| Minako Aino 愛野 美奈子 | |
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| Info | |
| Japanese: | 愛野 美奈子 |
| Romanji: | Aino Minako |
| Aliases: | Sailor V, Sailor Venus, Super Sailor Venus |
| Personal | |
| Residency: | London, England (former) Shiba Koen, Minato ward, Tokyo; Japan (current) |
| Occupation(s): |
Student, Sailor Senshi |
| Relationships: |
Mother |
| Associates: |
Solar Syetem Sailor Senshi |
| Alignment: |
Moon Kingdom, Crystal Tokyo |
| Birthdate: | October 22nd (♎) |
| Age: | 14-16 |
| Height: |
157cm (5'2") |
| Gender: | Female |
| Species: | Human |
| Blood Type: | B |
| Likes: | Sports, singing, video games, jokes, curry, ramen, gyoza, cute things, pop-idols |
| Dislikes: | Shiitake mushrooms & math |
| First Appearance | |
| Anime: | Enter Venus, the Last Sailor Guardian |
| Actor(s)/Actress(es) | |
| Anime Voiced By: | Rika Fukami (Japanese) Stephanie Morgenstern (DiC English dub) Emilie Barlow (CWi English dub) Cherami Leigh (Viz Media English dub) |
Minako Aino is the civilian identity of Sailor V and the present-day incarnation of Sailor Venus.
Appearance
Civilian
Minako is a cute and bubbly 14-year-old (15 by the S season, and 16 in Sailor Stars) who originally lived in London. She has blonde hair and blue eyes. She wears a big red bow in her hair. Her Shiba Koen Junior High School uniform includes a white blouse with sailor neckerchief, a red scarf, blue skirt, white socks, and black Mary Jane shoes.
Her most notable casual outfit since both second until the fourth season, she wears a red leather jacket with a light purple shirt and an orange collar, green pleated denim skirt, white socks and sneakers. In one episode, her leather jacket had a minor color change from red to lime green.
In Sailor Stars, she wore the same school uniform as Usagi, Ami, and Makoto since all four of them were attending the same high school. Minako is described to be about 5'2" in height and possibly a bit taller in later seasons.
Sailor Senshi
Sailor V was the first Senshi form Minako could take on. Sailor V was a decoy Senshi form used by Minako in order to fool the Dark Kingdom into thinking that she was the Princess; although it's never mentioned that she was doing this, it is a possibility. She was able to assume this transformation before she joined forces with the rest of the Inner Senshi.
Sailor V's fuku was different than the other Senshi's fuku. In place of a tiara, she wore a red mask, but unlike her manga counterpart, there is no crescent moon on her forehead. Instead of a leotard, she wore a sleeveless midriff shirt with red accents on the sides that sometime revealed her stomach. She wore a white choker with a crescent moon, her collar was navy blue with two red stripes. Her shoulder pads were white, armor-like, shoulder guards, her bow was red while the center of her front bow was orange, and her gloves were like Sailor Venus's: white with orange elbow fittings. Her skirt was blue with a red border, her back bow was blue, her shoes were blue with ankle straps, and her red ribbon from her civilian form was carried over into her Senshi form.
Sailor Venus was the first true Senshi form that Minako was able to transform into (as Sailor V was basically a decoy Senshi). Minako is able to transform into Sailor Venus in the first, R, S, and the first half of the SuperS season in the anime.
As Sailor Venus, she wore the standard Senshi fuku. The dominant color of her fuku was orange while the accent colors were yellow and navy blue. Her choker, collar, the center of her front bow, the elbow fittings on her gloves, skirt, shoes, and earrings were orange; the gem on her tiara and her back bow were yellow and her front bow was navy blue. She had one stripe on her collar, and her shoes were orange heels with ankle straps. Also, her red hair bow from her civilian form was also carried over into her Senshi form.
Super Sailor Venus was the second and final Senshi form Minako was able to transform into. She is able to transform into Super Sailor Venus in the second half of the SuperS season and the Sailor Stars season.
After she gained her "Super" upgrade from Pegasus, her choker had a gold star attached to it, her collar had one stripe, the bottom of her shoulder pads became translucent, her back bow was enlarged and lengthened, the center of her front bow was a heart, and her earrings became a darker color. Also, like her previous Senshi form, her red hair bow was carried over into her Senshi form.
Personality
Minako was a very silly character at times, but she could be more serious; this was especially true in the first season in general, and specifically in episodes 42, 100, and 109 (wherein she worried that she did not have a Pure Heart and tried to prove she was pure hearted in some very bizarre ways). She was also infamous for using mixed up proverbs in the anime, and officially referred to herself as "The Goddess of Love," a title which she used to try to solve others' love woes. Similar to Usagi, she was an academic underachiever, and would refer to Usagi at times as her "make-up tests partner." She was, however, much more athletic than Usagi, especially when it came to volleyball. Minako was shown to be very good in speaking English, since she had lived in London (or at least more so than Rei, Makoto, and Usagi). This was best demonstrated in episode 108, in which she was able to converse with relative fluency in English at the party. Although all students in Japan are required to learn English, it's more likely because of the time she spent as Sailor V in London in the anime. However, she has her thick British accent.
