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
Usagi finally reaches Nehellenia's castle. Once there she realizes that all of her friends have been defeated by the Queen, however she is told Nehellenia's past and decides that the Queen deserves a second opportunity to fulffil her own dreams.
Plot
Super Sailor Chibi Moon and Super Sailor Saturn face Nehelenia. Sailor Saturn attempts to use her Silence Glaive and unleash its deadly destructive powers, 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, Nehelenia reveals that she experienced a lonely childhood, but that the mirror kept her company. After Nehelenia 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 power returns Nehelenia to her childhood.
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.
- 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 Moon Stick.
First Appearances
Attacks
Trivia
- All the senshi (except 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 definitely upgraded into the Eternal Moon Article, which makes this episode the last one that shows it.
- Prince Endymion reappears in the anime and it's his last and only appearance in the fifth season.
- This is the last episode in which Chibiusa/Sailor Chibi Moon and her cat, Diana, appear.
Gallery
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