Minako Aino

* Casual Wear
* Sailor V
* Sailor Venus

Little Sister (Wonder Woman)

Sailor Venus

Sally Acorn

Danny Fenton/Phantom

Jenny Wakeman

Lelouch Lamperouge/Zero

The PowerChips

Amuro Ray

Star Saber

Superman

Wonder Woman

Ben Tennyson

Raditz

Lex Luthor

Overlord

Cornelia li Britannia (formerly)

Skeletor

Lex Luthor

Holy Britannian Empire

Minako Aino is a character from Codename: Sailor V & Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon and is a main character in AniCity. She's a cheerful schoolgirl living in AniCity who uses her newfound magical powers to fight injustice as the "Soldier of Justice Sailor V", guided by her feline companion Artemis.

In Season 3, her still ladent powers would fully awaken after acquiring the Sacred Moon Sword to turn her into the Sailor Guardian, "Sailor Venus".

## Personality

Mina is the type that can flip between being incredibly silly to very serious at any time. While her more serious side manifests more often when she's Sailor V, she's more often than not rather silly at times, like being overly loud at times, a little obsessive, and a little too clumsy. She regularly states idioms incorrectly and spends her time finding new idols to chase, and new "first loves" to gush over. This lack of commitment extends to most of her life. Despite the cleverness she displays in battle and her impressive athleticism - being very good at games like volleyball, especially, she is an academic underachiever and puts little effort into her studies and requires Artemis' nagging to remain Sailor V as she quickly loses interest in being a "Guardian of Justice" for Justice's sake. However, she does slowly but surely start to be true to her mission as a Guardian, always willing to battle the forces of evil and always tries to do what is necessary to protect her friends. She also displays an unwavering hope and sees good in her enemies that others may not, believing that everyone has a better nature, which many of her friends have seen as both a strength and a weakness at times, though she's also one to hold grudges. Well... except for bratty kids that don't show her any respect, like call her "old maid" and the like.

## History

### Pre-Series

During the fall season while Yusuke was Lord knows where, Sal, Danny & Mina caught wind from some of the local kids about someone losing a baseball in "Old Woman Wakeman's" house and then being scared out of it by a robot. Really just an excuse to do something that day, the trio decided to check it out. Danny then beat Mina in a game of rock-paper-scissors and headed to the top to "scope out the joint". But next thing the two knew, Danny was falling out of the window above them before he was caught by a robot shaped like a teenage girl, with Fenton formally introducing her as Jenny. Naturally, Mina was very excited to be able to meet a real life robot in the "flesh", but Sally remained cautious. From there, the now quartet would spend the rest of the day hanging out, playing hackey sack and chasing ice cream trucks, among other things, with Sally reluctantly tagging along, still suspicious and nervous about Jenny. As they stopped to enjoy some ice cream however, Jenny suddenly recieved a warning from her sensors that a planet-destroying meteor was headed toward Earth. But just before she took off, Sally and the others asked if she'd be up to hang out some more the next day, maybe even show her around the main city a bit, to which Jenny enthusiastically agreed to do. With that, the Super Fighting Robot activated her boosters and rocketed off to destroy the meteor.

## Abilities & Equipment

* Athletic Skills

Mina is very athletic, mostly thanks to her past in playing volleyball, now enhanced by her Sailor Guardian powers. With these powers, she can now fly, lift heavy objects

* Flight

Minako is able to fly and even float in the air in her Sailor Guardian form.

* Crescent Beam

The image of two crescent moons colliding appear above Mina's head before she raised her right index finger up to touch them. She lowered her right arm to point at her target as her left arm came to rest on her elbow, then shot a beam of light from her index finger.

* Crescent Beam Shower

A much more powerful version of the attack, Mina collects a large amount of energy in her right index finger, and when she releases it like the normal version of the attack, it splits into multiple beams that fire towards her enemy.

