Sailor Animamates
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| Sailor Animamates | |
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| Story arc: | Sailor Stars |
| Dub name: | (never dubbed) |
| Leader: | Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon (manga), Sailor Lead Crow (musicals) Sailor Pewter Fox (musicals) |
| Part of: | Shadow Galactica |
| Key figures: | Sailors Iron Mouse, Aluminum Siren, Lead Crow, Tin Nyanko, and others |
| Tools: | Office resources, teleporting phone booth, golden bracelets |
The Sailor Animamates (セーラーアニマメイツ Sērā Animameitsu?, occasionally romanized as "Sailor Anima-Mates") are a fictional squadron in the Sailor Moon metaseries. They are the sub-villains of the fifth series, Sailor Stars.
In the manga, the Sailor Animamates are people who were promised power by Sailor Galaxia, including the ability to become true Sailor Senshi after the mission of Shadow Galactica was completed. This included each of them murdering the Sailor Senshi of her own planet. They are led by Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon, who keeps Galaxia informed of their progress.
In the anime, the Sailor Animamates disguise themselves as employees of Tokyo's primary television station, Galaxy TV (Ginga Terebi), in order to get closer to their victims. Under Sailor Galaxia's command, they search for true star seeds whose shines can survive being exposed to the outside world. There are only four Sailor Animamates, and they are matched at every turn by Eternal Sailor Moon who alone has the power to restore star seeds to innocents. They can warp from place to place using a black phone booth.
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[edit] Profiles
[edit] Sailor Iron Mouse
Sailor Iron Mouse (セーラー・アイアン・マウス Sērā Aian Mausu?) is the first of the Sailor Animamates to appear. Her human pseudonym in the anime is Chūko Nezu (根津 宙子 Nezu Chūko?), which is a pun. In Japanese, Chūko and Nezu are each perfectly acceptable names; however, "chū" is the sound made by mice, and nezu can also mean "mouse." Her personality is both childlike and intense; she usually chooses famous or impressive people as her victims, seems to enjoy her work, and is openly terrified of Galaxia. True to her name of mouse, Iron Mouse is very short, at least a foot shorter than her targets. She is also afraid of cats.
In the anime, Iron Mouse can warp from place to place using a black phone booth that she summons. She can also use it to block attacks. When in disguise she carries a black house phone in her bag and keeps one in a drawer at the TV station. Galaxia can cause this phone to appear before her.
Iron Mouse has a very short life in the manga, only a few pages long. She appears in Act 43, in the Fantastic Music Hall during the joint concert between the Three Lights and Michiru Kaioh. She attacks with "Galactica Crunch" and is killed by Sailor Star Healer. It is later revealed that Sailor Iron Mouse killed the Senshi of her home planet, Sailor Chū.
Sailor Iron Mouse is the antagonist for several episodes of the anime, but in episode 181 is killed by Galaxia as punishment for her failure to collect starseeds, even though she had discovered the identity of Sailor Star Fighter.
She is voiced by Eriko Hara, who previously voiced a yōma in the Dark Kingdom story arc, and Unazuki Furuhata in Sailor Moon S.
[edit] Sailor Aluminum Siren
Sailor Aluminum Siren (セーラー・アルミナム・セイレーン Sērā Aruminamu Seirēn?, also romanised as the Greek Seiren) is the second of the Sailor Animamates to appear. Her human pseudonym in the anime is Reiko Aya (彩 れい子 Aya Reiko?), which may be a pun on "puppet," "mermaid," "makeup" and "child spirit."[1] She's very polite, ditzy and oblivious when off-duty, and is always eating or feeling hungry; once engaged in battle, however, she is completely ruthless.
In the manga, Aluminum Siren first appears in Act 44 on the roof of Jūban High School and attacks Usagi and Seiya with Galactica Tsunami. She succeeds in stealing the starseeds of Sailor Mercury and Sailor Jupiter, killing them; but is eventually killed herself by Sailor Star Maker and Sailor Star Fighter. Aluminum Siren won Galaxia's favour by stealing the starseed of her native planet's Senshi, Sailor Mermaid.
In the anime, Aluminum Siren makes her first appearance in Episode 182. Masquerading as Aya Reiko, she works together with Sailor Lead Crow, who reveals that they once competed for the position of Number One Animamate. She eventually discovers Sailor Moon's identity and nearly succeeds in killing her, but is stopped by the Inner Senshi and the Sailor Starlights. Despite learning their identities, Aluminum Siren is killed by Galaxia in Episode 188 for her failure to defeat Sailor Moon. She is the only Animamate who uses her manga attack (Galactica Tsunami) in the anime (in the anime it was nothing more than throwing water bottles, juice boxes and soda cans).
Her voice is provided by seiyū Kikuko Inoue.
[edit] Sailor Lead Crow
Sailor Lead Crow (セーラー・レッド・クロウ Sērā Reddo Kurou?) is the third of the Sailor Animamates to appear. Her human pseudonym in the anime is Akane Karasuma (烏丸 あかね Karasuma Akane?), which is taken from the words for a certain shade of red (pronounced the same as "lead" in Japanese) and for "crow".
In the manga, Lead Crow first appears in Act 45 at Rei Hino's temple to confront her fellow Coronians, Phobos and Deimos — who are actually the guardians of the Princess of Mars, Rei Hino. Using Galactica Tornado, she succeeds in stealing their starseeds before Sailor Moon destroys her with her Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss attack. After her defeat, Galaxia appears and steals the Sailor Crystals of Sailor Venus and Sailor Mars. It is revealed that Sailor Lead Crow also killed the Sailor Senshi of her home planet, Sailor Coronis.
