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{{Infobox film
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| name = Sailor Moon SuperS: The Movie
| image =
| director = Hiroki Shibata
| producer = ]<br />]
| screenplay = ]
| based on = {{based on|'']''|]}}
| starring = ]<br />]<br />]<br />]<br />]
| music = ]
| cinematography = Motoi Takahashi
| editing = Yasuhiro Yoshikawa
| studio = ]
| distributor = ]
| released = {{Film date|1995|12|23}}
| runtime = 62 minutes
| country = Japan
| language = Japanese <!-- Please do not add English here. While it may be dubbed, this is not a bilingual film. -->
| budget =
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'''''Sailor Moon SuperS: The Movie''''', known in Japan as {{Nihongo|'''''Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS: The Nine Sailor Soldiers Unite! Miracle of the Black Dream Hole'''''|美少女戦士セーラームーンSuperS セーラー９戦士集結！ブラック・ドリーム・ホールの奇跡|Bishōjo Senshi Sērā Mūn Sūpāzu: Sērā Kyū Senshi Shūketsu! Burakku Dorīmu Hōru no Kiseki|retranslated as '''''Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon SuperS: The Movie: The Nine Sailor Soldiers Unite! Miracle of the Black Dream Hole'''''}} and '''''Sailor Moon SuperS: The Movie: Black Dream Hole''''' in the English adaptation, is a 1995 Japanese animated film directed by Hiroki Shibata and animated by ]. It is the third film in the '']'' series created by ]. The "SuperS" in the title is pronounced ''sūpāzu'' and typeset "SuperS" in its logo. It is pronounced in English as 'supers' plural, with both S's being written as capital letters.

The film debuted in Japanese theaters on December 23, 1995, accompanied by a 16-minute short film ''Ami's First Love''. Pioneer Entertainment released it in the United States on August 15, 2000.<ref name="vhs">{{cite web|url=http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00004TWZ2|title=Sailor Moon SuperS The Movie - Black Dream Hole (2000)|publisher=Amazon.com |date= |accessdate=2011-08-31}}</ref>

==Plot==
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Somewhere in Europe, a young man named {{nihongo|Poupelin|ププラン|Pupuran}} plays a song on his flute to hypnotize children, following him into a mysterious ship before sailing off into the sky. In Tokyo, ], ], and the other girls bake cookies together at ]'s apartment. Usagi ends up with cookies that look perfect but taste terrible; Chibiusa produces the reverse. Chibiusa sets out to give her cookies to ], but is stopped by a butterfly wing-shaped boy in strange white clothing standing outside the sweets shop. They befriend each other, and he causes some of the treats inside the shop window to dance by playing a tune on his flute before revealing himself as {{nihongo|Perle|ペルル|Peruru}}. Meanwhile, Usagi visits Mamoru with her cookies, and they argue over his strong and close friendship with Chibiusa. They hear a report on the radio about the mass disappearance of children all over the world. Around the same time, Chibiusa gives her bag of cookies to Perle before going their separate ways.

That night, Chibiusa wakes up, and begins walking through the city. Diana wakes Usagi, who along with the other girls, follow Chibiusa, and the other children. They save Chibiusa, but get into a fight with Poupelin, and his "Bonbon Babies." Poupelin then hypnotizes the girls into seeing a Gingerbread House. In turn, Mamoru appears, and snaps the girls out of the spell. {{nihongo|'''Queen Badiane'''|女王バディヤーヌ|Jo'ō Badiyānu}} orders Poupelin and her other henchmen {{nihongo|Banane|バナーヌ|Banānu}} and {{nihongo|Orangeat|オランジャ|Oranja}} to hurry up. Perle says that he no longer believes in her, but she orders that Chibiusa be captured. The ship lands, along with two others, in Marzipan Castle. When the doors are opened, the children run out into the darkness, except for Chibiusa. Looking into the shadows, she witnesses "Dream Coffins," each containing a sleeping child. Badiane lifts her into the air, commenting on the power she senses from Chibiusa, and explains her purpose. In the castle's center, a massive Black Dream Hole is forming, gathering the magical "sugar energy" of the sleeping children. Eventually it will overtake Earth, and all humans will enter into Dream Coffins.

