The other times the Kodansha TV picture books more simplified tellings of the 90's anime's stories actually made improvements.
1. The final four episodes of the Nemesis arc in R are condensced and combined into a single book, and while that itself makes the whole thing way less epic, the book does better with Dimande's death than the anime did. Usagi pleads with Black Lady, Saphir, and Dimande, who are on the scene with Wiseman attacking them in present day Earth, and when Saphir and Dimande start to realize they're being used, Wiseman cheap shots them both, killing them on the spot. In having both brothers get the Saphir treatment, Dimande doesn't get his dramatic deathbed repentence, and good riddance.
2. The book adapting the 21st and 22nd episodes of S has Super Sailor Moon destroying Eudial with the Holy Grail. A significantly better way for her to go out than a car wreck due to snails in the car.
3. In the final S book, Mistress 9 breaks the Holy Grail and uses its power to summon Master Pharaoh 90 to Earth, and rather than taking his sweet time actually making impact, he shows up right there and then, torturing the Sailor Senshi with his power and directly attacking Sailor Moon when she tries to stand against him. Moreover, when Sailor Saturn appears, the original conclusion of only her taking a self-destructing Pharaoh 90 back to the Tau Galaxy and being blown up along with him, with Messiah Usagi restoring everything and reincarnating Hotaru as an infant afterwards, is restored. And the story stops right at Usagi doing her Messiah thing, so we're spared the petulant bullshit from Uranus and Neptune that followed.
