So what do you think of how Usagi is being portrayed in the Black Moon arc so far?
I haven’t really had any bigger change of opinion. I like that they’re finally making her emote more and embrace more of her quirky, fun sides. And the fact that she’s not obsessing over Mamoru while shitting on her friends every episode like in the last arc makes her a lot more tolerable.
That being said, the changes Crystal made to the original script are once again biting them in the ass, because by making Usagi react like this to the mere suggestion that Mamoru could be their enemy
ends up making this
look extremely hypocritical. As for Usagi’s jealousy and hostility towards Chibiusa, which I know has always annoyed a lot of people, I’ve never really minded it myself, it made sense to me. What bothers me more is that when Mamoru was kidnapped, we had to sit through episodes of nothing but Usagi moping and crying, but when her friends are being kidnapped one by one, we get one or two minutes of Usagi looking sad, then going back to bickering with Chibiusa, having fun at the arcade, and just seeming completely carefree. It really doesn’t help the already dreadful portrayal of the friendship between the inners.
So yeah, Crystal Usagi is still shit, but I suppose now she’s more like… the shit you can dodge and easily pass by on the street, rather than the shit that sticks to the bottom of your shoe and you end up having to scrape off.