Template:Infobox anime"The Power of Moon Love! The Nightmare Ends" is the sixth episode of season five of Sailor Moon, and the 172nd of the overall Sailor Moon series. This episode concludes the season's first part, the Nehellenia arc. It first aired in Japan on May 4, 1996.
Summary
An injured and weary Usagi finally reaches Nehellenia's castle. Once there she realizes that all of her best and closest friends have been defeated by the Queen, however she is told more of Nehellenia's past and decides that the Queen deserves a second opportunity to fulfill her own lovely dreams as a child again.
Plot
Super Sailor Chibi Moon and Super Sailor Saturn face Nehellenia. Sailor Saturn attempts to use her mightily powerful Silence Glaive and unleash its deadly destructive powers to end all of this, but Chibi Moon stops her. Usagi finally arrives in time to see Chibi Moon disappear as the curse progresses. When the nine Super Sailor Soldiers' energy and power helps Usagi transform directly into Eternal Sailor Moon, Nehellenia reveals that she experienced a lonely childhood, but that the mirror kept her company. After Nehellenia physically assaults her, Usagi's pity breaks the curse over Mamoru.
Chibi Moon returns, all of the other Super Sailor Senshi are freed, and Eternal Sailor Moon's vast power returns Nehellenia to her childhood to give her a second chance of redemption.
Changes
Changes from the Manga
None of these episodes events are in the manga. Some characters' origins differ though:
- Nehellenia is never redeemed, due to being an incarnation of Chaos itself.
- Nehellenia's mirror was originally Queen Serenity's. Nehellenia appeared in the Queen's room when Princess Serenity was born, and threatened them both. Then the Queen sealed her inside it using the combined energies of the Silver Crystal and the Moon Stick.
First Appearances
Trivia
- All the Sailor Soldiers except Super Sailor Saturn trapped in mirrors have different body positions than those they had they were originally caught.
- This is the only episode in that Silence Glaive Surprise is used (although it isn't fully executed).
- This is the last episode that shows the ten Senshi together.
- Queen Nehellenia makes her final appearance in the anime in this episode.
- The Crisis Moon Compact is officially evolved and magnified into the Eternal Moon Article, which makes this episode the last one that shows the Dream compact.
- Prince Endymion reappears in the anime.
- This is the last episode in which Chibiusa/Super Sailor Chibi Moon and her cat, Diana, appear.
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