Sailor Moon: Eternal

"Sailor Moon Eternal" (also known as Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal Season IV: Eternal the Movie) is a two part movie of the Sailor Moon Crystal franchise set to adapt the Dream arc from the manga.

The first part was originally set to be released in Japan around September 11, 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the release has been pushed back to January 8, 2021. The second part was released in Japan on February 11, 2021.

Both films were released worldwide on Netflix on June 3, 2021.

## Synopsis

A solar eclipse blocks out the sun. Pegasus, also known as Helios, seeks out chosen maidens who can help break the seal of the Golden Crystal, seeking out candidates in their dreams. Meanwhile, a group known as the Dead Moon Circus, makes an uncanny appearance in Juban. Their goal scatter the nightmare Lemures across the world and obtain the Legendary Silver Crystal so they can rule the Earth and the Moon.

## Plot

### Part 1

Half a year after the Mugen Academy incident, Usagi and her friends are beginning high school while her future daughter Chibiusa is about to return to 30th century Tokyo as her training as a Sailor Guardian is almost over. But while Usagi and Chibiusa watch a Solar eclipse with Mamoru, they all see a vision of a pegasus named Helios asking for their help, and Mamoru gets a stabbing feeling in his chest. The Dead Moon Circus arrives on a flagship and its members conjure a dark barrier around the area where the circus tent is.

That night, Chibiusa has a dream of Helios, who deems her the maiden he seeks to find the Golden Crystal to save Elysion while giving her a bell to summon him should she need him. When Chibiusa tries to return to the 30th century with Diana, the dark barrier stops her and alerts the Amazoness Quartet as they send a tiger to investigate. Usagi and Chibiusa's brooches are upgraded by Helios, allowing them to transform into Super Sailor Moon and Super Sailor Chibi Moon. The Amazoness send some Lemures to fight the Sailor Guardians, but they quickly destroy them. Mamoru faints from the pain in his chest while the Amazoness PallaPalla switches Usagi and Chibiusa's ages.

The circus' ringleader Zirconia is instructed by her master, Queen Nehelenia, to let the Sailor Guardians' nightmares take hold of them so she can obtain the Silver Crystal. PallaPalla turns the tiger and two other animals into Amazon Trio to each target a Sailor Guardian. Fish's Eye infiltrates Ami's home and uses her solitude against her, only to be destroyed when she gains her Sailor Crystal and assumes her own Super Sailor form. Reidoes the same while Tiger's Eye targets her in the mirror house, resulting in his own demise. Hawk's Eye poses as a herb seller and is fatally wounded by Makoto after selling her and Chibiusa cursed rings, encouraging her to follow her dreams before dying. Mamoru's condition worsens after Chibiusa gave him her ring. Helios reveals that Mamoru's incessant chest pain is caused by Queen Nehelenia's curse on Elysion, a hidden sacred place on Earth. This curse also turns Helios, Elysion's high priest, into a pegasus, imprisoning him in a cage from which he is astral projecting. Super Sailor Moon says she will heal Mamoru and hugs him which then gives Usagi the same curse as Mamoru.

Minako frets on her inability to transform, as the Amazoness VesVes sends the knife-throwing twins, Xenotime and Zeolite, after her. In the ensuing conflict with the Amazonesses and the knife-throwers, Minako is saved by Artemis as he assumed human form to present her with her sailor crystal, enabling her to transform into Super Sailor Venus and destroy Xenotime and Zeolite to save her comrades. PallaPalla then traps the four Super Sailor Guardians in vines. Usagi then falls ill from a black rose inside her as well, and Zirconia brings darkness to Earth with the nightmare energy she has accumulated.

In a post-credits scene, Sailor Saturn, speaking within four-year-old Hotaru Tomoe, quotes a passage of the poem The Second Coming by Yeats.

