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I was asked to make this thread to address the power of the Sailor Moon Manga. I will be using the Miss Dream Translation which is easily available online, though I have personal issues with the translation. If cases where translations is very important I shall also state the translation given by the newest Official English Translation, this being the one released by Kodansha as I own the entire Kodansha set.
I should note before I begin something thatmay be hard for English-Speakers to understand. In Japanese there is not an inherent Singular/Plural Distinction on nouns. If I say the word for chair, I could mean A Chair, The Chair, Some Chairs, or All the Chairs. To make something plural one just adds a number usually. So if a character says "Ginga" for instance, they could mean galaxy or galaxies. Obviously we should take the conservative interpretation when presented it but it also means that such things can't be used to "disprove" higher feats. I have heard people claim there can be no feats above Universal in Sailor Moon before the Lambda Power in the English Translation is said to come from all the Star Seeds of the Galaxy, however in Japanese the same word could also mean the Star Seeds of the Galaxies, plural.
So let's start with AP/Durability. I'm going to try and stick to the main big feats as much as possible.
So the weakest attack in the series, Sailor Moon's Ultrasonic Crying was powerful enough to destroy Jadeite's Dimension:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act03/037.jpg
In the same chapter, Mars very first attack after transforming for the first time was powerful enough to destroy Jadeite's dimension as a sideffect of her attack:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act03/041.jpg
Jadeite's Dimension had a moon orbiting wherever they were:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act03/036.jpg
Now there is a claim that this Moon was a "Henshin Effect" which does not make sense for two reasons.
First of all here is the sequence of events:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act03/035.jpg
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act03/036.jpg
Notice how Moon Henshins, Mercury teleports in, they find Jadeite, Jadeite grabs Rei and then Moon does her Pre-Battle Speech with the moon in the sky. There is a way too long interval for it to be an effect from her henshin. It would be more consistent to claim that the Moon is part of her Pre-Battle Speech, but not only is there no reason for that to be the case but there is a second problem with that claim.
Whenever that little Moon image appears elsewhere you see little stars in the background
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act01/035.jpg
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act02/071.jpg
In Jadeite's Dimension there are no stars:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act03/036.jpg
it's not like it's difficult to draw basic star shapes. Naoko didn't because that it legitimately supposed to be the sky of Jadeite's Dimension.
Honestly putting Jadeite, Nephrite and Zoicite is kinda lowballing honestly since it really doesn't make that much sense for them to be THAT much lower then Kunzite but what you going to do.
Moving on:
In Chapter 6, Luna is describing the great power of the Silver Crystal and says the following:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act06/015.jpg
However I have a problem with this translation. The original Japanese word is "Hoshi" which should properly translate to "Star." It can be translated to planet but it shoudn't be default translation where then is a seperate word used for planet even within the same arc. Likewise the image is one of a supernova.
The Kodansha translation agrees with me, translating it as "The 'Legendary Silver Crystal'....depending on how it's used, has the power to easily blow a star apart."
Luna as the previous advisor to Queen Serenity, is well aware of the power of the Silver Crystal. It should be noted that Luna is not describing what a master of the Silver Crystal can do, but anyone who can get their hands on it. The context of the conversation on the previous page was not about if the rightful user gets their power on the Silver Crystal but if an evil-doer gets the Crystal:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act06/014.jpg
The statement about the easy stellar destruction and the supernova image is about the "great destruction" any villain might perform if they got the Crystal.
Likewise when Princess Serenity releases the power of the Silver Crystal for the first time, Act 9 he immediately compares it to a supernova:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act09/020.jpg
And Queen Beryl who also is well aware of the Crystal's power is shocked at the sheer power being released:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act09/019.jpg
Far later at the end of the second arc, Act 26, Death Phantom was an absolutely enormous planet whose destruction has been calced into the Solar System Range:
http://www.narutoforums.com/xfa-blog-entry/destruction-of-planet-nemesis-revisited.24744/
Indeed Planet Nemesis was so big that despite being at the edge of the Solar System, when it was, the explosion taking up the same space it did:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act26/030.jpg
Looked in the Sky above Earth to be comparable to the Sun in size:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act26/031.jpg
So a Celestial Body that looks the same size as the Sun but is at the edge of the Solar System. That's pretty big.
Let's move onto the third arc.
