Inspirations behind the Transformation Items of the Neptunian Moon Senshi and the Plutonian Moon Senshi

It's March Madness which is when college men's and women's basketball matches are held in the middle of March all the way to the start of April. Ironically, even though Pisces season is over, I'm still working on my Neptunian Moon Senshi since March is a season equated with Pisces. For the Neptunian Moon Senshi, their Gloss Rods have a clamshell at the top since that is something we associate with the sea, aside from that, I had an iridescent bubble because I just love bubbles and had it to contain Neptune's mirror since the Jovian Moon Senshi have roses in their back bow charms and in their transformation items. The rest of the rod is quite similar to the Outer Senshi's lip rods. For the Plutonian Moon Senshi, I thought of Pluto's heart and I am a sucker for hearts. And of course, to go with the theme, Sailor Pluto's Garnet Rod is right below the round heart. The rest of the rod is quite similar to the Outer Senshi's lip rods except the color of the ball at the end depends on the weapon of the Plutonian Moon Senshi.

Of Expies and Face Claims

As crossover obsessed as I am, some crossovers just aren't meant to work... Sailor Moon has ruined me permanently for magical girls. I am heavily biased for it. That's why sometimes when an anime is really dear to me but I just can't incorporate a crossover for it, I rely on using another anime character's face from it or I just happen to like their character design when my brain is unable to think of a design! But of course, I sometimes tweak the character design as mentioned in the About Me. If they share a lot of characteristics with the character they got their face from then, I guess I'll admit they're an expy.

Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch is a magical girl anime that's dear to my heart due to growing up with it but the Mermaid Princesses would not last in a real fight.

Ironically, while I was watching Smile Precure! ( my motivation to watch it was the fact that the blond magical girl's surnames is Kise which is the same surname as a blond in Kuroko's Basketball. ) I was just really fond of Reika Aomi's and Nao Midorikawa's character designs for their civilian forms for Chantelle Aomi aka Sailor Sao and Mika Midorima aka Sailor Orthosie. And this opinion may get me hated by some Precure fans but when I saw the Princess Candle, the show seemed like a rip off of Sailor Moon in some areas ( but to be fair, most magical girl shows are inspired by the legendary Sailor Moon ) and seemed juvenile...

Ironically, I used the character designs of the green and blue magical girls of both shows and I solemnly swear I will not do it for any other future fan senshi here again. Kimi Kaiou aka Sailor Halimede's revamped character design intentionally resembles Rina Toin from Mermaid Melody while Aimi Umino aka Sailor Laomedeia ended up becoming Hanon Hosho's expy. What can I say, Hanon is such an enjoyable character haha.

Since Allette Shiratori aka Sailor Leda is inspired by Victorique de Blois from Gosick, she's by default, a Shana expy and I guess she's Victorique's expy...

Tomiko Mikan aka Sailor Orthosie's character design is inspired by Yui Yuigahama from Oregairu. ( I haven't watched that anime and I don't plan to. )

Inspirations behind the Transformation Sequences of the Jovian Moon Senshi and the Solar System Celestial Knights

For the Jovian Moon Senshi, you'll notice that they all use lipgloss with rose petals and have rose petals brush against their lips even though they're not all 16 and older. This is because Saya aka Sailor Dia was intended to be my interpretation of Saya for the Blood anime franchise. In the Blood+ opening, Colors of the Heart, and the Blood-C opening, both Saya's are nude and have blood peeling off of them and have notably red lips and I wanted to reference those visuals somehow and made it so that the Jovian Moon Senshi's transformation items were lip gloss (somewhat similar to how Sailor Moon's transformation item in the live action Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon was lipstick) but with rose petals which was why the rose petals brush off their lips. Unfortunately, I realized it would probably be way too far-fetched to crossover Sailor Moon with my original take of the Blood anime franchise. You'll still see some crossovers / references to Blood+ and Blood-C in my multicrossover alternate dimension featuring the stories Senshi no Basuke and Solar System Celestial Knights though!

As for the Solar System Celestial Knights, the reason why there are curtains in their transformation sequence is because I had childhood guy friends who I got into Sailor Moon and they dreamt I was Sailor Moon and they were male guardians and our transformation sequence had curtains in it. Our mutual friend said they were probably lying but the visuals of the curtain and their dream still inspired me!