* V Love Chain

Mina generates a chain of light, with the chains shaped like golden glowing hearts, that she can use like a rope to save her allies, even herself, or bind enemies and shock them with a violently strong golden light. She can also to wrap it around items and swing off of them.

* Sacred Moon Sword

During the events of Season 3, Minako attained the Sacred Moon Sword before Skeletor's forces could potentially obtain it. Afterwards, she would continue to use it for the rest of the series in the battle against evil, To summon it, Venus would wink to make a heart and transform it into the sword.

## Relationships

### Yusuke Urameshi

Yusuke is one of Mina's closest friends, their history going back to when they were kids. Many people question this, even the ones that have been around the two for almost as long, but Mina doesn't care.

### Sally Acorn

Mina and Sally are very close friends. Ever since the two were little, Sal's always helped her with her school studies and generally tries to give her good advice, though always trying to have fun when they can. Despite their differences in height and species, Mina loves her almost like a big sister, and Sal in turn cared and looked after her like she was her little sister, even after she became Sailor V. This care for one another is so strong that Sally was actually the first of her friends she shared her identity as Sailor V with.

### Jenny Wakeman/XJ-9

Jenny is one of Mina's closest friends. Out of everyone in their core group of friends, she's the one that seems to care the least about her being a robot full of deadly weapons - heck, she even forgets about that part of her design sometimes. She just knows that Jen is a really fun person to show the wonders of life or just hang out with and talk about "life stuff".

### Lelouch vi Britannia/Zero

At first, Mina didn't know Lelouch himself when the two coincidentally started their hero "escapades" (naturally, since he was three grades above her); though from what she's heard from Nunnally, he seems a pretty decent guy. But she was much more familiar with Zero. The two ran into each other in multiple crime scenes, and while their values & moral standings may differ greatly, Mina still respected him a good bit for his devotion to justice and protecting those that can't protect themselves.

### Superman & the Justice League

Like her friends and many others, Minako respects Superman and the other heroes in the League a great deal. From the moment she became Sailor V, she's always tried to follow their example of heroism.

#### Wonder Woman

Like many other female would-be heroes, Mina sees Wonder Woman as a great role model, though she does sometimes worry that she might not be able to live up to her example.

## Notes

Minako's inclusion in this series, let alone being separate from the other Sailor Guardians, is meant to be a throwback to her solo act in her own manga series before being brought into the "main" SM series, helped by her having a good number of episodes in the original anime focused solely around her. Her being in a prominently English country rather than in Japan could also act as a twist on how she lived in London before the events of the 90's series. This also helps to give more leniency for her to act a little sillier/immaturely like she did in the 90's anime and the Sailor V manga, since she obviously hasn't developed into the leader of the Inner Senshi yet and she does transform into Venus in this series. However, she does have at least one serious storyline; in Season 4, where she has an identity crisis when she learns the truth about her past life, which is based off of her showcase episodes in "S" and what happened to Sailor Moon when her past was revealed in the first season of the original anime.

Mina didn't get her "Love-Me Chain" until the original anime & manga's second story arc, but was given to her a lot earlier mostly just to let her use it eariler. She's also able to use it to swing across places ala Spider-Man.

Mina's main "casual" outfit in this series is one of her more recurring outfits in her home series rather than the school uniform she and the other Guardians would wear most of the time since AniCity's schools don't have a dress code like most Japanese school systems.

Mina & Yusuke’s relationship is meant to be a nod to their creators - Naoko Takeuchi & Yoshihiro Togashi - being married in real life.

Mina and Sally's bond is based off of how Mina's relationship with the character of Katarina was described in her primary spotlight episode of the original anime's first season (though this can also act as another of this series' "meta nods"; in this case to the first SM english dub by DiC Entertainment, the same group that produced SatAM).

The dynamic between Mina and Lelouch - or rather, Sailor V and Zero - is meant to act as a sort of Batman/Superman-type dynamic: both have the same goal to protect their home but have different ways of reaching their goals, all the while they have a large amount of respect for each other.