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Cardians

Cardians (カーディアン; Kādian) are the creatures who work for Ail and An in the first arc of Sailor Moon R.

Information[]

Cardians are kept inside cards until Ail and An choose to summon them and are typically used to gather energy for the Makai Tree by targeting humans. They are incapable of speaking aside from repeating their name, or short forms of it, reflecting on their subhuman and/or bestial natures.

To summon the Cardians, Ail first shows the cards to An (hiding their faces), while An divines the card she preferred for the mission. After An picks a card, Ail then throws it into the air and plays his flute to awaken the Cardian inside the card.

When defeated, the Cardians simply yell "Cleansing!" before reverting back to their card form; their card drops onto the ground and releases black smoke, causing the image of the Cardian on the card to turn black.

Trivia[]

  • In the DiC English dub, the Cardians were part of the Dark Kingdom, but unlike other monsters of the day, Cardians never disguised themselves as humans to gain an advantage but were still capable of speech like the rest of them. All of them were females in the original, while in the DiC English dub, two Cardians had their genders changed to male.


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