The script for this episode is meh. It wasn't good enough to say it was good, it didn't go through my theoretical second translation so I can't say bad. I would say lower middle here. While the main stuff was left, there was a just a tad too many liberties taken in the translation for my personal taste. The MotD for the episode was named Reci, changed to Racy in the dub, so no big change here. Just phonetics. Much like most of the episodes in this story arc thus far, there is no episode specific VotD. This episode was where Sailor Moon started using her new transformation and attacks. Her transformation call, "Moon Crystal Power, Make Up!" stayed the same dropping the "make up" as in all transformations. Sailor Moon obtains the Cutie Moon Rod, which is renamed to simply the Moon Scepter. Her new attack is called "Moon Princess Halation." The dub names this attack (at least in these 1995 dubbed episodes) "Moon Scepter Elimination."

The pre-episode continues to be given a special frame for the dub.

(20 seconds) In a cute scene, after Umino explains how he stayed warm in his sleeping bag, Naru zips it shut and proceeds to invite everyone to sit down. Which everyone does, not one of them concerned of Umino being stuck in his bag. Poor Umino.

(1 minute 56 seconds) The scene with everyone eating lunch together was originally MUCH longer. It was a cute scene, where we saw the background stay the same and shots of people popping up for quick lines. I'm not going to list out every little thing they took out, but here are some of the highlights: * Naru apologizing to Umino, stating she only zipped him up as a little joke. She later gave him a homemade lunch which he thought was amazing. * Rei giving Usagi a hard time about how poor her rice balls came out, with Usagi shooting right back stating at least she made her own lunch, in which we see a bag of fast food appear on the screen. * My favorite, to get back at Rei, Usagi puts some hot mustard in a sandwich and offers it to Rei, who accepts it surprised by her generosity, and takes a bite. After a few seconds, she jumps up screaming "Fire!" while running around with fire breathing out of her mouth. When she ran out of energy, she fell while softly saying "Soul." Hilarious, and so sad to see get taken out.

What was left of the lunch scene in the last box was given a special frame surrounding the scene.

There is a whole block of conversation with everyone talking about how Serena thinks that Alan might be following her around. In actuality, Seijuro was just watching in the distance unseen by everyone except Natsumi. The actual conversation was about Usagi finding a dumpling shop nearby.

All the lightning effects when the camera zoomed out as the cardian collected energy were added in by DiC.

Though no time was lost to them, this section of the episode had a lot of digital wipes and bumps. It felt like there was more than normal.

(7 seconds) There's snippets in the scene of the girls noticing the cardian before being attacked. The biggest cuts in this moment are a shot of the tree and a camera pan of the girls. Them falling to their knees was also cut.

The Moon Prism Power transformation was fully added in by DiC. In the original, after she called out her transformation, as her hand was risen it cut to commercial.

This episode shows another rare exception to the untold rule of the dub's first commercial break lining up with the original's only one. To add to the list, when the dub returned from the break, it recapped the previous 5 seconds, something we normally see after the second dub commercial break.

When Sailor Moon uses her "Moon Tiara Action" here, I would venture a guess and assume some people might think that DiC shortened the attack sequence. This would be false, as the original shortened this as well. Perfect side-by-side actually.

(1 second) Snippets as Usagi is sucked into the ground.

(7 seconds added) After Usagi is sucked in the ground, DiC decided to recycle the shots of the girls calling to her.

In the Doom Tree segment, DiC added purple lightning bolts. And this is where it all clicked. So many digital wipes and bumps, at least three lightning bolts, with one of them a different color, the video department must've had a bigger budget that day. It makes perfect sense. It's too bad this bigger budget likely actually came from not paying the good writer to write the script today. -_-

Which leads to this box. By now, we're used to Raye being a bit meaner than Rei and other annoying things to that degree. However, in this scene, Luna is essentially just a huge bitch to Serena for the dub. Originally, as the two were falling, Luna mentioned that the reason Usagi was having trouble lately is because even though she was awakened, she still wishes to lead a normal life. This was the first sign of Usagi's struggle of wanting to live a normal life actually directly affecting her ability to fight. This is also where she becomes aware of it. In this version, Luna realized it and nicely told Usagi. In the dub, Luna just berates her. "You just didn't feel like being Sailor Moon today, did you?" "Well then, that's your problem." Here's my problem with this. Obviously the tone was changed. Yeah, she's always wanted to be normal, but this entire season she's actually initiated attacks on her own with no one there. It's not like she hasn't been trying, and that's why I feel the attitude dub Luna has here completely out of line.

The whole scene with nude Usagi in her soul was actually mostly untouched. No digital effects were added whatsoever. There was a side view of Usagi that was almost cut out. I say almost because it was still on the screen for a second or two. When that shot started to zoom out, DiC replaced it with an earlier shot of Usagi's face and then a still of Queen Serenity. There were snippets in this scene, and the flash to the Moon palace was quicker in the dub. Yet a half second was added in. This was quite the interesting scene comparison-wise, more interesting that I had anticipated.

While the original used new music for Sailor Moon's new transformation, the dub did not, using the same tried out music. Video-wise, this was untouched.

(6 seconds added) After the new transformation, DiC added Alan and Anne back in to command the cardian for whatever reason. I have no theory as to why they've decided to add time to this second half.

(1 second) Snippets during Sailor Moon's speech.

"And that means you" also means the theory is correct in this episode.

While they changed the name of the new attack, they did not touch the animation. Likewise, they did not change the music they normally use for Moon's attacks either.

To end the episode, Dic continues their obsession with the pink background with moons and stars. While the original just had a normal fade to black, DiC had a curtain effect to their favorite ending image.

This episode's Sailor Says segment features some cut footage from not one, but TWO episodes. The lunch scene where maybe a third of it was still in the dub? Yep, parts of Usagi and Rei arguing that were cut from that scene made it to Sailor Says. No, sadly dub viewers will not be able to see Rei shoot fire out of her mouth. The real kicker in this Sailor Says is a small section came from episode 42. Yep, one of the cut episodes. Great job staying consistent with your own damn cuts, even more so using footage from an episode that you never even touched. Fail.