Enemies of Sailor V
Minako had to duel with many strange
and violent criminals before finding out the true plot of the Dark Agency, and
subsequently the Dark Kingdom. Here's a rundown of her enemies.
Narkissos
U.S. Kodansha name: Narcissus
Alias: Higashi-sempai
Sailor V's first enemy. Looking similar to Jadeite, Narkissos infiltrated
Minako's school and used his good looks to lure unsuspecting girls into a trap.
He possessed them, and used them as his slaves in a failed attempt to help the
Dark Agency rule all of Japan. At first, Minako had limited contact with him,
as Higashi was always surrounded by girls. One such girl named Haneda was
briefly rumored to be Higashi's girlfriend, but the poor lass was only a
puppet. After trying to possess and then kill Minako, Narkissos was killed by
Sailor V's Crescent Beam ~ an attack initially used with the Moon Compact that
shows the villains true form and melts them.
Takurou Ootaku
U.S. Kodansha Name: Takuro Otaku
Alias: Taku
A creepy pervert who used to frequent the Crown Game Plaza. Takurou believes
that the arcade is ONLY for lonely boys and other male otaku, and that a girl
like Minako has no place in a geek's world other than to shut up, stand still
and look pretty. He loves female video game fighters and has a crush on Sailor
V. Minako plays with his interest by using the Moon Compact to transform into a
video game soldier... only to be jumped and humped by Takurou! O_O Disgusted by
Takurou's attempt at sexual assault, she uses her pen to become Codename Sailor
V. When he sees Minako as Sailor V, he holds up her skirt and tries to examine
her panties (in case she has any). She delivers her now famous Sailor V KICK attack, knocking him out
for the day. Though not an official villain, Takurou's character illustrates
the kind of creep you should certainly avoid.
Pandora
The first of many Idol villains, Pandora first debuts on a 24-hour idol
channel. (Channel 44) She gives away CDs to young males, and uses her music to
brainwash all of Japan, including Minako's mother! Her goal is world
domination. Minako disguises herself as a police woman (though she later
despises cops) to infiltrate Pandora's show. She catches Pandora about to
attack her classmate Amano, so Minako uses her Moon Compact as a boomerang to
distract her, then she uses a gun to motion her away from Amano. Minako then
transforms and takes out Pandora's possessed henchmen. Sailor V then uses the
compact to melt Pandora into a pile of gore on top of a dress.
Petite
Pandora
Pandora's baby sister. After learning of her beloved sister's demise, Petite
Pandora sets out to gain revenge on Sailor V. Petite Pandora has "The World's
Cutest Wink" an attack that possesses male victims. She kidnaps several
victims, then sends a threat to the Police office for Sailor V, stating that
she will kill her victims unless V meets her in Shiba park. Sailor V arrives
just in time. Petite Pandora uses her men to attack Sailor V, but V knocks each
one unconscious. She then uses the Moon Compact to melt Petite Pandora alive,
but as Petite Pandora is dying, her body lets off a toxic gas! Sailor V uses a
new attack (Love Crescent Shower) to cleanse the air and wash away Petite
Pandora forever.
Fluorite, Dark Shizuka-hime, Dark
Guys and Twin Dark
Fluorite ran a seedy "talent" agency on behalf of
the Dark Agency, to brainwash the masses. Pandora and Petite Pandora were only
the first of many idols to have worked under the agent with the large forehead
and cigarette.
Dark Shizuka-hime (Quiet Princess) was dubbed the "Salary man's Goddess" while
the Dark Guys triplets were aimed at young ladies and Twin Dark (Dark Guys'
baby sisters) were aimed at everyone else. (Though Amano points out that Twin
Dark mostly appeal to fans of loli-con. Ew.)
With every age group and gender covered, Fluorite thought she was unstoppable.
She even had Minako fooled! The fans didn’t even notice that their new Dark
Idols weren't even human, but instead fragile clones.
The only two who weren't fooled were Artemis and Boss. Once Artemis could snap
Minako out of it, and drag her to speak with Boss, Minako knew what she needed
to do. She first infiltrated a concert, disguised as a G.I. Fighting Girl, but
then changed into an Idol herself, royally pissing off Fluorite. Minako then
became Sailor V, and used the Moon Compact to melt away the Idols one at a time.
Then, it was Fluorite's turn. Sailor V used
Crescent Beam and Crescent Boomerang, but Fluorite’s corpse continued to fight
her. So Sailor V used Love Crescent Shower to wash away all traces of Fluorite
and her idols for good.
