Name: Minako Aino
Gender: Female

Birthday: Oct. 22
Age: 13-16
Birthplace: Tokyo City, Japan

Used Canons:
Anime and Manga

Physical Description (include clothing generally worn):Minako Aino has blue eyes and blonde hair, preferring to wear her hair down with a simple red bow in it. Minako stands around 5"0', and she has an athletic build. Her Junior High school uniform is a lightish blue middle school uniform, which has a blue sailor collar with two white stripes. She has a red ribbon on the front of her uniform, which she ties her locket to. She has a white school top with blue sleeves which have white stripes on like the collar. She has a blue pleated skirt with a blue ribbon on the back. She usually wears white socks and black shoes.

Her High School uniform has a navy sailor collar and red stripes. Her bow on the front of her uniform is navy with blue sleeves, red stripes(like her collar) and a white top. Her skirt is a blue pleated skirt that comes to her knees. Her shoes are black flats.
Minako likes to wear dresses, more of auditions than anything. She can usually be found in shorts or skirts, with a bright colored top. Minako loves to wear brighter colors, while keeping a feminine feel to her over all look.  Usually wears, oranges, reds and blues, rather than softer pastel colors.

Forms of Minako
Sailor V
Sailor V's uniform is mostly blue and red, and includes shoulder-armor, quarter-length sleeves, and broad stripes of color. She wears a shirt rather than a leotard, as well as her characteristic red mask. Some of the details vary between version to version; in the manga and live-action series the shirt had sleeves and smooth gloves, but in the anime it was sleeveless with ring-topped gloves. The anime added a second layer to her shoulder guards, omitted the crescent Moon that is normally visible on her forehead, and added a second stripe to her collar.

Princess Venus
During the Silver Millennium, she was the ruler of the planet Venus and was the leader of those who protected Princess Serenity. She wore a yellow gown with frills running down it. In her hair she wore a yellow bow and a rose, she also wore a choker that was tied in a ribbon at the back. During her time as a Princess she dwelt in Magellan Castle.


Personality:
In both the anime and manga, Minako was shown to have both silly and serious sides. In the manga, Minako's serious side manifested more often when she was Sailor Venus (as was true for many of the Sailor Senshi), but she was still strongly devoted to her friends and her duties as a Senshi. 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.
In the anime only, Minako was shown to be competent in speaking English (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. It was possibly because of the time she spent as Sailor V in London in the anime.
In the anime, 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 bizzare ways). She was also infamous for using mixed up proverbs in the anime, and sometimes referred to herself as "The Goddess of Love," a title which she used to try to solve others' love woes.
Minako also has a very close relationship to Rei and they are often together.

Any Unique Abilities/Skills: Minako is really good a volleyball. She loves to play when she can.

History:

Minako is first introduced in the Codename: Sailor V manga, of which she is the lead character. She is awakened as a Senshi by the white cat Artemis when she is thirteen years old and instructed that she has a duty to become the beautiful warrior, Sailor V. Artemis explains that Venus and Earth are "twin planets" of about the same size and weight, that Venus is her "mother star", and that she must protect Earth from its enemies. He shows her Magellan Castle orbiting around Venus and says that it is hers, although the existence of these castles is not revealed to the other Senshi characters until late in the Sailor Moon series. She first dons her red hair bow during the first chapter of the story, on the recommendation of a handsome villain character that she defeats, and is almost never seen without it again.
Minako is depicted as athletic, cheerful, romantic, resilient, and clever.[citation needed] She is very versatile acting very elegant, intelligent, and refined at times[citation needed] and irrational, boy-crazy, and over-ambitious at others. When Sailor V was enough of a hit to earn its own anime adaptation, Takeuchi was asked to expand the concept to include more girls, and when she did, she placed Usagi Tsukino as the protagonist, with Minako as a part of the team. Minako is a Buddhist by her teaching when she was in Codename: Sailor V.


Minako as depicted in manga, drawn by Naoko Takeuchi. The bright colors and teasing expression are characteristic of her personality and portrayal; her uniform is different from the other girls' because she attends a different school.
In the anime, Minako is given a slightly different backstory, having spent some of her time as Sailor V in England, where she met a young Interpol officer named Katarina who taught her English and acted as a big sister, and a young man called Alan, with whom she fell in love. After Sailor V was caught in an explosion and believed to be dead, she saw Alan and Katarina together and realized that they, without her knowing, had become a couple. She moved back to Japan shortly thereafter. She is also widely traveled in the manga, having visited Greece and China.

