His loyalty to Endymion is such that he offers his own life in exchange for the Prince's, and when Queen Beryl asks for Usagi's life instead, Zoisite sets out to kill her.
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In some English adaptations of the anime, Zoisite's gender was changed from male to female in order to make their relationship more socially acceptable for the 1990s, when very few homosexual couples were portrayed in the media.
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Sara Roncero-Menendez from " The Huffington Post " stated that the homosexual relationship between Zoisite and Kunzite in the first anime adaptation was censored in the English versions by changing Zoisite's gender from male to female.
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Sara Roncero-Menendez from " The Huffington Post " stated that the homosexual relationship between Zoisite and Kunzite in the first anime adaptation was censored in the English versions by changing Zoisite's gender from male to female.
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Zoisite was briefly revived near the end of the " Dark Kingdom " arc and was able to remember the Golden Kingdom and his time as a military officer of Prince Endymion before being turned into the stone from which his name was derived.
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In 1993, " Animage " made a male anime character popularity poll, in which Zoisite was the tenth most popular, and Nephrite was the joint seventeenth, tying with a character from " Zettai Muteki Raijin-Oh ".
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Scientifically called " blue zoisite ", the gemstone was renamed as tanzanite by Tiffany & Co ., who wanted to capitalize on the rarity and single location of the gem, and thought that " blue zoisite " ( which might be pronounced like " blue suicide " ) wouldn't sell well.
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Scientifically called " blue zoisite ", the gemstone was renamed as tanzanite by Tiffany & Co ., who wanted to capitalize on the rarity and single location of the gem, and thought that " blue zoisite " ( which might be pronounced like " blue suicide " ) wouldn't sell well.
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The first official " Sailor Moon " character popularity poll ranked Zoisite as the twentieth most popular character, Kunzite was the twenty third, Nephrite was twenty fourth, Jadeite was twenty sixth, Endou was twenty ninth, Beryl was thirtieth and Queen Metaria was thirty fourth, out of thirty eight choices.
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Among accessory minerals, in addition to apatite, zircon, and iron oxides, the following may be mentioned : hornblende ( not common ), riebeckite ( rare ), epidote and zoisite, calcite, sphene, andalusite, sillimanite, kyanite, hercynite ( a green spinel ), rutile, orthite and tourmaline.
