Japanese
59
"Mezameru Shinjitsu no Ai! Makaiju no Himitsu"
(True Love Awakens! The
Hell Tree's Secret)
1993-06-19
English
53
"Treed"
1995-12-08

No comments for this episode either!

2:09-2:19 – Venus is about to try the Crescent Beam attack to get in when Mars stops her…she’s felt something…(the tree is sentient)

Four seconds of Mars’ Fire Soul Bird attack are cut, namely the shot of the talisman/ofuda she has.

8:14-8:19 – During Sailor Moon’s speech, a bit is cut. Moon is talking about greenery, and the cut is her saying “They say ‘God did not create one greenery better than another, nor greenery less than another.’ Don’t you remember?!” This is the reason the cats have that strange expression on their face; Moon's speech is so involved. In the dub Moon says “I stand behind my friends...and furballs”, and this is why the cats make that expression in the dub.

8:33-8:34 – Ann says Moon should stop yapping nonsense.

8:37-8:39 – Ail says “But Miss Usagi is Sailor Moon…”

10:08 – Ail has ordered the Makaiju to unleash its powers to obliterate the Earth. The cuts include a half-shot of Mercury and Mars, and then a pan up the Makaiju again.

In the original, Mamoru doesn’t remember anything about Sailor Moon being Usagi etc until he recombines with the Moonlight Knight. The dub has him remembering before the Makaiju tells its story.

Between 11:03 and 11:16 a bunch of shots are played out of order but every shot IS there in the dub. This occurs while Moon is trying to get Mamoru to remember her.

12:51-12:56 – Extra of Mamoru getting slammed by Ann’s energy waves (he’s protecting Usagi) are cut. Ail just keeps watching with weird eyes. Of note, the original's music and voice actor performance is much better than the dub her.

14:01-14:06 – Ann is telling the Moonlight Knight how they were all alone in the universe and how they went through many hardships. What’s cut is where Ann is saying “We took whatever we wanted, otherwise we wouldn’t have survived!”

14:52-14:54 – Here it is, Ann gets impaled by the Makaiju’s roots.

14:55-15:03 – Ann’s head/eyes after being impaled. She begins to fall back, eyes closed. Ail watches in horror; his pupils become small.

Of note, there is no music once Ann is impaled by the Makaiju. Not so in the dub…

15:40-15:44 – Ann’s eyes close, and her head falls limp. The camera zooms in slightly with a slightly different set of colors...I think you know what’s happened.

In the original, the Makaiju’s offspring fought each other for its energy on their own accord. In the dub, “evil forces managed to turn some of them against me, and they began to fight for my energy”

In the original, we learn the Makaiju dried up its own body to try to tell Ail and Ann what they were doing was wrong, but they never understood this.

When Sailor Moon uses Moon Princess Halation on the Makaiju, it originally yells “Cleansing!” just like the Cardians did when they were destroyed. The dub Doom Tree yells "I...am...free!"