As a result of her past battles, when Minako meets the other Senshi she has a relatively serious personality, and is very focused on their mission as Sailor Senshi. In the manga, she even tells them she is the princess they have been searching for, although in fact she is merely serving as a decoy to protect the real princess, Usagi. Throughout the first story arc she has by far the strongest memories of their past life during the Silver Millennium. After the first story arc concludes, she becomes a more excitable, even goofy character, and her adventures frequently involve overconfidence, enthusiastic determination to come out on top, and slapstick humor. In the anime, her speech is peppered with malapropisms and fractured proverbs. In the English-dubbed anime, "Mina's" personality is adjusted somewhat further; she adopts a valley girl dialect, and in the latter two seasons is rewritten as being sarcastic or mean-spirited in places where she had not been in the original Japanese.
Artemis lives in Minako's home and is one of her closest friends. Minako lives with both her parents, although references to her family life are few in the Sailor Moon series. Her family, like Usagi's, is based on Takeuchi's own family. For the first several story arcs, Minako attends a different junior high school from the others, Shiba Kōen. When the characters enter high school, she joins Usagi, Ami, and Makoto at Azabu Jūban. One of her greatest loves is volleyball, as shown from the beginning of the first Sailor V chapter[citation needed] and throughout the rest of the series — she even considers quitting the Sailor Senshi to become a professional, and in high school joins the Volleyball club. Her favorite class is Physical Education, while in the manga her least favorites are mathematics and the English language. In the anime, having lived in England for some time, she is skilled at the language (in one episode it is shown her skills are more refined than Ami Mizuno's), and Usagi begs Minako to teach her.
Minako's other greatest love is pop culture. She desperately wants to be an idol, and so makes a hobby of chasing them and attending auditions in acting, dancing, and singing whenever possible. She takes her role as the "Soldier of Love" literally, and enjoys regaling friends and acquaintances with advice about romance. Despite her declared expertise, Minako herself has little personal experience in relationships, but is enthusiastic about romantic opportunities — even to the point of two-timing a pair of the series' villains. She has a crush on Yaten Kou throughout the Sailor Stars anime storyline, and in one episode the sinister idea of herself as a cat with Yaten gives her a nosebleed. In the manga, by contrast, Minako suspects Yaten of being an enemy; while confronting the Starlights, she and Rei reaffirm that they do not need men because they have dedicated their lives to their duty of protecting Usagi.
Minako enjoys Oolong tea and her favorite foods are given as curry rice, ramen noodles, and stuffed dumplings with her least favorite food being shiitake mushrooms. Her favorite colors are listed as red, pink, orange, and yellow and she likes birds, the flowers orange dandelions and orchids, and the gemstone topaz. She is stated as having trouble with her mother and the police.


Storyline Specific Information: 
Love and Spite: Minako's parents are wealthy. Her father works for Serenity's mother and her mother is an idol. It is Minako's dream to follow in her mother's footsteps and become an idol too. In that fashion she is in every school play eve if she is not the lead(Though she often gets the lead roles.) she is active in the drama  and choir departments. Minako is a a great actor and a beautiful singer. Artemis is her younger brother and he is just starting at the same school that Minako will be graduating from soon. 


Senshi Name: Sailor V, Sailor Venus, Super Sailor Venus, Eternal Sailor Venus
Senshi Fuku:
Sailor V
Sailor V's uniform is mostly blue and red, and includes shoulder-armor, quarter-length sleeves, and broad stripes of color. She wears a shirt rather than a leotard, as well as her characteristic red mask. Some of the details vary between version to version; in the manga and live-action series the shirt had sleeves and smooth gloves, but in the anime it was sleeveless with ring-topped gloves. The anime added a second layer to her shoulder guards, omitted the crescent Moon that is normally visible on her forehead, and added a second stripe to her collar.[9] In the live-action series, the bow on Sailor V's chest was made dark pink, like the red parts of Sailor Moon's costume, but her mask and hair bow are red.


