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"I am the Pretty Guardian who Fights for Love and for Beauty! I am Sailor Venus. In the name of Venus, I'll punish you with the power of love!"
— Sailor Venus' stock introduction


Minako Aino (愛野 美奈子, Aino Minako) is the civilian identity of Sailor V and the present-day incarnation of Sailor Venus (セーラーヴィーナス, Seeraa Bu~iinasu). She is the 5th Sailor Senshi to be introduced and join the Sailor team. She is also the real leader of the Inner Sailor Senshi.

Appearance[]

Civilian[]

She retains her manga and anime appearance.

Sailor Senshi[]

Like the other characters, Sailor Venus' appearance is based on her appearance in the manga.

In her appearance as Sailor V uniform was different than the other Sailor Senshi's uniform. In place of a tiara, she wore a red mask. she wore a sleeveless midriff shirt with red accents on the sides that sometimes 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 has long blonde hair, with a red bow. She also wears a sailor uniform, with a dark orange skirt and high heels. She has a blue bow on her chest and an orange bow on her back. She has a reddish-orange chain around her waist which she uses as a weapon. Just like the other Sailor Senshi she wears a tiara on her forehead, with a stone of her signature color (bright orange in Sailor Venus' case) in the center of it. However, in her first appearance, she has a crescent moon symbol on her forehead instead of the tiara.

In the 90's anime series, her mystical chain of love was never worn. It was used later seasons in her utilizing her much stronger Venus Love Me Chain attack in the third season in her secondary evolved Sailor form.

Personality[]

In "Crystal', Minako stays true to her original source as the true leader of the Sailor Senshi. Minako takes comand as a firm, smart and supportive leader to the others. Since Minako became a Sailor Senshi first to awake she knew more than the others about the truth of there mission and who was the Moon Princess. Much like her anime version Minako is caring, couragous and romantic girl but keep her head straight when it matter to their mission. She has great instict as a warrior and leader. After the Dark Kingdom crisis, Minako shows her cheerful and bubbly side which her friends adore, but still is vigilant and strong.

History[]

Long before the events of the series had occurred, Minako became a Sailor Senshi by Artemis discovering her before Luna discovering Usagi to become Sailor Moon.

Dark Kingdom arc[]

The Sailor V Game was a side-scrolling game that was made by Artemis, it was used to train Minako to use her powers without her realizing it. Usagi is a fan of the Sailor V Game and she often visits the Game Center Crown to play the game. Usagi's Disguise Pen (Pink), Ami's transformation pen (Blue), and their communicator watch all came from the game.

The Headquarters for the Sailor Senshi was also located underneath the machine; the door to it opened when the words "GAME ENDLESS" appeared on the screen.

She first appears in Act 1 (albeit in her Sailor V form) watching from afar. In Act 6, Sailor Venus encouraged Usagi through the Sailor V game, telling her that she can defeat the enemies using the moon stick. When Sailor Venus met Usagi and the rest of the Senshi, they spotted a crescent moon on her forehead; Sailor Venus and Artemis went on to say that she was the Moon Princess that they needed to protect. She appears at the end of Act 7, throwing her Crescent Boomerang at Zoisite.

In Act 9, she transformed into her full Sailor form as Sailor Venus when the true Princess of the Moon was revealed to be none other than Sailor Moon/Usagi herself. To prove her true identity as the leader of the four Inner Sailor Senshi, the circular gemstone on her tiara turned bright orange. Unlike the others, she has more experience as a Sailor Guardian and knows more about the corrupted people of the Dark Kingdom, and their mistress, Queen Metalia.

Sailor Venus also likes to do solo missions and used to believe that she could handle situations by herself, but thanks to Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Mercury, and Sailor Mars she no longer has that mindset.

Black Moon arc[]

Sailor Venus becomes much stronger; due to the mystical Star Power Stick, she was given from Luna, which increases her light-based powers and attacks greatly. She was the only Sailor Senshi not abducted by Rubeus and remained by Sailor Moon's side to help rescue their fellow Senshi from the forbidden planet Nemesis. She confronted the second oldest of the Spectre sisters' with her new and much stronger Rolling Heart Vibration attack, but missed her target. With the help of Chibiusa and her time key, Venus went off to the future along with Sailor Moon, Tuxedo Mask, Luna, and Artemis to aid Chibiusa in saving her homeland and her mother. She was surprised but pleased to meet another Sailor Senshi, Sailor Pluto, the Sailor Senshi of Space-Time. She was even more puzzled upon meeting a man who greatly resembled Tuxedo Mask, who was revealed to be King Endymion.

Sailor Venus later fought against two creations of Rubeus' when Prince Demande himself arrived and abducted Sailor Moon; much to her shock.

