Mina Aino (Sailor V)
From CodeName Sailor V
Mina (Minako) Aino is the lead character in the manga series "Codename: Sailor V". She is a magical warrior who fights for love and justice under the name of Venus.
Mina is also featured in the follow-up, and famous, manga series "Bishojou Senshi Sailor Moon" and fights by the name Sailor Venus.
Her powers are based around love.
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[edit] About Mina
Mina is a thirteen year old seventh grader who loves to hang our with friends and dreams of finding love one day. One day she is told by a talking, white cat that she is Sailor V, warrior of the planet venus. Mina sees this as a dream and decides to ignore it. Whilst trying to find her love interest, Higashi, and give him her love letter, she realises that he 'loves' another girl. However, Higashi turns into the youma Narkissos and attacks the girl. Mina sees this and is once again told by the cat that she is Sailor V. He throws her a pen and Boss tells her to transform. Holding up the pen, Mina says " Crescent V Power" and transforms into Codename: Sailor V. She uses her first attack, Crescent Beam, to defeat the enemy and realises that it's not a dream. With Artemis by her side, she fights to protect the people she loves from the Dark Agency.
Mina is also featured in the follow-up manga "Sailor Moon" where she becomes Sailor Venus and gains more attacks.
Mina's original Japanese name, Minako Aino, contains 5 kanji and is said to mean "Minako of Love". Minako, meaning beautiful child, would make this mean "Beautiful Child of Love". This suits her well. Mostly, because she is the soldier of love and beauty and fights in the name of Venus (Aphrodite), the goddess of love.
[edit] Items
Transformation Pen (Volume 01, Book 01) This item is used to transform Minako into Sailor V. It is also used to communicate with "Boss". It is also able to be used as an ordinary pen for writing with, and Minako hints that anything you write with it will be correct, no matter if you know what you're writing about or not, and uses it to 'cheat' through make-up Exams, homework, etc. (much to Artemis' displeasure). She later uses the same pen to transform into Sailor Venus in the Sailor Moon manga. In the anime she has a pen that is the same as the other Senshi's.
Compact (Volume 02, Book 01) This item has many uses. It is used to disguise her as any type person she chooses, to help her see the enemy's true form, and it also helps her perform many of her attacks. It needs to be put in the full moon's light to charge. She still has it during Sailor Moon and uses it twice.
Katana (Volume 12, Book 03) She used this once to slice her enemy.
Venus Mike (Volume 14, Book 03) This item created sonic waves to destroy the karaoke enemy, Karaoke-senshi Mike Makkii.
[edit] Actresses
Mina has been played by various actresses, but only through the Sailor Moon series.
Sailor Moon Series
Japanese Actresses: Rika Fukami
English Actresses: Stephanie Morgenstern (episodes 29-82 and movies) Emilie Barlow (episodes 90-166)
Live Action: Ayaka Komatsu
Stage Shows: Nana Suzuki, Sakae Yamashita(Yume Senshi - Ai - Eien Ni's CD Only), Chizuru Soya, Kanatsu Nakaya, Akiko Miyazawa, Miyu Otani, Nao Inada, Yuki Nakamura, Ayumi Murata, Mizuki Watanabe, Momoko Shibuya, half-American idol Erica
Codename: Sailor V Online Series: Amy Burke
[edit] Miscellaneous Information
. The official Sailor Moon character popularity polls listed Minako Aino, Sailor V, and Sailor Venus as separate entities. In 1992, readers ranked Venus as the second most popular character, Minako being tenth and Sailor V being ninth, out of thirty eight choices
