The Discovery of Sailorjupiter

Kino Makoto made an impressive first appearance, saving Tsukino Usagi (a.k.a. Sailormoon) from a couple of mean-looking bastards by beating them up. The display of superb physical strength left Usagi and Luna quite speechless. It's not everyday you see a 14-year old girl beating bulky adults senseless, right? As it turned out, Kino Makoto recently transferred to Juuban High, Usagi's school. Despite the rumors Usagi had heard from her friend Umino about Kino-san being "too violent", she befriended the lonesome girl, and said her thanks for saving her earlier.

During this episode, Makoto (not Sailorjupiter) also came across Zoicite (the third general from the Dark Kingdom). Unfortunately, just when she gained the upperhand, Zoicite vanished (only to appear later on, knocking her [still not as Sailorjupiter] off with a force blast to get her out of his way).

Later on, Zoicite finally got what he wanted then he introduced a youma to Sailormoon, ordering the youma to destroy her. Again, Mako-chan enters and saves Sailormoon from being attacked, by tossing the youma into nearby bushes. That was when a planetary sign appeared on her forhead, the symbol of the planet Jupiter. Luna recognized the symbol immediately, and knew that she was the fourth sailor senshi (the last senshi to be discovered, since Artemis had already found Venus a long time ago), Sailorjupiter. She then threw Makoto a green henshin stick, and told her to shout the transformation phrase, "Jupiter power, make-up!". Makoto did, and found herself dressed in a sailor fuku similar to that of Sailormoon's except it was green. Sailorjupiter almost killed the youma, but Luna stopped her in time, explaining that the youma was still human. Sailormoon transformed the youma back into human by way of "Moon Healing Escalation".

Sailorjupiter, the Senshi of Thunder and Lightning

Sailorjupiter was the fourth sailor senshi to be found, and she belongs to the inner group of soldiers (a.k.a. the inner senshi ^^;). When they were recently discovered, they were given the mission to find the Princess Serenity, sole heir to the legendary moon kingdom, which existed a long time ago. When Sailorjupiter and the rest of the inner senshi found out that the Princess was actually Tsukino Usagi, they went on with their original duty, which was to protect the princess with their lives. Sailorjupiter possesses the powers of thunder and lightning. She is quite powerful, her attack power being the strongest among her fellow inner senshi. She has already single-handedly beaten two youma (at the same time), a cardian and a daimon (this is already impressive, considering the fact that usually it is only Sailormoon who defeats the enemy, single-handed). She is physically strong and fit, and is also quite skilled with martial arts combat. She is aggressive, quick-tempered, and easily swayed by her emotions, so sometimes she tends to attack immediately when provoked. She is also protective of her teammates (probably why Neo Queen Serenity called her "the senshi of protection" in the manga).

In the manga, Sailorjupiter was a princess in her own right. She had her own castle, which was known as the Io Castle. Of course, this was before they were reincarnated to Earth. ^_^

Highlights...

She's had her moments. Throughout the series, Sailorjupiter had actually died twice, excluding the time when the sailor senshi in the Moon Kingdom were reincarnated and sent to Earth.

The first time was when she and the rest of the inner senshi (together with Sailormoon) were teleported to the North Pole. They were searching for Queen Beryl's domain, and were determined to defeat her once and for all. Unfortunately, Sailorjupiter was the first to go down, as she tried to save Sailormoon from the deceptive illusion-youma. She was ganged by all five of those "special" (as Beryl would put it) youma. She died, but not until she took down two of them. Since she was bound by her captives, she let out the most powerful blast she could muster with her antenna, and naturally the big explosion caused her own death.

The second one was when Galaxia got their star seeds. This time, it wasn't much dramatic since it was a quickie. Almost all of them, (Mercury, Mars, Venus and Jupiter) died at the same time. And after their star seeds were taken, they simply vanished into thin air.

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