Makoto Kino

> "*I am the Pretty Guardian who fights for Love and for Courage. I am Sailor Jupiter! I'll fill you regret, it'll leave you numb!*"
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*- Sailor Jupiter/Makoto*

Makoto Kino is a protagonist and a member of The New Action Squad.

## Character Information

### Personality

tomboy
tough
strong
kind-hearted
determined
confident
helpful
supportive
defending
generous
independent
reliable
impulsive
frightening

## **BIOGRAPHY**

**Makoto Kino** (木野 まこと, Kino Makoto) the civilian identity and present-day incarnation of **Sailor Jupiter** (セーラージュピター, Seeraa Juptiaa). She is the fourth Sailor Senshi to introduced in the anime

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

## **APPEARANCE**

Makoto has wavy chestnut hair that is always seen styled into a ponytail and held up by a green hair tie. She is also always seen wearing pink rose earrings on her earlobes. Makoto is very tall for a Japanese schoolgirl and is the tallest girl in the Inner Sailor Senshi.

Her school uniform is a white long-sleeved sailor uniform with white laced ribbon at the center and has a cross corset design on her uniform with two white designs with khaki linings in each side at the edge of her uniform, a long khaki skirt with a matching long lace ribbon at the back and black heels.

Her sailor uniform is khaki with two white linings attached. Her summon uniform is a contrast to other female students from her previous school as seen in the fourth season where she is friends with Tomoko during flashbacks. She retains her winter school uniform only her long sleeves are folded into cuffs to make it short sleeves.

Her casual outfits are mostly seen wearing pants or shorts in the first season up to the earlier fourth season. During the fourth season, she was seen wearing dresses. Her primary casual outfit is an orange and pale yellow jersey jacket with a yellow short-sleeved undershirt, pale blue pants, and sneakers. She also wears a cap while wearing the outfit.

She retains her civilian appearance and her pink rose earrings as she now wears a gold tiara on her forehead. Her standard Sailor uniform is dark green as the dominant color (skirt, collar, tiara stone, choker, glove ends, boots and the front brooch). Her front and back bow share the color of pink. Her boots just go a bit over the ankle, have a heel and can be tied with white laces.

Her dark green tiara stone within her tiara can elongate into a lightning antenna when she unleashes her lightning abilities.

As Super Sailor Jupiter, after gaining her "Super" upgrade from Pegasus, her choker had a gold star attached to it, her collar still had one stripe, the center of her front bow became a heart, the bottom of her shoulder pads became translucent, and her pink back bow was enlarged and lengthened.

## **PERSONALITY**

Makoto Kino is a tomboyish teenage girl who transfers to Juban Public Middle School in the first season. Makoto had lost her parents in a plane accident when she was younger and lives on her own in an apartment. People are usually intimidated to approach her due to her height, tough appearance, strength, and ability to fight, and she was believed to have been kicked out of her previous school due to fighting.

She also practices karate. Despite her tomboyish exterior, Makoto is a kind person who enjoys cooking, gardening, flower arranging, handicrafts, and dreams to have a happy marriage and own a flower and bakery shop. Like the rest of the Sailor Senshi, her loyalty towards Usagi never faltered.

However, her tough side does kick in when she deems it's needed, like when seeing a friend being bullied by peers. She took down a group of boys who harassed Ami because of a rumor that her grades are a result of cheating.

Makoto's specialty is indeed her strength. If she feels weak, she puts in the effort to get stronger.

Makoto has a habit of always bringing up "*the guy that dumped [her]*."

## **TRIVIA**

* Her first name is usually known to be a boy's name.
* Makoto's membership number in the Three Lights Fan Club was 1606.
* In the anime, Makoto had four image songs: It's Not Your Fault, Kissing in the Starlight, In Order To Forget, Don't Fall in Love, and We Believe You.
* In Japan, brown hair connotes rebelliousness, which enhances Makoto's tough girl image.
* In the original English dub, Makoto was named "Lita".
	+ In early promotional videos for the English dub of the anime presented by DiC, Makoto was called "Sarah" or "Maggie".
* Sailor Jupiter's planetary symbol (♃) stands for the Roman god's thunderbolt, an eagle or the Greek letter zeta (Z) for Zeus, the analogous to Jupiter. The difference between the symbol used in the Anime/Manga and the scientific symbol is, that the transforming sign is more likely to be shaped like an on the tip opened four (4).
* In Episode 39, Artemis remarks than in the days of the Silver Millennium, Sailor Jupiter was the only one who could ice skate as well as Princess Serenity.
* In the Viz Media English Dub from *Sailor Moon* through *Sailor Moon SuperS* as well as *Sailor Moon Sailor Stars*, Makoto's current English voice actress Amanda Celine Miller imitates the vocal performances between her Japanese voice actress Emi Shinohara and her original English voice actress Susan Roman to make her speak between their rough and deeper tone of their voices.