diff.text: }}''' Minako Aino''' (愛野 美奈子, ''Aino Minako; '') (known simply as '''Mina Aino''' in the english adaptations) better known as '''Sailor Venus''' is one of the original five [[sailor soldiers]] & the leader of the Inner Sailor Soldiers and was in fact the first sailor soldier created by [[Naoko Takeuchi]]. She is extremely cheerful and more or less [[Usagi Tsukino|Usagi]]'s best friend. She has a white cat named [[Artemis]] who is her [[guardian cat]] from the [[Silver Millennium|moon]].