Sailor Galaxia

Sailor Galaxia ( Sr Gyarakushia?) emerges as Sailor Moon's strongest opponent in the manga Stars and in its anime counterpart, Sailor Stars. As such, she serves as the main antagonist in the above-mentioned story arc. As the self-proclaimed "Golden Queen of Shadow Galactica" she directly commands the Sailor Animamates. She is also described as the Soldier of Solitude.[1] She aims to discover all the Sailor Crystals in the universe so that she can rule the universe unopposed. Galaxia's own crystal, the Saffer Crystal, is described as one of the most powerful Sailor Crystals in the galaxy. Its name is Old English for "sapphire,"[2] and the kanji applied to it in the text of the manga are (seikinseki), meaning "lapis lazuli." In the manga, Sailor Galaxia originated alone on a small planet she deemed "trash". She wandered alone until the day her powers awakened. But she had no purpose for herself, and felt that the mere role of a Sailor Senshi did not satisfy her; she craved something and she thought that was power. She left her planet in search of another place which she could call home. During her travels she came upon a bar, Chaos in the form of Wiseman, showed Galaxia what she was looking forthe Galaxy Cauldron. She discovered that in order for her to gain control of the Galaxy Cauldron she had to gather the Sailor Crystals of all the Sailor Soldiers of the galaxy. Those powers combined together with that of Sailor Moon would give her the power to kill Chaos and rule the galaxy. She then created Shadow Galactica and traveled to planet after planet, turning them into places of death and stealing the star-seeds of their guardian Sailor Soldiers. In her first conquest on Earth, she stole Mamoru's golden star-seed right in front of Usagi's eyes; and after that, she and her minions stole the life force of each of the Sailor Soldiers on Earth until only Sailor Moon, Chibichibi and the Sailor Starlights remained. At the Galaxy Cauldron, Galaxia proceeded to battle them, until Chaos tried to kill Galaxia by blasting her off a cliff. Sailor Moon rescued her from falling over the cliff into the cauldron, and Galaxia finally realized that she had always really wanted love, not power. By accepting Sailor Moon's offer of friendship, the bracelets which supplied Galaxia with life and power shattered, and she died with a smile on her face. In the anime, Sailor Galaxia once ranked as the legendarily strongest Sailor Senshi in the universe. The Sailor Wars pitted all of the Sailor Senshi against those who infringed against love and justice. Eventually, the Wars ended when Sailor Galaxia sealed the source of all malice, Chaos, within her body to save the cosmos. However, Chaos began to increase its power while sealed up. Knowing her power put the entire universe at risk, Galaxia expelled her star seed (in the form of Chibichibi) into the rural galaxy of the Milky Way, where the newly born stars of love and justice resided. With that her acts of free will came to an end. Now completely controlled by Chaos, Sailor Galaxia sought to steal all the star seeds in the universe in order to control it for herself in the name of "Star Galaxia". In order to do this, she used the power given to her by Chaos to create a pair of golden bracelets which granted her life and the power to extract the starseeds of many people - including the Sailor senshi of every planet in the universe. During her invasions she also found many living beings from each planet to whom she granted the power of her own bracelets to do the work for her. These living beings became known as the Sailor Animamates. The planets she and the Animamates wrecked included the planet Kinmoku; the

