From: david@block.net   
      
   On Sat, 06 Jan 2007 10:01:12 -0500, Phoenix    
   wrote:   
      
   >Act Zero - Sailor V's Birth!   
   >   
   >This episode was released on DVD after the TV series ended and gives   
   >us the origin story of Sailor V.   
   >   
   >The story opens on Christmas eve and Minako has skyrocketed up the   
   >music charts with her debut album "Imitation". Our first view of   
   >Minako is as she is looking out from her balcony singing the Christmas   
   >song "Silent Night" (in English!). In a scene reminiscence of when   
   >Luna fell onto Usagi in Act 1, Artemis falls out of the sky onto   
   >Minako's face in the same way.   
   >   
   >Until this episode, I had assumed that Artemis and Luna were actually   
   >real cats to the characters in the show and that we, the audience,   
   >only saw them as plushies as a theatrical device. However, Minako   
   >makes it clear here that Artemis appears as a walking, talking plushie   
   >to her as well.   
      
   In the first couple of episodes before Luna animates both Usagi and   
   Ami treat her as a plushie as well.   
      
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