APPEARANCE
Anime: Mina is tall and blonde, with bright blue eyes. Her hair is held back with a big red bow. Her school uniform is similar to Ami and Serena’s, though with a different style tie. Mina is a model, often portraying popular game character Sailor V. Her school uniform greatly resembles Sailor V’s outfit, except Sailor V wears red heels and a mask. When she wears regular clothes, she is often in dresses. Her mode of transformation, like the others, is her pen. It is orange with the symbol of Venus on top. It spins out to form light that surrounds her to create her Sailor Venus outfit. Her sailor outfit resembles the others, except her skirt is orange and her bow is blue. She wears orange heels with a strap across her ankle.
Live action: Minako is small and fragile. She has brown hair and bright brown eyes. Because she is a superstar, she doesn’t go to school. Her outfits are a bit more flashier than the other girls, but she tends to favor skirts and hats. She also favors white and black rather than colors. While she is a singer and not an actress, Sailor V still makes an appearance in the series. Her outfit is the same, straight down to the mask. In the beginning, Sailor V is seen defeating some of the bad guys and fighting Tuxedo Kamen. When the others finally meet up with her, she changes from Sailor V into Sailor Venus. Her outfit resembles the anime’s except she has a chain around her waist. She also has jewels flowing down from her red bow, attached to her transformed blonde hair. Also, during the time when she was the Moon Princess, she wore a different tiara—a crystal one.
POWERS
Anime: Sailor Venus’ main attack is her Crescent Beam Smash. It creates a beam of light that hits the dark monsters. Later, she gets the Venus Love-Me Chain, a series of lighted hearts that can either hurt the monster or tie it up like a chain.
Live action: Sailor Venus’ main attack is the Venus Love-me Chain. She uses the chain around her waist, which glows and grows accordingly. She mostly uses this attack as she awakens her full power later in the series. Like the others, she too has a tambourine. And like the others, she can play it to turn it into a laser beam.
PERSONALITY
Anime: Mina is bubbly, outgoing and happy-go-lucky. She can be a bit of a ditz, though not as bad as Serena. As she appears later in the first series, her personality isn’t fully established until the next season. However, she is loyal to her friends and will do anything for them. She can be just as boy-crazy as Lita. She is also more athletic than the others, as she is seen playing volleyball. As Sailor Venus, she has the most experience fighting. She is the least likely to end up doing something stupid and getting captured. Though it’s never really established in the anime, Sailor Venus is the leader of the inner scouts and will take the lead when she needs to.
Live-action: Where Rei and Usagi were toned down, Minako is completely different from her anime counterpart. She’s quiet and serious. She is aware that she is highly competitive—it is why she signs Rei up to be her rival singer, it is what Rei uses to get Minako to not give up singing. She is given a reason for remaining aloof—she is suffering from Generic Terminal Disease and doesn’t want people behind who will be hurt when she dies. She can be warm, as seen when she is around children, Usagi and Artemis.
As a Sailor Senshi…She is a bitch. As a distraction, she pretends to be the Moon Princess. When she does so, she barks at the others, orders Usagi to stay away from Mamoru and treats Rei like crap. Even after she reveals her ruse, she doesn’t stop being a bitch. She remains separate from the group rather than working with them initially and in despite being the leader. She also sticks firmly to the past life, treats it like gospel truth. Anyone who believes otherwise (Rei) is kicked off the team. However, Minako changes her belief when Makoto nearly sacrifices herself for the past life. She had been warming up to the other scouts as friends and decides to forego the past life. She also decides to get the surgery, which costs her her life.
RELATIONSHIPS
Anime: Not much is made of Mina’s home life, though it appears she does have two parents like Serena. She also appears to be an only child, though some have mentioned a woman named Katrina who may have been Mina’s sister or like her sister. However, this really only appears in the manga so as far as the anime is concerned, Mina is an only child. It is seen that she doesn’t seem to have many friends outside of the Sailor Scouts and that she isn’t well-liked at her school. The others find her snobby, so her true friends are the Sailor Scouts. Her best friend is clearly Lita, whom she spends most of her time with and who she goes boy-hunting with. She does hang out with Serena a bit as well.
Live action: Minako doesn’t appear to have parents and nothing is mentioned about them. She seems to live on her own, with only Artemis by her side. She also has a manager, but he is nothing more than a clown. It is Artemis who cares for Minako, who counsels her and tries to get her to undergo the surgery. While she has dozen of fans, she doesn’t seem to have much in the way of friends. Her band does seem to care, especially when she collapses on the stage, but are hardly seen. When she meets Usagi, she is first surprised to find out that the girl is Sailor Moon. However, as the girls spend more time together, they become friends and Minako genuinely cares for Usagi. She also forms a volatile relationship with Rei, whom she seems to be close to despite being cruel to her most of the time.
She has no romantic pairings, though one could almost read her relationship with Rei as the Western idea of “hate turns to love”.
PLOT CHANGES
The biggest changes are, of course, Minako’s personality and superstar lifestyle. There is also the plot where Minako pretends to be the Moon Princess in order to protect the real princess, Usagi, as she has not realized this yet. Minako also gets a good rival in Mio, a minion from the Negaverse. She uses her position as a superstar to remain in the same circles as Minako and get close to Usagi, to undermine her confidence. Minako realizes that Mio is from the Negaverse and tries to protect Usagi as best she can.
The other change is the Generic Terminal Illness Minako suffers from. It adds an extra dimension to her character. It also explains both her aloofness and why she is so focused on the
past lif
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Mina/ Sailor Venus
Minako/Sailor Venus
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