All reviews for Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Tome 4 (2013)
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It's a strange experience reading this manga. So much of it is familiar, and yet it's so completely different. It feels like the storylines are rushed with very little character development within the chapters. There is some, of course, but it feels lacking.It could be because I keep expecting the storyline to be similar to the anime, and I need to get out of that habit before it disappoints me. The four sisters, for example, were barely in the story enough to matter and it seemed like they were defeated far too easily.What I do like about this manga is the development of Mamoru's powers. In the anime, his role was very minimal in battles. Here, his powers are used to help fight. I also loved that Kunzite and the others are still around to encourage Mamoru.So of course I still like the manga. I just need to learn to push aside my memories of the anime and read it as something new.
I'd like to give this book more of 3.5 stars. It was better than good, but not quite excellent.The first few chapters of volume 4 are fairly similar and repetitive: new bad guy is sent in from Black Moon. New bad guy targets a specific Sailor Scout. The scout is captured, but Sailor Moon is able to defeat the bad guy.What I liked much more was when the story shifts to the 30th century and we learn about Chibi-Usa. The jealously that Usagi feels for Chibi-Usa is, at the same time, understandable and frustrating. I think that the next volume is going to be better due to the set up at the end of this one. I'm sure that one will be a more solid 4 stars.
The translation seemed a bit off in this one.