Ami Mizuno

**Ami Mizuno** is the present-day incarnation and civilian identity of Sailor Mercury. This is the original depiction of the manga character created by Naoko Takeuchi.

## Profile

Before becoming friends with Usagi and the other Sailor Senshi, Ami was a shy girl who did not make friends easily, and preferred to spend time alone studying and reading books instead of being with her classmates. In return, many of her classmates believed her to be snobby and arrogant because of her intelligence, even being superhuman, as she always finished at the top of national exams. However, once Ami and Usagi became friends, the opinions began to change.

Ami is depicted to be a sweet, kind, gentle, and loyal girl who is slightly insecure. In the beginning, she relies on the opinions of her mother, classmates, and teachers, but as the series progresses, she becomes stronger and more confident. She is the most sensible out of the Inner Senshi, and she dislikes fights; especially the fights between Usagi and Rei. Ami's parents are divorced, and she lives with her mother in a condominium.

Ami dreams of becoming a doctor like her mother, and her favorite subjects are math and science. She also has a secret love of romance novels and pop culture, but is embarrassed to say it.

### Appearance

Ami Mizuno is a teenage girl who has short dark blue hair, that reaches to about her shoulders, and blue eyes. She stands at about 157 cm or 5 feet 2 inches. Also, at times, Ami will be seen wearing reading glasses.

## Powers and Abilities

Being extremely intelligent and the top of her class in Juuban high school, Ami displays incredible capacity of understanding things, as shown in Act 2, where she fully comprehended the Sailor V Game's mechanics by simply taking a look at Usagi's gameplay.

She also seems to have affinity with water, though weaker when she is not Sailor Mercury, able to locate a fault in the underground water pipes in Act 16.

## Sailor Mercury

Sailor Mercury is one of the five original Inner Sailor Senshi of the Solar System, and was the second Sailor Senshi introduced in the manga. Her civilian identity is Ami Mizuno. Her attacks and powers are based around water and ice, as well as intelligence and computers. This is the original depiction of the character created by Naoko Takeuchi.

## Profile

Sailor Mercury is the first member of the Sailor Team to be discovered by Usagi Tsukino, third to be awakened by the Moon Cats, and serves as the "brains" of the group. Her powers are associated with phases of water and ice, and she can use her mini-computer to quickly analyze a foe in battle. Most of her powers are strategic rather than offensive, and she possesses various pieces of computerized equipment to help her study the enemy. She also has an IQ of 300.

## Appearance

As Sailor Mercury, she wore the standard Senshi fuku without sleeves and the dominant color of the fuku was blue while the accent color was light blue. Her earrings, the gem on her tiara, choker, collar, the center of her front bow, skirt, the elbow fittings on her gloves, and her boots were blue, and her front bow and back bow were light blue. Her collar had three stripes, her earrings were three blue studs, and her boots were similar to Sailor Moon's, except were blue and did not have a symbol on them.
In the manga, when she became Super Sailor Mercury for the first time, the center of Sailor Mercury's front bow became a heart, but she did not receive the "Super" upgrade at the time.

When she did receive the "Super" upgrade, her choker had a five-pointed golden star on it with a blue gem in the center, the bottom of her sleeves became transparent, the center of her front bow became a heart, and her back bow was enlarged and lengthened.
Eternal Sailor Mercury was the third and final Senshi form Ami was able to transform into, and did so in the StarS arc. When she was in her Eternal form, her uniform underwent a radical change. Her choker is now V-shaped and her brooch is a blue five-pointed star. Her shoulder pads became transparent blue puffs with two patches of blue fabric attached to the bottom. Her gloves became longer, reaching to her upper arms. Her belt consisted of two blue ribbons, dark blue one and a light blue one, with two long and thin black ribbons, clipped together by a five-pointed star. Her back bow was light blue. Her skirt became two-tiered, the top layer being blue and the bottom layer light blue. Her boots were knee-length and white, and each had a blue V-shaped border with a five-pointed star at the top. Her tiara gem was a blue five-pointed star and her earrings were blue, dangling five-pointed stars.
During the Silver Millennium, Sailor Mercury was the princess/ruler of her planet, Mercury, and was given the duty of protecting Princess Serenity, along with Princess Mars, Jupiter, and Venus. She wore a blue strap dress that went past her feet, and wore a blue choker that tied into a ribbon at the back. She also wore blue high-heeled shoes, a necklace, and small blue stud earrings. The symbol of Mercury was always present on her forehead. She dwelt in Mariner Castle.

## Powers

### Transformation Phrases and Items

* **Mercury Power, Make Up**
* **Mercury Star Power, Make Up**
* **Mercury Planet Power, Make Up**
* **Mercury Crystal Power, Make Up**

* **Transformation Pen**
* **Star Power Stick**
* **Mercury Crystal**

### Attacks and Weapons

* **Mercury Aqua Mist**
* **Hyperspatial Sphere Generate**
* **Shine Aqua Illusion**
* **Shine Snow Illusion**
* **Mercury Aqua Rhapsody**
* **Mercury Aqua Mirage**
* **Galactica Gale**
* **Galactica Planet Attack**
* **Sailor Planet Power**
* **Sailor Planet Attack**

* **Mercury Harp**

### Other Items

* **Headset**
* **Mercury Goggle**

* **Communicator**
* **Super Computer**

## TMNT X Pokemon

Using her intelligence, she can search up anything along with Nico Robin, Donnie, Lina, and Levy for information.

## Trivia

* In the side story *Ami's First Love* it was revealed that Ami was allergic to love letters. Receiving them would cause her to break out in a rash.
* It is speculated that her IQ is 300.
* While the idea to make Ami a cyborg was ultimately rejected, later in the series the character Hotaru was a cyborg until her rebirth.
* While Usagi and Minako hate it Ami's favorite subject is mathematics.
* Ami bears a strong resemblance to Rena Kuramitsu from Naoko Takeuchi's one-shot story Miss Rain. When Usagi saw Ami for the first time in the manga, she said that she looked like Rena. This reference was removed in the 2003 re-release of the manga.

* In Roman mythology, Mercury was a messenger of the gods, as well as the son of Jupiter.
* Sailor Mercury's Spectre Sister counterpart was Berthier. Her Witches 5 counterpart was Viluy. Her Sailor Quartet counterpartner was PallaPalla/Sailor Pallas.
* The Shitennou general she's paired up with in Takeuchi's artwork is Zoisite.
* Sailor Mercury is the only Sailor Senshi who has never destroyed a villain by her own devices. This does not include footsoldiers of the villains. The one exception to this is in her dedicated special, 'Ami's First Love', in which she destroys a yokai that was acting as a parasite to her. In this case, she used the attack, Mercury Aqua Mirage. This attack was used only once in the anime. It should be noted that the defeat of the enemy did not involve the help of Sailor Moon or of another scout.
* Sailor Mercury is on the cover art of volume two in the reprint manga and volume two in the Kaizoban edition of the manga.
* Sailor Mercury's planetary symbol (☿) stands for the Roman god's **winged helmet** and the **wand of Hermes** (the god's Greek name). The difference between the symbol used in the Anime/Manga and the scientific symbol is, that the transforming sign has a heart instead of a circle.
	+ It can also be understood, as if the cross (matter) is lower than the circle (divine spirit).
	+ On the very top is the crescent (mind). In alchemy, mercury (quicksilver) used to be symbolized by ☿.