Cyber
Warrior Girl Luga
U.S. Kodansha name: Lurga
A new video game appears at Crown, catching the eyes of a young schoolgirl
named Usagi Tsukino, but the girl's best friend Naru insists that they have to
get to school on time, so Usagi never gets to play the new game. However, she's
not the only schoolgirl eyeing the new craze, as Minako also desires to play
it. A third schoolgirl named Rei Hino says aloud that she senses something off
about the arcade, but is urged by her friends to move along.
The popular game is half virtual reality and half fighting simulation, and
overnight has a cult following. At first, Minako's mother forbids her from
playing it, (On the Fami-Fami ~ A joke based on Nintendo's Famicom) not because
fights are breaking out all over Japan with the upsurge in violence being
blamed on the fighting simulation, but because she wants to play it. (She uses
Minako's need to study as an excuse.)
The next morning, Minako's parents are beating the hell out of each other over
the game! And soon most of Japan is fighting. Boss reveals that the game is
from the Dark Agency, and that Minako must defeat it's main character, Luga.
Amano buys another copy, and Minako ventures to his house to play it (since her
parents won’t cough up the first copy). Amano sets up a mother board containing
the arcade port of the game to the TV.
Luga appears over the console and Minako turns into a French Maid, hoping to
clean Amano out of harm's way. But Once she becomes Sailor V, Luga sucks her up
into the video game!
Sailor V then begs Amano to play as her, and together they destroy Luga! Once
Luga dies, Sailor V returns from the video game, landing on Amano. But then she
destroys the motherboard, convinced that there are more demons in it. As Amano
screams, Wakagi breaks into his house with the police, only to discover that
they were once again too late. Wakagi gets chewed out by Amano's mother as
Sailor V escapes.
Hibiscusy
Certainly the best looking villain of the Codename Sailor V manga, Hibiscusy
was a representative of Dark Agency's Dark Air Systems airline. She had planned
to kill Sailor V on a flight to Hawaii, but later found out that Minako and her
parents had gone to Greece by mistake. Mad as hell, Hibiscusy had to redo her
whole plan, and travel to the exotic beaches of Greece. Upon arrival, she found
a perfect victim ~ Wakagi's older brother, who was just as hyper, but not as
smart as his baby brother. Hibiscusy possessed him, changing the elder Wakagi
into Aloha Kamen. But once Sailor V had defeated Aloha Kamen, she was able to
make short work of Hibiscusy She punched her foe sky-high, then melted her with
the compact.
Toshio Wakagi's Older Brother
Alias: Aloha Kamen
U.S. Kodansha Alias: Masked Aloha
Wakagi's "Oni-san" (Older Brother) doesn't have an official name. He is
weak-willed and easily taken advantage of. He falls into a string of bad luck,
first losing a contest for a trip to Hawaii to Sailor V, then being mislabeled
a pervert when he accidently bumped into Minako near the women's bathroom. He
ends up paying for the trip to Hawaii out of his own pocket (under pressure
from Toshio) then ends up on the wrong plane, headed for Greece. He starts to
blame Sailor V for his bad luck, just before he breaks his glasses. Hibiscusy
finds him, and turns him into Aloha Kamen. His powers stemmed from his hatred
of Sailor V, but ultimately he was not a strong foe. When Minako turned into a
voluptuous bikini model, he fainted. Once Hibiscusy was dead, he awoke with no
memory of himself as Aloha Kamen, but a strange costume on...
Vivian
Vivian calls herself the head of the Union of Dark Gangs. (Often mistranslated
as President of the Dark Agency.) She serves under Danburite and Kunzite. She
sets her sights on the local, urban violence going on with the Aoyama area, and
sends out other enemies from the Dark Agency, to battle members from many
different gangs. Once the bad boys have tuckered themselves out, she steals
their energy and possesses them. She dukes it out with Sailor V, even using an
electric whip to zap V with! But it only pisses off our heroine. Sailor V uses
the compact and melts Vivian. But after Vivian dies, and Sailor V departs... the
gang violence resumes.
DeBrine
U.S. Kodansha Name: deVleene
DeBrine introduces the world's most delicious chocolate: Rainbow Chocolate,
wrapped candies shaped to look like roses. She sells them at Chocolat DeBrine.
