Sailormoon Neo: Afterword
By: Janelle Jimenez (miaka@bishounen.org)
Official Webpage: http://www.sailormoon-millennia.net/ [http://bishounen.org/smmillennia/]

3/1/99

Well, my friends, that's the conclusion of Sailormoon Neo, my second
fanfic (and what seems to be the most beloved.)

Writing SMNeo was a pleasure, but often times a pain. 
However, there was nothing more thrilling than knowing 
that people loved what you did for relaxation.
It's been great fun for me to create these characters and have them run
around a prefabricated world. 

A common question asked is among fans was, "Why are all your characters
either weak or not dedicated to the team? Why is it that the only ones
who are [Mercury and Saturn] are the ones that are hardest to work with?"

Well, the answer is I love the idea of antiheroes. I'm disgusted by cookie-
cutter characters who are perfect and have only slight imperfections. Normal
people are not this way. Hence, we have the ultimate antihero, Shino Seishi.
She's the saviour of all, but she's in no way perfect...one may even say she's
borderline evil. We have characters like Neo V who aren't confident with
themselves, who hate themselves. They're all pretty screwed up, if you ask me.
No one in this story is perfect, and the more beautiful the character was
in the story, the more problems they had. Except maybe Neo Mars, she was
fairly normal and so was Neo Pluto.

If you haven't already reread Sailormoon Neo, I suggest it. I littered the
entire fanfic with symbolism and foreshadowing for events 15 episodes
later. Certain things I always had planned, like Neo Sailorsaturn dying,
so you'll see alot of allusions to that. You may also catch puns, like 
Kasumi looking at Romeo & Juliet. You may also catch a few mistakes and 
paradoxes ^^;
Perhaps the greatest pun is that the fanfic is split up into two parts
called SEI & SHI which stuck together is SEISHI. Interesting, isn't that? :)
Kind of symbolizes how the true Messiah wasn't who you'd expect it to be...

Also, Sailormoon Zodiac is being rewritten and Sailormoon Genesis is going to be
out in April 9, 1999. So for you die-hard fans, don't worry...that's ONLY a month ;_;

There's also several people out there who REALLY REALLY loved the Neo Senshi,
so much they're writing spin-off stories about them...maybe that would
interest you?

It actually rather saddens me that the fic is over, I grew to really love Seishi
and Kasumi as if they were real anime characters or real manga characters.
Maybe I'll write a short OVA about them...or maybe I'll write a little movie that
takes place between Sei & Shi.

Well, I don't have anything left to say, except thank you for the very
bottom of my heart for reading all 26 episodes of 
Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon Neo. :)

--Janelle Jimenez
miaka@bishounen.org