Meanwhile, Perle leads the other Super Sailor Soldiers to a flying ship of his own. He tells them that Badiane promised that the children would be happy and safe in her ] and where they can ], but he thinks also of Chibiusa, his friend. As they reach the castle, they are attacked, and after crash-landing fight Poupelin, Banane, and Orangeat, as well as three sets of Bonbon Babies. Just when the situation seems hopeless, the Senshi are saved by ], ], and ]. With this advantage, they are able to break the flutes of the three fairies, changing them into small birds. The Senshi infiltrate the castle and confront Queen Badiane, who has drained enough dream energy from the children, including Chibiusa, to create the Black Dream Hole. The power drain is enough to force all the Sailor Soldiers except Usagi into a half-detransformation. Taking Chibiusa with her, Badiane enters the hole itself, and Usagi follows. Usagi then finds herself in Mamoru's apartment, carrying Chibiusa. Mamoru lays her on the bed, then wraps his arms around Usagi and tells her not to worry about anything, just to stay there with him. She asks him again who is more important, herself or Chibiusa; he eventually tells her that she is. Usagi lifts Chibiusa in her arms once again, and eventually realizes that this experience is all just a dream.

As Usagi tries to flee, Badiane demands that she give back Chibiusa. When Usagi refuses, Badiane assimilates herself into the black dream hole and attacks her with fire. Hearing her mental cry, the other seven Super Sailor Soldiers send their power and strength to Usagi, awakening Chibiusa and allowing them to finally obliterate Badiane with their ''Moon Gorgeous Meditation'' technique. After the battle, Marzipan Castle is destroyed, and with Perle's help, the Super Sailor Senshi escape. The airships, each carrying children, return to Earth.

Later, at a beach, Perle gives Chibiusa his glass flute, telling her that he is the fairy who protects children's dreams, and will always be with her, and Chibiusa kisses him goodbye on the cheek. As Perle flies away, the Sailor Soldiers watch the sun rise.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tcp.com/doi/smoon/|title=Bishoujo Senshi Super Sailor Moon|accessdate=2006-10-06|last= Doi|first= Hitoshi|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20060902105102/http://www.tcp.com/doi/smoon/<!--Bot retrieved archive-->|archivedate=2006-09-02}}</ref>

===''Ami's First Love''===
Japanese theaters showed a trailer before the ''Sailor Moon SuperS'' film: a 16-minute ] named ''Ami's First Love'' (''Ami-chan no Hatsukoi''),<ref>{{cite web|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20040407174710/www.animerica-mag.com/features/sailor_movies.html |title=Animerica Feature: The Sailor Moon Movies |url=http://www.animerica-mag.com/features/sailor_movies.html|work=Animerica |publisher=Viz Media|archivedate=April 7, 2004 |accessdate=August 15, 2011}}</ref> in which Ami Mizuno (]) struggles to focus on her studying amidst various distractions including a ]-inducing love letter found in her school locker and a rival known as "Mercurius" who ties Ami's perfect score in mock high school entrance exams, and who Ami believes is either a female monster that makes her forget math and English or a handsome boy who looks like a young ]. The short featured a new transformation sequence ("Mercury Crystal Power Make Up!") and special power ("Mercury Aqua Mirage") for Sailor Mercury. The short is based on a side story from the manga of the same name, and was part of a series of side stories for each of the Guardian Senshi.

==Cast==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Character Name
! Japanese voice actor
! English voice actor (Pioneer)
! English voice actor (Viz Media)
|-
| ] (Serena) || ] || ] || ]
|-
| ] (Rini) || ] || ] || TBA
|-
| ] (Darien) || ] || ] || ]
|-
| ] (Raye) || ] || ] || ]
|-
| ] (Ami) || ] || ] || ]
|-
| ] (Lita) || ] || ] || ]
|-
| ] (Mina) || ] || ] || ]
|-
| Artemis || ] || ] || ]
|-
| Diana || ] || ] || TBA
|-
| Luna || ] || ] || ]
|-
| ] (Michelle) || ] || ] || TBA
|-
| ] (Amara) || ] || ] || TBA
|-
| ] (Trista) || ] || ] || TBA
|-
| Poupelin (Pupulan) || ] || ] || TBA
|-
| Banane (Pananu) || ] || Unknown || TBA
|-
| Orangeat (Oranja) || ] || ] || TBA
|-
| Bonbon Babies || ]<br />] || Unknown || TBA
|-
| Perle (Peruru) || ] || ] || TBA
|-
| Badiane (Badiyanu) || ] || ] || TBA
|}