Pharaoh 90 is the Chaos-Spawn of the third arc. He rules over the Tau Nebula, which was a very distant galaxy:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act32/012.jpg
Yes as you may have noticed from the same scan he was warping the spacetime all the way to Earth, warping the "Omega Area" on Earth to make it possible for his forces to get through his dimensions and invade and make the fortress inaccessible.
He also flung his galaxy from it's very distant area to more nearby, creating a galactic scale spacetime distortion:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act37/012.jpg
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act37/013.jpg
He also gave to his forces the Taioran Crystal. The Taioran Crystal is far superior in power to the Death-Busters, it also the source of their power. This means it far superior to the comparable Guardian Senshi and Sailor Moon. Indeed in the Kodansha translation it is even state that it the source of the Tau Nebula's power, which people might claim means it is galactic in power.
However when Sailor Moon transformed into Super Sailor Moon, merely the energy of her henshin, which she herself tanked was stated in the Miss Dream Translation to be thousands of times the energy of Taioran Crystal at it's peak:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act33/014.jpg
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act33/015.jpg
The Kodansha Translation and instead says "This power is tens of thousands of times greter then the Taioran Crystal at it's maximum." Bear in mind, this is not her attack. This is just her transforming. Which she recieves no recoil damage from as Professor Tomoe states.
In the Fourth Arc, Act 47, Super Sailor Moon destroys one of Queen Nehelenia's mirror worlds with a mere gesture, ejecting her, Super Sailor Saturn, and Super Sailor Sailor Chibi-Moon back into the real world:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act47/030.jpg
Later in the fourth arc, Act 49, Eternal Sailor Moon after launching her first attack in the form destroys Queen Nehelenia and as a side-effect destroys Queen Nehelenia main mirror dimension, held in the Dreak Kingdom Elysian:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act49/014.jpg
For reference, Nehelenia's mirror dimensions are large enough to have their constellations:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_materialscollection/materials070.png
To use her first attack as Eternal Sailor Moon, Eternal Sailor Moon had to use all the energy of the Solar System, including all the energy of the Silver Crystal. The Silver Crystal is "the ultimate force of creation" and at the beginning of the universe was the source of all energy in the universe. The Miss Dream Translation does not say this:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act03/005.jpg
However in the Kodansha it is stated "the Legendary Silver Crystal is a stone that is the source of all energy. It contains unfathomable, limitless power! The one who wields it will become the ruler of all the universe!"
So we are talking Big Bang Scale energy at least.
Also Eternal Sailor Moon's Henshin sent light throughout spacetime:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act54/022.jpg
Finally we come to the Fifth Arc:
The energy of the previous 4 arcs is so meagerly compared to the power of the people of the fifth arc that Galaxia's power in civilian form is above them and Usagi tanks that energy in her civilian form:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act55/008.jpg
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act55/009.jpg
The Final Arc deals with the battle of Cosmos and Chaos, the two greatest forces in the SM Verse, existence and nonexistence. They are the ultimate light and darkness and the union of them is the end of it all:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act59/032.jpg
Chaos had as it's utimate goal the forging of a new universe:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act57/014.jpg
As the Ultimate Forces of the Sailor Moon they should unquentionablly stronger then a "mere" God like Chronos, who formed the spacetime continuum:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act19/018.jpg
This, as well as other things, also suggests Greek Mythology is canon to the SM-Verse, which should also put Chaos above Chronos, as well bring up other interesting feats potentially.
Chaos was also warping from the very edges of spacetime, going to change the whole spacetime continuum, although the Miss Dream Translation does not capture this well:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act53/016.jpg
Kodansha Translation: A gigantic vortex is emanating power somwhere to the far reaches of spacetime. And it is leading to abnormal phenomena in the past. At this rate.....history may be altered....!
In Act 60 Usagi attains her Lambda Form and uses the Lambda Power which merely as a side effect destroys Chaos and restores the entire cosmos.
The Kodansha Translation: This is the Cosmos Crystal's ultimate Lambda Power, which restores everything to the static "cosmos".
She reset and essentially remade the entire cosmos from Chaos's warping, which was to the far reaches of spacetime. It is notable tht the Lambda Power did not heal or anything, it essentially remade. That is the power of the Galaxy Cauldron, it creates Star Seeds, not heals them.
Indeed as a Lambda Senshi, Usagi had the power if she wished to start a completely new history if she wanted, which would be essentially the formation of an entirely new spacetime continuum:
Kodansha Translation: "That you have come here to me does this mean you want to discard your life into the Cauldron's sea of beginnings, and star a fresh history of new heavenly bodies?"
