Japanese Name:Tomoe Hotaru
Chinese Name: Ah Yeng (Firefly)
Name Meaning: Firefly spouting from the Earth/Earth Sprouting Firefly -
Firefly (A meaningful name): Fireflies, in a certain folk tradition, are souls of the dead. There is a popular song in Japan, "Hotaru no Hikari," which is a song used usually in farewell. Perhaps the image of the firefly's light as farewell could be the inspiration for Hotaru's name, or the folk belief. As the senshi of silence, her appearance marks an ending to the present world. The firefly can be a symbol for spiritual illumination. In Japan, they are also a symbol for environmental conservation and they have a ghostly significance. In ancient days , they were thought to have medicinal qualities.
Senshi: Sailor Saturn
Silent Senshi of Destruction
Blood type: AB
Height: 4'7" (approx.)
Birthdate: 6 January- her birthdate has quite a meaning to it. Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun and January is named after the Roman god Janus, who was the god of beginnings and endings.
Age: 12(Super series), but her age varies in Sailor Stars series and grows rapidly until she had finally reawoken
Astrology sign: Capricorn- ruled by the planet Saturn
Favourite Colour : Purple- one of the sign's colours
Favourite subject:World History
Least favourite subject: Physical Education
Dream: To become a Nurse
Strong Points: healing and injury treatment
Favourite food: Nihon Soba (Japanese noodles)
Least favourite food: milk - this also shows why Hotaru is small and frail. She doesn't drink a lot of milk which contains a lot calcium.
Hobbies: Collecting lamps and dolls
Favourite gemstone: fluorite- associated with Capricorn. Purple fluorite can represent protection, intuition, and health. In Japanese the stone is called 'hotaruishi'
Has trouble with: marathons- basically because of her weak body
First Appearance: The super series, at the end of Episode 111
Lives with: with her father in a mansion (in super series) and with the OuterSenshi in the Sailor Stars series
Family members:Her father Tomoe Souichi (Professor Tomoe)and her deceased mother Keiko (only known in the manga). In the Stars Series, Haruka, Michiru, and Setsuna acts as her parents while looking after her.
Japanese Voice Actress: Minaguchi Yuko
Status: The Goddess of Death, Messiah of Silence (proved to be Mistress 9), Soldier of Death and Rebirth, Senshi of Silence, Melancholic Fighter, Sacrificing Soldier.
These are the forms of Hotaru in the manga: Princess Saturn, Sailor Saturn, Super Sailor Saturn, Eternal Sailor Saturn, and Queen Saturn
In the anime:
(Super series) we only see Sailor Saturn in 1 episode, when she finally awakens in the third last episode-in the Super Series at the last battle of the Death Busters. Because of whom Sailor Saturn is, the forbidden soldier of silence and ruin that should never awaken, she is not seen much. Saturn is the soldier of death, silence, ruin, and melancholy, having the power that could destroy the world (however at the cost of her life). That was why the Outer Senshi were desperate to destroy her, because they thought if she had awoken, it would mean the end of the world.
Sailor Saturn's transformation:
Because Sailor Saturn isn’t shown much in the whole series, (which she only appears one episode of the Super and a few in the Stars Series), they didn’t bother making any transformation for her; well at least it was never shown in the anime. In a playstation game, a video clip of her transformation was made.
Weapon: Silence Glaive (Silence Scythe, Glaive of Death, Scythe of the Goddess of Death, Messiah Galive) She uses this weapon to carry out her attacks.
Here are Sailor Saturn’s attacks:
1. Silent Wall- She raises her glaive and creates a force field to protect herself and others from danger. This defensive attack came really useful, and saved the senshi a few times in the episodes of Sailor Stars.
2. Silence Glaive Surprise- Sailor Saturn gathers power within her glaive and raise it above her head; then slam it down to the ground. After a few moment of silent, it creates a devastating blast; creating huge explosions. She only uses this attack once, against Queen Neherenia in the Stars Series, but Sailor Chibimoon stops her from completing the whole attack, saying that she doesn’t want Hotaru to give her life up.
3. Death Reborn/Ribbon Revolution- Sailor Saturn either points her glaive to her opponent or raises it and millions of millions of black ribbons appear from her glaive and entrap her opponent tearing him to pieces as well as the planet if she wants and even killing herself. It was said that it was one of her most powerful attack. She uses this attack against Pharaoh 90 in the last battle of the Death Busters (but was not actually shown as Sailor Saturn jumped into Pharaoh 90's force field)! This attack isn’t shown in the anime, but in the manga.
In the Manga Series, she is turned evil by Galaxia and becomes Sailor Galactica Saturn. She gains different attacks but are on the basis of her original attacks. Here's a pictureof one from the manga.
The meaning is not definite, 'Hotaru' means firefly and 'To'(in Tomoe) is like the soil. The Japanese name for Saturn is Do-sei ('Do' is the same character as 'To'), which means Earth Planet. Earth is the fifth Asian element, and the one ascribed to the planet Saturn.