Manga Review: Pretty Guardain Sailor Moon Vol.3

                                       Pretty Guardain Sailor Moon Vol.3 Review

In this volume Usagi as Sailor Moon has to face a brainwashed Mamoru as Tuxedo Mask in battle since he is under Queen Beryl's control. Usagi ends up fully remembering her past life as Princess Serenity only to seem to repeat how her last life ended in her battle with Mamoru but in the end they are both saved by the legendary sliver crystal. Sailor Venus was able to defeat Queen Beryl in the end but Queen Metalia wasn't defeat along with her and she ended up absorbing the power of the legendary sliver crystal for sometime and even when Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Venus combined their powers they were unable to defeat her. In the end Sailor Moon is able to defeat Queen Metalia from drawing power of the legendary sliver crystal and she was also able to remake the Moon Castle due to her new found power. In the end everyone was able to live and their lives were peaceful for a time.

Shortly after the defeat of Queen Metalia, Usagi and Mamoru meet a young girl who we call Chibi-Usa who demands that Usagi gives her the legendary sliver crystal and ends up staying with Usagi's family after she hypnotises them into thinking she was meant to be there. Due to Chibi-Usa mysterious origians and actions Usagi doesn't trust or particularly like Chibi-Usa.

Shortly after Chibi-Usa's arrival two of the Spectre sisters arrive and challenge Sailor Mars and Sailor Mercury both of the sisters are able to be defeated but both Sailor Mars and Sailor Mercury are taken kidnapped after the sisters defeat. The Spectre sisters were working for someone who is called the Wise Man and both of the sisters had similar powers to Sailor Mars and Sailor Mercury with Crimson Rubeus having the powers of fire and Berthier having powers having to do with water, also the sisters stragities were similar to the sailor scout they fought.

I continue to enjoy this series I still love the characters and I found the conclusion to the first arc of the series to be very enjoyable and I love how the second arc is starting off as well. I'm also continuing to really enjoy the artwork as well. Please tell me your thoughts about this volume.

Top 5 New to me Authors of 2012

1. George R.R. Martin: I love the A Song of Ice and Fire series although I'm just now starting on A Clash of Kings, I love the Martin writes it gives just the right amount of description and emotional depth to the story and I feel like every word he wrote needed to be written which is saying a lot due to how long the books are.
2. Orson Card Scott: I read the book The Lost Gate which he wrote and I really loved the book overall and how the book was written as well.
3. Rachel Hawkins: I'm reading Hex Hall right now and I just love the way that it's written there's a nice sense of humor about the book and the book seems to be able to balance the witch stuff and the teenage stuff excellently.
4. Jay Asher: I read Thirteen Reasons Why this year and this book was very well written and intriguing in a sad way.
5. Stephanie Perkins: I read Anna and the French Kiss this year and while I was disappointed by the book overall, I still loved the way that Stephanie Perkins wrote the book in this way that was light and fun.
6.  Naoko Takeuchi: I started reading the Sailor Moon manga this year and I found it to be very exciting with good characters and a good romance not to mention that the artwork is absolutely beautiful.

Top 10 things in entertainment I'm looking forward to in 2013

I just want to say sorry about this list not really being about books but I don't usually by books the same year they come out in because I prefer paperbacks and I'm not really update on upcoming books anyway.

1. Perfect Scoundrels: I'm extremely excited for the third book in the Heist Society series because I love the series as a whole and it sounds like this book will focus more on Hale who I love and I'm very interested in learning more about his life. On a mostly unrelated side note I read a bit of Ally Carter's twitter and I discovered that she watches Revenge and admires Emily Thorne which makes her even cooler than she was before.
2.Game of Thrones season 3: I loved the first 2 seasons and I have no reason to think that I would love this season any less even though I've only read the first book of the series so far.
3. Doctor Who second half of series 7: I loved the first half of series 7 and I'm excited to meet the new companion and I always love the Doctor especially the Eleventh Doctor.
4. Psych season 7: I loved this show and I have since the first season and I believe this is one of the few shows that has gotten better each season so I'm super excited about the new season which should have started already but hasn't for some reason.
5. Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon anime: I loved the anime was in elementary school and I've been reading the manga recently and I love that as well so I'm really looking forward to the new anime series.
6. Teen Wolf season 3: I loved the first two seasons and I feel like the third season should be great as well so I'm really looking forward to it.
7. Merlin series 5: I loved the first four series and I know that it's airing in the UK right now but I'm waiting until January to watch. I'm a bit sad about this series already because I heard it's going to be the last one and I love the show and I now wonder were I can watch these actors now since they are the main reason I watch the show and also I'm sad that there will no longer be a show about magic on that I watch.
8. The Following: I saw some promos for this show and it looks great so I'm really excited about watching this show when it comes out.
9. Oz: The Great and Powerful:  I loved the trailer for this film and I think that the story sounds very interesting.
10. Splintered: I want to read this book because it combines Alice in Wonderland and insanity and I feel that those two things should be combined more often than they are.

