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"I am the Pretty Guardian who Fights for Justice! I am Sailor Venus!"
— Minako's introduction in the 33rd episode


Minako Aino (愛野 美奈子, Aino Minako) is the civilian identity of Sailor V (セーラーV, Seeraa Bui) and the present-day incarnation of Sailor Venus (セーラーヴィーナス, Seeraa Vīnasu) in the 90s anime.

Appearance[]

Civilian[]

Minako is a cute and bubbly 14-year-old (15 by the S season, and 16 in Sailor Stars; 13 years old six months ago, as shown in a flashback in episode 42) girl. She has long 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 from 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.

Sailor V[]

Sailor V was the first Sailor Senshi form Minako could take on. Sailor V was a decoy Sailor Senshi form used by Minako 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 Sailor Senshi.

Sailor V's uniform was different than the other Sailor Senshi's uniform. 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 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 Sailor Senshi form.

Sailor Venus[]

Sailor Venus was the first true Sailor Senshi form that Minako was able to transform into (as Sailor V was a decoy Sailor Senshi). Minako can 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 Sailor Senshi uniform. The dominant color of her uniform 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 carried over into her Sailor Senshi form.

Super Sailor Venus[]

Super Sailor Venus was the second and final Sailor Senshi form Minako was able to transform into. She can 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 Sailor Senshi form, her red hair bow was carried over into her Sailor Senshi form.

Personality[]

Minako's personality was childlike and silly most of the time. She could be serious at times and was the most dedicated to her mission of all the Sailor Senshi. Minako acts as the Sailor Senshi's second-in-command frequently took responsibility for the team and took charge of situations where they had to stay together as a group; this was most evident in season one, where she insisted they persevere after the other Sailor Senshi had died. When Usagi wanted to surrender the Silver Crystal to save her, Minako screamed she would never forgive Usagi if she did that.

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 is much more athletic than the other Sailor Senshi, showing proficiency in physical activities such as volleyball. She also has sharper reflexes and is more tuned to dangerous situations than the other Inner Senshi. This can be attributed to her extra crime-fighting experience in her days as Sailor V.

She also has skill in speaking English thanks to her time abroad in London; this was best demonstrated in episode 108, in which she was able to converse with relative fluency in English at the party. She also sometimes uses brief bits of English in her speech.

Minako is caring towards others yet, like Usagi, can be clumsy at times. For example, when the other Sailor Senshi got sick in Sailor Moon R, she tried to take care of them but ended up making a mess.

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Background[]

Before she moved to Japan and began to fight with the Sailor Senshi as Sailor Venus, Minako originally lived in London, England to fight the Dark Kingdom as Sailor V. There, she fell in love with a 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.

Sailor Moon[]

Minako (in her 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 Senshi. From then on, she officially joined the 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 became more goofy, excitable, and overdramatic, as well as a bit ditzy. She is known to misquote proverbs regularly.

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 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 deceive 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 Barrage 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 breaks 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.

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Trivia[]

  • The kanji in Minako's name can be read as "Beautiful Child of Love."
  • In the anime, Minako had four character songs: "Route Venus", "Needless", "I Saw Your Dream", and "The Goddess of Love's 'How to Love'".
  • She's the second character in the anime to have dressed up and impersonated Sailor Moon, the first being Zoisite. She is also the only good character to impersonate another character.
  • In episode 36, she told the Sailor Senshi: "We must not allow the tragedies of the past to be repeated." This phrasing was often said by Minako's live-action series counterpart frequently.
  • Of all the characters, she looks most similar to Usagi and they have often been mistaken by fans. This is even more noticeable on the rare occasions Usagi has her hair down.
  • Minako is the only one of the Sailor Senshi besides Usagi to have a normal nuclear family; all of the other Sailor Senshi have dysfunctional or strange connections to their family.
  • Minako is the only one of the Inner Senshi in all versions of the series who was not awakened by Luna.

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