From: inverseparadox@comcast.net   
      
   Rick S wrote:   
      
   > Chris Kern  wrote in   
   > news:qlqj92h3ge94qo0mddv2tmgs80hl8vbing@4ax.com:   
   >   
   >> But it all seems to go away when the youma is defeated -- the   
   >> people that got their energy drained immediately get up and are   
   >> back to normal.   
   >   
   > I always looked at it as when the Youma is destroyed, the draining   
   > stops, but what was taken is still gone. Once the draining stops,   
   > people are able to recover and eventually replenish what was taken.   
      
   FWIW, I never saw it that way - in part because that wouldn't make sense   
   with Beryl getting angry with Jadeite for continually failing; you'll   
   note that the one scene where she commends him for success comes after   
   the one plot in which he *does* get away with energy before Sailor Moon   
   shows up (the fitness club). I always read it as that when the big ball   
   of energy Jadeite was holding disappears, wherever it actually went (and   
   the immediate recovery of the victims, which does happen at least some   
   of the time, seems to indicate that it went back to them), he certainly   
   doesn't have it anymore and hence can't deliver it to Beryl for   
   Metallia.   
      
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