At 04:53 PM 2/21/97 -0500, you wrote:
Well, I've put my foot in it now. I told someone something happened in
Sailor Moon TV series, and now I can't find the reference for it....
In particular, was there a scene (or scenes) in the anime (or manga) where
Minako/Sailor Venus actually *said* she was the leader of the Senshi? Or
perhaps where someone else said it?
My brain keeps telling me there was a scene once where she basically told
one of the Outers to do what she said or bugger off because she was in
charge.
Yuppers. Happens in Episode... um... 4? Of Sailor Stars where Pluto says to
Venus "Leave me!" and Venus tells her, "You can't tell me what to do, -I- am
the leader!!"
In the MANGA...
Sailor Moon - Act 9
ACT 9 - SELENITY / PRINCESS
Originally appeared in Nakayoshi, October 1992.
Translated by Alex Glover <kurozuki@nwlink.com>. Version 1.0, 5.96.
Usagi sits in the Crown Game Center, in her flowing white dress,
crying. Her head is buried in a soft pillow, rested on a table. The
others watch her, concerned. "Sailor Moon..." Minako says
as she approaches her. "I mean, Princess Selenity. Do you remember?"
Usagi looks up at Minako, who now wears a normal tiara. "That
I'm Sailor Venus? That I'm the real leader of the four soldiers of
your royal guard... About our kingdom, the Silver Millennium?"
She is also the only one who can draw the stone sword:
ACT 10 - MOON / TSUKI
Originally appeared in Nakayoshi, November 1992.
Translated by Alex Glover <kurozuki@nwlink.com>. Version 1.0, 5.96.
Usagi looks at the ground in front of the tower. The hilt of a sword
sticks out of the ground, its blade buried in the rock floor. "What's
that?" she says.
"Mars, Jupiter, Mercury, Venus," Luna says. "Pull
it out."
They all rush over to the sword and try in vain to remove it. "What?"
cries Ami. "Has it petrified?"
"I can't pull it out!" Makoto says. "It's impossible,
Luna!"
"Try as hard as you can!" says Luna. "You can do it!"
Minako grasps the hilt and pulls. The sword slowly slides out of
the ground. Minako holds it up, a look of shock on her face. "A
stone sword!?"
and VENUS Kills Beryl in the manga!!!:
ACT 11 - REUNION / ENDYMION
Originally appeared in Nakayoshi, December 1992 and January 1993.
Translated by Alex Glover <kurozuki@nwlink.com>. Version 1.0, 5.96.
Minako grabs on to something. "Venus!" Usagi calls.
"I'm getting pissed off..." she mumbles. "The sword!
The holy blade, to protect the princess." She tries to lift
up the heavy sword, but can't raise it off the ground.
Makoto runs by her and grabs it. "Venus! Let me do it!"
She holds the sword over her head, and slices through the string
of hair. It cuts strands off the hair, but they continue to hold
Usagi. "Usagi!?"
"It hurts..." Usagi thinks. "I can't die yet! Not
here!"
"The moon!" calls Minako. "Our kingdom, the Silver
Millennium." She raises the sword high. "With the strength
of my old life!"
"Mamo-chan!" Usagi cries. "Endymion!! I'll win you
back!"
The crystal begins to glow in his hand.
Minako clutches the sword and charges.
The sword pierces Beryl through the stomach and begins to glow. She
screams as blood flows out of her wound.
"The sword!?" Minako thinks. "That light..."
"I finally had you..." thinks Beryl. "Prince Endymion..."
~The young Beryl watches from afar as Endymion and Selenity embrace.~
"I've always been watching you."
Her face contorts, her body begins to disintegrate.
"Always."
Beryl's tiara drops to the floor.
"So Beryl has been destroyed..." says Queen Metallia. "The
power of the Moon Kingdom is getting stronger."
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Minako stares at the glowing sword.
"'When the sword glows... the princess will be the queen. The
spirit of the Mystical Silver Crystal will appear.'"
"V-chan!?"
"'It will become complete. It will become great. The power of
the Moon Kingdom will awaken. Give a prayer at the Moon Tower. Pray
that the Moon Kingdom will have peace again...'"
"Is it written on the sword?" asks Ami. "Become the
queen... Princess Selenity!?"
"Become great..." says Luna. "The freedom of the moon's
power!? Is that... the way to make the seal!?"
