Sailor Venus
Sailor Mars is a female anime and manga character who features in Sailor Moon.
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Biography
Minako Aino (Japanese: 愛野 美奈子, Hepburn: Aino Minako)
She was awakened as a Sailor Guardian by the white cat Artemis when she is thirteen years old and instructed that she has a duty to become the beautiful warrior, Sailor V. Artemis explains that Venus and Earth are "twin planets" of about the same size and weight, that Venus is her "mother star," and that she must protect Earth from its enemies. He shows her Magellan Castle orbiting around Venus and says that it is hers, although the existence of these castles is not revealed to the other Sailor Guardians.
As a result of her past battles, when Minako meets the other Sailor Guardians she has a relatively serious personality and is very focused on their mission as a Sailor Guardian.
She even tells them she is the princess they have been searching for, although in fact she is merely serving as a decoy to protect the real princess, Usagi. Throughout the first story arc she has by far the strongest memories of their past life during the time of Silver Millennium
Overview
Personality and attributes
Minako is depicted as athletic, friendly, romantic, resilient, and intelligent. She is also seen as graceful, clever, and refined at times.
Minako's other greatest love is pop culture. She desperately wants to be an idol, and so makes a hobby of chasing them and attending auditions in acting, dancing, and singing whenever possible. She takes her role as the 'Guardian of Love' literally, and enjoys regaling friends and acquaintances with advice about romance. Despite her declared expertise, Minako herself has little personal experience in relationships but is enthusiastic about romantic opportunities.
Powers and abilities
Minako is supernaturally strong, being able to wield a heavy sword with just one hand, and jumping from the ground to the top of a building. Minako is as strong as Makoto, probably even more than her, and like Sailor Mars, Minako also has large experience in hand-to-hand combat.
Despite this, like the other Sailor Guardians, she must transform in order to gain access to her special powers. To transform into Sailor Venus, she must first raise a special device into the air and shout a special phrase, originally "Venus Power, Make-up!". As she becomes more powerful and obtains new transformation devices, this phrase changes to evoke Venus Star, Planet, or Crystal Power.
She had at her possession a number of techniques that included:
- Crescent Beam (クレッセント・ビーム, Kuressento Biimu) : aiming her compact at a target, a flash of light would then emit from it that projected a streak of light that could kill or wound an enemy.
- Venus Love-Me Chain (ヴィーナス・ラブ・ミー・チェーン, Bu~īnasu Rabu Mī Chēn) : a chain of light was created where each link was shaped as a heart that she could send after a target.
- Sailor V Kick (セーラーV・キック, Seeraa Bui Kikku) : a physical high kick similar to the Sailor Moon Kick.
- Venus Wink Chain Sword (ヴィーナス・ウインク・チェーン・ソード, Bu~iinasu Uinku Cheen Soudo) :
- Venus Love and Beauty Shock (ヴィーナス・ラブ・アンド・ビューティ・ショック, Bu~iinasu Rabu ando Byuuti Shokku) :
- Venus Love and Galactica Shock (ヴィーナス・ラブ・アンド・ギャラクティカ・ショック, Bu~iinasu Rabu Ando Gyarakutika Shokku) :
Notes
- Sailor Venus was created by Naoko Takeuchi where she featured in the setting of the Sailor Moon universe.
- In the transition between the Sailor V and Sailor Moon series, Minako's basic character design did not change— in fact, creator Naoko Takeuchi has written that the concept of Minako has barely changed at all from the first moment she created. The magazine that serialized Sailor V, Run-Run, intended to produce an OVA based on the character but went bankrupt before it could happen, so Minako was relegated to the sidelines as one of Sailor Moon's costars, to Takeuchi's regret.
In other media
Television
Musicals
Appearances
- Sailor Moon:
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