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QUEEN BADIANE:
Anime | Name Origin

SAILOR MOON SUPERS MOVIE

Queen Badiane is the major villain from the Sailor Moon SuperS movie. She is a witch from another world whose plan is to gather all of Earth's children at Marzipannu Castle, and place them in Dream Coffins. Inside the Dream Coffins, the children will sleep forever, enjoying their dreams, and Queen Badiane will use their sugar Dream Energy to nurture her Black Dream Hole, a giant black hole of evil energy. Once the Black Dream Hole is large enough, she will use it to swallow Earth, causing everyone to enter Dream Coffins and confined to eternal sleep, thus taking over the world. In order to complete her plan, she needed assistance. She therefore lied to four faeries: Perle, Poupelin, Orangeat, and Banane, telling them that if the children of the world stayed with her, they would remain children indefinitely and would not be harmed. The four faeries agreed to help her, but Perle later renounced his loyalty to Badiane after befriending ChibiUsa. In order to capture children, Badianne has the faeries play a magical tune on special flutes, causing them to fall into a trance. ChibiUsa is one of the children abducted, and Badiane

discovers that she has an extraordinary amount of energy. She decides to use the girl as a primary source for opening the Black Dram Hole. Perle helps the Sailor Senshi find their way to Marzipannu Castle, where they fight the other faeries, and finally reach Badiane. Badiane is much too powerful for the senshi, but Sailor Moon enters the Black Dream Hole, where she finds herself immediately placed with a Dream Coffin. Luckily, she fights her way out of the illusion and breaks free of the Dream Coffin. Sailor Moon fights her way through the Black Dream Hole to find the unconscious ChibiUsa. Sailor Moon is injured while protecting ChibiUsa, but the light of her Silver Crystal shines out of the Black Dream Hole for the other senshi to see. They then feed their powers to Sailor Moon and Sailor ChibiMoon, who is brought back to conciousness by the other senshi's energy. Sailor Moon and Sailor ChibiMoon then use a combined attack, Moon Gorgeous Meditation, in order to destroy the Black Dream Hole, along with Badiane. Queen Badiane appears only in the SuperS movie. Her seiyuu is Rihoko Yoshida (also known as Rihoko Tamegai). In the Materials Collection, Naoko Takeuchi states that star anise are attached all over Badiane's body as accessories, even as earrings. Ms. Takeuchi also says that "her hair has the image of twisted bread. On her chest, the star anise and wings are attached directly to her skin. Her hair and skirt are pitch black."

NAME ORIGIN

According to the Materials Collection, the romanization of Badiane's name is literally "Badianu."

is what we see in the Materials Collection. "Badianu" is the Japanese approximation of the French word "Badiane," meaning "Star Anise." A word meaning "Star Anise" makes sense as Badiane's name. In the Materials Collection, it tells us that "the idea is star anise," and says that star anise are attached all over her body as accesories. It says that they are attached directly to her skin, and that she wears star anise earrings.

Star Anise (Illicium verum) is an exotic spice that is the fruit of an evergreen tree of the magnolia family. It is native to China and Vietnam, though today is grown almost exclusively in southern China, Indo-China, and Japan. It was introduced into Europe in the seventeenth century. It is used most often in Chinese cooking in sweets, but is also sometimes used as a substitute for European aniseed. It is shaped like a star, and has between five and ten points, but has an average of eight points. The hard sections are seed pods. It can grow up to 3cm long. The fruit is picked before it ripens, and dried. It is a red, rust colour and it has a liquorice-like flavour.