euribear:

seaofserenitysubs:

I feel this is something that is not made clear enough:

Sailor Astarte is the Sailor Soldier for Planet Vulcan!

If she’s the Sailor Guardian for Planet Vulcan why isn’t she called Sailor Vulcan?

Why Sailor Astarte?


For that matter, why Sailor Kakyuu and not Sailor Kinmoku?

Spoilers: 

Sheba Shingetsu Astarte shares a split personality with Phoenician goddess Astarte, Dark Cain enters this body. Vulcan does the same trying to save Sheba from Cain. This influence of Vulcan + Astarte —> Sailor Astarte. Astarte is the dominant personality over both Vulcan and Cain. It’s also there to prevent the audience fro linking Sheba to Vulcan too soon. Astarte herself is unaware of Vulcan as well, only recognising herself as “Tenth Soldier from Behind the Sun”. So “Astarte” makes sense as there’s not many other options. 

At one point in the musical, Sheba asks Usagi if there even a star called “Astarte”, Usagi insists there is but Sheba insists that something is very strange about the situation.

Poor Sheba has four personalities fighting inside her, even more than Hotaru!

Basically what seems to be Sheba vs. Astarte at the start of the show is really Vulcan vs. Cain.

As for Kakyuu, its less clear but Naoko Takeuchi seems to be less interested in matching names to planets at this point (Galaxia, Phi, Chi, Lethe, Mnemosyne, Star Fighter, Star Maker and Star Healer are never referred to as planets either). Maybe Sailor Kinmoku  didn’t sound good or maybe she had some idea about the origin behind the Sailor Starlights and Kakyuu’s unusual names altogether and it never got into the story.

Possibly also because Kakyuu does refer to a planetary object called a “bolide” in English.

(via euribear)