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Gamecen

Character

Gamecen is a cybernetic monster of the Dark Kingdom and the first of the Seven Great Monsters. Sealed inside a red Rainbow Crystal, he awakens within an arcade prodigy named Crane Game Joe and takes on Sailor Jupiter in the episode that first summons her powers.

Alignment: Dark Kingdom
Allegiances: Dark Kingdom

Also Known As

Game Machine ManCrane Game Joe
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Appearance

Gamecen's frame is bright red, topped by a helmet through which his red eyes glare. Plating shaped to resemble arcade cabinets covers much of his body, tying his design directly to the game-center theme behind his name, itself a shortened form of the Japanese words for game center.

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Personality

He carries himself as a boastful mechanical brawler who repeatedly barks his own name while fighting, a quirk that later becomes a running trait for the show's monsters. Built for arcade-style aggression, he attacks with the blunt showmanship of a rigged machine, and even his destruction comes with a shouted catchphrase.

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History

Gamecen begins as the essence trapped inside the red Rainbow Crystal, reborn through an arcade champion known as Crane Game Joe. In the twenty-fifth episode Zoisite draws the crystal out of Joe and reshapes him into Gamecen, a champion for the Dark Kingdom, whose hands can morph into a mallet or extend a crane-like claw. When Makoto Kino hurls the monster to the ground, the emblem of Jupiter surfaces on her brow; Luna hands her a Transformation Pen, and as Sailor Jupiter she cuts through his circuitry with Supreme Thunder. As he struggles back up, Luna passes the Moon Stick to Sailor Moon, whose Moon Healing Escalation restores Joe to himself and unmakes the monster housed within him.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Who is Gamecen in Sailor Moon?

Gamecen is a cybernetic monster of the Dark Kingdom and the first of the Seven Great Monsters, who takes on Sailor Jupiter in the episode that first awakens her powers.

How is Gamecen created?

Gamecen is created when Zoisite draws the red Rainbow Crystal out of an arcade champion known as Crane Game Joe and reshapes him into a champion for the Dark Kingdom.

What are Gamecen's powers?

Gamecen's hands can morph into a mallet or extend into a crane-like claw, arcade-style weapons that tie into his game-center design.

How is Gamecen defeated?

Sailor Jupiter cuts through Gamecen's circuitry with Supreme Thunder, and Sailor Moon then finishes him with Moon Healing Escalation, which also restores Crane Game Joe to himself.

What is significant about Gamecen among the Dark Kingdom's monsters?

Gamecen is the first of the Seven Great Monsters and popularizes the running trait, later common among the show's monsters, of shouting his own name while fighting.

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