Favorite Sailor Moon villian henchmen gang

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What is your favorite gang of villains or mini boss gangs in Sailor Moon?

What I mean by that, is the the top henchmen gang that the main villain uses for his or her goals?

Examples the Shitennou, the Witches 5, Sailor Animamates, etc. and try to base this solely on the gangs themselfs and not on their bosses.

The Shitennou had a special place for me because they were the first, though I love the Witches 5, each character had their own personality that stood out beyond being henchwomen for Tomoe and Kaiolente. And how they stabbed each other in the back.

Is just me or is the Death Busters a gender role reversal of the Dark Kingdom? Queen Beryl had all these men working for her, while Professor Tomoe had all these women working for him. Though in the manga the Witches 5 really worked for Kaiolente, but since she works for Tomoe they worked for Tomoe also.
 
The first one... Queen Beryl and her pretty men named after jewels/rocks.

Second fav would be Fisheye, Hawkeye, and Tigereye.
 
That would be the Amazon Trio of the Dead Moon Circus, and yeah, them and the Shitennou are my favorites also. Especially the Shittenou. It's a shame that they never incorporated the Shitennou's origins into the anime though (they were originally the male equivalents to the sailor senshi as Prince Endymion's guardians just as the sailor senshi were Princess Serena's guardians.)
 
My favorites were the "Dark Moon" people from the later half of the second season of the anime (the "Four Sisters" and Rubeus,and later Emerald,Sapphire,Diamond,Black Lady and Wiseman),they were much more fleshed out in the anime than the manga,and some of them were redeemed rather than being destroyed outright....
 
Here is a thought, maybe this is the western comic book fan in me talking, but I wished some of these groups meet each other. I would love to have seen a movie in which a super villain brings many of these groups back to life to be his or her henchmen.

It would be cool to see the Shitennou and the Witches 5 meet or the Shitennou and the Amazon Trio, etc.
 
The Dark Moon Saga was the best saga IMHO.

I would actually have been happy if the series ended right there.

I have to say they were the best by far.

The Infinity arc was too bad either. Mistress 9 worked rather well too.
 
I've always liked the Shittenou (I always found them to be quite memorable and interesting in terms of villainy compared to others), but I also enjoyed the Dark Moon group from the "Four Sisters" to "Wicked Lady".

However I never really cared much for Professor Tomoe's troupe (doesn't help that two of them only lasted one episode), nor the Doom Tree folk (Alan and Ann). Their story felt like a 13 episode work than the amount that it went through.
 
Granted the others didn't last very long, but I liked the first two merabers of the Witches 5, the first two that stayed the longest were awesome characters in my opinion. First of all Eudial I thought she was awesome. If you overlook the whole evil thing, there are things that you can admire about her. I just love that she is beautiful and a genious, showing that you can be intelligent and sexy.

Mimete was an hillarous psycopath. She was crazier than Professor Tomoe and crazier than a lot of main villains. She was Nena Trinity before Nena Trinity. Though I hated her for killing Eudial, I love her for everything else.
 
I always liked the amazoness quartet.

I would have loved The sailor stars villain cast if it was more faithful to the manga. I found them to be more sadistic and brutal there while the anime was a bit silly (though I really did like sailor iron mouse in the anime) I just thought it gave the manga more meaning really. It was very sad.
 
If I had to say my favorites it would be:

The Dark Moon/ The Phantom Witch Sisters: It seems that out of all the Sailor Moon villians not only do they get the most character development but there is not ONE of them that gets the short end of the stick. By the end of R each one of their character arcs were fully explored and developed.

The Four Generals: Except of Jedite they all got good screentime in.

Kaolionite and Eudial and Minete (Witched 5): In S they got the most screentime and had the more interesting personalities. Too bad the others just got shoveled in there.

Amazon Trio (mainly Fisheye): While Fisheye was barely used during the Amazon Trio arc in the end his character had the most flushing out. Too bad he had to have a crush on Mamoru (seriously dude, you can do better!)

O-chan
 
I liked Alan and Ann. They were ****ed up in their love lives but still sympathetic due to their situation. And they could be funny alot of the time. But I will have to say that their story arc probably went on longer than it needed to.



Agreed. Stars in general was a very, very weak season. However, it was the anime's Aluminum Seiren I liked, not Iron Mouse. It was a shame they didn't do as much with her as they could have, yet another sign of Stars' inadequecy.



Huh? Jedite didn't get good screentime in? Jedite got the most episodes to himself (13, while Nephrite, Zoisite, and Kunzite all got 10). Sure, his character wasn't as deeply explored as it could have been, but he was very effective as the first villain.



Yeah. Mamoru was cool in the manga. After the first season of the anime...not so much.
 
The Death Busters and the Amazon Quartet are the only ones I really like. Although I have some respect for Jedite, being the original Sailor Moon miniboss and all that.
 
It depenRAB. I really love Ali and Alen from the Death Tree arc, but Prince Diamond and the Black Moon Kingdom kicked as too. HOwever, Mistress 9 is my favorite villian, but as a whole, Sailor Galaxia's group were the best (especailly Sailor Iron Mouse). Of course, that isn't surprisign considering Sailor Stars is by far the best of the seasons.
 
Sailor Iron Mouse was a loser, moreso than most villains on this show. Of course, some people probably like her because of that, and while I didn't hate her, I found her pretty annoying.



Say WHAT? I repeat; Stars was the weakest season of the anime. It was so bad that even Naoko Takeuchi despised it. What was supposed to be the big final storyline was made into a typical "monster of the day" arc even when it did not work as one. And let's not even get started on the Sailor Starlights themselves. I don't care how bland Mamoru was in the anime; making Seiya a guy and hooking him up with Usagi was just plain creepy and blasphemus. IMO, Stars defines "Adaptation Decay".
 
