Title: 美少女戦士セーラームーン (Pretty Guardian Sailormoon) Vol. 9
Artist/Author: 武内直子 (Naoko Takeuchi)
Book Size/Pages: Small B-6, 264pp., w/furigana
Volume: 9/12
Original Serialization: Monthly Nakayoshi 5/95-9/95
First Printing: 4/23/04
Rating: 3/4

These few chapters remind me of how Sailormoon is supposed to be. One bad guy every week and then repeat. Unfortunately, Fisheye and Tigereye are expended too soon.

The stickers included have SD depictions of the characters with dialogue bubbles.

40. 夢２ マーキュリー・ドリーム (Dream 2, Mercury Dream): Usagi and Chibiusa have changed bodies so Chibiusa is now the older and taller of the two. Mamoru has been a little sick recently and Chibiusa wonders about whether she's the princess Eriol is looking for. Meanwhile, Zirconia has a brief chat with Neherenia and they have Fisheye go attack Ami. After Ami brings back a gold fish, they possess her mother trying to bring out Ami's insecurities about her family, but the Sailor Mercury inside her prevails and she transforms and defeats Fisheye. Usagi and Chibiusa come help out and change back to their normal selves, but now Chibiusa doesn't think she's the one for Eriol.

41. 夢３ マーズ・ドリーム (Dream 3, Mars Dream): Chibiusa meets with Eriol who reveals himself as a man this time. The Circus sends Tigereye after Rei. While the others are attending the circus and becoming hypnotized, Rei ends up in the house of mirrors where she's confronted with her own uncertainties in life and what she wants to become. With the help of her two crows, Phobos and Deimos, she overcomes her challenge and frees the other girls at it.

42. 夢４ ジュピター・ドリーム (Dream 4, Jupiter Dream): Mamoru's illness has become worse to the point where he's coughing up blood. The next person, after the two previous failures, is Makoto. The next one is disguised as a new spice store owner, knowing that one of Makoto's hobbies is cooking. Makoto comes back to the store and starts talking with the owner at which time she reveals that she's has other aspirations too. Using her wavering heart, she gets attacked, but the scout within her and Haruka's works strengthen her again to defeat this new enemy. Eriol shows up by the terribly ill Mamoru.

43. 夢５ ヴィーナス・ドリーム (Dream 5, Venus Dream): Eriol shows them that there's a black rose growing inside Mamoru which is the cause for his illness. He tells the scouts about Neherenia and himself, how they have to defeat her to save the earth and get the Golden Crystal to save Mamoru and himself. Meanwhile, Minako has been depressed that she can't transform so she gets herself sucked into competition to become an idol. It's a trap set up by the Amazon Quartet to get her and they end up having her hanging from a tall building with only Artemis preventing her from falling. But then a large boulder falls from the sky right above them.

44. 夢６ ニュー・ソルジャー・ドリーム (Dream 6, New Soldier Dream): It's been six months since the outer scouts have adopted baby Hotaru and she's been growing very fast. In the house, she witness an apparition of Eriol with Chibiusa chasing after it which awakens her to become Sailor Saturn. She then restores the powers to the other 3 outer scouts. Meanwhile, Artemis transforms into a human form and deflects the boulder and apologizes for not lending enough support, hence not allowing her to transform. With that, she's now able to transform and goes to safety. Soon after though, the 4 scouts get caught by the Quartet. Back home, Usagi has started coughing.

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