Codename: Sailor V

Codename wa Sailor V (コードネームは セーラーブィ, Kōdo Nēmu wa Sērā Bui^?, Code name Sailor V) is a manga created by Naoko Takeuchi in 1991. The manga narrates the adventures of Minako Aino, a High school student who discovers he has magical powers with which he must defend the Earth. Codename: Sailor V sets the stage for its popular sequel Sailor Moon.

Plot

Minako Aino is a 13-year-old teenager with a very irreverent character, not a very good student and who struggles to find a boyfriend. Her life changes for her when Artemis, a white cat with a crescent moon on her forehead speaks to her and reveals that she is the reincarnation of a protector of the Earth and her mission is to defend the inhabitants of the planet.

Aino accepts the mission and with her magic transforms into "Sailor V", who fights against criminals and the Dark Agency, under the leadership of Danburite.

One of his most special loves is Higashi, later revealed to be the evil agent Narcissus. Sometimes she has the help of the mysterious Kaito Ace, a young man with a heroic character.

Finally, Minako realizes that her duty is more important than romance and assumes her true identity as Sailor Venus. From there, she decides to search for the rest of the "Sailor Senshi". and the princess of the moon.

Post

Its debut was as a single issue in August 1991 in Kōdansha's Run-Run magazine. In 1993 he returned to Run-Run as an open series until ending in the fifteenth chapter in 1997, which were grouped into three tankōbon. In 2004 and 2014 they were reissued in new editions of two Shinsoban.

The editions in Spanish

Sailor V was published in Spain between 1998 and 2000, at the same time as Sailor Moon, by the editorial Glénat in three volumes and later by Norma Editorial in two volumes.

In Argentina, it was published by Editorial Vértice S.R.L., in a specialized magazine.^{[citation required]} In 2018, it was published in Ivrea in two compilation volumes.

Chapters

In other media

Anime

The publishers had offered the author, Naoko Takeuchi, an animated series of the manga, but she wanted to make her work a bit more complex and thus began the Sailor Moon manga, which would later have an anime version.

Code Name Wa Sailor V does not have an anime version but we can find in episode 42 of Sailor Moon ("Sailor Venus no kako, Minako no hiren") an allusion to the history of Sailor V before the events of Sailor Moon. Also in the Live Action series Pretty Guardian Soldier Sailor Moon, there is a special episode "Act Zero" where we can see how Minako became Sailor V.

Similarities and differences with Sailor Moon

Naoko Takeuchi's next work, Sailor Moon, part of this series as a model, but with some differences. They are similar: the main character, the helping hero, the classmates, the counselor (in this case the cats of both works, Artemis and Luna). Both works are similar in the matter of mythology, love and heartbreak and magical powers. In fact, Sailor V is a beginning of the Sailor Moon series, who later appears in it.