Hate Mamoru? Let's see if the truth can change
that!
Mamoru/Darien is the one character that got totally trashed in the making
of the anime. Because of the
many changes made to his personality,
and
changes to his age
from 17 to 19, people who only know the anime hate his
character and
have even
gone so far as to wish that Usagi would dump him and go for someone else.
Such ideas and thoughts
are ill-based. As you will learn throughout this shrine, the original
manga Mamoru was everything
a girl would want - gorgeous, sexy, loving, not to
mention powerful and smart! This shrine is here to teach you the truth
about Chiba Mamoru/Darien Shields and all the information you see is based
on the original manga, notes from Naoko Takeuchi's artbooks and her
speeches and conversations at conventions.
So ya think you know Mamoru?
Years
ago Naoko Takeuchi created her vision of the ideal man and made him
the male hero of her story
Sailor Moon. Later, animators took her story and animated it, taking her
ideal man and changing
him into many things a girl doesn't
want - for example, they made
Mamoru break up with his soulmate, Usagi, but the
break up never
happened in the manga! This was something the
animators made up to create more angst, more episodes, more of a tear-jerker storyline. Read the original Manga Translations to know the real story of Sailor Moon. They also took away his powers
and gave him a rose, making rose attacks his power. This is such a joke.
As you will learn in Phases of the Earth section,
Mamoru is extremely powerful, with skills and attacks just like any other
senshi/scout.
Mamoru/Tuexedo Kamen *IS* Sailor Earth
This shrine is named Earth Soldier because Mamoru/Tuxed Kamen is the
"senshi of the earth".
Technically, he is NOT a senshi, but at the same time he is. All senshi
have a starseed,
a sailor crystal that controls their planet. Mamoru is the only one with
the Golden Crystal - his star seed
crystal - which we learn in both
the
manga, and the anime, is what controls Earth. Sailor Galaxia in the anime,
when she kills Tuxedo Kamen says "At last! I have
the starseed that
controls the Earth!".
So even though Mamoru cannot be a senshi (because he is a man and only
females can be senshi as Naoko said) he is still the Earth's guardian and is thus,
loosely, "Sailor Earth."
This is just the tip of the iceberg
This section of Earth Soldier is devoted to Mamoru
the man. Click the images on the sides to learn of his Childhood, of how he found
himself or check out the Anime Mamoru
Defense which shows you that even though he got changed around in the
anime, he is still a GREAT guy and Mamoru is Mamoru no matter what!
Lastly, check out Whatta Man! - a section
devoted to how GORGEOUS Mamoru is in the manga with tons of images!
