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Like, Ami scans for weaknesses and such with technology and logical observations, Rei uses her spiritual senses and premonitions to discover evil presenses and their sources, Makoto’s the physically strongest of the five and can muscle through almost anything, and Usagi most of the time heals their foes to restore them to normal humans again. A lot of the time in the classic anime, Minako’s just… the other attacker only with love power. She was a hilarious character, but I wasn’t totally crazy about her as a Sailor Soldier/Guardian way back cuz her role in battle wasn’t anything unique to her in the classic anime.

Here in this movie tho, her veteran status as Sailor V was taken more seriously, so she’s always in the lead of the group, is able to dish out quick and direct orders, and kept morale alive by staying focused on the task at hand. She stood out so much more like this, and after seeing how this is the role she was always meant to play in the manga, it makes me kinda disappointed in the classic anime, at least in this regard. Still love it tho.

Either way, this really moved Minako up for my favorite characters in the whole series. <3

Back in December, I organized a fundraiser of sorts to afford a massive lot of Sailor Moon settei; for those who don’t know, “settei” is a term for the artwork/sketches of characters/items/settings/etc that animators use as references in order to remain consistent. Thanks to some very generous donors (one donor in particular was extremely generous), I was able to win the lot of 540 settei sheets. A couple of weeks later, I purchased some more settei (mostly of the Stars season) using my own money which helped me round out the collection.

Anyway, after weeks of organizing, scanning, cleaning, editing, and more organizing, I’m finally ready to unveil the Settei Project! In the future there will be a gallery feature so you don’t have to download the files, but I was having trouble with the site I wanted to use and decided to just release the downloads instead of waiting any longer. Also, this project is NOT COMPLETED YET. I still need to scan and edit the artwork of the settings, characters/villains of the day, and other miscellaneous stuff. 

Please feel free to use the settei any way you’d like, but I’d really appreciate a link back to me (not only as credit but so that people will know where they can get the artwork). And please, please, PLEASE do not try to take credit for this project in any way. I’ve poured so much blood, sweat, and tears into this, not to mention tons of time (literal weeks) and money (both my own and that of donors). I’d like for people to respect that.

So without further ado…

DOWNLOAD THE WHOLE COLLECTION DOWNLOAD BY CHARACTER

EDIT: SuperS Movie settei is now available!

Download on Mediafire

Download on Mega

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