Editing Sailor Venus (section)

===Sailor V===
{{Main|Codename: Sailor V}}
A preliminary form, under which Minako fought alone before the other Sailor Guardians were awakened. She was used to distract the enemy into thinking she was the Moon Princess while trying to find the real one. She wore a different uniform under this name, most notably a red [[mask]], and her appearance and powers incorporated the use of a [[crescent]] motif. In the early storyline of ''Sailor Moon'', she is something of a celebrity figure, of whom [[Sailor Moon (character)|Usagi Tsukino]] is a great fan. She called herself the Guardian of Justice.<ref name="sailorv1"/><ref>{{cite book|last=Takeuchi|first=Naoko| others=Translated and adapted by William Flanagan|title=Codename: Sailor V 1|year=2011|page=34|chapter=Vol. 1 The Birth of Sailor V!|publisher=Kodansha Comics|isbn=978-1-935429-77-7}}</ref>  The V was short for Venus, and she would sometimes introduce herself as such, though no other character refers to this form as such.<ref>Minako: Codename: Sailor V! Sailor Venus has arrived! Volume 6, among others.</ref> The form makes a return in two of Chibiusa's Picture Diary side stories, namely the first and third, set during the second and fourth story arcs. The former was likely chosen due to her knowing one of the people she was rescuing was a Sailor V fan, the use of it in the latter is entirely without explanation.

Because Minako's creation predates the ''Sailor Moon'' [[metaseries]], some aspects of her character are slightly incompatible with the other Sailor Guardians.<ref name=Drazenname/> For example, her magical attacks lack the strict elemental rules: [[Venus]] is typically associated with [[metal (wuxing)|metal]] in [[Chinese astrology]], but her attacks are mostly light or love related. The incorporation of the "love element" comes from the [[Roman mythology|Roman goddess]] [[Venus (mythology)|Venus]].<ref name=Drazenname/>

Sailor V's sailor suit is mostly blue and red and includes shoulder armor, quarter-length sleeves, and broad stripes of color. She wears a shirt rather than a [[leotard]], as well as her characteristic red mask. Some of the details vary from version to version; in the manga and live-action series the shirt had sleeves and smooth gloves, but in the anime, it was sleeveless with ring-topped gloves. Occasionally in the manga, tiny, ornamental crescent moon charms were visible on the straps of the indigo high-heeled shoes accompanying this outfit, albeit the presence of these charms often varied from illustration to illustration. The anime added a second layer to her shoulder guards, omitted the crescent Moon that is normally visible on her forehead, and added a second stripe to her collar.<ref name="materials"/> In the live-action series, the bow on Sailor V's chest was made [[pink|dark pink]], like the red parts of Sailor Moon's costume, but her mask and hair bow are red.