In the anime, Lead Crow appears in Episode 182 as a partner of Aluminum Siren. She is said to be the leader of the Animamates, and calls her partner her "greatest rival"; however, she harbors great concern for her fellow Animamate, and when Aluminum Siren is killed, tries to carry on the same work. Siren's death seems to haunt her, and she thinks about her fallen comrade often. She dislikes Tin Nyanko, but partners with her for a time, which leads to her being killed by her own trap when Tin Nyanko sabotages it.
Sailor Lead Crow is voiced by Chiharu Suzuka.
[edit] Sailor Tin Nyanko
Sailor Tin Nyanko (セーラー・ティン・ニャンコ Sērā Tin Nyanko?) is the fourth of the Sailor Animamates to appear. Her human pseudonym in the anime is Nyanko Suzu, which is drawn from her Senshi name and from suzu, the Japanese word for both "tin" and "bell." Nyanko is a colloquial term for a cat, drawn from nyan (the Japanese equivalent of meow). Her pseudonym in the English manga is Kitty Bell.
In the manga, Tin Nyanko appears in Act 45 as a new transfer student from Libya. As did Lead Crow, she confronts people from her home planet, Mau -- in this case, Luna, Artemis, and Diana. Her Galactica Puppet attacks on them first transform them into their humanoid selves, then erase their crescent moon markings on their foreheads and turn them into ordinary and badly injured cats. Sailor Star Fighter attacks her, and although she escapes unharmed, she is killed by Galaxia. It is revealed that Sailor Tin Nyanko killed Sailor Mau, the Senshi of her home planet.
In the anime, Tin Nyanko appears in Episode 188 as a rival to Sailor Lead Crow and Sailor Aluminum Siren. She is partly responsible for both their deaths, and in the process learns Sailor Moon's identity. During their confrontation, Sailor Moon attempts to heal her, and succeeds only in knocking off one of her bracelets. This allows Nyanko's true personality to partially assert itself; however, she is torn between her duty to kill the Sailor Senshi and a new urge to rebel against her master. Sailor Galaxia resolves the situation in Episode 195 by removing the remaining bracelet. When Tin Nyanko dies, she leaves behind a small golden bell that had been part of her uniform.
She was voiced by Ikue Otani (who is most famous as the voice of Pikachu on Pokemon).
[edit] Manga only
[edit] Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon
Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon (セーラー・ヘビーメタル・パ ピヨン Sērā Hebīmetaru Papiyon?) is the fifth and last of the Sailor Animamates to appear. Her name incorporates the French word for butterfly, here pronounced papiyon; in Japanese culture, butterflies are often considered to be symbolic of the soul. In the Materials Collection artbook, the word "Heavy" is omitted from her name. She only shows up in Act 49 of the manga, and not the anime.
Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon comes from the planet Cocoon [1]. If her history is consistent with those of the other Animamates, this suggests that she killed Sailor Cocoon to gain Galaxia's favor. The Materials Collection also states that Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon manipulates fire, and attacks with "Galactica Scales," although this attack is not named in the manga. Furthermore, she is described as a parent as well as a samba dancer.
Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon is the de facto leader of the Animamates, but appears only in act 49 of the manga and does not appear in the anime. Known as the "soul hunter," she guards a graveyard in the center of the galaxy, surrounded by butterflies. These butterflies are the remnants of the dead Sailor Senshi whose Sailor Crystals had been taken, and she is to keep them from escaping.
She shows Eternal Sailor Moon, Sailor Kakyuu, and Chibichibi the graves that have been dug for them, binds them with vines, and prepares to burn them to death. The three are saved by the arrival of Sailor Chibi Moon and the Sailor Quartet, who destroy the villain with their "Amazoness Jungle Arrow" attack.
[edit] Musicals
All five Sailor Animamates appear in various Seramyu stage musicals, including Sailor Stars (musical 4), Eien Densetsu (musical 5), Starlights Ryuusei Densetsu (musical 12), and Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin (the revision of musical 12). They pose as a dance troupe called the "Dancing Animamates" and go by pseudonyms: Iron Mouse as "Chū Rat," Aluminum Siren as "Half Bird," Lead Crow as Manila Karasu, etc.
In addition, two new Animamates are introduced.
[edit] Sailor Pewter Fox
Sailor Pewter Fox seems to be the replacement leader of the Animamates in the Sailor Stars musical, as Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon and Sailor Lead Crow were not in this particular musical. The allusion of a normally "red" animal in place of the "Red Crow" lends strength to this idea. Little else is known about her, as she only ever appeared in this musical.
[edit] Sailor Titanium Kerokko
Sailor Titanium Kerokko only appears in the two versions of the Sailor Stars musical: Summer 1996 and Winter 1997. Her name comes from the Japanese onomatopoeia for the noise that a frog makes.[2]
[edit] Actresses
The following actresses have portrayed the Animamates in the musicals:
- Iron Mouse: Chie Maruyama and Aki Kudo
- Aluminum Siren: Anri Oonuki
- Lead Crow: Ado Endoh
- Tin Nyanko: Tomomi Seo and Toni Hosokawa
- Metal Papillon: Keiko Endoh
- Pewter Fox: Rei Ku and Junko Iemura
- Titan Kerokko: Haruko Yamaguchi
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Takeuchi, Naoko (October 1999). Materials Collection. Kodansha. ISBN 4-06-324521-7.
[edit] External links
- Hitoshi Doi - Extensive information, including facts about the Animamates, such as their name kanji
- The Oracle
- The Sailor Senshi Page: Shadow Galactica Eternalsailormoon.org's detail page on the Animamates (includes images)
- The Ultimate Sailor Moon Encyclopedia: Sailor Iron Mouse Extensive information about Iron Mouse in the anime
- Galatica Tornado Information about Sailor Lead Crow and her seiyuu
- Heavy Metal - A site with information on Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon
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