Hikaru Sorano is Minako's long time friend at Shiba Koen Public Middle School. She appears in the Codename: Sailor V manga.
Nomenclature & Etymology[]
Sora means sky while the character for no means field or civilian. Hikaru means shining or to shine. Hikaru is also more commonly a boy's name.
Appearance[]
Hikaru bears a very strong resemblance to Ami Mizuno of the Sailor Moon series. One notable difference is that while Ami's hair is royal blue while Hikaru's is black.
Information[]
She was the best friend of Minako Aino since both of them were in elementary school. She was also a fan of Sailor V but was unaware that Minako herself was Sailor V. She is partly responsible for Minako's obsession with idols and is the vice president of a volunteer club. She appears throughout the Sailor V manga but does not make an appearance in the Sailor Moon manga which takes place afterwards.
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Trivia[]
- She is Minako's good friend and can be thought of as Minako's counterpart for Usagi's Naru.
- Hikaru made a brief appearance in the video game Sailor Moon: Another Story in Minako's dream.
- Hikaru shares a surname, "Sorano" (空野), with Gurio Sorano, a classmate to Chibiusa who appears in the first two Chibiusa's Picture Diaries Side-Stories (Chapter 1 and Chapter 2), suggesting that they're related.
- After the success of the first chapter of Codename: Sailor V, Naoko Takeuchi started working on a follow-up manga with a team of Sailor Guardians. In the earliest known drafts, Minako was still the leader and lead a team with Hikaru on it alongside early versions of Rei and Makoto
- In this way, Hikaru herself can be thought of as whom Ami is based off of but the resemblance is only skin deep - their personalities are nothing alike.