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To celebrate the new season of the Sailormoon anime a character album was released with poems, prologues, and image songs by the three new characters: Neptune, Uranus, and Chibi-usa. Haruka and Michiru express their love for each other in their prologues *thankfully* translated by Alex Glover. Text and .ogg files provided by Sailormusic.net


prologue: haruka

// Download Prologue - Scene I: Haruka, Kawaki no tsuisou //

[The phone rings thrice]

"Michiru?"

"There's nobody else who would call at this time."

"I was sleeping!"

"Right now?"

"Iwake Beach will still be there tomorrow and the day after."

"It's an inconvenience."

"Just wait. I'll be there soon."

[Phone disconnects]


Cold... In little light, my planet of isolation makes even myself freeze over. Before I met you, I was a pirate, taking for my own everything I liked in the world that I could see. I was a queen, leading all those around me.

Motorsports. Hang gliding. Basketball. Fencing. Whatever I did, nothing was a match for me. I went along, satisfied with that life. I spent the time convincing myself that I was satisfied.

But... But then... I felt I was really about to break apart. I felt I was going to be crushed by irritation. After I tore off the mask of the daytime, every night in bed I cried out without a voice.

No... This me is not me. It's not the real me! I was but a child, trying to escape my own destiny. Wrapped in a thin blanket, I was a naked child crying.

And then, when I met you, I understood at once. You were that person. You were that person I searched for, and at the same time was afraid of.

You, elegant but having wild eyes... Never turning your eyes from reality, fighting against everything... You taught me that destiny is something you choose yourself.

Like the larva dies and is reborn a butterfly, at that time the cowardly me was killed by you. You, strong and able to keep fighting. And yet... When I'm thinking of you... for some reason... gentle feelings... fill my heart...

[The last sentence uses the word 'michiru', meaning 'to be full', and of course at the same time it refers to the person Haruka is speaking of.]


prologue: michiru

// Download Prologue - Scene II: Michiru, Himeta omoi //

What I dream of is a beach house where I live together with you. A white house on the promontory, where we can always hear the sounds of the waves surging back and forth. What a thought!

But it would have been better if you were a more boring, ordinary person. So then I would live without wanting you. Even if we did happen to meet, I would live without wanting you.

Even when you're with a lot of friends, you're always still alone... I knew about you since I was a child. I've known since I was little that I'd be able to meet my destined one. But that's not the reason I wanted you. Destiny is meaningless to me. I'm not the type to worry about that sort of thing.

Since the darkened sky stole the sun, I can't just leave myself to the current. That's revealed by human nature, I know. Just...

Oh, you're so attractive anyway! *sigh* I wish we hadn't met. I plan to break up with you even now, if you become a boring person. But I know. You won't depend on anyone. You'll always be obedient to your own feelings. And you'll be like that until you die.

So fine! I've decided myself! I'm just running toward what I want. To always be with you, who knows isolation... I've decided that... in my heart.


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