- This page is for the third episode of the twenty-eighth act of Sailor Moon Crystal. For the twenty-eighth chapter of the manga, please see Act 28 Infinity 2 Ripples.
"'Act 28 Infinity 2 Ripples" is the 3rd episode of the 3rd season of Sailor Moon Crystal and the 29th episode overall. It aired in Japan on April 18, 2016, and in North America on October 27, 2017.
Summary[]
Usagi, Chibiusa, and the others are still puzzled by the arrival of two masked warriors who appear as Sailor Guardians. Are they enemies or allies? Meanwhile, Chibiusa befriends the mysterious girl Hotaru Tomoe, who harbors a dark secret in spite of her ill health.
Plot[]
After Hotaru heals Sailor Chibi Moon, and tells her her name when she asks, she goes back inside Mugen Academy and suffers another one of her attacks. Kaolinite offers her help but she refuses. Hotaru's father, Professor Tomoe, tells her to show Kaolinite respect, and gives her an amulet (the Taioron Crystal) so she can sleep soundly.
The Sailor Guardians, Mamoru, Luna, and Artemis discuss whether the two mysterious Sailor Guardians they saw are enemies. They also are suspicious of Haruka and Michiru, due to their threats from earlier.
Kaolinite realizes the power Sailor Moon used against the latest Daimon is the light Pharaoh 90 sensed that was similar to the Taioron Crystal - but is more powerful. Using another piece of the Taioron Crystal, she tries to figure out the Light of Destruction, and identify the lights symbolizing the three talismans, but the ritual is interrupted before she can find out what they are.
Haruka and Michiru intend to collect the three talismans.
Luna and Artemis discover that Mugen Academy and the triangle area around it, Mugenzu, are both owned by Professor Tomoe. Mamoru researches him, and Michiru tells him that Tomoe was expelled from the academic community a while ago. As she gives Mamoru tickets for her next recital, Usagi notices that she resembles one of the two mysterious Sailor Guardians, and when she runs into Haruka, notices that he resembles the other and asks him if he's a Sailor Guardian. Haruka laughs as if he doesn't know what she's talking about, and Usagi thinks that Haruka can't be a Sailor Guardian because he's (supposedly) a boy.
Makoto plans on making a cake for Rei's fifteenth birthday, but Minako says she already left to do some training in the mountains for this event.
Kaolinite contacts Eudial, who is known as Yuko Arimura at Mugen Academy. Eudial says she will make sure all incoming Mugen students quickly learn academy rules, and in the process, make offerings of vessels and hosts to Pharaoh 90. She also hears the mysterious female voice again saying to gather the three talismans and let the destruction begin. Kaolinite deduces that the talismans are the true form of the light that brings destruction and that she must destroy them.
Rei also hears this voice at the mountains, before the other Sailor Guardians arrive to celebrate her birthday with her. She chose this mountain due to a nearby Mugen retreat and complex. They find Haruka practicing Judo at the complex, and Haruka challenges the Sailor Guardians. Makoto, who now finds Haruka annoying, accepts the challenge despite not knowing Judo, and Haruka wins easily, calling her weak. The Sailor Guardians quickly run when Eudial shows up.
That night, Eudial holds a welcoming ceremony for the new Mugen Academy students, telling them to give their minds and bodies to the school's founder, Pharaoh 90. She sucks out their souls as "hosts" for Pharaoh 90, while leaving their bodies as brainwashed vessels for him, but Sailor Mars and Sailor Jupiter confront her, and she reveals she is a Death Buster. Eudial gains the upper hand on the two Sailor Guardians, but as she is about to finish them off, Sailor Mercury blocks her giant fireball, arriving with Sailor Venus, and Sailor Moon destroys Eudial with Moon Spiral Heart Attack, restoring the students. The other four witches witness this and retreat.
The Sailor Guardians realize their new enemy is called the Death Busters. Sailor Moon notices the mysterious Sailor Guardian resembling Haruka, and goes after her. The Sailor Guardian says not to get in her way, and kisses her.
Changes[]
Changes from the Manga[]
- In the manga, when Sailor Mars used Mars Snake Fire on Eudial, Eudial transformed into a hideous Gorgon-like Daimon.
- Sailor Mercury doesn't save Sailor Mars or Jupiter with Mercury Aqua Mist from a fire blast made by Eudial.
Changes from the 90s Anime[]
- Hotaru did not appear until Mimete took charge of collecting Heart Crystals after Eudial's death.
- Professor Tomoe never scolded his daughter for being rude to Kaolinite.
- The Death Busters wanted to find and gather the three talismans to obtain the Holy Grail, not to destroy them.
- Eudial had no magical abilities and never carried a magic staff. She used mechanical fire weapons, such as an advanced flamethrower to unleash bursts of flame.
- Eudial never posed as a student/faculty member of Mugen Academy.
- Eudial was field commander for many episodes before her demise halfway through the third season. She was then replaced by Mimete.
- Eudial perished in a car crash after Mimete cut the brakes of her vehicle.
- Eudial didn't attack multiple targets at the same time. Her only goal was to locate potential victims who could hold a talisman within them.
- Usagi and the others did not connect Haruka and Michiru to be the civilian identities of the new Sailor Senshi.
- Sailor Uranus never kissed Sailor Moon.
- Sailor Mars never used her Mars Snake Fire attack.
- Only Usagi's birthday was celebrated in the Sailor Moon S season.
- Haruka was not taking a judo lesson, even though she was already quite experienced in high levels of martial arts.
First Appearances[]
Characters[]
Attacks[]
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Eudial's demented face before being finished by Moon Spiral Heart Attack is very reminiscent of the monstrous faces many of the villains make before being destroyed in the manga.
- Eudial's death seems to reference the 90s anime in some ways:
- She is shown being hit by the attack from a rearview like many of the Daimons from Sailor Moon S.
- The Daimon Egg rising out and disappearing is similar to the Daimon Eggs coming out and vanishing in the 90s anime.