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"I am an emissary from the abyss of Death. Protected by Saturn, the Outer Planet of Destruction, the Guardian of Silence. I am Sailor Saturn."
— Sailor Saturn's Introduction


Hotaru Tomoe (土萠 ほたる, Tomoe Hotaru) is the daughter of Souichi Tomoe and Keiko Tomoe, and the civilian identity and present-day incarnation of Sailor Saturn (セーラーサターン, Seeraa Sataan). She is a close friend of Chibiusa and the last of the Outer Sailor Guardians to awaken in the manga.

Etymology[]

Hotaru: The kanji of "Hotaru" (蛍) means "firefly." Fireflies are associated with the spirits of the dead in Japanese mythology, which fits her as she is the Sailor Senshi of Ruin/Death and Rebirth.

Tomoe: The kanji of "Tomoe" (土萠) translates as earth (to,土) and sprouting (moe, 萠). The first kanji in "Tomoe", 土 , is also the first character for the Japanese name for Saturn: "Dosei" (土星).

Together, her name means "firefly sprouting from Earth".

Appearance[]

Civilian[]

Hotaru is a petite girl with short black hair, violet eyes, and pale skin. On normal days, she wears a black turtleneck sweater, a grey skirt, and black stockings. On other days, she will wear a black mini dress and dark blue pantyhose. Her school uniform consists of a dark red long-sleeved top with a light blue and blue bow and a Mugen Academy emblem on the front, a green and black checkered skirt, blue pantyhose, and black flats.

Sailor Saturn[]

Sailor Saturn's dominant color is purple (choker, collar, elbow fittings of gloves, skirt, and boots), and her accent colors are white (tiara gem, earrings, front middle of choker, and center of front bow) and maroon (front and back bows). Her choker has a white six-pointed star, collar has no stripes, shoulder pads resemble flower petals, and the center of her front bow was a white crystal. This crystal is similar in appearance to Pure Heart Crystals or half a Moravian star. Her gloves are elbow length with elbow fittings unique among the Guardians. Her boots are knee-high and laced up in the front. Her earrings are the most unique of all Sailor Guardians: white pearls adorned with a ring to look like her guardian planet, with white dagger pendants hanging from them.

Super Sailor Saturn[]

As Super Sailor Saturn, her earrings and boots remain the same. Her glove fittings are identical to that of the other Super Sailor Guardians, her choker had a yellow star attached to it, her collar had one white stripe, and the center of her front bow was a violet heart. She has regular shoulder pads with the bottom pad being wing-like and translucent, and the back waist bow was enlarged and lengthened. In the manga, the star on her choker had a purple gemstone in the center.

Eternal Sailor Saturn[]

As Eternal Sailor Saturn, her choker is V-shaped and the center of her front bow was a lavender five-pointed star in her maroon front bow. Her shoulder pads are large lavender puffs with two patches of purple fabric attached to the bottom. Her gloves became longer, reaching her upper arms. Her belt consists of two ribbons, one purple, and one lavender, with two long, thin back ribbons, clipped together by a golden five-pointed star. Her back bow is lavender. Her skirt became two-layered, the top layer being purple and the bottom lavender. Her boots were knee-high and white, and each has a purple V-shaped border with a golden five-pointed star at the top. Her tiara gem is a purple five-pointed star and her earrings are dangling, purple five-pointed stars.

Princess Saturn[]

As a Sailor Princess, she wears a purple gown with long purple gloves. Her dress has two straps with gold diamond-shaped jewelry on each one. She also wears a purple ribbon choker, a gold pendant with a purple gem, and purple high heels with straps.

Personality[]

Hotaru is timid, quiet, and always keeps to herself. Never having had any real friends, she was surprised yet happy to have met Chibiusa. She had growing fears of losing herself someday and struggled to keep her dark side in check, so as not to harm those she held most dear. She and Sailor Saturn are initially entirely different entities with their own personalities. Saturn is cold and analytical and will do what needs to be done.

When she is reborn, she is a cheerful and highly gifted child. She loves reading and can memorize entire books. She sometimes switches to a colder personality which is more reminiscent of Saturn. When she reawakens to her powers, she regains the memories of all of her past lives and in this new person, Hotaru and Sailor Saturn are one and the same. She is protective of her friendship with Chibiusa. She is deeply intellectual and lacks street smarts as she is completely befuddled by Ruruna Kobe and Naruru Osaka. She loves her new family and dies trying to protect Setsuna.

Information[]

Background[]

Hotaru was raised by Souichi and Keiko Tomoe. Years ago, an accident occurred in one of her father's labs which killed her mother and badly wounded Hotaru. To save her life, her father replaced parts of her limbs with machinery making her an android. During the medical procedure, he connected with Pharaoh 90, who implanted her with a Daimon: Mistress 9. Unlike the Witches 5 and other Daimons, Mistress 9 did not awaken and remained suppressed within Hotaru. She had been Pharaoh 90's partner in the Tau Star System. Over the following few years, her father, fused with a Daimon himself, worked to establish Mugen Academy, create other human-daimon hybrids, and to prepare the expansion of the Death Busters' invasion of Earth. She lived with her father feeling pain from the monster within and underwent regular checkups on her mechanical parts. She saw Kaolinite as trying to replace her mother and resented her.

Infinity arc[]

She is shown as a daughter to Souichi Tomoe and is a 6th grader at the Mugen Academy. At school, she is bullied because of her constant sickness which is revealed to be hosting Mistress 9. Hotaru meets Chibiusa fighting a Daimon. When Chibiusa got injured, she healed her. The latter became best friends. After Mistress 9 awakened with Pharaoh 90 to make Tokyo the new Tao System, Sailor Saturn later awakened when the Sailor Guardians attacks did not hurt the evil entity. She later expels the evil entity out of the universe where she instructs Sailor Pluto to open the Gate of Time and have it close with her for rebirth to be possible. Hotaru is later reborn as a baby and raised by Haruka, Michiru, and Setsuna as her adoptive parents.