==Production==
Originally, ] envisaged that Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune were going to be the main characters in the ''Super S'' film, and it was going to be independent of the main series. Sailor Neptune was going to be in a deep sleep at the end of the world, and Sailor Uranus would have had to steal the talismans from the Sailor Senshi to revive her. However, both Ikuhara and producer Iriya Azuma left the series. Ikuhara's concepts were later used in '']''.<ref></ref>

==English versions==
The film's English adaptation, produced by Pioneer and Optimum Productions was released in both edited and unedited versions. The cut version, seen in the VHS and television formats, used the original DIC music from the series, and had the transformation sequences airbrushed to remove bodylines that were tracing the characters' breasts.<ref name="vhs" /> The uncut version, only seen in the DVD release, kept the original Japanese music and bodylines.<ref>{{cite web|last=Takeuchi|first=Naoko|url=http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00004TWZ0|title=Sailor Moon Super S - The Movie: Kotono Mitsuishi, Michie Tomizawa, Aya Hisakawa, Emi Shinohara, Rica Fukami, Masako Katsuki, Megumi Ogata, Noriko Uemura, Akira Kamiya, Keiko Han, Tôru Furuya, Yasuhiro Takato, Harume Kosaka, Hiroki Shibata, Junichi Sato, Kunihiko Ikuhara, Kônosuke Uda, Noriyo Sasaki, Takuya Igarashi, Yuji Endo: Movies & TV|publisher=Amazon.com|accessdate=2011-08-15}}</ref> A special uncut subtitled version of the film had earlier been released to VHS on August 31, 1999.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00000JNTP|title=Sailor Moon Super S |publisher=Amazon.com|accessdate=August 31, 2011}}</ref> On May 16, 2014, the film was re-licensed for an updated English-language release by ].

==See also==
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==References==

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== External links ==
* {{official website|http://sailormoon.channel.or.jp|Sailor Moon Supers: The Movie}}
* {{IMDb title|0112513|Sailor Moon Supers: The Movie}}
* {{Amg movie|264644|Sailor Moon Supers: The Movie}}
* {{Wayback |date=20040407174710 |url=www.animerica-mag.com/features/sailor_movies.html |title=''Animerica'' review }}

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1995 Japanese film
Sailor Moon SuperS: The Movie
Directed byHiroki Shibata
Screenplay byYōji Enokido
Produced byToshihiko Arisako
Go Yamamoto
StarringKae Araki
Chika Sakamoto
Kotono Mitsuishi
Nobuo Tobita
Rihoko Yoshida
CinematographyMotoi Takahashi
Edited byYasuhiro Yoshikawa
Music byTakanori Arisawa
Production
company		Toei Animation
Distributed byToei Company
Release date
  • December 23, 1995 (1995-12-23)
Running time62 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Sailor Moon SuperS: The Movie, known in Japan as Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS: The Nine Sailor Soldiers Unite! Miracle of the Black Dream Hole (美少女戦士セーラームーンSuperS セーラー９戦士集結！ブラック・ドリーム・ホールの奇跡, Bishōjo Senshi Sērā Mūn Sūpāzu: Sērā Kyū Senshi Shūketsu! Burakku Dorīmu Hōru no Kiseki, retranslated as Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon SuperS: The Movie: The Nine Sailor Soldiers Unite! Miracle of the Black Dream Hole) and Sailor Moon SuperS: The Movie: Black Dream Hole in the English adaptation, is a 1995 Japanese animated film directed by Hiroki Shibata and animated by Toei Animation. It is the third film in the Sailor Moon series created by Naoko Takeuchi. The "SuperS" in the title is pronounced sūpāzu and typeset "SuperS" in its logo. It is pronounced in English as 'supers' plural, with both S's being written as capital letters.

The film debuted in Japanese theaters on December 23, 1995, accompanied by a 16-minute short film Ami's First Love. Pioneer Entertainment released it in the United States on August 15, 2000.

