Sailor Venus profile

Minako Aino

Original (Japan) name: Minako Aino

NA dub name: Mina

Age: 14 - 16 (depends on session progress)

Element: Love

Astro sign: Libra

Birth: October 22

Representative color: Orange

Aggression level: Medium

Seeks: The protection of innocent and her friends

Bio:

Sailor V, Naoko's stardom manga, that was taking place in the streets of London, launched, as well as its main character - Minako Aino, the super heroin best-seller in Japan. It's quite unusual that such famous and loving idol has been moved to a whole new, yet unknown manga...seems like Naoko really loves this character. That would explain the suspicious similarity of Usagi and Minako*.
Sailor V now featuring as Sailor Venus, the fifth Royal senshi, is quite an active girl with tons of ambitions, almost all of them leading to one goal - become the world famous idol.
So, what more to tell about her...she really likes to play volley-ball, flirting with all sorts of good-looking guys she meets, go to cinema or concerts (of her idols again) and...be so close to her dreamy boys as conditions allow. Overall, she's the kind of girl that's living her life on 150% and never let one second of it to be wasted.
Her senshi personality is not that kind of significance, possibly because she was given powers of...let's say, not so damageful appearance as some other senshi has, but I really like her though. It's not the damage that counts, but the way character can make anime/manga better. And Minako Aino, is definitely an inevitable part of both, manga and anime version of Sailor Moon.

* Naoko herself confessed that Sailor Moon is her most favourite character, that is reminding her the youth she used to enjoy long time ago (did you know that Usako's family is named exactly after Naoko's real one? ^.^). Her previous manga called Sailor V contained just one heroin and you don't have to be a genius to deduce that she just had to adore Minako...maybe even more then Usagi.

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