1993 · magical-girl · romance · action
Sailor Moon R: The Movie
Directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara1h 1m1993
While enjoying the flower gardens, Sailor Moon and friends encounter an old childhood friend of Mamoru's: an alien! He's come back to give Mamoru a special flower but doesn't like Usagi and the rest of the planet's inhabitants. Sailor Moon must defend the earth from the evil Kisenian Flower he's brought back... before the evil vines and blossoms overrun the planet!
Our read: Sailor Moon R: The Movie (1993) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive magical-girl · romance · action entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured magical-girl / romance, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- warm
- kinetic
- redemptive
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