Amazon Trio

The Amazon Trio is a set of fictional antagonists in the anime series Sailor Moon SuperS and the corresponding manga. The three members are a subset of the villains called the Dead Moon Circus.

The three members, Tiger's Eye, Hawk's Eye and Fish Eye are named after gemstones of the same respective names.

In the anime, the trio summons lemures—spirits of the dead—from the shadows to help them fight. In the English adaptation lemures are renamed dreamless; this is probably an honest mistake as the Japanese pronunciation could signify either word.

Tiger's Eye

Tiger's Eye takes the form of a long haired blond man. He wears tight pants and a white top. Even in the original Japanese version, he counts to three in english when attacking. His attacks use a whip as his primary weapon and primarily targeted "younger" women.

In the 'Sailor Moon SuperS Manga', Tiger's Eye was killed by Sailor Mars, moments after she powered up into her 'super' form. He had attempted to pollute her with negative thoughts in order to take her energy whilst she was investigating a mysterious 'hall of mirrors'. He was destroyed in the blast from her new attack, Mars Flame Sniper.

Voice Actors:

• Japanese: Ryotaro Okiayu
• English: Lyon Smith
• German: Oliver Mink ("Tiger Auge")
• Spanish: Yamil Atala ("Ojo de Tigre")

Hawk's Eye

Hawk's Eye takes the form of a man with bright red hair, a toga, and tights. Hawk's Eye usually wears gray, and he likes to attack adult women and he often gets into fights with Tiger's Eye. His attacks are firebased.

In the 'Sailor Moon SuperS Manga', Hawk's Eye was killed by Sailor Jupiter, moments after she powered up into her 'super' form. He was destroyed in the blast from her new attack - Jupiter Oak Evolution

Voice Actors:

• Japanese: Toshio Furukawa
• English: Benji Plener
• German: Kai Taschner ("Falkenauge")
• Spanish: Benjamin Rivera ("Ojo de Aguila").

Fish Eye

Fish Eye takes the form of a slender sea-green haired man. Like Tiger and Hawk Eye, he targeted his ideal romantic interests, which are young males. His attack is knife throwing.

Manga

The plotline of the manga is quite different and does not involve a Dream Mirror arc. Fish Eye has a very small part, tempting Ami Mizuno in a trap. He and the other members of the Amazon Trio are eventually transformed back into animals. Fish's purported whereabouts are in Mamoru Chiba's fishtank.

Anime

Fish Eye appears in the fourth Sailor Moon series (SuperS), and is an extremely effeminate, young (physically) man who is assigned to work with Tiger Eye and Hawk Eye under the auspices of Zirconia, the main operative of the Dead Moon Circus. Their assignment is to find out who in the city is the host of Pegasus, by capturing and searching through their Dream Mirrors, a sort of physical manifestation of a person's mind. While most of the prospective targets are female, occasionally, a male pops up.

Fish Eye is quite blantantly gay and very effeminate. However, unusual for the character archetype, he exclusively speaks with Japanese masculine pronouns such as boku when referring to himself, unless he is in disguise. Unlike his cohorts who are rather machismo, Fish Eye seems to nurse a paradoxical genuine affection for victims (or at least a childish crush) until they give him the amusing and inevitable brush-off. This included the kindly Chiba Mamoru, whom he attacked but was subsequently eager to release afterwards.

Fish Eye is also the first of the three to wonder if what they are doing is right, and his wavering loyalty lands him in hot water and is nearly killed by his boss. Midway through the series, he and the others are sublimated into Pegasus' world and given the promise of rebirth as real humans.

Anime, English Adaptation

Fish Eye was apparently changed to a woman which is not unprecedented within this adapted series: Zoisite and Zirconia also had their genders changed. However, 'her' voice seemed to waver between effeminacy and boyishness, and the tv version of the dub slightly edited a fairly noticeable scene where Fish Eye is seen without a shirt—placing the chest off-camera. In the uncut DVD, the many references to Fish Eye as "she" are retained. However, the scenes showing the character as a shirtless man are still shown.

Voice Actors:

• Japanese: Akira Ishida
• English: Deborah Drakeford
• German: Simone Brahmann ("Fisch Auge")
• Spanish: Vicky Burgoa ("Ojo de Pez").

Anime vs. Manga

Rather than being killed by the Sailor Soldiers like in the manga, the Amazon Trio share a different fate in the anime.

When Zirconia finally reveals to them their true natures (that of animals), Fish Eye fears particularly of their fate and questions why they do not possess dream mirrors like humans. Fish Eye's change is perspective was attributed to the kindness of Usagi after Fish Eye was rejected by Mamoru and also with the discovery that ChibiUsa was the holder of the Golden Dream Mirror, which housed the dream Pegasus (Helios) hid himself in.

Fish Eye's insolence nearly costs the life of the Amazon Trio, however, because Zirconia reads Fish Eye's memory and mistakenly believes Usagi is the holder of the Golden Dream Mirror, Zirconia sends Hawk Eye to steal the mirror. Fish Eye and Tiger Eye follow to stop Hawk Eye while Zirconia plans to have the trio eliminated as soon as Usagi's mirror is revealed.

The Lemures sent by Zirconia shatters Usagi's dream mirror before Hawk Eye has a chance to restore it to Usagi's body. Hawk Eye ends up dying for Fish Eye and gives her the power Zirconia granted him to stay human like so that they may finish off the Lemures. Fish Eye and Tiger Eye use the power to resurrect Usagi, realizing she is Sailor Moon, and also summon ChibiUsa, believing that the pair are the only ones who can grant them beautiful dreams and also avenge Hawk Eye.

Usagi and ChibiUsa, as Sailor Moon and Sailor ChibiMoon, defeat the Lemures, but is it too late for either of them to do anything for the Amazon Trio, who have reverted to their animal forms. Pegasus/Helios, summoned by ChibiUsa, grants them dream mirrors, knowing that the trio have suffered greatly and have truly changed for the better. Though they cannot retain their current forms and are taken away by Pegasus/Helios to the Crystal Forest, he promises that one day they will be reborn with their beautiful dreams intact.

References

1. Sailor Moon SuperS (TV_. Anime News Network. Retrieved 2005-02-06.