Dream arc[]

In the Dream arc, Hotaru appears in Act 44, which offers a glimpse of the Outer Sailor Guardians' current lives. Haruka, Michiru, and Setsuna swore to raise Hotaru and to live a happy life together. When a threat emerges, Hotaru ages rapidly, up to ten years old and awakens as Sailor Saturn for the second time. She gives the other three Guardians their Sailor Crystals and they all return to Sailor Moon and the Inner Sailor Senshi to help them defeat the current enemy.

Sailor Saturn reunites with Sailor Chibi Moon and she alone notices the Amazoness Quartet are not normal enemies, but corrupted Sailor Guardians and, after a brief time being a prisoner of Queen Nehelenia, safeguards them until the threat has passed. Once that happens, Hotaru gets Usagi to lift the curse on them and they reawaken as the Sailor Quartet who will one day be Chibiusa's guardians.

Stars arc[]

After the defeat of the Dead Moon Circus, Hotaru began to attend Juban Public Elementary School alongside Chibiusa. During these months of peace, the events of The Secret Hammer Price Hall occur where she meets some of Chibiusa's other friends and shows herself to be protective of her status as Chibiusa's best friend.

In the first chapter of the Stars arc, a younger, more sarcastic, but cute Hotaru is seen holding hands with Chibiusa on their way to school. Usagi sees them and remarks that they are acting very friendly. Hotaru then asks her why she is not holding Mamoru's hand. This causes Usagi to get very angry and push the girls away from each other due to Mamoru's eminent departure. After Chibiusa returns to the 30th century, she, along with the other Guardians, notice the arrival of Chibi Chibi. In the third chapter of the stars arc, she, along with Setsuna, notice crow wings falling from the sky and senses it's too late to stop the invasion. In the fourth chapter, while playing with Chibi Chibi, she notices something terrible about to happen to Sailor Pluto by Sailor Galaxia. She teleports to Charon Castle to try to help, but she gets killed along with Sailor Pluto, Guardian Pluto, and Guardian Saturn. She is revived and enslaved by Shadow Galactica in her Eternal Sailor Guardian form to kill Sailor Moon, but fails, and thanks to Usagi's efforts, she later gets truly revived within the Galaxy Cauldron.

Sailor Guardian Info[]

Hotaru as Sailor Saturn possesses powers associated with silence and ruin, nothingness, destruction, death, and rebirth that made her a potential threat as she can wipe out a planet and even an entire star system or reset its evolution.

  • Death and Rebirth: Hotaru as The Guardian of Silence possesses the power to completely obliterate an entire planet; thus reducing everything and everyone on said world to complete and utter nothingness by swinging down her weapon, the Silence Glaive.
  • Great Healing Power: During Infinity arc, Hotaru is shown to have healing power, curing Chibiusa's wounds after the battle in Act 28.
  • Age Shifting: After being reborn, in Dream arc, more precisely in Act 44 Dream 6, she is also shown to grow at a faster rate than a normal human, and when the critical moment comes, she grows to a 10-year-old child. When Sailor Saturn's powers are brought back to her, she instantly grows back a 12-year-old. But after the end of Dream arc, she regressed of age back to a 10-year-old girl.
  • Illusions: In the same chapter, she also possesses the power to project, through illusions, what's on her mind, showing Super Sailor Chibi Moon and Pegasus, and after that, the history of Solar System's creation.

Phrases[]

Weapons and Items[]

Attacks[]

Development[]

  • The idea of Hotaru being an android was originally intended for Ami Mizuno until it was rejected by the editor.
  • The fact that she is the Sailor Senshi of Ruin and Rebirth can be associated with the Greek god Cronus, who is portrayed with a scythe or sickle, and is known as the god of periodic renewals as the Roman god Saturn. Her full name meaning "firefly sprouting from Earth" also has ties to Cronus as Cronus was the son of Gaia, the Greek goddess and personification of Earth.
    • Earth is one of the four classical elements in ancient Greek philosophy and science. It was commonly associated with qualities of heaviness, matter and the terrestrial world. Due to the hero cults, and chthonic underworld deities, the element of earth is also associated with the sensual aspects of both life and death in later occultism.

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • She is the only Sailor Guardian who doesn't transform in the Stars Arc and her Sailor form is only seen after she was brought back as Sailor Galaxia's servant.
  • Many different souls and spirits have been in Hotaru. In the Infinity arc, there was Mistress 9, Chibiusa, the four Inner Sailor Guardians, and (separate from her) Sailor Saturn. In the Dream arc, she eventually awakened as Sailor Saturn again, and in the Stars arc short story, she was possessed by Otakura.

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Official Sailor Moon website; Sailor Saturn's Profile
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon (Volume 10)/Tankoubon - Hotaru's Profile
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 The Materials Collection states she was born January 6th and has the appearance of a 12 year old. At the end of the Infinity arc, she dies and is reborn as a baby. In the Dream arc she rapidly ages to match Chibiusa's physical age and in the Stars arc attends school with her as seen in The Secret Hammer Price Hall. Chibiusa is in her 3rd year of Elementary School in the Stars arc and in Japan that would make her classmates 8-9 years old. In the alternate universe of Parallel Sailor Moon, she is in her 3rd year of middle school and in Japan they start the school year at 14 and the story takes place in July - well before her birthday.


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