Minako Aino

> "*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!*"
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*- Sailor Venus/Minako*

Minako Aino is a protagonist and a member of The New Action Squad.

## Character Information

### Personality

Girly
feminine
silly
goofy
clumsy
fun-loving
athletic
cooperative
dramatic
energetic
hyperactive
caring
protective
romantic

## **BIOGRAPHY**

**Minako Aino** (愛野 美奈子, Aino Minako) is the present-day incarnation of **Sailor Venus** (セーラーヴィーナス, Seeraa bu~iinasu) and the civilian identity of **Sailor V** (セーラーV, Seeraa Bui).

Outside of Tokyo, she is also a member of The New Action Squad.

## **APPEARANCE**

Minako is a cute and bubbly 14-year-old (15 by the *S* season, and 16 in *Sailor Stars*) who originally lived in London. She has 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. Minako is described to be about 5'2" in height and possibly a bit taller in later seasons.

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.

## **PERSONALITY**

Minako was a very silly character at times, but she could be more serious; this was especially true in the first season in general, and specifically in episodes 42, 100, and 109 (wherein she worried that she did not have a Pure Heart and tried to prove she was pure-hearted in some very bizarre ways). 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 was, however, much more athletic than Usagi, especially when it came to volleyball. Minako was shown to be very good at speaking English since she had lived in London (or at least more so than Rei, Makoto, and Usagi). This was best demonstrated in episode 108, in which she was able to converse with relative fluency in English at the party. Although all students in Japan are required to learn English, it's more likely because of the time she spent as Sailor V in London in the anime. However, she has her thick British accent.

Minako is caring towards others and yet, like Usagi, pretty clumsy at times. For example, when every other Sailor Senshi got sick in Sailor Moon R, she tried to take care of them, but just ended up making a mess. The more she tried to straighten things out, the worse it got.

## **TRIVIA**

* Minako's name means "Beautiful Child of Love."
* Minako is the goofiest member of the Sailor Guardians.
* Minako's membership number in the Three Lights' Fan Club was 278.
* In the anime, Minako had four-character songs: "Route Venus", "Needless", "I Saw Your Dream", and "The Goddess of Love's 'How to Love'".
* In the anime, Minako was shown to be able to speak English fluently. This was probably because she spent her time in London for a while as Sailor V, and her English-speaking ability was shown in Episode 108.
* Minako often refers to herself as the 'Goddess of Love' both in her civilian and Sailor Venus forms.
* Minako was the only character to have a nosebleed (a typical anime indication of perverted thoughts) in the anime. She developed one in episode 178 when she thought about Luna being taken care of by Yaten.
* In the DiC English dub, Minako's name was romanized as "Mina". Ironically this is a nickname Artemis sometimes calls her in Japanese versions including the Codename Sailor V comic.
* The episode describing Minako's life in England was cut by DiC. As a result, that part of her life is not canon in the DiC English dub.