So that covers AP/Durability. Should I do Speed and Haxes (the later will take a VERY long time).
I should note before I begin something thatmay be hard for English-Speakers to understand. In Japanese there is not an inherent Singular/Plural Distinction on nouns. If I say the word for chair, I could mean A Chair, The Chair, Some Chairs, or All the Chairs. To make something plural one just adds a number usually. So if a character says "Ginga" for instance, they could mean galaxy or galaxies. Obviously we should take the conservative interpretation when presented it but it also means that such things can't be used to "disprove" higher feats. I have heard people claim there can be no feats above Universal in Sailor Moon before the Lambda Power in the English Translation is said to come from all the Star Seeds of the Galaxy, however in Japanese the same word could also mean the Star Seeds of the Galaxies, plural.
So let's start with AP/Durability. I'm going to try and stick to the main big feats as much as possible.
So the weakest attack in the series, Sailor Moon's Ultrasonic Crying was powerful enough to destroy Jadeite's Dimension:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act03/037.jpg
In the same chapter, Mars very first attack after transforming for the first time was powerful enough to destroy Jadeite's dimension as a sideffect of her attack:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act03/041.jpg
Jadeite's Dimension had a moon orbiting wherever they were:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act03/036.jpg
Now there is a claim that this Moon was a "Henshin Effect" which does not make sense for two reasons.
First of all here is the sequence of events:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act03/035.jpg
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act03/036.jpg
Notice how Moon Henshins, Mercury teleports in, they find Jadeite, Jadeite grabs Rei and then Moon does her Pre-Battle Speech with the moon in the sky. There is a way too long interval for it to be an effect from her henshin. It would be more consistent to claim that the Moon is part of her Pre-Battle Speech, but not only is there no reason for that to be the case but there is a second problem with that claim.
Whenever that little Moon image appears elsewhere you see little stars in the background
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act01/035.jpg
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act02/071.jpg
In Jadeite's Dimension there are no stars:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act03/036.jpg
it's not like it's difficult to draw basic star shapes. Naoko didn't because that it legitimately supposed to be the sky of Jadeite's Dimension.
Honestly putting Jadeite, Nephrite and Zoicite is kinda lowballing honestly since it really doesn't make that much sense for them to be THAT much lower then Kunzite but what you going to do.
Moving on:
In Chapter 6, Luna is describing the great power of the Silver Crystal and says the following:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act06/015.jpg
However I have a problem with this translation. The original Japanese word is "Hoshi" which should properly translate to "Star." It can be translated to planet but it shoudn't be default translation where then is a seperate word used for planet even within the same arc. Likewise the image is one of a supernova.
The Kodansha translation agrees with me, translating it as "The 'Legendary Silver Crystal'....depending on how it's used, has the power to easily blow a star apart."
Luna as the previous advisor to Queen Serenity, is well aware of the power of the Silver Crystal. It should be noted that Luna is not describing what a master of the Silver Crystal can do, but anyone who can get their hands on it. The context of the conversation on the previous page was not about if the rightful user gets their power on the Silver Crystal but if an evil-doer gets the Crystal:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act06/014.jpg
The statement about the easy stellar destruction and the supernova image is about the "great destruction" any villain might perform if they got the Crystal.
Likewise when Princess Serenity releases the power of the Silver Crystal for the first time, Act 9 he immediately compares it to a supernova:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act09/020.jpg
And Queen Beryl who also is well aware of the Crystal's power is shocked at the sheer power being released:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act09/019.jpg
Far later at the end of the second arc, Act 26, Death Phantom was an absolutely enormous planet whose destruction has been calced into the Solar System Range:
http://www.narutoforums.com/xfa-blog-entry/destruction-of-planet-nemesis-revisited.24744/
Indeed Planet Nemesis was so big that despite being at the edge of the Solar System, when it was, the explosion taking up the same space it did:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act26/030.jpg
Looked in the Sky above Earth to be comparable to the Sun in size:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act26/031.jpg
So a Celestial Body that looks the same size as the Sun but is at the edge of the Solar System. That's pretty big.
Let's move onto the third arc.
Pharaoh 90 is the Chaos-Spawn of the third arc. He rules over the Tau Nebula, which was a very distant galaxy:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act32/012.jpg
Yes as you may have noticed from the same scan he was warping the spacetime all the way to Earth, warping the "Omega Area" on Earth to make it possible for his forces to get through his dimensions and invade and make the fortress inaccessible.
