The Death Busters
Sailormoon S
Tomoe is the leader of the Death Busters, and his mission is to bring Pharoah 90
into the world. His first appearance is in episode 89, but that was really just
a preview scene from Sailormoon S episode 90. Tomoe was originally good, but in
an explosion in his lab, his daughter, Hotaru, was killed. An entity appeared,
saying that in exchange for him being possessed, it would let Hotaru live. Tomoe
agreed, and he was immediately posessed by the daimon Gerumatou, hence the weird
eye glass thing. He cultures Hotaru as his Messiah of Silence, allowing an entity
to live and grow inside of her; eventually Hotaru becomes fully possessed by
Mistress 9. After the explosion in his lab, Tomoe started Mugen Gakuen (which he
owns and teaches at) as the headquarters of the Death Busters. Tomoe is a funny
character when he's insane. For instance, he gobbles down groceries at frantic
paces while sitting outside his locked house, he breaks telephones in fits of
rage, and he makes coffee in his lab. Eventually, once the daimon removes itself
from him to fight Uranus and Neptune towards the end of S, he becomes good once
more; the daimon itself is defeated by the two senshi. Souichi tries to protect
Mistress 9 seeing how she's his daughter. At the end of S he loses his memories
because of his injuries; he only remembers his baby daughter, Hotaru. Haruka and
Michiru return to him baby Hotaru, and he cares for her until SailorStars, when
Setsuna comes to take her back.
Kaolinite is a witch type of woman. She too makes her first appearance in R 89/S 90.
She's Tomoe's lab assistant, and she has long red hair (that she can use as a
weapon) and kind of dead looking skin. Anyway, she is incredibly powerful, has a
very revealing red dress, and she goes after the heart crystals with the help of
Tomoe's daimon. However, she dies in SMS 102 when the Sailor Senshi use 'Sailor
Planet Attack' on her at the top of Tokyo Tower; this weakens her, and then she
tries using her attack, but Uranus's 'World Shaking' causes the attack to reflect
on herself. She then falls off Tokyo Tower. She is brought back to life by Tomoe
and works for him as his assistant Kaori. She falls in love with Tomoe, and in
episode 121 she becomes Kaolinite again after Tomoe says he wants the old her back.
After that, she gets a new black dress (which is the same one in the manga).
However, she is still very possessive over him afterwards. Kaolinite is eventually
killed by Mistress 9 in episode 123, having outlived her usefulness.
The first of the Witches 5, she is the successor of Kaolinite appearing at the end
of episode 102, making her major appearance in 103. Eudial has red hair in three
pony tails, red eyes, and a red and black outfit. Eudial uses her computer to
track down possessors of heart crystals. Using a gun, she can shoot out the heart
crystal of a person. Some of Eudial's other inventions are the Fire Buster and
the Fire Buster II. (She says in episode 109, "Witches Eudial Fire Buster" in order
to use the original one against Sailormoon.) Eudial accomplishes quite a lot,
including discovering the identites of the Sailor Senshi and taking the heart
crystals from Neptune and Uranus, thereby getting two of the Talismans in episode
110. In 111, though, Meioh Setsuna arrives and draws out the three Talismans,
forming the Holy Grail. Eudial and Sailormoon race to get it first, but Sailormoon
wins and transforms into SuperSailormoon. Eudial tries to use her Fire Buster
against SuperSailormoon, but Moon just repels it back at her. Eudial then attempts
to escape from the Marine Cathedral in her car, but "Snail Lady" discovers that
the brakes have been removed by Mimete, another Witch. Her car then plummets
off a cliff into the ocean.
The most annoying of the Witches 5, Mimete is childish, immature, and irresponsible.
She has short, curly, yellow hair and orange eyes. She is first seen in episode
110, talking to the other Witches about Eudial's failures. Mimete also did mean
things to Eudial like placing tacks in her shoes and snails in her locker, not to
mention killing off Eudial. After Eudial's death, Mimete she takes the role of
head witch. She is sort of perverted in how she does her job. She generally goes
after the heart crystals, which are now for the Messiah of Silence's power, of men
that she has crushes on who usually reject her in some way. Anyway, her daimons
are modeled after cormorants; they swallow the heart crystals of victims and keep
them in their throats. Mimete carries around a staff with a star on top, and her
attack is "Charm Buster." In one episode she poses as Hagyu Mimi. In episode 120,
Mimete dies when she uses a machine created by the late Eudial to make her inside
a large TV (calling "Witches Electric Warp"); however, because she tried to trick
Tellu, whom Tomoe gave a job to due to Mimete's failures, Tellu appears and pulls
her plug, and Mimete plummets into nothingness, having been trapped inside the
machine forever.