Minako is caring towards others and yet, like Usagi, pretty clumsy at times. For example, when every other Sailor Senshi got sick in Sailor Moon R, she tried to take care of them, but just ended up making a mess. The more she tried to straighten things out, the worse it got.
Background
Sailor Moon
As revealed in episode 42, Minako lived in London, England. Before she moved to Japan, and began to fight with the senshi as Sailor Venus, Minako originally lived in London to fight the Dark Kingdom as Sailor V. There, she fell in love with another man named Alan. On one of her missions, she met a woman named Katarina, who was an Interpol police officer. The two spent time together, Katarina taught her English, and Minako regarded her as a big sister. During a mission, she (as Sailor V) was caught in an explosion, and Katarina believed that she died. Minako escaped, but saw Alan and Katarina together, seeing that the two loved each other. Minako decided to let the two believe that she was dead, and moved to Japan soon after.
Minako (in civilian form) finally appears in episode 33. There, she meets up with the other Sailor Senshi and saves them from one of Kunzite's traps. Here, Minako is shown to be completely devoted to her mission of fighting the Dark Kingdom and finding the Moon Princess, as she has the strongest memories of her past life as a Sailor Soldier. From then on, she officially joined Sailor Senshi.
Later on in episode 42, Katarina returns and is being used by Kunzite as a youma to get to Sailor V, considering he believes Sailor V knows who the Sailor Senshi are. After she is restored by Sailor Moon and Sailor Venus, Katarina and Minako reunite and become friends again.
Sailor Moon R
After the first season concludes, Minako's character and personality becomes more goofy, excitable, and overdramatic, as well as a bit ditzy. She is known to misquote proverbs on a regular basis.
During this season, Minako was shown to greatly care for others. She looked over a class of kindergarten kids. She also tried to take care of the other Sailor Senshi when they were all sick, though to no success.
Sailor Moon S
In Sailor Moon S, Minako was the last one of the Inner Senshi to have her Pure Heart Crystal stolen. Even though it said it did not bother her, it annoyed her greatly. She began to donate tons of blood and giving away the plush toys she won at the arcade in order to prove she had a good heart, and her Pure Heart was eventually removed by Eudial. But unlike the other victims, Minako retained her consciousness and ran off with her Pure Heart, and she eventually collapsed. After she regained consciousness, she transformed into Sailor Venus (much to the surprise of Eudial), and broke Eudial's fire buster with her Venus Love-Me Chain attack.
Sailor Moon SuperS
She is the first victim to escape the imprisonment of her dream mirror which Tiger's Eye and Hawk's Eye were fighting over after she manages to deceived them both during their two-timing date. Minako transforms into Sailor Venus and furiously scolds at both Tiger's Eye and Hawk's Eye from looking both her hearts and dreams (After both had looked on her Dream Mirror to think Pegasus was present) and angrily hits them with Crescent Beam of Anger to chase them away, allowing Super Sailor Chibi Moon to summon Pegasus with Twinkle Yell as well as destroying the two Lemures from Super Sailor Moon's Moon Gorgeous Meditation. She along with the other Senshi were upgraded to their Super forms by Pegasus.
She almost break her friendship with Makoto due to their crush with Mr. Honjo until they were attacked by the Lemure sent by CereCere. By the time everyone is ensnared by the Lemure, CereCere was confronted by JunJun, VesVes and PallaPalla who were deceived by her deceptions which allows Artemis to inform both Minako and Makoto to channel their energy with their Crystal Change Rods to transform to their Super Senshi forms. Super Sailor Venus demonstrates her Venus Love and Beauty Shock to disperse the Lemure while Super Sailor Jupiter demonstrates her Jupiter Oak Evolution to disperse most of the leaves to rescue the kids including their friends making both reconcile their friendship. After the Lemure was defeated by Super Sailor Moon, both Makoto and Minako reconciled their friendship and to discover that Mr. Honjo was Kotaro's father, much to their disappointment and realizing he was married.
Sailor Moon Sailor Stars
Nehellenia arc
Stars arc
Sailor Senshi Info
Attacks
- Sailor V Kick
- Crescent Beam
- Crescent Beam Shower
- Crescent Beam Barrage
- Venus Love Me Chain
- Sailor Kick
- Moony Moony Love-Me Moon Chain
- Venus Love and Beauty Shock
Items
Other Items
Gallery
Trivia
- Minako's name means "Beautiful Child of Love."
- Minako is the goofiest member of the Sailor Guardians.