Sailor Venus'  dominant color was orange (choker, collar, center of front bow, elbow fittings of gloves, skirt, shoes, and earrings) and her accent colors were blue (front bow) and yellow (tiara gem and back bow). Her collar had one white stripe near the edge of the collar (not at the center), and her shoes were orange heels with ankle straps.
After the "Super" upgrade (SuperS, Stars), her earrings were the same shape but darker in color, her choker had a yellow star attached to it, her collar had one white stripe down the center, the center of her front bow was an orange heart, the bottom of the shoulder pads was translucent, and the back waist bow was enlarged and lengthened.
After the last upgrade in the Stars arc, her choker was V-shaped and the center of her front bow was an orange five-pointed star. Her shoulder pads were large yellow puffs with two patches of orange fabric attached to the bottom. Her gloves became longer, reaching to her upper arms. In artbook illustrations, she had orange V-shaped wristbands with golden five-pointed stars on them, but they were not present in the manga. Her belt consisted of two ribbons - one orange and one yellow, with two long, thin back ribbons, clipped together by a golden five-pointed star. Her back bow was yellow. Her skirt became two-layered, the top layer being orange and the bottom layer yellow. Her boots were knee-length and white, and each had an orange V-shaped border with a five-pointed star at the top. Her tiara gem was an orange five-pointed star and her earrings were orange, dangling five-pointed stars.
Henshin/Transformation:
Sailor V- Moon Power, Transform - Used her first transformation pen to transform into Sailor V.
Crescent Moon Power, Transform - Used her compact to transform into any disguise she wanted.


Venus Power, Make Up - Used her first transformation pen to transform into Sailor Venus.
Venus Star Power, Make Up - Used her Star Power Stick to transform into Sailor Venus.
Venus Planet Power, Make Up - Used the planet powers granted to her by Neo-Queen Serenity to transform into Sailor Venus.
Venus Crystal Power, Make Up - Used her Venus Crystal to transform into Eternal Sailor Venus.

Powers:
Sailor V
Crescent Beam - She reflected a beam of light from her compact at her enemy and destroyed it.
Crescent Boomerang - Sailor V attacked by throwing her compact at the enemy.
Venus Power, Love Crescent Shower - Sailor V used her compact to make a rain shower pour down and melt her enemy.
Crescent Super Beam - A more powerful version of Crescent Beam, again perfomed with her compact.
Crescent Slender Beam - An attack performed with her compact, which destroyed the enemy.
Venus Sulfur Smoke - Created a pungent sulfurous cloud of smoke that overwhelmed the enemy.
Ultimate Attack: Diphenhydramine Dispersal - Used against Chuu-Chuu.
Venus Brand: Mosquito Incense Typhoon - Used against Chuu-Chuu.
Venus Ten-Billion Volt Rockin' Rouge - Used the Venus Mike to create a sound wave that destroyed her enemy.
Venus Love Megaton Shower - Created a powerful shining light that destroyed the enemy.

Physical Attacks
Sailor V Kick - Sailor V kicked her enemy.
Sailor V Chop - Sailor V karate chopped her enemy.
Rolling Screw Sailor V Punch - She punched her enemy.
V-chan-style Kneading Sailor V Chop - Another karate chop.
Venus Iron Muscle Punch - She punched her enemy.
V-chan's Sword - Sailor V struck her enemy with an uchigatana.


Sailor Venus, Super Sailor Venus and Eternal Sailor Venus
Crescent Boomerang - First attack used by Sailor Venus, in which she threw her compact at her enemies.
Sailor V Kick - Sailor Venus kicked her enemy.
Venus Love-Me Chain - Sailor Venus used her chain to hit or grab the enemy.
Rolling Heart Vibration - Used only in the manga, live-action series, and numerous video games. Sailor Venus sent forth a rolling heart to damage the enemy.
Venus Wink Chain Sword - Used only in the manga.  Sailor Venus used her chain as a sword to damage the enemy.
Venus Love and Beauty Shock - Sailor Venus gained this power after transforming with the Venus Crystal. She used her Love Whip to attack her enemy.
Venus Love and Galactica Shock - This attack was used by Sailor Venus when she was under Sailor Galaxia's control in the Stars arc.
Akuryo Taisan - This attack was used only once by Sailor Venus, in "Exam Battle 3," to destroy the Genius loci that was attacking T·A Academy for Girls.



