WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Sailor Moon Eternal: The Movie, at present available on Netflix.

Sailor Moon Eternal: The Movie is streaming on Netflix, which adapts the entire Dream arc of Naoko Takeuchi'sPretty Guardian Sailor Moon manga in two feature-length films. New villains go far on the scene and the Sailor Guardians return to take them on, including the Outer Guardians first introduced in Sailor Moon Crystal Flavour iii. In addition to preparing for battle against Queen Nehelenia and the Dead Moon Circus, the movie also gives a glimpse into what their lives take been similar since defeating Principal Pharoah 90 in Season 3.

Sailors Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and Saturn are the Outer Guardians, who protect the solar system from conflicting threats. Without any aliens threatening the Earth in the vi months following their first battle, the Outer Guardians simply carried on with their usual lives. Uranus (Haruka Tenoh) participated in a car race in Africa, Neptune (Michiru Kaioh) held a violin concert in Vienna and Pluto (Setsuna Meioh) continued working as a scientific researcher in the field of physics.

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In betwixt their day jobs, the Outers also committed to raising their youngest fellow member -- baby Saturn (Hotaru Tomoe) -- which they symbolized by wearing hope rings. Though the three older Outer Guardians reasoned this was all it was, for Haruka and Michiru, raising baby Hotaru may not be all in that location is to information technology. After all, they were already a couple at the start of CrystalSeason iii.

Little is known about how Haruka and Michiru met, simply it was established early on that they were a well-known romantic couple in Japan. Haruka -- who is non-binary -- was frequently idea of every bit "Michiru'due south boyfriend" which they never denied. Very early on in Crystal, they were shown to ever get places together, and when alone in their apartment, they were shown to be quite intimate with each other. Fast frontwards to Eternal, and the couple are shown to accept taken their relationship to the next level.

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1 of the first things residents of Tokyo's Juban district discover is that Haruka and Michiru take been wearing matching rings for six months. It's immediately assumed that they married at some indicate, which their public display of amore seems to confirm while they're out shopping. On peak of that, Haruka at one betoken communicates to Michiru that diapers and other baby supplies are on sale, prompting Michiru to remind Haruka that their "lilliputian princess had already graduated from those a long while ago." This alone shows that they've started behaving more like spouses, which is farther supported by their domestic life.

Haruka and Michiru alive together in a small manor with Setsuna, who co-parents Hotaru with them. When Hotaru talks to her new legal guardians, she always refers to them every bit "Haruka-papa," "Michiru-mama" and "Setsuna-mama," indicating the roles they've taken on. In practice, Haruka and Michiru practise take on the more traditional father and mother roles, with Haruka functioning as "the cool dad" Hotaru likes spending fourth dimension with.

Though they may only admit the promise rings symbolize their commitment to raising Hotaru, it's as well pretty articulate through their actions that the rings symbolize much more than that. For the iii older Outer Guardians, the rings symbolize a commitment to alive together as a family. For Haruka and Michiru, it's also a commitment to each other as a romantic couple, indicating how much their relationship has evolved.

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