Plot

Somewhere in Europe, a young man named Poupelin (ププラン, Pupuran) plays a song on his flute to hypnotize children, following him into a mysterious ship before sailing off into the sky. In Tokyo, Usagi Tsukino, Chibiusa, and the other girls bake cookies together at Makoto Kino's apartment. Usagi ends up with cookies that look perfect but taste terrible; Chibiusa produces the reverse. Chibiusa sets out to give her cookies to Mamoru Chiba, but is stopped by a butterfly wing-shaped boy in strange white clothing standing outside the sweets shop. They befriend each other, and he causes some of the treats inside the shop window to dance by playing a tune on his flute before revealing himself as Perle (ペルル, Peruru). Meanwhile, Usagi visits Mamoru with her cookies, and they argue over his strong and close friendship with Chibiusa. They hear a report on the radio about the mass disappearance of children all over the world. Around the same time, Chibiusa gives her bag of cookies to Perle before going their separate ways.

That night, Chibiusa wakes up, and begins walking through the city. Diana wakes Usagi, who along with the other girls, follow Chibiusa, and the other children. They save Chibiusa, but get into a fight with Poupelin, and his "Bonbon Babies." Poupelin then hypnotizes the girls into seeing a Gingerbread House. In turn, Mamoru appears, and snaps the girls out of the spell. Queen Badiane (女王バディヤーヌ, Jo'ō Badiyānu) orders Poupelin and her other henchmen Banane (バナーヌ, Banānu) and Orangeat (オランジャ, Oranja) to hurry up. Perle says that he no longer believes in her, but she orders that Chibiusa be captured. The ship lands, along with two others, in Marzipan Castle. When the doors are opened, the children run out into the darkness, except for Chibiusa. Looking into the shadows, she witnesses "Dream Coffins," each containing a sleeping child. Badiane lifts her into the air, commenting on the power she senses from Chibiusa, and explains her purpose. In the castle's center, a massive Black Dream Hole is forming, gathering the magical "sugar energy" of the sleeping children. Eventually it will overtake Earth, and all humans will enter into Dream Coffins.

Meanwhile, Perle leads the other Super Sailor Soldiers to a flying ship of his own. He tells them that Badiane promised that the children would be happy and safe in her world of dreams and where they can remain children indefinitely, but he thinks also of Chibiusa, his friend. As they reach the castle, they are attacked, and after crash-landing fight Poupelin, Banane, and Orangeat, as well as three sets of Bonbon Babies. Just when the situation seems hopeless, the Senshi are saved by Haruka Tenoh, Michiru Kaioh, and Setsuna Meioh. With this advantage, they are able to break the flutes of the three fairies, changing them into small birds. The Senshi infiltrate the castle and confront Queen Badiane, who has drained enough dream energy from the children, including Chibiusa, to create the Black Dream Hole. The power drain is enough to force all the Sailor Soldiers except Usagi into a half-detransformation. Taking Chibiusa with her, Badiane enters the hole itself, and Usagi follows. Usagi then finds herself in Mamoru's apartment, carrying Chibiusa. Mamoru lays her on the bed, then wraps his arms around Usagi and tells her not to worry about anything, just to stay there with him. She asks him again who is more important, herself or Chibiusa; he eventually tells her that she is. Usagi lifts Chibiusa in her arms once again, and eventually realizes that this experience is all just a dream.

As Usagi tries to flee, Badiane demands that she give back Chibiusa. When Usagi refuses, Badiane assimilates herself into the black dream hole and attacks her with fire. Hearing her mental cry, the other seven Super Sailor Soldiers send their power and strength to Usagi, awakening Chibiusa and allowing them to finally obliterate Badiane with their Moon Gorgeous Meditation technique. After the battle, Marzipan Castle is destroyed, and with Perle's help, the Super Sailor Senshi escape. The airships, each carrying children, return to Earth.

Later, at a beach, Perle gives Chibiusa his glass flute, telling her that he is the fairy who protects children's dreams, and will always be with her, and Chibiusa kisses him goodbye on the cheek. As Perle flies away, the Sailor Soldiers watch the sun rise.

