When the Crystal Shines: The Beautiful Power of Dreams

Nehelenia endures the collapse of her circus tent and carries an unconscious Chibi Moon skyward toward the new moon, prompting Super Sailor Moon to give chase. She discovers the once-radiant ruler reduced to a withered hag. With the Golden Crystal now in her grasp, the queen launches her final gambit, blotting out the sun and scattering circus tents across Tokyo as her whole army descends on the city.

Mamoru, wracked with agony while the planet suffers under Nehelenia's grip, is called to Elysium by Helios and resumes his identity as Prince Endymion. Helios begs forgiveness for failing to guard the Golden Crystal, then reminds him that the sanctuary lives on only through the dreams of humankind, and Endymion places his faith in people keeping those dreams alight.

As the Guardians falter against the seemingly invincible queen, the Amazoness Quartet stage a piece of sleight of hand, swapping the Golden Crystal for a pineapple and slipping the real gem to Super Sailor Moon. Enraged at the theft, Nehelenia hurls the Quartet aside for their betrayal, yet the crystal stays silent when Sailor Moon first tries to wield it. The queen insists that only she can call up its power, but Chibi Moon refuses to believe it. Chanting Moon Cosmic Dream Action and rallying all of Tokyo to echo the words, she reignites the Golden Crystal, and the two Moons loose its full force on the shrieking Nehelenia.

This thirty-eighth and next-to-last chapter of SuperS, the 165th overall, aired in Japan on February 24, 1996, scripted by Yoji Enokidou and directed by Yuji Endou. It reached North America on November 15, 2000 under the CWi title Golden Revival. The broadcast marked the final anime appearances of Motoki, Unazuki, Momoko, and Kyuusuke, along with the last use of Sailor Planet Power.

The manga tells it quite differently. There the Outer Guardians join the Sailor Planet Attack, a wider cast reaches Elysium, and instead of leaning on the crystal, Sailor Moon rises to Eternal Sailor Moon and finishes Nehelenia with a new technique backed by her allies and Tuxedo Mask. The Quartet, sealed inside the Amazon Stones, take no part in that victory and are only freed and redeemed once the queen falls.