Young ladies are encouraged to eat the chocolate, and share them with potential
boyfriends. But the side effect is that there's an ingredient in the chocolate
that makes whomever eats it SUPER chubby! DeBrine then lures people into the
Este DeBrine spa, (Spa DeVleene in the US print) with the ads falsely stating
that you can lose weight here. Instead, DeBrine just steals the chubby girls'
energy. Then the girls of Japan start getting men to eat the candies, and they
too gain weight. Minako is the only person who doesn’t continue eating, and
puts herself on a rigorous training regimen. Sailor V and Artemis eventually
discover the plot, and Sailor V beats the hell out of DeBrine, before melting
her with the compact. But as a final strike against V, DeBrine's building
collapses onto her, and all of the people who ate the candy are still
overweight.
Liquid,
Powder, Solid and Water Founda
U.S. Kodansha name: Founde
Once
Ace Kaitou becomes popular, young ladies all over Japan wish to become
beautiful. Enter the Foundas.
Running the Fashion Building Heroine store, Liquid Founda would greet
unsuspecting customers and lead the towards cosmetics, Water Founda would take
them through wardrobe, Powder Founda would lead them through tableware and
Solid was customer service. However once the customers were given free gifts,
the girls would become brainwashed into attacking Sailor V on behalf of the
Foundas!
Sailor V eventually does battle with the Foundas, but because she forgot to
charge up her compact (A process in which she holds it up to the moonlight) Ace
ends up slicing the Foundas to death instead.
The Animal Siblings ~ Nyan-Nyan,
Wan-Wan and Chuu-Chuu
An unlikely family trio, readers are first introduced to Nyan-Nyan, the middle
child of the three.
Nyan-Nyan is a cat woman, whose simple plan was to suck out the energy of
people competing at an athletics festival. She has a powerful mist that when
spat out can temporarily knock a person out. She also has the ability to
control other cats (an ability later used by Kousagi) and she often disguises
herself as a kitten. Sailor V beats the hell out of her before melting her.
Oddly enough, it's not mentioned if she is or is not of Mau decent, though she
bears a resemblance to Sailor Tin Nyanko.
Wan-Wan is Nyan-Nyan's older brother. Devastated by his sister's death, Wan-Wan
disguises himself as a cute, female dog named Luna-chan. He is bought by famous
manga-ka (and geek) Marie-sensei, and is treated quite well. However when
Minako gets a chance to go to her house, Artemis spots Wan-Wan (as Luna-chan)
and falls in love with him!
Unaware of Wan-Wan's identity, Artemis plans to propose marriage to Luna-chan!
But before he can get the chance, Luna-chan zaps him.
Soon, Wan-Wan reveals himself, and
begins controlling all of the dogs in the neighborhood, using them to attack
humans. Sailor V becomes a Samurai with her pen, and fuses her Samurai ability
with her Sailor V power, and slices Wan-Wan in half.
Chuu-Chuu is Nyan-Nyan and Wan-Wan's baby sister. After losing her older
siblings, Chuu-Chuu vows revenge. Her plot was to run a phony blood drive and
suck out all the blood of every person living in Japan. She disguises herself
as a handsome, male doctor and of course Minako falls for her. But soon
Chuu-Chuu is foiled, and she sends her mosquito minions to attack Sailor V.
However Sailor V uses her Diphenhydramine Combo! Venus-Brand Mosquito Repellent
Incense Typhoon!!" to kill all the mosquitoes, including
Chuu-Chuu.
Karaoke Soldier Mike Makkii
This villain from the Dark Agency used a special line of microphones to suck out
energy from people visiting the karaoke bars in Roppongi, intent on even taking
the life from her victims. But before she can do too much damage, Artemis
arrives to bring Sailor V a new microphone, which doubles as a partial wand.
Sailor V sings, then uses the energy to melt Mike.
Princess Lin-Lin
Ace sets up a contest. Winner will star as his love interest in a movie being
filmed in China. Our heroine wins of course, and so Minako packed Artemis into
a suitcase and boarded her flight. Unknowingly, she walked past a young girl
named Ami Mizuno.
But the event was nothing but a trap. Princess Lin-Lin (who called herself the
heart of the Dark Kingdom) had discovered Minako's identity as Sailor V, and
was planning to lure Minako to her death with Ace. She fooled the Chinese into
believing that she was just a director for Avex Trax Productions (Ace-Vex-Trax
Productions in the US Kodansha translation) ~ The Dark Agency posing as a movie
company. Realizing that China held one fourth the world's population, she
thought it would be the perfect place to control.
Spanning two issues, Lin-Lin and Sailor V battled on the set of a movie. At one
point she even captured Artemis in a cage, with the intent of cooking and
eating him alive!! But Sailor V was slowly starting to awaken fully as Sailor
Venus, and with one more attack as Sailor V, she killed Lin-Lin with her new
attack "Venus Love Megaton Shower!!".