resident Sailor Soldiers and Princess Kakyuu managed to escape destruction and flee to Earth, the last place that Sailor Galaxia had not invaded. In order to enter Earth, Sailor Galaxia first did two things. She broke the seal of Queen Nehelenia in order to force the awakening of the soldier of silence, Sailor Saturn. Galaxia wanted to have Sailor Saturn ready for Galaxia to take all the star seeds of the Solar System. After Nehelenia was defeated by Sailor Moon and she was given a second chance at life, Galaxia began her plan. As Mamoru Chiba was flying to America to begin his studies, Galaxia attacked the airplane he was traveling in and stole his golden star-seed. Once this was done, she sent her Sailor Animamates to find true star-seeds belonging to Sailor Soldiers - in other words, Sailor Crystals. After numerous failures, Galaxia would kill most of her Animamates by force, and eventually confronted the Sailor Soldiers herself. Galaxia first battled Princess Kakyuu, who had recently come out of hiding. While Kakyuu succeeded in holding a barrier against Galaxia for a time, her enemy eventually overpowered and killed her. The Starlights, Guardian Senshi, and Outer Senshi each initiated their own plans of attack. The Starlights confronted Galaxia first, but before the loss of their star seeds the Guardian Senshi teleported in to rescue them. During Galaxia's attempt to steal the star seeds of the Starlights, the Guardian Senshi intervened directly, protecting them from attack and dying so that their starseeds were stolen instead. With the battered Starlights protecting Sailor Moon and Chibichibi, the Outer Senshi confronted Galaxia. Now Galaxia revealed her hand in releasing Nehelenia and forcing Saturn to mature. Galaxia offered the Outer Senshi a chance to serve her in exchange for their starseeds an offer which Uranus and Neptune "accepted", killing Pluto and Saturn and then proceeding to hunt down the Starlights. With their own powers enhanced by Galaxia's power, Uranus and Neptune succeeded in overpowering the Starlights, but turned on Galaxia at the last minute to try to take her starseed. Their attack failed, since Galaxia had no starseed to take, and the last two Outer Sailor Soldiers died. The Starlights engaged in a final battle with Galaxia, teaming up with their attacks and managing to do some damage to her before going down in defeat. Unlike most of the other characters, though, they did not die. Galaxia crushed Sailor Star Fighter's hand and Sailor Star Yell with her heel before the Sailor Soldiers could try another assault, gloating that apart from the five in front of her - the three Starlights, Sailor Moon, and ChibiChibi - every other being in the galaxy had had their starseed removed. Sailor Moon tried to restore her to normal but her attack was stopped when Galaxia broke her scepter. In an attempt to defend the fallen Starlights, Eternal Sailor Moon expelled her starseed, which Sailor Galaxia promptly shattered. At this point ChibiChibi's powers awoke, revealing her as the Light of Hope. She stops Galaxia's attack and restores Sailor Moon's star seed. Sailor Moon learns here that Chibichibi is the re-incarnation of Galaxia's star seed. Sailor Moon with her star seed becomes Princess Serenity and the Light of Hope transforms into the Sword of Sealing, which she asks Serenity to use as a weapon to defeat Galaxia. When Serenity is unwilling to do so, Galaxia shatters the sword and ChibiChibi disappears. Sailor Moon continues to refuse to fight Sailor Galaxia, believing that she still has good inside her. She instead gives Galaxia the strength to expel Chaos from her body, an act which returns darkness to the minds of all life, where it belongs together with the Light of Hope. The battle finally ends: Sailor Galaxia regains her soul and releases the star seeds she had stolen. Galaxia then leaves with the task of returning the star seeds home.

In the Sailor Moon musicals (or Seramyu), Galaxia features prominently in the Sailor Moon Sailor Stars musical and in its revision, the Eien Densetsu musical and in its revision, Shin Densetsu Kourin, Starlights - Ryuusei Densetsu and Kakyuu-Ouhi Kourin. Her musical story is similar to both the anime and manga versions. As in the manga, the final showdown with Galaxia often occurs in the Galaxy Cauldron. As in the anime, Uranus and Neptune pretend to betray the others to work for Galaxia. Note that Chibichibi doesn't factor into the Sailor Moon Sailor Stars musical at all, but appears in all the other stories. Galaxia generally employs fewer Animamates in the musicals than in either the manga or anime. Several times she resurrects Queen Beryl to work for her along with either Beryl's four generals or in one case the Amazon Trio. Depending on the musical's story, Galaxia is either the final or penultimate enemy the Senshi must defeat. In Eien Densetsu, Galaxia is successfully purged of evil and sacrifices herself to help the Senshi destroy Chaos, who had been posing as a low-ranking minion. In another, Galaxia becomes Sailor Chaos.[citation needed] In yet another version of the ending, Beryl will become Queen Metaria and fight alongside Sailor Chaos, forcing the Senshi to defeat them both.[3] In the anime, Mitsuko Horie voiced Galaxia.[4] In the stage musicals, four different actresses have portrayed her: Saori Sara, Tamami Matsumoto, Takemi, and Yumie Sakaguchi. Matsumoto stated that she greatly enjoyed the role: "ordering people around and being above others is such a great feeling".[5]