Weapons or Magical Items:

Crescent Moon Compact- In Codename: Sailor V, Minako Aino was given a crescent moon-shaped compact by Artemis. She used it as Sailor Venus for her attacks as well as disguising herself with Crescent Moon Power, Transform. Some of the Crescent Compact powers are Crescent beam, Venus Power Love Crescent Shower, and Crescent Boomerang. It is charged by the moonlight, and has to be recharged often in order to work.

The Star Power Sticks were the second transformation items the Sailor Senshi, save for Usagi, used to transform that were provided to them by Luna. In the manga, the Inner Senshi were given the Star Power Sticks after they destroyed their transformation pens in order to help Sailor Moon defeat Metalia They were used in the Sailor Moon R season of the anime and the Black Moon Arc of the manga.

The Crystal Change Rod was the collective name for the transformation devices given to the four Inner Senshi by Pegasus which allowed them to transform into their second senshi uniforms. These devices only appear in the anime. In the manga, each Senshi used their respective Sailor Crystal to transform into their second senshi uniforms. They replaced the Sailor Crystals used in the manga in order for the Senshi to transform.

Venus Crystal was the Sailor Crystal that Minako Aino used to transform into Super Sailor Venus in the manga. It was given to her by Artemis.

Sailor Venus's Chain was an item that appeared in most continuations of the series. In the manga it was a golden link chain with rubies that Sailor Venus wore around her waist as a belt and was also used for several of her attacks. The links of the chain would become heart-shaped when she performed Venus Love-Me Chain. However,they were always round when she used Venus Wink Chain Sword. The chain was replaced by the Love Whip when she was in her Super Sailor Venus form.

The Sword of the Mystical Silver Crystal (also called Holy Blade) was a sword found by the Sailor Senshi on the moon in Act 10, Volume 03. It was stuck into the ground and Sailor Venus was the only one who could free it. It is from the Silver Millennium and its purpose was to protect Princess Serenity. After Prince Endymion was killed by Queen Beryl, Princess Serenity committed suicide by stabbing herself with the sword out of grief. To avenge their deaths, Sailor Venus took the sword and killed Queen Beryl.
In Act 12, Sailor Venus kills Queen Beryl with the sword once again. After this, strange writing appeared on the sword which only Sailor Venus could read. This happened to be the method to seal away Queen Metalia. However, out of confusion, Sailor Moon killed Tuxedo Mask(whose body was taken over by Queen Metalia) and then killed herself. However, this didn't really kill them and only freed Queen Metalia from Tuxedo Mask's body.
In Act 13, in an attempt to seal away Queen Metalia and to try to find Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask afterwards, the rest of the Senshi threw away their transformation pens and Sailor Venus called upon the sword once again to give her and the rest of the Senshi more power. Unfortunately, this plan failed and left them powerless. This was also the last time that the sword is seen in the manga.

The V Mask (simply known as Mask, Venus's Mask, or Red Goggles) was the mask Sailor Venus wore as Sailor V. As Sailor V, she always wore this mask and hardly ever took it off. Unlike Sailor Moon's Mask, her mask didn't have the ability to see people in danger and was only there to protect her identity. She also wore this mask in her Sailor Venus form but it was only for a few times.


The Microphone of Venus was an item in Codename: Sailor V and was only used once in the series. Sailor V used it to perform the Venus Ten Billion Volt Rock N' Rouge attack. Basically, it would create sound waves.

The Striking Katana was an item only used in Codename: Sailor V and was only used once in the series. Sailor V used this to perform the attack Seppuku which destroyed Wan-Wan.

The Love Whip was a manga-only item used by Sailor Venus in order to perform Venus Love and Beauty Shock. It was an upgraded version of her previous chain that she used in order to perform Venus Love Me Chain. Instead of hearts, it had roses on it. While being controlled by Sailor Galaxia's bracelets, it had galaxy-shaped links, and she used the whip in order to perform Venus Love and Galactica Shock

Guardian:Artemis is Minako's white guardian cat, as well as her advisor. He was the one who awoken Minako as Sailor V and has continued to watch over her since then.