- Minako's membership number in the Three Lights' Fan Club was 278.
- In the anime, Minako had four character songs: "Route Venus", "I'll Stand Alone", "I Saw Your Dream", and "The Goddess of Love's 'How to Love'".
- In the anime, Minako was shown to be able to speak English fluently. This was probably due to the fact that she spent her time in London for a while as Sailor V, and her English-speaking ability was shown in Episode 108.
- Minako often refers to herself as the 'Goddess of Love' both in her civilian and Sailor Venus forms.
- Minako was the only character to have a nosebleed (a typical anime indication of perverted thoughts) in the anime. She developed one in episode 178, when she thought about Luna being taken care of by Yaten.
- In the DiC English dub, Minako's name was romanized as "Mina". Ironically this is a nickname Artemis sometimes calls her in Japanese versions including the Codename Sailor V comic.
- The episode describing Minako's life in England was cut by DiC. As a result, that part of her life is not canon in the original English dub.
References
| Solar System Senshi | Sailor Moon • Sailor Mercury • Sailor Mars • Sailor Jupiter • Sailor Venus/Sailor V • Sailor Chibi Moon • Sailor Pluto • Sailor Uranus • Sailor Neptune • Sailor Saturn |
| Sailor Starlights | Sailor Star Fighter • Sailor Star Healer • Sailor Star Maker |
| Sailor Quartet | Sailor Vesta • Sailor Pallas • Sailor Juno • Sailor Ceres |
| Other Senshi | Sailor Kakyuu • Sailor Chibi Chibi • Sailor Cosmos |
| Civilian Identities | Usagi Tsukino • Ami Mizuno • Rei Hino • Makoto Kino • Minako Aino • Chibiusa Tsukino • Setsuna Meiou • Haruka Tenou • Michiru Kaiou • Hotaru Tomoe • Seiya Kou• Yaten Kou • Taiki Kou • Princess Kakyuu • Chibi Chibi |
| Allies | Tuxedo Mask • Luna • Artemis • Diana |
| Solar System Senshi | Sailor Moon • Sailor Mercury • Sailor Mars • Sailor Jupiter • Sailor Venus • Sailor Chibi Moon • Sailor Pluto • Sailor Uranus • Sailor Neptune • Sailor Saturn |
| Sailor Starlights | Sailor Star Fighter • Sailor Star Healer • Sailor Star Maker |
| Other Senshi | Sailor Chibi Chibi |
| Civilian Identities | Usagi Tsukino • Ami Mizuno • Rei Hino • Makoto Kino • Minako Aino • Chibiusa Tsukino • Setsuna Meiou • Haruka Tenou • Michiru Kaiou • Hotaru Tomoe • Seiya Kou • Yaten Kou • Taiki Kou • Chibi Chibi |
| Allies | Tuxedo Mask • Luna • Artemis • Diana • Princess Kakyuu |
| Solar System Senshi | Sailor Moon • Sailor Mercury • Sailor Mars • Sailor Jupiter • Sailor Venus • Sailor Chibi Moon • Sailor Pluto • Sailor Uranus • Sailor Neptune • Sailor Saturn |
| Sailor Starlights | Seiya Kou • Yaten Kou • Taiki Kou • |
| Sailor Quartet | Sailor Vesta • Sailor Pallas • Sailor Juno • Sailor Ceres |
| Other Senshi | Chibi Chibi • Sailor Astarte • Sailor Cosmos |
| Civilian Identities | Usagi Tsukino • Ami Mizuno • Rei Hino • Makoto Kino • Minako Aino • Chibiusa Tsukino • Setsuna Meiou • Haruka Tenou • Michiru Kaiou • Hotaru Tomoe • Seiya Kou • Yaten Kou • Taiki Kou • Chibi Chibi |
| Allies | Tuxedo Mask • Luna • Artemis • Princess Kakyuu |
| Solar System Senshi | Sailor Moon • Sailor Mercury • Sailor Mars • Sailor Jupiter • Sailor Venus/Sailor V |
| Other Senshi | Sailor Luna |
| Civilian Identities | Usagi Tsukino • Ami Mizuno • Rei Hino • Makoto Kino • Minako Aino • Luna Tsukino |
| Allies | Tuxedo Mask • Luna • Artemis |
| Solar System Senshi | Sailor Moon • Sailor Mercury • Sailor Mars • Sailor Jupiter • Sailor Venus • Sailor Chibi Moon • Sailor Pluto • Sailor Uranus • Sailor Neptune • Sailor Saturn |
| Civilian Identities | Usagi Tsukino • Ami Mizuno • Rei Hino • Makoto Kino • Minako Aino • Chibiusa Tsukino • Setsuna Meiou • Haruka Tenou • Michiru Kaiou • Hotaru Tomoe |
| Allies | Tuxedo Mask • Luna • Artemis • Diana |
