franchise is known for its "outrageous villains" and that the viewers "get plenty of them as the Dead Moon Circus begins to attack the Guardians both mentally and physically." Several reviews focused on Dead Moon's ability to attack the Guardians by exploiting their deepest fears, with Jade Gomez from Paste stating that Zirconia sends the Amazon Trio "to get inside the minds of the Sailors to take them down," Victoria L. Johnson from Polygon describing how the Guardians "are attacked by the Dead Moon Circus, who prey on their false fears and real insecurities," or Arius Raposas from Medium writing that "the original four (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter) ... were tormented by the Dead Moon Circus in their attempt to trim down the forces of Princess Serenity." Michael Mammano from Den of Geek praised the Viz dub cast of John Eric Bentley, Michael Yurchak, and Erik Scott Kimerer as the members of the Amazon Trio. By contrast, Lynzee Loveridge from Anime News Network wrote a less positive review of the film and noted that the Dead Moon Circus is the films' "biggest casualty", which also applies to all previous villains' groups from Sailor Moon Crystal, since the manga did not dedicate time to develop secondary villains like the Amazon Trio. Regarding the Amazoness Quartet, she noted that there is "little distinction between their personalities or powers", and described the final battle against Nehelenia as lacking tension and payoff. However, she "enjoyed how [Nehelenia]'s presence shaped events as far back as season one." References External links Soul Hunter's Lemures Page Nethermoon: Queen Nehelenia Anime and manga characters who use magic Anime and manga supervillains Comics characters introduced in 1995 Fiction about main-belt asteroids Fictional characters with dream manipulation abilities Fictional circus performers Fictional kidnappers Sailor Moon characters