A main character in the Sailor Moon meta-series, Sailor Saturn, alias Hotaru Tomoe in her civilian appearances, is a schoolgirl touched by a serious health problem. Sailor Saturn suffers from seizures caused by her health problems but she also distinguishes herself by the unique powers that she becomes aware of pretty late. She plays in a great team with Chibiusa and Usagi, two other heroines of the metaseries, who are her best mates. In day-to-day life, Sailor Saturn is not on good terms with her classmates, both because of her seizures and the unique capacities she possesses. Sailor Saturn is present in the manga and the animated series of Sailor Moon and the specifics of her life are usually discussed in the manga form mainly rather than in the animations.
Sailor Saturn has the body covered with cybernetic attachments in one version, but later she appears wholy human. Differences in plot and character development vary from one presentation form to another; thus, Sailor Saturn changes her age for instance. First she is 13 then she gets reborn and is pictured as a five-year old girl, only to grow into a 13 year old all over again. As for her secret powers, Sailor Saturn finds revelation only when Sailor Uranus, Neptune and Pluto use their talismans together and make her resonate.
Even if she is endowed with highly destructive skills, Sailor Saturn uses her powers to save the world and stop the chain of evil in the Millenium kingdom. After the rebirth and the assumption of a new life, Sailor Saturn is a lot more vivid and definitely happier. She dreams of becoming a nurse some day, particularly as she has minor healing powers. If we were to discover a philosophy at the heart of the series, Sailor Saturn stands for the all necessary doom: without death there can be no rebirth, thus, her weapon, the Silence Glaive can throw a world into complete destruction or annihilation only to be reborn a lot purer afterwards.
With every number in the manga series, Sailor Saturn gains more and more powers every day. Her uniform indicates the changes in her statute, since after each major event, a detail is added to indicate the modifications. It surely takes one a lot of patience to follow episode after episode, particularly since one can easily lose track of the events with all the things happening in this world of super heroes that are anything but common. Present in Japanese and English variants of the series, Sailor Saturn completes the rest of the characters with her presence.
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