In the manga, Artemis is the guardian and advisor to Sailor Venus as well as her previous incarnation as Sailor V.
He is slightly forgetful and lazy, but when Minako turns to him for advice or his charge finds herself in trouble, he pulls himself together and becomes more of an actual father figure. He constantly picks on Minako but oftentimes is seen comforting her or going out of his way to try and make her dreams come true.
During the Dream arc Artemis takes on his human form when Sailor Venus is thrown off a ledge and saves her. He is also responsible for giving her her next power up.

He, Luna, and Diana are killed by Sailor Lethe in the last arc in order to 'damage' Sailor Moon.

Just like in the manga, Artemis is portrayed as a slightly lazy and love sick father figure to Minako. He often gets into trouble with Luna, and at one point is banished from her presence for looking at a nun; although he was actually looking at the Church and 'hoping to one day get married there'.
In the anime Artemis still does his best to help Minako realize and chase her dreams; sometimes pulling notebooks and audition papers out of her desk and submitting them in her place. In the movie called Hearts In Ice, he tries to walk sick Luna home, but she insists that she would go alone. Later, he confesses that he "should have walked her home", so he gets the girls to find her.



RP Sample:
Minako walked around the park. She wasn't looking for any thing she was just walking. She wanted a little time alone. She wasn't sure where her future lies. Not anymore. She wanted more than what was in front of her. She knew that she would protect her friends in the future and she knew that she was destined to be Sailor Venus for a long time but wasn't there more for her?
Wasn't she allowed to be an idol too? Or was that out of the question for her? She pondered this as she sat on the swings and let the wind blow through her hair. She didn't have the best test scores and she wasn't as smart as Ami, but she could still be something other than a senshi right?
With these thoughts plaguing her mind she sat there till well after the sun was down. Her mother would be looking for her. Sighing she stood and grabbed her bag and started back home. She would have to figure this out at some point. She would have to think about all this soon. Was there more to life than being a Senshi and protecting her dear friends? What if she just left it all behind? What if she packed away her transformation pen and her communicator and just walked away for a normal life? Would that be so bad? Yes, she decided. They would need her, even if she was ditzy and a little dumb, but she was their leader after Usagi. She would stay and not think about what would be in the future. There could very well be a man and kids in her future or the career as an Idol she wanted so badly. It wouldn't hurt to be a senshi at the same time. It might help her, but how would she fight if she had an image to maintain? Shaking her head she came upon her home. Her mother was standing the the front yard. Minako put on a smile and started to say she was sorry for being so late. Her mother just hugged her. "It's ok dear." her mother said. "I just worry about you." she said as they walked into their home, to the smell of dinner ready to eat.
Yeah the future could wait a little longer. For now, Minako would try to be as normal a girl as she could. Yeah that sounded like a good plan.

Please bump this thread when the profile has been finished or if you want help .

Oh I could really use some help. I don't know that much about Minako and my web searches have come up to well here for the most part. Any and all help is appreciated. I need to expand the Physical description I know that, and do the Rp sample. But am I missing stuff from her history and personality?

Your history and personality sections look good, although could you remove the [citation needed] parts from the description by changing the wording a bit? Could you also mention her close relationship with Rei?

When it comes to her physical description, she is said to be about 5'0" tall, having slim yet slightly athletic body. In clothing she prefers to wear dresses (especially when she goes to idol auditions) but also shorts and skirts. Her style could be described to be girly and trendy with bright colors (especially the shades of red, orange and blue are often present in her clothing) although when it comes to frills and pastel colors, she rather leaves those to be Usagi's trademarks.

Please let me know if this helps .

Thanks that helps out a lot. I'll get on the rest of this! thanks again!!

No problem . Is this profile ready for review? It looks like it but I do not want to rush the review process in the case that you are still working on the profile.

Yeah I think it is ready for Review. I thought the description said that if not I'm sorry for that.

I am sorry it took this long to post the review. You could add Minako's Princess form into her physical description section but since your profile meets the requirements, I will say that this profile is approved ^^.

oops i ment to add her princess form in there. Can i still do that or is it too late?

Since you would like to add the information but forgot to do so earlier, go ahead if you want to .

I added info for Love and Spite.

SSI noted. However, could you briefly note how that Minako has no senshi powers of any kind in Love and Spite? Thanks!

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