From: chriskern99@gmail.com   
      
   Episode 88 - The last battle between light and dark!  A love pledged   
   to the future   
      
   When Usagi changed into NQS, her speech became a lot more formal and   
   "queenlike"; I wonder if the dub did anything with this.   
      
   This is the conclusion to R.  In many ways it's just a repeat of the   
   first season's conclusion -- the ally turned evil who has to be dealt   
   with, the silver crystal vs. generic world-destroying evil, and the   
   danger of death to Usagi.  I feel that the original conclusion was   
   better than this one, although I did like the part at the end where   
   they say goodbye to Chibi-Usa and then she rejoins her parents and the   
   other senshi in the future.  (It was nice to see C-U call Usagi   
   "mama")   
      
   In the manga, Chibi-Usa transforms to Sailor Chibi Moon here and Death   
   Phantom gets destroyed by double Moon Princess Halation.  In general   
   the anime considerably reduced Chibi-Usa's role and in particular   
   weakened her ability as a fighter (in the manga, for instance, Pink   
   Sugar Heart Attack is a serious attack that actually kills one of the   
   monsters in S).  I wonder why this was done.   
      
   -Chris   
      
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