our Sun can get up to 15,000,000 degrees C. Some red giant stars born of a blue star, the O kind, their cores can eventually get up to 3.5 billion Kelvin. Doesn´t exactly matter what physics is used here, 10,000 C will absolutely melt you into soup, and then vapourize it, and then probably strip the electrons off some of the atoms which turns it into plasma, although it wouldn´t cause nuclear fusion. It is good evidence though that Sailor :rei: is the hottest senshi. :lol:

"Makoto, set Jove to sun." Lightning can get much worse on Jupiter itself. The planet actually produces more heat than it gets from the Sun, and it manifests certainly in the ridiculous wind and weather it has. A zeppelin in the atmosphere can do well, but you can only go for maybe a hundred kilometres down before things start getting ugly.
 
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How would you describe attacks as in their appearance and what they do?

Sailor Mercury

Bubble Spray: A blast of bubbles the produce foggy frigid mist upon bursting. If powerful enough, it can lower the temperature to freezing. Can also work as a protective barrier.
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Shine Aqua Illusion: A blast of liquid the looks like bubble soap that freezes its target. Has been shown to circle around the target before exploding upwards.


Aqua Rhapsody: Similar to Shine Aqua Illusion but Mercury is able to control individual strands by playing a beautiful Rhapsody on a harp.


Shine Aqua Mirage: Several aqua orbs that chase you down. Once one of them make contact it surrounds you with water and either collapses on itself or and turns you into water then explodes.
There is a lot of water in the atmosphere. Bringing in a big cloud at the surface of the Earth is not that hard for weather to do normally.

Interestingly, ice which Ami uses actually does form on Mercury, naturally. I am not making this up. It´s in craters whose geometry and angle to the Sun means the light never reaches it.
 
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Galactica Cannon is described in the movie as Eternal Sailor Pluto and Eternal Sailor Saturn that are brainwashed by Galaxia's control. The two joined in forces wielding their weapons. A powerful vortex appears in the background with Pluto shouting "Garnet Orb!" emitting the background dark red while the orb shines. Saturn wielding out the Glaive and shout "Silent Glaive!" The two both shout "Galactica Cannon!" This attack create dark thunder along with a three ring planet of colorful doom! The attack was shielded by Chibi-Chibi before that barrier break and the blast of the attack hitted her.
 
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By the panel of the manga and the name 'Cannon', I always thought the attack consisted of the the Garnet Orb being the 'cannon ball' and the Silence Glaive is the 'fuse' to light up the Cannon (which would be the combined/joined forces of Saturn and Pluto)...
I guess just like most of the attacks, it's name is completely irrelevant to the actual attack :|
 

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How would you describe attacks as in their appearance and what they do?

Sailor Mercury

Bubble Spray: A blast of bubbles the produce foggy frigid mist upon bursting. If powerful enough, it can lower the temperature to freezing. Can also work as a protective barrier.
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Such a shame that S1 had them use their powers in interesting ways that was basically never seen again. By S5 they should've been able to use all their powers in interesting ways to make it to the end with Moon