Manga Review: Pretty Guardain Sailor Moon Vol.2

                                      Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Vol.2 Review

This volume begins with Usagi discovering that Mamoru is actually Tuxedo Mask and he already knows that she is Sailor Moon. Usagi and Mamoru seem to grow a bit closer in this volume and there are quite a few moments were they cutely flirt with each other in the first half of this volume. It's also discovered in this volume that Usagi is the reincarnation of Princess Serenity and that Mamoru is the reincarnation of Prince Endymion who was Princess Serenity's lover who was killed in front of her and who's death drove her to take her own life.

In this volume Sailor V is revealed to be Sailor Venus the leader of the sailor scouts but in this life goes by the name of Minako there actually not all that much revealed about her within this volume. In a battle with the last of Queen Beryl's servants the legendary sliver crystal is formed from Sailor Moons tears after Tuxedo Mask is injured in her place the power of the crystal is able to heal him but his taken prisoner by the dark kingdom.

In this volume we learn that Queen Beryl wants the legendary sliver crystal in order to revive Queen Metalia who was the one who brought destruction to the moon kingdom many years ago. The dark kingdom ends up brainwashing Mamoru and using him as weapon in order to get back the legendary sliver crystal and at the end of the volume Queen Beryl has gotten the legendary sliver crystal and is vowing to kill all of the sailor scouts.

I overall really liked this volume and I liked how much plot development happened in this volume. I still really like the artwork but brainwashed Mamoru looked a little silly at times. Please tell me your thoughts on this volume.

Manga Review:Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Vol.1

                                            Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Vol.1Review

Sailor Moon was the first anime I ever watched it was back when I was in elementary school and had no clue about what anime was but I loved Sailor Moon all the same. More recently I have watched the sub version of Sailor Moon and I found that I still enjoyed the series so when the manga started to be rereleased I was very excited to read the series.

Sailor Moon is about a girl named Usagi Tsukino who can be a bit of a crybaby and her "hobbies included sleeping, eating and taking the easy way out." Usagu one day meets a talking cat named Luna who grants her magical powers in order to stop the servants of Queen Beryl from stealing the energy from good people and to find and protect the legendary silver crystal and the Moon Princess. Usagi's powers grant her the power of the moon so when she transforms she becomes Sailor Moon but Usagi is somewhat reluctant to become a hero because she's easily scared by the villains but she does feel like she has to stand up for justice and to save innocent people.

Through out the volume more Sailor scouts are introduce that help Usagi defeat Queen Beryl's servants. The first one is Ami who is one of the smartest girls at Usagi's school but is a bit of loner because other students believe that's she stuck up(she's not at all) but Usagi ends up becoming friends with her before she finds out she's Sailor Mercury. The next one she meets is Rei who's family owns a shrine and she already has some supernatural powers, she turns out to be Sailor Mars and she uses her fire powers to defeat Queen Beryl's first servant. The last one she meets this volume is Makoto a girl that is unusually tall and strong but is actually pretty girly, she turns out to be Sailor Jupiter. I really loved meeting all these girls through out the volume and I liked how they all became friends.

Also throughout this volume Usagi when she's Sailor Moon continually runs into to a guy that goes by the name Tuxedo Mask and throughout the volume Usagi develops more and more of a crush on him and he seems to feel the same way about her. Usagi shares quite a few romantic moments including a kiss with Tuxedo Mask through out this volume. Usagi also runs into a high school boy named Mamoru several times throughout the volume who she often argues with but looks pretty much exactly like Tuxedo Mask. I really loved the relationship between Usagi/Mamoru, Sailor Moon/Tuxedo Mask in this volume.

I think that the art in this volume is super pretty older shugo style which I really love and I wish that more of the newer manga was in this type of style because all the artwork is really pretty and girly. I overall loved the plot and characters that were contained in this volume and I liked that this volume moves so much faster the anime ever did. I overall love this volume and I'm looking forward to the next one. Please tell me your thoughts on the series.