HOTARU TOMOE / SAILOR SATURN SPOILER!
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The frail, goth-aesthetic girl with a dark, tragic secret. Hotaru suffers from chronic illness and bizarre, involuntary healing powers, but her body secretly harbors both the malicious entity Mistress 9 and the ultimate cosmic reset button: Sailor Saturn, the Guardian of Destruction. Her awakening is feared by the Outer Senshi because swinging her Silence Glaive means the literal end of the world. Her ultimate redemption and rebirth remain some of the franchise's finest storytelling.
HOTARU THROUGH THE ARCHIVE //
SEASON & STORY GUIDE //
Open page →Chibiusa's friend · Mistress 9's host · feared Guardian
Hotaru enters the story through Chibiusa, not through a dramatic Guardian introduction. She is sick, lonely and living inside a household the audience gradually learns not to trust.
That makes the Saturn reveal hurt more. The same girl one group wants to save is the person another group believes may have to die before she awakens.
That makes the Saturn reveal hurt more. The same girl one group wants to save is the person another group believes may have to die before she awakens.
Why it matters
Season S forces every piece of its apocalypse mythology through one child the audience has already been taught to care about.