Infinity arc[]

Sailor Moon Eternal[]

Minako is still hanging out with Rei, Makoto, and Ami where Usagi and the others left them at the end of season 3. They see the solar eclipse coming and each make wishes. Minako wishes to be a star. During the eclipse Minako sees the bizarre announcement and arrival of the Dead Moon Circus.

The next day she is called to the hospital with the others to check on Mamoru and sees Usagi and Chibiusa have been forced to swap ages through strange magic. Minako meets Ami's Mother and leaves. Minako notices she cannot transform for some reason but hides it from everyone else.

The day before the Dead Moon Circus opens, Rei is looking into how to better run Hikawa Shrine and Minako suggests getting a husband for free labour. At the Dead Moon Circus opening, everyone splits into groups to check it out. Minako goes with Ami and Makoto to investigate ice cream stands, among other festivities. Later. she finds out Rei took down Tiger's Eye and their enemies prey on their insecurities.

Minako starts getting self conscience about her failure to transform when everyone else has been able to. CereCere notices this, and VesVes summons two knife-throwing twins, Xenotime and Zeolite, to target her. Minako, Ami, Rei, and Makoto are patrolling Azabu-Juban and notice its getting hot and civilians are getting aggressive toward eachother. Minako thinks she's a failure as a leader of the Inner Sailor Guardians and lashes out at the other three when they keep mentioning the Outers who are absent and runs away. A disguised Xenotime invites her to a Pop Idol Audition at the Dead Moon Circus, and she enters despite knowing it's a trap. She wants to prove herself. At the audition, Xenotime announces to a crowd of prospective idols that they must race to save four kids he set at the top of a tower, and the winner gets five million yen and stardom. Lemures attack the other idols, and despite Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Mars, and Sailor Mercury arriving to help Minako, she runs ahead to handle the situation on her own.

Minako reaches the kids, but they turn out to be Lemures in disguise. Minako is pinned by Xenotime with knives and VesVes then has the Lemures brainwash Minako, but Artemis quickly snaps her out of it and VesVes reacts by sending her falling down a trapdoor. Artemis tries to save her, but PallaPalla sends a boulder to fall on top of him. Artemis then turns to his human form for the first time and lifts the boulder off himself catching Minako's hand. He gives her the Venus Crystal he tells her that it was his doubts about her that had been holding her back and she regains the ability to transform into Super Sailor Venus. She quickly destroys Xenotime and Zeolite with Venus Love and Beauty Shock from her new Whip of Love. Soon after the Super Sailor Senshi reunite, PallaPalla then traps them in vines before confronting them alongside VesVes, CereCere, and JunJun.

Hotaru, Haruka, Michiru, and Setsuna arrive in time to save the girls and Artemis takes his cat form once again. With the group reassembled, including Tuxedo Mask and Super Sailor Moon, they are challenged by Zirconia who eventually catches them in a dream. Sailor Venus has a nightmare of Sailor Moon dying and falling apart in her arms but Tuxedo Mask awakens her and everyone else. Awakened from the nightmare, Venus joins the other Sailor Guardians to attack with Sailor Planet Power Meditation. This makes Zirconia start to retreat and Venus uses Venus Love and Beauty Shock while chasing her.

Sailor Moon follows her into a mirror but Sailor Venus cannot follow. After Sailor Jupiter breaks the mirror, Sailor Moon, Sailor Chibi Moon, and Sailor Saturn emerge. They find the enemy hasn't been defeated so they Sailor Teleport to Elysion.

There they find the Maenads and a collapsed Helios before Queen Nehelenia arrives. She baits Sailor Moon into using Moon Gorgeous Meditation at turns the attack back on the group. There Minako and the others see a flashback of when a young Sailor Venus visited a newborn Princess Serenity and pledged to protect her. Seeing the vision makes her memories start to return to her. Queen Nehelenia arrived to the festivities uninvited and Sailor Venus carried the baby as Queen Serenity spoke to and banished her.

Usagi and Mamoru manage to break them out of the trap and Sailor Moon manifests the new Holy Moon Chalice. She transforms Minako and the other Sailor Guardians into their Princess forms and summons Luna, Artemis, and Diana from the command center into their human forms. Guardian Venus appears and tells her to send power from Magellan Castle to the Holy Grail. This transforms her into Eternal Sailor Moon and soon after Minako takes her own Eternal form. Using the gathered power, Eternal Sailor Moon finishes the Dead Moon.

Usagi and Mamoru take forms resembling their future selves and hold a coronation in the freed Elysion with their guardians. They head back to the surface of the Earth where Minako tries to cheer up Chibiusa after she says farewell to Helios.

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