While Sailor Moon already showcases an impressive variety of unreal hair, like Sailor Mercury’s blue and Sailor Pluto’s green, series creator Naoko Takeuchi liked to sometimes push the envelope by portraying all her characters with a rainbow of hair colours. Before finalising her designs she toyed with making Sailor Moon’s iconic blonde dumplings pink or white, and used her original colour spreads to explore what could have been. (Image scans from MangaStyle.net.)
The dress is Christian Dior Hatue Coture collection, Palladium dress, Spring/Summer 1992, and was on display from May 14 to September 25, 2011 at ‘Dior, le bal des artistes’ exhibit in the Villa Les Rhumbs. –fukufashion
This was the dress that inspired Princess Serenity’s dress in Sailor Moon. In the Materials Art Book (as seen above) you can see some of the original sketches for the dress look quite similar to this dress.
Note: I’m currently looking for fukufashion’s original post of the dress.
You know what I wonder? If I had pots of money, and I tracked down a copy of this dress (like, how many do you think were made? just the runway model, or were more sewn/sold?) and wore it as part of a Princess Serenity cosplay, would some snot tell me (or say about me online) that it was OMG SO INACCURATE?
It’s pretty much all headcanon, yeah. Here is the sum total of backstory we get about Crystal Tokyo, from Episode 83 (“The Shocking Future! Dimande’s Dark Ambition”).
That is IT.
And as you can see, that’s precious little to go on.
First, of course, there’s the assumption that everything Endymion says is true, and I think there’s a whole mess of wiggle room about that if you wanted. I stick mostly to assuming he’s generally telling the truth, with possibly some detail fudging and a whole lot of obscuring in there. (I don’t like the idea of the Senshi sleeping for a thousand years, for example, if only for the fact that that’s boring; there isn’t a whole lot to write about when everyone’s unconscious, and I want to maximize my Crystal Tokyo playground.) But then, I also headcanon that he has a very vested interest in the Senshi leaving with specific views about things. It’s a pretty deep rabbit hole is what I’m saying.
But generally, all we learn about the birth of Crystal Tokyo is that there was “a great calamity” and “the earth settled into a cold sleep”. That’s it, the end of the world in two deliciously vague sentences.
So it’s your choice what that means, if indeed it can be trusted to mean anything. For me, I obviously love the idea of an apocalyptic battle that the Senshi lose, and that’s the foundation for everything Crystal Tokyo for me.
(I’ve got a whole mess of posts about this kind of thing as I am deeply in love with Crystal Tokyo and cannot wait to write there. It’s nowhere near the scope, but some recommended additional reading here and here.)
After reading older liveblogs over the couple years I’ve been a follower, my headcanon developed as follows:
In the original timeline (where Chibs came from when she arrived in S), the Silence is the calamity that befell Earth. The end of S happened, M9 and Pharaoh 90 fucked up everything (maybe Saturn awakened and hit the killswitch, maybe not) and the world fell into stasis.
I am rather fond of the idea of Chibs being sent back specifically to befriend Hotaru and prevent the Silence, as it came up in some liveblog. So now the two timelines have diverged enough that Chibs going back to the future after SuperS is the last time she comes back to the 20th century, for the sake of neatness, anyway.
I haven’t quite figured out my headcanon on how Crystal Tokyo comes about in this new, Un-Silenced timeline, but I think the future that Usagi and friends create will be quite different to the one they saw (or the parts of it they were shown).
And my second birthday gift to myself, this awesome genga (key frame) of Rei at her table, from episode 54. I thought it was really interesting, and since it was from the same seller as the Jupiter/Nehellenia cel, I tossed it into my cart.
This drawing is in the episode twice; once when Rei is recounting her musical awesomeness to the other girls, and again with a different color palette when the episode’s Cardian destroys her sheet music in battle.
The genga came with an additional sheet, which is at the bottom of this photoset. It’s a photocopy, and has a bunch of notes and scribbles on it. Not sure what this would have been used for (perhaps notes on changes between the first and second appearance?) but kinda neat to get as a bonus with the genga!
NEW CEL! I had some birthday money to spend, so I bought this lil darlin on eBay. I’ve been eyeing it for a couple months, and I’m equally glad and surprised that no one else bought it yet. :D
The cel is stuck to the douga, so no real option to create my own background for it when I get it framed. BUT! Some enterprising soul turned the douga over before it got stuck to the cel, so the drawing itself is safe and sound on the back. :D
I’m SO GLAD I got to snap this up. This is an amazing moment from this episode (171) and it has both my favorite inner senshi and my favorite villain.
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