The sword becomes heavy in Minako's hands, and she drops it.
"Become great..." thinks Tuxedo Kamen. "The moon's
power!?"
Minako collapses on the floor. He rushes to her and picks her up.
"V-chan!?" calls Usagi.
Tuxedo Kamen carries Minako through a black portal, and Usagi chases
after him.
And my own write up on the subject ^_^:
Some information about Aino Minako:
Aino Minako is the Japanese name of Sailor Venus (Mina in American
Sailor Moon). For those of you who haven't seen every single Japanese
Sailormoon episode or read the manga, I figure I should explain a few things.
First of all... Before there was ever a Sailormoon series there was
a manga series called "Code Name: Sailor-V" (see
http://mizuno.res.cmu.edu/~marisa/sv.html ) which was all about a
thirteen-year-old Aino Minako and the cat Artemis who helped her become the
beautiful soldier for justice, Sailor-V. When the author of Sailor-V was
approached to have her manga made into anime, they asked her if she could
possibly expand the storyline a bit. The expansion of the Sailor-V series
became "Bishojo Senshi Sailormoon."
Aino Minako was moved from Sailor-V into the role of Sailor Venus,
the last of the inner-senshi to be found in the Sailormoon manga (and
anime.) In the Sailormoon MANGA, Sailor Venus was at first thought to be the
moon-princess because she had a crescent moon on her forehead when she
transformed into Sailor-V (and, at first, when she transformed into Sailor
Venus). It was later discovered, of course, that Usagi was actually the moon
princess. However, and this point is VERY VERY vague in the anime, it turned
out that Sailor Venus was actually the LEADER of the Sailor Senshi, which is
why she has a different transforming pen than the other inner-senshi and why
she has a guardian cat of her own. As I said, this point is really not so
obvious in the anime at first, though it seems to have suddenly resurfaced
in Sailor Stars. In the (5th?) episode of Sailor Stars, Sailor Venus rescues
Sailor Pluto, who tells her to just go and leave her. Venus retorts to Pluto
something like, "Don't you tell me what to do! I am the leader!" As I said,
the point isn't really emphasized in the anime, but perhaps it will become
important in Stars. *shrug* who knows.
OK. BECAUSE Sailor Venus was important as her own character PRIOR to
Sailormoon, she tends to get quite a few "solo" episodes in both the anime
and manga. I can think of at least three in the first series-- her first
appearance, the hair-parlor, and the "Sailor-V" episode, "Nurse Minako" and
a couple others in Sailormoon R, the two volleyball episodes in Sailormoon S
and the one where she falls for Haruka (thinking she is a guy) and one more
I think..., (haven't seen much Super S), and I have seen one Aino Minako
story in Sailor Stars but I don't know the title. There are a couple
parallel stories in the manga too.
For you poor people who can only see the DIC episodes of Sailor Moon
;_; I can only say that they treated Minako like CRAP!!! They cut out EVERY
reference to her being Sailor-V, and they took out the whole episode about
Sailor-V in the first series of Sailormoon. I guess it was too violent for
them or something. I dunno. Basically they made her into an idiot. Sigh. The
story that they cut can be summed up like this: Minako goes off to study in
England and fights there as Sailor-V. She meets up with a handsome guy named
Alan and falls in love. Later she meets Katerina-oneesama, who is an agent
of a crime-fighting organization called Interpol. Alan, Minako, and Katerina
do lots of stuff together as friends, and Mina completely misses that Alan
had fallen in love with Katerina. Katerina (of course) never noticed that
Minako liked Alan (yeah right). Anyway, Minako faked her own death when she
found out that Alan was actually in love with her friend, and took off for
Japan. There is more to the story, but that is all you really need to know
to get the gist of MY story--- go watch the episode ^_^ At the end of the
episode, Minako finally gives up on Alan because she can't come between him
and Katerina.
USUALLY the episodes with Minako as the focus are about Mina running
off, getting depressed, etc. She seems to be more prone to depression than
any of the other senshi, and doesn't always seem to be quite comfortable
with the others. Usagi once said of her, "Minako is more mature than any of
us..."
But of course she doesn't ACT mature most of the time. Why?
Marisa Price
mdp102@york.ac.uk University of York (standard mail)
marisa@tendo-dojo.ranma.net (any mail with attachments)
http://www.york.ac.uk/~mdp102/