From: chriskern99@gmail.com   
      
   Episode 42 - Sailor Venus' past, Minako's spurned love   
      
   This is another episode that was cut from the dub. Like the other cut   
   episodes, nobody knows for sure why this one was cut. My personal   
   feeling is that unlike the other episodes, which I think were   
   primarily cut for time (or to get the other senshi introduced   
   earlier), there must have been something in this episode that bothered   
   DiC -- simply because it comes so late in the series, contains plot   
   developments, and provides the only glimpses of Venus' past and Sailor   
   V in all 200 episodes.  Possibilities that have been offered include a   
   criminal throwing a grenade at Sailor V, Sailor Moon wanting to kill   
   the youma rather than healing it, and the relatively scanty outfit   
   (nothing compared to some of the S daimon, but for the first season   
   it's pretty scantily clad) of the youma.   
      
   But the plot developments ignored here make some oddities later in the   
   series; when I watched the dub I could never understand why Sailor   
   Moon was able to heal Mamoru the first time, but when she tried it the   
   next time it didn't work. Also they start searching for the Dark   
   Kingdom entrance here, whereas in the dub it just seems like the   
   answer suddenly materializes out of nowhere.   
      
   The end of the episode is pretty sad, with Minako's "sore de ii no..."   
   echoing as her picture flies into the wind.   
      
   Namba Keiichi, who played Alan in this episode, is also Umino and   
   Zoicite's voice actor.   
      
   -Chris   
      
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