I'm not gonna lie, I thought Act 4 was not going to be exciting at all to watch. No Sailor Jupiter, fake Silver Crystal, Nephrite's shadow, basic filler. But in all honesty, it wasn't all that bad. As many fans know, this episode focused on the Sailors finding the Silver Crystal, with their first guesstimate being Princess D - a very rich noblewoman - who holds it. This grabs the attention of Nephrite, who takes Jadeite's place after he failed three times.
Nephrite crashes the party after Usagi and Tuxedo Mask become attracted to one another after a brief dance, but it turns out they were only fighting his shadow. Furthermore, Usagi gets a replacement tiara after her old one "somehow" got burned away as she combined her efforts with Sailor Mars's fiery exorcism to nearly kill Jadeite. Yes, Jadeite did in fact survive the attacks, and this is the first known deviation from the manga, as he was originally supposed to die.
Upon getting her new tiara, Sailor Moon unleashes her yet-named Moon Twilight Flash to extinguish Nephrite's shadow, rescuing Princess D from the evil curse. And immediately afterward, all four of the Heavenly Kings show up before the Sailor Senshi from the rooftops and introduce themselves in a very similar fashion to the Masho / Warlords from Samurai Troopers / Ronin Warriors, which IMO was kinda neat. It seems this time around they want to flesh out the backstories of these villains this time around, as they were Endymion's guardians after all. And with Naoko Takeuchi having more creative control of this anime, we can only have faith she knows what she's doing.
Near the end of the episode, the evening sky becomes a cloudy, rainy day, and briefly pans to Makoto Kino, who will become Sailor Jupiter. Overall, a nicely done episode. But this three-week wait for the next episode will be a doozy, as opposed to 2 weeks.
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