"After-School Trouble: Usagi is a Target" is the 11th episode of the 2nd season of the Sailor Moon anime and the 57th episode overall. It aired in Japan on June 5, 1993. The DiC English dub title for this episode is "Detention Doldrums" and it aired in North America on December 6, 1995.
Summary[]
Ail sees Mamoru Chiba walking on the street and orders Amanju to steal his energy so he won't have any competition for Natsumi’s affections as part of his plan to ruin his relationship with Mamoru. but Amanju disobeys and jumps away.
Plot[]
Usagi is late for school again, but Miss Haruna doesn't mind because she has a date with her boyfriend named Robert. However, when Robert phones and cancels their date, she gets angry and gives Usagi detention for eating in class. When Natsumi insults poetry and speaks in an alien language, she also gets detention. They have to write a five-page essay. After Miss Haruna hears from Robert that the date was not cancelled after all, she leaves Usagi and Natsumi to finish their essays, and they decide that whoever finishes first gets Mamoru.
Ail summons a Cardian named Amanju. He sees Mamoru walking on the street and Ail becomes excited at the prospect of taking his energy for An, to which she secretly refuses, then orders Amanju to steal his energy, reasoning that An's detention will distract she from the next energy harvesting operation, so Ail can get rid Mamoru, but he ignores Ail and jumps away, without attacking Mamoru at all.
Meanwhile Natsumi is getting weak from lack of energy, and eventually steals Usagi's energy. Luna informs Usagi of the danger and she transforms into Sailor Moon to fight Amanju. Initially she is too weak to attack, but when the Moonlight Knight tells her to believe she has the energy, Sailor Moon destroys Amanju with Moon Princess Halation.
In detention, back in their original forms, Usagi and Natsumi finish their essays at the same time, the two girls agree that it is up to Mamoru to choose between them.
Inside the dimension of the Makaiju, its light is flickering dangerously.
International Dub Titles[]
- Brazilian Portuguese: Perigo Depois das Aulas: Usagi é o Alvo ("Danger After School: Usagi is the Target")
- European Portuguese: Perigo Depois da Escola! ("Danger After School!")
- French: Le monstre récalcitrant ("The Recalcitrant Monster")
- German: Nachsitzen ("Detention")
Changes[]
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Dub Changes[]
- The opening scenes with the Mysterious Cardian do not appear in the DiC English dub. Instead, the scene is changed to the girls being late to their lessons due to Raye's fire reading lasting too long.
First Appearances[]
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Trivia[]
- This episode was the only one to feature two Cardians; the unnamed Cardian at the beginning of the episode and Amanju, although the former was destroyed almost immediately at the beginning of the episode.
- The Sailor Says segment at the end of the first English-dubbed version of this episode used footage from episode 2, despite the fact that that episode had been excluded from the DiC dub.
- The scene with the Mysterious Cardian was cut from the first English dub, as well as the French and Hungarian dubs.
- This was Maria Weisby's final episode voicing Rai in the Swedish dub.
- This is the first time we see the other Sailor Senshi being late to school aside from Minako, who was shown being late to school earlier in The Targeted Kindergarteners: Venus to the Rescue.
- According to Ami in this episode, she has never been late to school once (at least up until this episode).
- It was never revealed if the other Sailor Senshi made it to class on time.