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Real Name: Aino Minako Age: 13
Family: Only child, lives with her mother and father.
Codenames: Sailor-V, Sailorvenus
Identity: Seventh Grader at Shibakouen Junior High
Other School: Glory Cram School
Talents: Gymnastics, Volleyball, Sports

Sailor-V Episode Information
The Sailor-V Story is Episode 42
of Bishojo Senshi Sailormoon

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Sailor-V also appears in the Bishojo Senshi Sailormoon manga, also by Takeuchi Naoko. The manga of Sailormoon is different from the anime. In the Sailormoon manga we discover that Minako is the only senshi to fully regain her memories, and the first senshi to appear. Minako pretends to be the Moon Princess, as she bears a crescent moon on her forehead in her Sailor-V (and, at first, as Sailorvenus) transformation. Minako does this because only she and Artemis know that Usagi/Sailormoon is actually the Moon Princess, and they want to protect her until she awakens. After Sailormoon finally becomes Princess Selenity and gains the true moon-symbol on her forehead, Minako's crescent fades and is replaced by a normal tiara. In the Sailormoon manga, Sailorvenus is stated to be the leader of this system's sailorsenshi (all the planets), and she is a Princess in her own right (of the Castle Magellan on the planet Venus). Sailorvenus also has the right to bear the Holy Stone Sword, which can resurrect that which is broken (it heals Princess Selenity and Endymion, and the Silver Millennium), and she is the one who kills Queen Beryl in the manga.

The second version of Sailor-V is the animated version that appeared sporadically throughout the first season of the Bishojo Senshi Sailormoon anime. This story is very different from the manga. Sailor-V does not have the crescent moon on her forehead as she does in the manga and she does not pretend to be the princess (though she is suspected of being her). It is never clearly stated in the first season of the anime that Sailorvenus is the leader of the senshi (though it is brought up in later seasons.) The major episode about Sailor-V occurred toward the end of the first season, and was about Sailor-V's adventures in England and the reason why Minako had stopped fighting as Sailor-V. This episode was cut from the U.S.A. (D.I.C.) version. I'll let her tell you the story:

It was very difficult having to keep my identity a secret, and I was lonely for awhile because I had to spend so much time protecting people that I didn't have a chance to get to know them. My friends noticed that I was drifting farther and farther away, and started to talk about me behind my back, saying I was stuck-up. It really hurt. However, I now knew I had an important job, and if it wasn't for me the world wouldn't be a good place to live in; for that safety the price was my normal life. I left Japan for a time to go to England, where I also fought as Sailor-V with my friend, Katerina-oneechan, from Interpol (a policing group who also fought for justice.) I fell in love with Alan, a handsome Englishman, and I spent several happy months with my oneechan and Alan. One night, when there was a terrible battle and the building I was in exploded, I crawled out to find Alan and Katerina out in front of the building, crying and holding each other. At first I was happy, because I thought they were worried about me. And they were worried about me. But... I suddenly realized that their embrace wasn't one of friends, it was one of lovers. Alan didn't love me; he loved my oneechan. It was... very painful for me. I decided I couldn't come between them, because I cared about them too much, and I ran away, back to Japan. I knew that they would think I had died in the fire, and get on with their own lives. I didn't fight as Sailor-V again after that. Despite the fact that I stopped actively fighting as Sailor-V, she still became an idol. A Sailor-V computer game was created, and movies, and manga! Despite my popularity, it was a lonely time for me, and my only true friend left was Artemis.

This part gets a bit sad for Minako-chan, so I will finish off:
In the anime episode, Sailorvenus once again meets Katerina, who is being controlled by the Dark Kingdom. Instead of killing the person (as Sailormoon urged her to do) who had betrayed her twice, once in love, and this time in trust, Minako instead forgives her and has Sailormoon cure her. Mina realized that Alan always loved Katerina, and only thought of her as a younger sister, but that they had both always loved her and that by pretending to be dead she had hurt herself and them unnecessarily. In the end, Minako waves goodbye to Katerina as she returns to England, and tears up her pictures of Alan in order to forget the past.

You can also check out:
Hitoshi Doi's Summary of Sailormoon Episode 42

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