

: Act 12 Beryl is in love with Prince Endymion, but her love is unrequited. īefore the events of Sailor Moon, Beryl is a young girl on Earth during the age of the Silver Millennium. In most versions of the story, Beryl has the ability to corrupt others into her service. Beryl has immense magical power and uses it to channel the life energy harvested by her servants into the entity Queen Metaria. Queen Beryl ( クイン・ベリル, Kuin Beriru), named after the mineral beryl, is the first main antagonist in the Sailor Moon series. Beryl and her cohorts use "nega" as a prefix to show their devotion to wickedness and to underscore their dimension's inherent negativity-e.g. In the DIC Entertainment English adaptation, the Dark Kingdom's name is changed to the " Negaverse", a portmanteau of negative and uni verse. The Four Kings of Heaven is speculated to be based on the buddist gods, The Four Heavenly Kings. Several villains from subsequent arcs follow this pattern of using minerals as namesakes. : Act 11 In some English adaptations, Kunzite's name is changed to Malachite. The names of Queen Beryl and the Four Kings of Heaven are derived from minerals: beryl, jadeite, nephrite, zoisite, and kunzite. The idea was ultimately dropped, but Sailor Venus became part of a new group alongside Sailors Moon, Mercury, Mars, and Jupiter, and instead of fighting the Dark Agency, they fought the Dark Kingdom.

Takeuchi developed the Sailor Moon series and the Dark Kingdom when Codename: Sailor V was first proposed for an anime adaptation. In the final volume of Codename: Sailor V, the Dark Agency is revealed to be a subset of the Dark Kingdom, which leads to the beginning of Sailor Moon. The Dark Kingdom is first referenced in Naoko Takeuchi's Codename: Sailor V, which features Sailor Venus as the main character, who confronts a group of villains called the Dark Agency. In each variation of the series, the characters-led by Queen Beryl-attempt to steal life energy from humans and the Silver Crystal so they can release the evil Queen Metaria, who was imprisoned by Queen Serenity during the destruction of the Moon Kingdom during the Silver Millennium period. In some English adaptations, the Dark Kingdom's title was changed to Negaverse. They are the chief villains of the first story arc in every version of the series, and were first introduced in the first chapter of the manga, "Usagi – Sailor Moon", originally published in Japan's Nakayoshi on 28 December 1991. The Dark Kingdom ( ダーク・キングダム, Dāku Kingudamu) is a group of fictional characters in the Sailor Moon manga series by Naoko Takeuchi. Sailor Moon chapter #1: Usagi – Sailor Moon (December 1991) Middle column: Queen Metaria (background), Queen Beryl. The Dark Kingdom as depicted in the first anime adaptation.
