A Star of Dreams and Wishes: Taiki's Transformation

The latest exam rankings place Ami second behind Taiki, prompting Usagi and Minako to beg him for math help until they accidentally tear apart the notebook he lends them. In a school corridor Ami meets Professor Amanogawa of the astronomy department and asks about a comet he found fifteen years earlier, which he affectionately named "Francois." Taiki joins the conversation, and the professor mentions he once turned down Cambridge simply because he loves watching the stars.

Ami is charmed and calls him a romantic, but Taiki dismisses dreams and romance as useless to science, insisting real thinkers should know better. Their disagreement sharpens until Amanogawa invites them both to view the comet at his home the following night. Ami eagerly agrees, while Taiki walks off without answering. Watching from Ginga TV, Iron Mouse reads about the astronomer and marks him as her next victim.

At a children's show taping, a young viewer asks whether the dead become stars, and the professor offers a gentle legend-based answer that Taiki flatly contradicts before a live audience, upsetting Ami. Taiki later needles her that the forecast calls for total rain and mocks her faith that the comet can still be seen, promising to attend only if dreams and romance can hold off the storm. The next day it does rain, yet Ami travels to the astronomer's house anyway.

Iron Mouse arrives too, drops her disguise, and extracts Amanogawa's Star Seed, which fades as an ordinary one, turning him into the phage Sailor Teacher. Hearing Ami's cries, Taiki rushes over and becomes Sailor Star Maker, but Ami shields the monster and explains that dreams and romance give people the will to keep working. Understanding at last, Star Maker weakens the phage with a half-powered attack so a newly arrived Sailor Moon can heal the professor using Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss.

The eleventh episode of the Stars season aired in Japan on June 15, 1996, written by Kazuhiko Kobe and directed by Hiroki Shibata. It introduces the transformation phrase Maker Star Power, Make Up and slightly reworks Usagi's sequence into Eternal Sailor Moon.

None of these events appear in the manga. By the closing scene the sky has cleared, letting Ami, Usagi, Makoto, Minako, and Rei watch the comet through the professor's telescope, and Taiki shows up to admit he can finally see the dreams and romance Ami described, vowing to make the most of his own.