He also flung his galaxy from it's very distant area to more nearby, creating a galactic scale spacetime distortion:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act37/012.jpg
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act37/013.jpg
He also gave to his forces the Taioran Crystal. The Taioran Crystal is far superior in power to the Death-Busters, it also the source of their power. This means it far superior to the comparable Guardian Senshi and Sailor Moon. Indeed in the Kodansha translation it is even state that it the source of the Tau Nebula's power, which people might claim means it is galactic in power.
However when Sailor Moon transformed into Super Sailor Moon, merely the energy of her henshin, which she herself tanked was stated in the Miss Dream Translation to be thousands of times the energy of Taioran Crystal at it's peak:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act33/014.jpg
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act33/015.jpg
The Kodansha Translation and instead says "This power is tens of thousands of times greter then the Taioran Crystal at it's maximum." Bear in mind, this is not her attack. This is just her transforming. Which she recieves no recoil damage from as Professor Tomoe states.
In the Fourth Arc, Act 47, Super Sailor Moon destroys one of Queen Nehelenia's mirror worlds with a mere gesture, ejecting her, Super Sailor Saturn, and Super Sailor Sailor Chibi-Moon back into the real world:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act47/030.jpg
Later in the fourth arc, Act 49, Eternal Sailor Moon after launching her first attack in the form destroys Queen Nehelenia and as a side-effect destroys Queen Nehelenia main mirror dimension, held in the Dreak Kingdom Elysian:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act49/014.jpg
For reference, Nehelenia's mirror dimensions are large enough to have their constellations:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_materialscollection/materials070.png
To use her first attack as Eternal Sailor Moon, Eternal Sailor Moon had to use all the energy of the Solar System, including all the energy of the Silver Crystal. The Silver Crystal is "the ultimate force of creation" and at the beginning of the universe was the source of all energy in the universe. The Miss Dream Translation does not say this:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act03/005.jpg
However in the Kodansha it is stated "the Legendary Silver Crystal is a stone that is the source of all energy. It contains unfathomable, limitless power! The one who wields it will become the ruler of all the universe!"
So we are talking Big Bang Scale energy at least.
Also Eternal Sailor Moon's Henshin sent light throughout spacetime:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act54/022.jpg
Finally we come to the Fifth Arc:
The energy of the previous 4 arcs is so meagerly compared to the power of the people of the fifth arc that Galaxia's power in civilian form is above them and Usagi tanks that energy in her civilian form:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act55/008.jpg
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act55/009.jpg
The Final Arc deals with the battle of Cosmos and Chaos, the two greatest forces in the SM Verse, existence and nonexistence. They are the ultimate light and darkness and the union of them is the end of it all:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act59/032.jpg
Chaos had as it's utimate goal the forging of a new universe:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act57/014.jpg
As the Ultimate Forces of the Sailor Moon they should unquentionablly stronger then a "mere" God like Chronos, who formed the spacetime continuum:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act19/018.jpg
This, as well as other things, also suggests Greek Mythology is canon to the SM-Verse, which should also put Chaos above Chronos, as well bring up other interesting feats potentially.
Chaos was also warping from the very edges of spacetime, going to change the whole spacetime continuum, although the Miss Dream Translation does not capture this well:
https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act53/016.jpg
Kodansha Translation: A gigantic vortex is emanating power somwhere to the far reaches of spacetime. And it is leading to abnormal phenomena in the past. At this rate.....history may be altered....!
In Act 60 Usagi attains her Lambda Form and uses the Lambda Power which merely as a side effect destroys Chaos and restores the entire cosmos.
The Kodansha Translation: This is the Cosmos Crystal's ultimate Lambda Power, which restores everything to the static "cosmos".
She reset and essentially remade the entire cosmos from Chaos's warping, which was to the far reaches of spacetime. It is notable tht the Lambda Power did not heal or anything, it essentially remade. That is the power of the Galaxy Cauldron, it creates Star Seeds, not heals them.
Indeed as a Lambda Senshi, Usagi had the power if she wished to start a completely new history if she wanted, which would be essentially the formation of an entirely new spacetime continuum:
Kodansha Translation: "That you have come here to me does this mean you want to discard your life into the Cauldron's sea of beginnings, and star a fresh history of new heavenly bodies?"
So that covers AP/Durability. Should I do Speed and Haxes (the later will take a VERY long time).