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Sailor Moon Scout Guide #5
Meet Sailor Venus: Love
Introduces Mina Aino, also known as Sailor Venus, a companion of Sailor Moon, and one of a group of teenage girls who transform into superheroes to defeat the forces of evil.
93 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1996
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856 books22 followersKodansha Ltd. (Japanese: 株式会社講談社, Hepburn: Kabushiki-gaisha Kōdansha) is a Japanese privately-held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha is the largest Japanese publishing company, and it produces the manga magazines Nakayoshi, Afternoon, Evening, Weekly Shōnen Magazine and Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine, as well as the more literary magazines Gunzō, Shūkan Gendai, and the Japanese dictionary Nihongo Daijiten. Kodansha was founded by Seiji Noma in 1909, and members of his family continue as its owners either directly or through the Noma Cultural Foundation.
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October 26, 2017
Venus Love-me Chain!!!
ESSENTIAL TO ANY SAILOR VENUS FAN
This is the fifth and final one of five reference books published to tie-in with the premiere of Sailor Moon TV show in the US television.
I thought (and commented it in the previous books of this collection) that I waited like a year to get this final book, but now that I checked it out again the original date of reading (that I won't say it's deadly accurate but pretty much close) it's clear that I waited even more time, like 4 years to complete the collection. I remember how sad was that having all the other 4 and still lacking of the final book, and while English written American published books about Anime series isn't so hard to find like the original Japanese ones, boy! As you can see, it wasn't easy to get it, even harder taking in account that I was (and still am) client then of a specialized Anime & Manga store, where the owner made travels to US and Asia many times to get stuff for the store and even so, it was a 4-year waiting to get this final book.
BUT I GOT IT!!! YEY!!!
Well, now the review of this book...
Each book of this series of five, is focused in one of the Sailor Scouts, where here is obvious that it's about the fifth sailor to be called (or we should say that she was the first even before than Sailor Moon? Mmh), Sailor Venus aka Mina Aino (Minako in the Japanese version), also known as Sailor V.
Mina was kinda the first sailor scout, since Naoko Takeuchi did an earlier Manga named Sailor V where Mina was the main character, but that first series wasn't as successful as Naoko wanted so she did an overhaul of the concept (like Joss Whedon did with his Buffy, the Vampire Slayer from the dynamics in the original theatrical movie to the most known and popular TV series), so Naoko came up with Sailor Moon, but she didn't forget sweet Mina and she added her to the new Manga (and later Anime) series.
Even Naoko Takeuchi established that Mina was already a super-heroine known worldwide way before that Serena would become Sailor Moon, and even there was an arcade video game based on Sailor V inside the new series.
Only Mina, due her previous status of a first attempt for a Manga (and Anime) series, she is the only besides Serena that she possess a talking cat guide too. Serena has Luna, while Mina has Artemis.
Mina is therefore the most experienced of the sailor scouts, since she was already battling alone against the forces of evil when the rest of the sailors were still normal teenager girls. She is brave, mature and the most reliable of the sailor scouts in a dangerous situation.
This reference book is a wonderful collector's item, since not only you're able to read it all since it's on English, but also is full color in prestige paper and with a massive amount of information focused on Sailor Venus, like her previous adventures as "Sailor V", her cat Artemis, her romantic relationships, her lovely powers, etc...
Obviously, if you're fan of the Sailor Moon anime series, I recommend to get all the five books.
ESSENTIAL TO ANY SAILOR VENUS FAN
This is the fifth and final one of five reference books published to tie-in with the premiere of Sailor Moon TV show in the US television.
I thought (and commented it in the previous books of this collection) that I waited like a year to get this final book, but now that I checked it out again the original date of reading (that I won't say it's deadly accurate but pretty much close) it's clear that I waited even more time, like 4 years to complete the collection. I remember how sad was that having all the other 4 and still lacking of the final book, and while English written American published books about Anime series isn't so hard to find like the original Japanese ones, boy! As you can see, it wasn't easy to get it, even harder taking in account that I was (and still am) client then of a specialized Anime & Manga store, where the owner made travels to US and Asia many times to get stuff for the store and even so, it was a 4-year waiting to get this final book.
BUT I GOT IT!!! YEY!!!
Well, now the review of this book...
Each book of this series of five, is focused in one of the Sailor Scouts, where here is obvious that it's about the fifth sailor to be called (or we should say that she was the first even before than Sailor Moon? Mmh), Sailor Venus aka Mina Aino (Minako in the Japanese version), also known as Sailor V.
Mina was kinda the first sailor scout, since Naoko Takeuchi did an earlier Manga named Sailor V where Mina was the main character, but that first series wasn't as successful as Naoko wanted so she did an overhaul of the concept (like Joss Whedon did with his Buffy, the Vampire Slayer from the dynamics in the original theatrical movie to the most known and popular TV series), so Naoko came up with Sailor Moon, but she didn't forget sweet Mina and she added her to the new Manga (and later Anime) series.
Even Naoko Takeuchi established that Mina was already a super-heroine known worldwide way before that Serena would become Sailor Moon, and even there was an arcade video game based on Sailor V inside the new series.
Only Mina, due her previous status of a first attempt for a Manga (and Anime) series, she is the only besides Serena that she possess a talking cat guide too. Serena has Luna, while Mina has Artemis.
Mina is therefore the most experienced of the sailor scouts, since she was already battling alone against the forces of evil when the rest of the sailors were still normal teenager girls. She is brave, mature and the most reliable of the sailor scouts in a dangerous situation.
This reference book is a wonderful collector's item, since not only you're able to read it all since it's on English, but also is full color in prestige paper and with a massive amount of information focused on Sailor Venus, like her previous adventures as "Sailor V", her cat Artemis, her romantic relationships, her lovely powers, etc...
Obviously, if you're fan of the Sailor Moon anime series, I recommend to get all the five books.
May 17, 2019
One star deducted. The whole series is not written well and contains confusing chunks of almost-plot but this one was especially bad and weak, probably because Venus is the worst conceived scout, with little unique to her.
June 14, 2012
Suffers the same pitfalls and confusion as the other guides do. Such a shame but still, they are fairly interesting and the pics are beautiful. Even if they are written bad and confusing, it IS about the amazing show Sailor Moon, so who cares :p. Mina is a character I have never liked too much but this book was nice despite the silly stuff
December 31, 2023
Manga Venus is SO MUCH more badass than anime Venus
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