Ami's First Love

Japanese theaters showed a trailer before the Sailor Moon SuperS film: a 16-minute short named Ami's First Love (Ami-chan no Hatsukoi), in which Ami Mizuno (Sailor Mercury) struggles to focus on her studying amidst various distractions including a pruritus-inducing love letter found in her school locker and a rival known as "Mercurius" who ties Ami's perfect score in mock high school entrance exams, and who Ami believes is either a female monster that makes her forget math and English or a handsome boy who looks like a young Albert Einstein. The short featured a new transformation sequence ("Mercury Crystal Power Make Up!") and special power ("Mercury Aqua Mirage") for Sailor Mercury. The short is based on a side story from the manga of the same name, and was part of a series of side stories for each of the Guardian Senshi.

Cast

Character Name Japanese voice actor English voice actor (Pioneer) English voice actor (Viz Media)
Usagi Tsukino (Serena) Kotono Mitsuishi Terri Hawkes Stephanie Sheh
Chibiusa (Rini) Kae Araki Tracey Hoyt TBA
Mamoru Chiba (Darien) Toru Furuya Vincent Corazza Robbie Daymond
Rei Hino (Raye) Michie Tomizawa Katie Griffin Cristina Vee
Ami Mizuno (Ami) Aya Hisakawa Karen Bernstein Kate Higgins
Makoto Kino (Lita) Emi Shinohara Susan Roman Amanda Miller
Minako Aino (Mina) Rica Fukami Stephanie Morgenstern Cherami Leigh
Artemis Yasuhiro Takato Ron Rubin Johnny Yong Bosch
Diana Kumiko Nishihara Naomi Emmerson TBA
Luna Keiko Han Jill Frappier Michelle Ruff
Michiru Kaioh (Michelle) Masako Katsuki Barbara Radecki TBA
Haruna Tenoh (Amara) Megumi Ogata Sarah Lafleur TBA
Setsuna Meioh (Trista) Chiyoko Kawashima Sabrina Grdevich TBA
Poupelin (Pupulan) Nobuo Tobita Robert Tinkler TBA
Banane (Pananu) Nobuhiko Kazama Unknown TBA
Orangeat (Oranja) Kazuya Nakai John Stocker TBA
Bonbon Babies Ayako Ono
Emi Uwagawa		 Unknown TBA
Perle (Peruru) Chika Sakamoto Julie Lemieux TBA
Badiane (Badiyanu) Rihoko Yoshida Kirsten Bishop TBA

Production

Originally, Kunihiko Ikuhara envisaged that Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune were going to be the main characters in the Super S film, and it was going to be independent of the main series. Sailor Neptune was going to be in a deep sleep at the end of the world, and Sailor Uranus would have had to steal the talismans from the Sailor Senshi to revive her. However, both Ikuhara and producer Iriya Azuma left the series. Ikuhara's concepts were later used in Revolutionary Girl Utena.

English versions

The film's English adaptation, produced by Pioneer and Optimum Productions was released in both edited and unedited versions. The cut version, seen in the VHS and television formats, used the original DIC music from the series, and had the transformation sequences airbrushed to remove bodylines that were tracing the characters' breasts. The uncut version, only seen in the DVD release, kept the original Japanese music and bodylines. A special uncut subtitled version of the film had earlier been released to VHS on August 31, 1999. On May 16, 2014, the film was re-licensed for an updated English-language release by Viz Media.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Sailor Moon SuperS The Movie - Black Dream Hole [VHS] (2000)". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2011-08-31.
  2. Doi, Hitoshi. "Bishoujo Senshi Super Sailor Moon". Archived from the original on 2006-09-02. Retrieved 2006-10-06.
  3. "Animerica Feature: The Sailor Moon Movies". Animerica. Viz Media. Archived from the original on April 7, 2004. Retrieved August 15, 2011.
  4. Interview with Kunihiko Ikuhara
  5. Takeuchi, Naoko. "Sailor Moon Super S - The Movie: Kotono Mitsuishi, Michie Tomizawa, Aya Hisakawa, Emi Shinohara, Rica Fukami, Masako Katsuki, Megumi Ogata, Noriko Uemura, Akira Kamiya, Keiko Han, Tôru Furuya, Yasuhiro Takato, Harume Kosaka, Hiroki Shibata, Junichi Sato, Kunihiko Ikuhara, Kônosuke Uda, Noriyo Sasaki, Takuya Igarashi, Yuji Endo: Movies & TV". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2011-08-15.
  6. "Sailor Moon Super S [VHS]". Amazon.com. Retrieved August 31, 2011.

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