The eighty-third comic: #611 Sailor Moon

I'll be honest, I'm not sure Sailor Moon ever quite grabbed me. While partially a superhero story featuring the Sailor Scouts, the titular Sailor Moon is clearly the focus of the entire story, with the love story elements of the likes of Nodame Cantabile and Rose of Versailles. The former is there early on, and gets a bit less later, but these are clearly part of the draw, while the action sequences are almost an afterthought - they are rare and don't work well in the entire thing. While that's fine, since they can be more boring, they feel so short that they're very much perfunctory and (I'd argue) almost useless as there are no dilemmas in the fighting. It probably works better in anime form, with some good animation, but without it they're not interesting.

That means that both sides of the coin, the relationship angle and the action angle, don't work for me,and the gaps in between, the hangout stuff, doesn't give me much. I still don't know much about the other characters, with Amy being the only one I felt I saw a bit more of, but developing that more, rather than characters from the future and making googly eyes at each other. There's a good core here, and I am curious to try the anime, but this never got there.