From: rick-samSPAMSPAMSPAM@shaw.ca   
      
   Phoenix  wrote in   
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   > Act 29 - Minako's Rival, Mio Kuroki, is a Transfer Student?   
   >   
   > The senshi hold a karaoke party to celebrate Ami's return. Everyone is   
   > now much closer and even Rei is openly enjoying the music.   
   >   
   > However, their joy was to be short-lived.   
   >   
   > A new idol star, Mio Kuroki, has suddenly appeared, challenging Minako   
   > for the top spot. From the very beginning, something seems to be not   
   > quite right with this girl. You get the idea that she might be...   
   > evil... in some way.   
      
   I really hate Mio, she bugs me, but I guess that's what she's supposed to   
   do, so, I guess she's doing a good job!   
      
   > We get a brief scene of Mamoru in his new school (where everyone is   
   > slowly and distinctly speaking English ^_^)   
      
   and without an english accent.   
      
   Mamorus English pronounciation is pretty good.   
      
   > Zoisite continues with his   
   > mind meld, attempting to force Mamoru to remember his past. At least   
   > we now know that Mamoru made it safely to his school, unlike Stars.   
   >   
   > Jadeite and Queen Beryl appear to be cooking up some sort of special   
   > mischief concerning the Silver Crystal.   
      
   She's given him some new power, I suspect that she has a new mission for   
   him.   
      
   Back at home, Shingo likes Mio better than Minako, Mom tells him "Rethink   
   this or you'll cry as an adult"  Huh?   
      
   Usagi's parents had their honymoon in London.   
      
   > As usually happens when a new character is introduced in an anime   
   > story, that person shows up as a transfer student in the very class   
   > our heroine attends.   
      
   Mamorou's english is better than the Teachers english.   
      
   > Such is the case here. Usagi is still holding   
   > back, loyal to Minako, but the other students go insane with fandom,   
   > asking for photos and autographs from their new classmate idol,   
   > including Naru. BTW, you could hardly hear the introductions for the   
   > helicopter apparently hovering just outside the windows. At this time,   
   > when this first aired, I was still puzzled about just what was going   
   > on here. Was the sound guy asleep on the mikes, did the fansubbers   
   > mess up the transfer somehow. Just weird.   
      
   LOL, I must be getting used to it since I didn't even notice it this   
   time.   
      
   Ami is so cute speaking English! ^_^   
      
   > Later on, the class competes in a volleyball game where this new girl,   
   > Mio, proceeds to beat the heck out of Usagi on the opposing side. Time   
   > after time, she whacks Usagi with the ball and no one seems to think   
   > that's too unusual. She even kicks Usagi under the net which somehow   
   > goes unnoticed as well except for Ami. Where's Minako when you need   
   > her ;)   
      
   Why is there an english song playing in the background during the game?   
      
   > Luna Tsukino (Wikimoon's designation for Luna in her human form)   
      
   Hmmm, well it means 'of the Moon' right? as opposed to being Usagis   
   sister. So I guess it's ok.   
      
   > attempts to enter the Crown using one of the year-long passes, but   
   > Motoki won't let her by. Motoki and Luna argue over whether she is too   
   > young or not to enter alone. But then Makoto shows up and gives Motoki   
   > a smile and all is well. I think that smile would have been hard for   
   > anyone to resist ^_^ (So how has Luna been getting in before?)   
      
   Motoki is still wearing Mokotos muffler.   
      
   > After school, Mio approaches Usagi and manages to get Usagi to   
   > acknowledge her as a friend, playing on Usagi's good nature of wishing   
   > to believe the best of others and to have them be friends with her.   
   > Usagi gives a mental apology to Minako for betraying her.   
   >   
   > At the secret base, the girls are practicing Bushido chopsticks   
   > training with a little wind cannon shooting colorful flower petals   
   > into the air. I think you're suppose to do this with flies, but that's   
   > likely a bit too disgusting for something as bishoujo as Sailor Moon   
   > ^_^   
      
   I've seem those things advertised somewhere. Never known anyone to   
   actually own one yet.   
      
   > As the girls train, Luna is monitoring their progress while painting   
   > her fingernails with what appears to be Rei's bottle of nail polish.   
      
   Can't luna just transform with nails already painted? When she   
   de=henshins, will her claws be painted? ^_-   
      
   > Artemis comes into the base via a little hatch (the secret base has a   
   > magical pet door too?   
      
   Of course, and probably a fancy litter box with moist towelettes nearby   
   too! ^_-   
      
   > I guess I answered my previous question).   
      
   No, Luna has entered before in human form without the pass (or with the   
   pas and no problems with Motoki), I thought that's what you were   
   referring to before.   
      
   > He has   
   > a message from Minako expressing concerns about Mio. In the process,   
   > Ami finds out about Minako and Venus. Usagi is now the only one who   
   > doesn't know Venus' secret identity.   
   >   
   > There is an interesting scene here where Mio is asking Usagi to tell   
   > her if she likes anyone. Usagi starts to describe Mamoru (without   
   > actually naming him, BTW).   
      
   She says he's hard to like, but reliable. O_o   
      
   > When Usagi says that she thinks she knew   
   > him from long, long ago, Mio crushes her ice cream cone, obviously   
   > upset or angry about something. Why would Mio know anything about   
   > Mamoru or his past or care if Usagi likes him? Pssstt....   
   > she's evil   
      
   The first time through, I didn't get Mio at all, even after she's   
   revealed, but now, knowing where it's headed I can see clues like the   
   Minakos bad feeling about her, the crushed cone and Jedites new power.   
      
   > As Mio washes the ice cream off her hands a youma appears. In the   
   > resulting student panic, Usagi pushes Mio out of the way of a youma   
   > blast, causing Mio to injure her hand. Now this is something that I   
   > never noticed before. Mio looks at the youma and the youma nods some   
   > sort of acknowledgement back to Mio. You know what? I think Mio is...   
   > EVIL! (holds pinkie to mouth).   
   >   
   > Usagi is forced to take Mio to safety before she can return. By this   
   > time, Rei, Ami and Makoto have engaged the youma in battle. They   
   > unleash a number of unnamed tambourine based attacks, but the youma   
   > shields them all with her (are all youma female?) indestructible cape.   
      
   Of all the ballet-fu attacks, I hate this one the most. Mostly because of   
   Mokotos half flip and then returning to where she started. What an   
   incredible waste of time and energy. I wonder if during shooting the   
   youma was supposed to be in place so it would look like she kicked him,   
   but it wasn't and this move just bugs me no end.   
      
   > The youma blasts Mercury's tambourine out of her hand but then Mercury   
   > uses some odd bubble ray to hold the tambourine out of the youma's   
   > reach until it can be caught in Sailor Luna's net (who just happen to   
   > show up at this opportune time).   
      
   Lets call it 'Mercury tractor beam attract'   
      
   > Luna tells Mercury to remember her   
   > chopsticks training and tosses the weapon back to her.   
      
   Oh, I thought she was referring to the tractor beam that she just   
   learned.   
      
      
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