Japanese
51
"Atarashiki Henshin! Usagi Pawaa Appu"
(A New Transformation! Usagi Powers Up)
1993-04-17
English
45
"Cherry Blossom Time"
1995-11-28

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- 4:25-4:45 Naru zips Umino completely up in his sleeping bag, then says “Okay everyone, let’s have lunch!” They all gather around, and Umino says “Uh, Naru? Don’t you think this is too much? I worked hard to get this spot!”

- 4:46 – A border is put around the lunch scene.

- 4:48-4:55 – Lunch scene. Cuts:
> Umino: “That was so mean! I did everything for you Naru!”
> Naru: “I’m sorry, it was only meant as a joke!”

- 5:06-5:33 – Usagi has remarked how everyone’s lunch looks so good. The cuts are that Rei says “On the other hand, yours is…”, and a giant bunch of sloppily-made onigiri (rice balls) fall onto the screen. Usagi says “So what? Even if it looks like this, I put my heart and soul into making it! At least I didn’t take the easy way out like you did!”, and a giant bag of fast food that says “Rakudanaruzu” (RacDonalds, a McDonalds parody) falls onto the screen. Usagi comments on how Makoto’s lunch looks good, and she offers some to Usagi.

- 5:44-5:55 – Usagi looks at Minako and Ami’s lunches and says the sandwiches look so good. Ami offers her some, to which she accepts.

- 6:11-7:00 – Usagi has commented that Natsumi is counting on everyone else’s lunches too. The cuts: Rei says “It’s just you!”, to which Usagi goes “What’s with you! You’re also eating Makoto’s lunch!”, Rei says “Shut up! Go eat you ugly rice balls or something!”, and Usagi responds by laying some super-hot sauce on her sandwich, then offers Rei it. Rei comments how rare it is for Usagi to be considerate, and takes a bite...there is a long pause…then Rei breathes fire while saying her Sailor Mars attack name, “Fire Soul!” before collapsing to the ground. Rei tackles Usagi, who said she deserved for being so mean. Rei shouts “What would you have done if my appendix exploded?” A shot of Luna and Artemis in front of tuna cans ends the cut.

- 9:19 – DiC adds a lightning bolt with SFX as the light that gets Naru and Umino disappears.

- 9:48 and 9:51 – DiC adds the lightning again, but this time with Haruna.

- 10:55-10:57 and 11:00 – A shot of the tree the Cardian is in once the 4 Senshi find it, then a quick pan of them again, then another even quicker pan of them. The only shot missing from the dub is the tree; the panning is shown once in the dub.

- ADDITION of 34 seconds (9:42-10:16) – In the original, Usagi’s transformation only consisted of the “hand going up and turning pretty colors” part; the original went to commercial break immediately after. In the dub, it’s the entire transformation.

- ADDITION of 7 seconds (12:31-12:38) – After Usagi is sucked into the Cardian’s hole, the dub inserts full-body shots of everyone reacting again, and this was NOT due to a commercial break.

- 15:24-15:28 – A side-shot of naked Usagi with her breasts clearly visible is cut. This is cut but the dub switches around between scenes of Usagi’s face and Queen Serenity, so the dub actually gains two seconds over the original.

- I really hate how they make Princess Serenity in the dub speak with no contractions. “Can you help me please? I do not know how to save my friends!” “Look at it! It is beautiful!”

- 15:45-15:48 – A shot of naked Usagi from the side again before the shine from the locket covers them. The dub shows the shine, but only once the shine has covered her up.

- ADDITION (again) of 5 seconds: After Usagi transforms with the new Moon Crystal Power Makeup, the dub inserts a scene we saw earlier in the episode of Ail and Ann against a black background with rose petals; in this addition, he’s telling the Cardian to get the energy.

- Of note, the name of the Cardian in this episode is “Reci”, and it’s the same in both versions.

- Of note, in the Sailor Says for this episode, some of the big “lunch” cut from above is in there, as well as some scenes that were cut from the undubbed Episode 42 (the same thing happened in Episode 49).