Sailor Moon Crystal Season 3

Sailor Moon Crystal Season 3 has built a real following on and among viewers who want their sci-fi to think as hard as it looks. Across 1 season, the show has had time to find its rhythm and keep it. An 8/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. Kotono Mitsuishi leads a cast that never lets the concept overwhelm the characters. Put it on tonight and see for yourself.

Sailor Moon Crystal Season 3 arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. Sailor Moon Crystal Season 3 uses its genre premise as cover for asking bigger questions. The third season will focus on the Death Busters arc (also called the Infinity arc), adapting the arc from the fifth and sixth volumes of the complete edition of Naoko Takeuchi's original Sailor Moon manga. Kotono Mitsuishi and Hisako Kanemoto lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 2016. Sailor Moon Crystal Season 3 resists the temptation to explain everything, trusting the audience to sit with ambiguity. The hit rate here is high enough that skipping ahead never feels like an option.

Viewers burned by ambitious sci-fi that could not sustain its premise should give Sailor Moon Crystal Season 3 a chance. It rewards viewers regardless of what else is in their watch history. Best experienced as a single, sustained watch if your schedule allows. Kotono Mitsuishi anchors it with a performance that makes the more abstract moments feel personal. If you have been burned by ambitious sci-fi before, this is the exception.

🎬 Sailor Moon Crystal Season 3 — Episode Guide

Act 27. Infinity 1 - Premonition (1)

2016-04-04

A few months after the defeat of Death Phantom and the Malefic Black Crystal, Usagi, Ami, Rei, Makoto, Minako and Chibiusa are all enjoying their normal lives. However, new enemies appear out of nowhere and are attacking humans in order to absorb the hoste or souls of their human victims in order to...

Act 27. Infinity 1 - Premonition (2)

2016-04-11

Now that a new and mysterious monster has appeared, the Sailor Guardians are bent on finding out by infiltrating Mugen Academy. While battling another of these new monsters called Diamon, Sailor Moon and Sailor Chibi Moon befriend a strange girl with unusual powers. But just what kind of connection ...

Act 28. Infinity 2 - Ripples

2016-04-18

Usagi and the girls discuss the two mysterious figures they saw, who appeared to look like Sailor Guardians. Luna and Artemis warn the girls to be careful, as they are still unsure whether these two are friend or foe.

Act 29. Infinity 3 - Two New Soldiers

2016-04-25

The Sailor Guardians defeat Eudial but allow the mysterious Guardian to escape. Still suspicious about Mugen Academy, the girls decide to check out the place again by attending Michiru Kaioh’s violin recital, which is being held on campus.

Act 30. Infinity 4 - Haruka Tenoh, Michiru Kaioh ~Sailor Uranus, Sailor Neptune~

2016-05-02

The Sailor Guardians learn that Haruka and Michiru are Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune. However, the two do not appear to be interested in working with the other Sailor Guardians.

Act 31. Infinity 5 - Setsuna Meiou ~Sailor Pluto~

2016-05-09

The Sailor Guardians must stop a plant called Tellu from stealing the Hostes from humans. Meanwhile, a college student named Setsuna Meioh is investigating the Sankakusu Delta, but she too falls victim to the Tellu plant.

Act 32. Infinity 6 - Three Warriors

2016-05-16

Sailor Uranus, Neptune and Pluto appear before Sailor Moon and the other Guardians to reveal their true agenda. Learning what’s at stake, Sailor Moon and the others offer their help but are rejected by Uranus, causing further tensions.

Act 33. Infinity 7 - Transformation ~Super Sailor Moon~

2016-05-23

Cyprine and Ptilol of the Witches 5 have placed the Sailor Guardians under a spell that causes them to turn against one another. The battle continues to escalate, when suddenly the three Talismans react to Sailor Moon’s strong desire to stop this fight.

Act 34. Infinity 8 - Infinite Labyrinth (1)

2016-05-30

Hotaru turns into Mistress 9 and takes Chibi-Usa’s Legendary Silver Crystal and her soul as well. To save Chibi-Usa’s life, the Sailor Guardians must head into Mugenzu so that they can retrieve her stolen soul and the Silver Crystal.

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Act 35. Infinity 9 - Infinite Labyrinth (2)

2016-06-06

The Sailor Guardians fight their way through to find Hotaru, who is in possession of Chibi-Usa’s Silver Crystal. They manage to defeat Kaolinite but must now face Professor Tomoe and his Daimon monsters.

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Act 36. Infinity 10 - Infinite ~Upper Atmosphere~

2016-06-13

Now that Professor Tomoe and Kaorinite have been destroyed, it is up to the eight Sailor Guardians to confront Mistress 9 directly and eradicate her once and for all. As Pharaoh 90's complete vesselization looms nearer, Hotaru's consciousness is determined to do whatever she possibly can to save Chi...

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Act 37. Infinity 11 - Infinite ~Judge~

2016-06-20

Super Sailor Moon and everyone else continue to fight with their memories of Hotaru in their hearts. All attempts to obliterate Pharaoh 90 have failed and the world seems lost, until the awakening and return of a certain person comes to turn things around...for better or worse.

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Act 38. Infinity 12 - Infinite ~Journey~

2016-06-27

Now that Sailor Saturn has awakened, she has unleashed her strongest and most destructive attack yet and has swung down her Silence Glaive, putting an end to Pharaoh 90 and the whole world itself in the process. But all is not yet lost.