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Sailor Mars

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my Sailor Mars.

i love each and every sailor senshi for different reasons, because fortunately they’re all richly and beautifully written with more complex personalities than is usually seen in anime. i love Rei/Sailor Mars’ tenacity and fiery passion. her greatest strengths, her unabashed determination to achieve what she wants and driven-ness, are exactly Sailor Moon’s weaknesses. likewise, Sailor Moon’s greatest strengths, her empathy, sweetness, and ability to relate to those around her, are Sailor Mars’ weak spots. so it makes sense that they have such an antagonistic relationship with one another, especially given Rei’s temper and Usagi’s childishness.

i realize i didn’t change up the original design much this time, and that’s because i really like Sailor Mars’ design and feel it fits her personality really well. one thing i find fascinating about Mars is that she could easily be an exploitative character, but instead she is always in control of herself. what i mean by that is that she’s probably the most stereotypically “sexy” of the inner senshi. she has beautiful long black hair, often dresses in more “adult” style fashions than the other girls, stuff that’s form-fitting or shows a lot of skin (not to mention she’s the only senshi who wears classic high-heel pumps when she transforms!), she goes to a Catholic school and therefore wears the much fetishized uniform, and she also happens to be a Miko (shrine maiden) at her grandfather’s shrine, which i’ve recently learned is another type of uniform that is fetishized. but rather than be a fan service character, Rei is always in control of how she is represented. she has a trendy and mature fashion sense because it is her personal preference, and because she has big dreams of being a singer/pop idol, not because a male gaze is directing her. she is a young woman testing out and expressing her budding sexuality, but is definitely not being sexualized in the process. i can’t tell you how great i think that is.

i also like the spiritual side of Rei, with her ability to foresee the future, her slight psychic abilities, and her use of spirit-warding talismans to help the other senshi, which sadly gets less and less prevalent as the series goes on.

you can also see my Sailor Moon here. :)
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