Well I do agree that if Toei had stuck to the manga then the Sailor Animates would have ultimately fared better. But as far as your position on Stars, now I really don't care how the heck it's rated in Japan as far as I know Stars is always revered among Sailor Moon fans in America often times competing with S as the best season. There are a few facts to what you say, it did stray from the manga moreso than any of the previous seasons and made some dramatic changes to the Starlights gender but it still fell within the formula the anime had from season one.
The manga was always more plot driven while the anime fleshed out and developed personalities of many of the characters. Usagi, Mamoru, and Chibi-Usa may have fared better in the manga but everyone else had the personalities of potted plants.

Most fans tend to believe that Sailor Moon SuperS is the weakest season because it too heavily deviated from the manga (why the frick does Chibi-Usa NOT have her own Sailor Senshi!) to the point of being mostly filler and it too made heavy plot changes that watered down a lot of characters. Stars was a breath of fresh air for a lot of fans because it returned to the standard that Classic through S had.

As far as Usagi and Seiya go it is actually one of my prefered anime pairings if only because I felt Seiya and Usagi operated on a more equal maturity level and Seiya had was a little bit better in the personality department (I cite R for doing some plot related things that really made Mamoru look shallow). I don't see how him turning into a she complicated things since this in shojo anime and there have been things in other shows far more controversial.

In the end all this stuff about Stars being the "weakest" season is news to me when throughout my years of being a Sailor Moon fan I've heard otherwise.

O-chan
 
Since when? From what I've seen, American fans either didn't care for Stars or didn't know much about it since it was never dubbed. And it got terrible ratings in Japan; the series' ratings gradually got worse and worse with each season.

And S is horribly overrated IMHO, just because it was darker and edgier in tone doesn't make it the best.



SuperS was indeed a weak season riddled with pointless crap, but at least the villains were interesting. And Stars a "breath of fresh air"? I didn't think fresh air could make me choke...

And Stars is the final arc; it shouldn't BE like Classic through S. It should feel like something important. The generic monster-of-the-week formula just doesn't work with it.



Seiya was a girl who crossdressed as a boy in the manga, not a guy who could transform into a girl. That's just creepy and makes him Uncanny Valley. And she only had ONE line hinting at any feelings toward Usagi; the anime took it and turned it into a full blown romance that blantantly ripped off alot of the Usagi-Mamoru stuff in Season 1. And yes, since R Mamoru had been bland and shallow, but Seiya was obnoxious so he really wasn't any better a match for Usagi. Really, was it too much to just write Mamoru well again? Naoko Takeuchi made Usagi/Mamoru a major plot point throughout the whole manga; it shouldn't have been so bad in the anime, and an obscure character such as Seiya should not have been the one taking his place.



Then I guess you haven't been to the places I've been. It really all boils down to the fact that none of the arcs (not even SuperS) hacked as much of the source material as this one did. The Sailor Starlights were not supposed to be major characters (or men), Princess Kakyuu was supposed to have a sailor senshi form, the villains were supposed to be more serious, most of the sailor senshi were supposed to die, Sailor Cosmos was supposed to EXIST...generally, the arc was more loose than any other, and IMHO that really hurt it badly. Again, even the creator openly disliked it. If you like it, fine, but I REALLY don't think you're in the majority here.
 
The best gang was the Shittenou. They were originally good guys turned evil, and while there was some opportunistic backstabbing going on they weren't foolish and petty like the Witches 5.

Pharoh 90 and Mistress 9 were excellent as final villains, though. I disagree that S is overrated. It isn't its "darkness" so much as it is the fact that it drastically expanded the show. It introduced the outer scouts and really raised the stakes, with the true villain being this transcendent evil force. It was also the one season where Rini wasn't completely annoying, since she had the frienRABhip with Hotaru going on.

I have to admit that the R villains were pretty good too, although to be honest Prince Diamond and Sapphire really didn't get very much attention. We got just enough time to feel sorry for them and then they got backstabbed and killed. As a concept they're equal to anyone else, but the Shittenou got more development and Hotaru's issues were critical to the S season.
 
You know im proud to say that im proally one of the few American teenagers that was able to watch sailor moon sailor stars uncut back in 1999 (thank god for mexican TV). I was able to watch stars with unbasied eyes, without knowing all the changes that they had made and how different it was compared to manga, i watched it without the knowledge that it was considered by many to be the worst season....and even when considering all those factors i must agree that stars was one of the worst seasons of all the sailor seasons. Although i will admit that the final episodes were awesome and IMO the best of all the seasons....but by the time i finish watching...i wasnt really all to impressed
 
Mabye I'm in the minority, but I just found the outer scouts other than Sailor Saturn and the villains other than Professor Tomoe and Mistress 9 to be pretty boring. Don't know why...just did.



Well, to be fair, most of Rini being an annoying brat in R was on purpose, seeing as she had to grow out of it. I found her storyline in R to be better than the one in S. The Mini-moon stuff was fine, but to me, the frienRABhip with Hotaru was an excuse to shoehorn her into the role of being the final pure heart that Mistress Nine needed. And that was a role she was not needed in.

Though, of course, even that was preferable to her as the dues ex machina solving every filler characters' dream problems in SuperS.



Hear, hear!



That's probably because, manga or anime, Galaxia always is an awesome villainess.
 
I have to go with the Witches 5. Five hot mad scientists with kooky personalities! Awesome!

Plus,the fact that the Witches 5 used Technomagic to accomplish their goals always resonated with me.
 
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