The Witch to follow Mimete, Tellu's love is plants. She appears first in episode
120 (though kind of in shadow) and fully in episode 121. In her plot to get heart
crystals, Tellu opens up a plant shop full of deadly plants (Telluns or Tellurians)
which drain energy and take heart crystals. She even gives a free plant to Hotaru,
who gives it to Chibi-usa; Setsuna comes along and smacks the plant away (having a
previous bad encounter with one of the plants). Drawing in customers, she closes
her shop, and the plants take all of the heart crystals of the people inside. Pluto,
Chibimoon, and Sailormoon confront her, going in through the back door, but even
Supersailormoon's attack, which destroys all the plants, cannot defeat Tellu. Tellu
unleashes one plant that was not killed, and it mutates into a larger one. She
arrogantly shows SM, Chibimoon, Pluto, and Tuxedo Kamen, who arrived, her black star
which contains the heart crystals. Tuxedo Kamen throws a rose at it, and it
shatters, releasing all the crystals. Tellu makes a grab for them, and her mutant
plant turns on her, attacking her. Tellu tries to kill it, but they end up killing
each other. After her death, Sailormoon finds Tellu's Mugen Gakuen ID, which
says that Tellu's name was "Teruno Lulu".
Viluy's plan in episode 122 involves using computers to take many heart crystals
at once. She poses as a brilliant student, Bidou Yui, in Mugen Gakuen and makes
friendly advances towards Ami. Haruka and Michiru find Hotaru in an off-limits
section of the school, and as they are going to attack her, Ami stops them. Then
Viluy arrives and reveals herself to be a Death Buster. She proceeds to attack
Haruka and Michiru with her "Mosaic Buster" attack which uses little robots
controlled by a computer chip on her bracelet. Ami transforms into Mercury, and
she uses her power on Viluy. Viluy is too strong, though, and she attacks Mercury
too. The other Inner Senshi arrive, and Haruka and Michiru transform. After a
semi-long process, Viluy is killed when she tries to use her "Mosaic Buster" since
during the battle the bracelet got damaged, so the little robot thingys attack
her instead of the senshi and kill her.
Cyprine is the most powerful of the Witches 5, and her twin sister is equally
strong. Cyprine has blue hair and carries a staff with a star, as does Ptilol
though she has red hair. They count as one witch and make their appearance
in Sailormoon S 123. Cyprine takes the heart crystals of many of the students
at Mugen Gakuen, and then she transports the Inner Senshi to her office. The
Inner Senshi try attacking her, but Cyprine is way beyond them in terms of
power. When Venus catches Cyprine in her chain, Ptilol attacks with her red
energy ball. The Inner Senshi are really trashed, since together, Cyprine and
Ptilol can absorb any attack they are sent. Mercury uses her Shabon Spray,
creating a mist, and then Mars and Jupiter separate the twins. After some
clever manuevering, Cyprine and Ptilol launch their attacks at each other,
unknowingly, and they kill each other.
The Messiah of Silence, Mistress 9 is the entity that possesses Tomoe Hotaru;
Hotaru periodically has seizures where Mistress 9 controls her for short periods
of time. Mistress 9 finally overtakes Hotaru's body when Hotaru swallows
Chibi-Usa's heart crystal in episode 123. Mistress 9 has long black hair that she
can use as a weapon to strangle her victims. She is extremely powerful, and she
serves Master Pharaoh 90. In episode 124, she pretends to be Hotaru to try to
deceive Sailormoon, but makes a mistake when she calls Sailormoon "Usagi-san" when
Hotaru never knows that Sailormoon is Usagi. Sailoruranus and Sailorneptune appear
to destroy Mistress 9. In episode 125, Sailormoon takes Uranus and Neptune's
attacks to protect Mistress 9, believing that Hotaru is still alive. Mistress 9
later deceives Sailormoon into giving her the Holy Grail by pretending to do one
of those 'Ack, I'm going to die, I need it' bit, which the senshi falls for. Once
she gets it, she uses it to draw 90 into the world. However, as she is doing that,
a blast of energy from the machine Pharaoh 90 is coming out of hits her, and she
is considerably weakened, even with Sailormoon and Tomoe Souichi protecting her.
While in Souichi's arms, Hotaru inside of Mistress 9 comes back, and using the
power of Saturn and her memories of her loved ones, Hotaru overcomes Mistress 9.
Mistress 9's body disintegrates with the rebirth of Sailorsaturn.
The head leader of the Death Busters. At a distance, it resembles some sort of spiky
pinwheel. Up close, it's more like a ball with swirling tentacles. Its goal is
to bring the world into the Silence, where the entire world is destroyed and covered
with red barrenness. Presumably Saturn kills it after she is reborn with "Death
Reborn Revolution", but since this isn't shown on screen, we'll never really know.
SuperSailormoon might have helped defeat it. It is destroyed in episode 125.
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