52 Days of BSSM - Act 8 - Minako/Mina - Sailor V

[Phoenix]

And finally, Sailor Venus makes her debut. It's clear that elements of
this act (and at least part of the next one) were used for the pivotal
episode 34 where they climb to the top of Tokyo Tower. TK shows up
just in time to catch SM when she is knocked from the tower by Kunzite
and then SM passionately kisses TK in response. Now this is the way a
kiss should happen.

Mixxzine was a mixed bag. It appears that they will use Endymion for
Darien's Silver Millennium name instead of Prince Darien or King of
the Earth as DiC did. However, they continue to have Usagi/Bunny use
Darien instead of coming up with a nickname for him as she did in the
original. At the end, TK throws himself in front of SM and takes the
blast from Kunzite intended for her. In the anime, it was Zoisite who
attacked Mamoru/Darien as Kunzite stood by and stared at the 7
recovered crystals.

For the publishing/airing of this particular sequence, the dates were
as follows:

Manga 9/92
Anime 11/92

Note: The English publication of this story appeared in Mixxzine's
first monthly single. They had a special release of this issue at the
1998 San Diego Comic Con of which I was fortunately enough to get a
copy.

Phoenix ;{)