### Part 2

Having returned to civilian life, the Outer Guardians are troubled by the solar eclipse with Hotaru aging in response before her memories are restored by the spirit of Sailor Saturn. Hotaru then gives Haruka, Michiru, and Setsuna their respective crystals, allowing them to transform into Super Sailor Uranus, Super Sailor Neptune, and Super Sailor Pluto, who along with Super Sailor Saturn rescue the Inner Guardians from PallaPalla's vines. Super Sailor Chibi Moon, Super Sailor Moon, and Tuxedo Mask arrive to help, but Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask are cursed by Zirconia, who retreats with the Amazoness Quartet. Helios teleports Usagi and Mamoru to Elysion to save their lives with what purification power it has left. Sailor Chibi Moon and Sailor Saturn pursue the Amazoness Quartet and confront them inside their tent, and Saturn reveals the Amazoness Quartet were corrupted by Nehelenia's nightmare power. As the Amazoness Quartet begin to remember their true selves, Zirconia imprisons them inside orbs before trapping Chibi Moon and Saturn inside shards of glass, before placing all six inside Queen Nehelenia's mirror.

In Elysion, Helios explains to Usagi and Mamoru that the Golden Kingdom ruled by Mamoru's past like Prince Endymion originated in Elysion, with the Golden Crystal being Elysion's counterpart to Silver Millennium's Silver Crystal. Usagi realizes the Golden Crystal is inside Mamoru as the Silver Crystal was inside her. Helios sends Usagi and Mamoru back to the surface, joining the Sailor Guardians as Zirconia casts a hot, suffocating fog to impede them. Helios uses the last of his power to send Elysion's purifying crystals to Earth, blocking Zirconia's fog at the cost of his life. Zirconia placed the assembled group under her spell to make it seem Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask are killed, but Tuxedo Mask is able to awaken them all from their nightmares. The Sailor Guardians combine their powers and force Zirconia to flee into Nehelenia's mirror with Sailor Moon in pursuit. Sailor Moon encounters Nehelenia while freeing Sailors Chibi Moon and Saturn, with the latter taking the orbs containing the Amazoness Quartet as the trio escape the mirror when the others damage it.

While the Dead Moon Circus disappears upon the mirror being shattered, the darkness remains on Earth. Tuxedo Mask and Sailor Moon both realize that Nehelenia has teleported to Elysion and all the Sailor Guardians decide to teleport there as well to stop the threat. Sailor Moon attacks Queen Nehelenia inside her mirror, but she reflects her attack back at her and the others, sending them into a flashback of Queen Nehelenia's past: Queen Nehelenia arrived uninvited at the celebration of the birth of Princess Serenity, confronted by Queen Serenity while asked to leave if her intentions were malicious. As the exchange escalated, Queen Serenity banishes and permanently seals Queen Nehelenia inside her mirror using the Silver Crystal. Nehelenia then curses the princess and the Silver Millennium to their downfall.

Queen Nehelenia takes the Silver Crystal from Super Sailor Moon, but before she can kill the Sailor Guardians and take over Earth and Elysion, Usagi and Tuxedo Mask kiss, breaking free of Queen Nehelenia's curse while regaining the Silver Crystal. Sailor Moon transforms the other Sailor Guardians into their princess forms and summons Luna, Artemis, and Diana in human form. The other Sailor Guardians and Tuxedo Mask, using his Golden Crystal, enable to Sailor Moon to become Eternal Sailor Moon with the Silver Crystal transformed into her Silver Moon Crystal. She and other Eternal Sailor Guardians then obliterate Queen Nehelenia and her mirror, restoring Earth and Elysion. Eternal Sailor Chibi Moon revives Helios with the power of her Pink Moon Crystal, causing him to realize she was the maiden in his vision. Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask then transform into Neo Queen Serenity and King Endymion and use their crystals' power to send the remains of Nehelenia’s mirror into the sky and the other Guardians minus Sailor’s Chibi Moon and Saturn turn back into their princess forms and watch. Sailor Saturn then asks Sailor Moon to release the Amazoness Quartet, who are revealed to be Sailor Guardians of the asteroids named Sailor Ceres, Sailor Pallas, Sailor Juno, and Sailor Vesta, who were asleep in the Amazon Jungle until Nehelenia used a curse to forced them to awaken into a nightmare. Now freed from the nightmare they go back to sleep till the day when Sailor Chibi Moon becomes a full-fledged Sailor Guardian, and they become her Guardian Deities. Helios escorts everyone back to the surface before returning to Elysion, assuring Chibiusa that they will meet again. Mamoru still feels something hot in his heart, he suspects it is the power of the Golden Crystal, but Usagi says it is a star shining within him and what he's feeling is wanting to make their dreams come true and protect those they care about and she hopes the star tucked away inside her heart will still continue to shine for her.