Phobos
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| Name: | Phobos |
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| Name (kanji/kana): | フォボス |
| Alignment: | Moon Kingdom |
| Species: | Crow (anime, PGSM, musicals); shapeshifting humanoid from the planet Coronis (manga, Crystal) |
| Gender: | Female |
| Lives: | Hikawa Shrine |
| Occupation: | N/A |
| Family: | Deimos (twin; manga and Crystal) |
| Associates: | Rei Hino/Sailor Mars, Sailor Lead Crow (manga and Crystal only) |
| Aliases: | None |
| First Anime Appearance: | Cursed Buses! Fire Senshi Mars Appears |
| First Manga Appearance: | Act 3 Rei SAILORMARS |
| First PGSM Appearance: | Act 3 - The Third Senshi is Miko Rei |
| English Name: | Phobos |
| Actors: | Kanami Taguchi |
Phobos and Deimos were Rei Hino's guardian crows, named for the two moons of Mars.
In the anime, Phobos and Deimos were two crows that lived at the Hikawa Shrine. They seemed to have some ability to sense evil, and would attack those who threatened Rei.
In the manga and Sailor Moon Crystal, Phobos and Deimos had a much larger role. The two of them could assume human form, and did much more to help Rei. In Act 41 and Sailor Moon Eternal, they gave her the Mars Crystal, allowing her to transform into Super Sailor Mars. In Act 52 and Sailor Moon Cosmos, they encountered Sailor Lead Crow, whom they knew from their home planet of Coronis, where they all trained together before Phobos and Deimos were chosen to become companions of Sailor Mars. They were killed by Lead Crow, who took their Star Seeds.
Phobos and Deimos were almost identical in their humanoid forms, with the only difference being the color of their clothing. In the artbook Original Picture Collection Volume IV, Phobos was in purple clothing and Deimos in red, but in Original Picture Collection Volume V, the colors were reversed. In Sailor Moon Eternal, the twin wearing red introduced herself to Rei as Phobos, but according to the subtitles of the Japanese Sailor Moon Cosmos Blu-ray as well as the visual book released along with that movie, Phobos was the one who wore purple.
In the live-action series, Phobos and Deimos only appeared once, as CG crows in Act 3.
In the musical Sailor Moon S - Usagi Ai no Senshi e no Michi, Death Ru disguised himself as Phobos in order to trick Ami. In that musical, it was implied that Phobos and Deimos were just crows.
Mythology[edit]
In Greek mythology, Phobos and Deimos were the embodiments of fear and terror, respectively. They were twin brothers and the sons of Ares, the Greek equivalent of the Roman war god Mars.
Trivia[edit]
- A popular misconception among fans was that Phobos and Deimos were Sailor Senshi, specifically of the namesake moons of Mars. However, they both came from the planet Coronis and its only Sailor Senshi was Sailor Coronis; they were never referred to as "Sailor" in canon, and neither was stated to possess a Sailor Crystal.
- In the English dub of Sailor Moon Cosmos, Sailor Lead Crow claimed Phobos and Deimos were gifted those moons and that she was "a Sailor Guardian, the same as [them]." The twins did not explicitly object, but stated that "[t]he only one on Koronis who is a Sailor Guardian is Sailor Koronis."
