History Manga / CodenameSailorV

* {{Prequel}} - Actually, its first few chapters predate ''SailorMoon'' but most of it was completed during or after ''SailorMoon's'' run.
* PunnyName - Sound it out: C'est la vie...
* ReassignedToAntarctica - Superintendant Sakurada manages to reassign Inspector Wakagi to Siberia at one point. Understandably, he lampshades why the heck the Japanese police force has a Siberian outpost in the first place.
* TheRunaway - In Chapter 11, Artemis feels unappreciated and tries this tactic with Minako, deciding to stay away from her until she comes looking for him. [[spoiler: He's gone for a day, then comes back because he's worried about her, only to find she's barely registered that he was gone in the first place.]]
* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil - In ''SailorMoon'' canon, the BigBad for this storyline is a mere underling of the first manga arc's QuirkyMinibossSquad (specifically under Kunzite), though he does get to control a whole subgroup within the Dark Kingdom - the Dark Agency.
* TaughtByTelevision - Well, by video games, Minako learns Artemis was the name of a ancient Greek goddess from a game. This gives Artemis the idea to have the Sailor V game made to train her.

* UnluckyEverydude - Or Dudette in this case. It should be noted that Wakagi's brother plays this straight. He just can't catch a break directly or indirectly because of V.

* VSign - See the picture above, Sailor V uses it as her magical girl hand gesture

* FunPersonified - The manga's general tone, save for it's GrandFinale.

* TheRunaway - In Volume Eleven, Artemis feels unappreciated and tries this tactic with Minako, deciding to stay away from her until she comes looking for him. [[spoiler: He's gone for a day, then comes back because he's worried about her, only to find she's barely registered that he was gone in the first place.]]

* {{Prequel}} - Actually, its first chapter or so predates ''SailorMoon'' but most of it was completed during or after ''SailorMoon's'' run.

* NoodleIncident: Sailor V is most famous for foiling bank robberies and jewel heists. However we never see her do either of these in the manga.
** She does mention taking her police officer friend/ SecretKeeper, Sakurada, up on her offer of working for the police. This is likely when these occurred.
*** We actually see her doing that once at the start of the fourth chapter: in five panels she captures two thefts, disappears and pisses off Wakagi by anticipating the cops AGAIN (telling us it wasn't the first time), and then, in two other chapters, protecting people from bullies. Part of these still qualifies as [[NoodleIncident Noodle Incidents]], as we never saw Sailor V catching a gang of serial panty thefts, money counterfeiters, an arsonist, possibly the bank robbers (we aren't told what the criminals apprehended in chapter four did, only that they were criminals), and all the other cases Wakagi was investigating on.

* {{Irony}} - Adonis, a soldier for Kunzite who loved Sailor Venus in a previous life, dies with his [[UnrequitedLove love unrequited]]. He's reborn on Earth, but works for the dark kingdom and fights the woman he used to love. The irony comes when Minako, who didn't even know this man in her previous life, falls in love with his heroic alter-ego Ace. [[LifeIsntFair C'est la vie.]]

* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil - In ''SailorMoon'' canon, the BigBad for this storyline is a mere underling of the first manga arc's QuirkyMinibossSquad (specifically under Kunzite) though he does get to control a whole subgroup within the Dark Kingdom - the Dark Agency.

* FillerArc: The Pet Diary stories and "Youth Bet on the Hachimaki Stone" don't advance the Dark Agency plot (the former featuring villains completely unreleated to the Dark Agency, and the latter having a Dark Agency character just doing stuff ForTheEvulz.) They do, however, focus a bit more on Artemis and feature more nods to ''Sailor Moon''.

* FillerArc: The Pet Diary stories and "Youth Bet on the Hachimaki Stone" don't advance the Dark Agency plot. They do, however, focus a bit more on Artemis and feature more nods to ''Sailor Moon''.
* FunPersonified - Starts out this way, and gets more serious as the story goes on.

* EarlyBirdCameo: Naru, Motoki, and the rest of the Sailor Senshi of the Inner Solar System make pre-awakening appearances here. An [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe manga]] also used the character designs for who would become the ten Sailor Senshi.
** Motoki is less this and more a character that carried over to SailorMoon.
* EvilDiva: Lots of them.
* {{Expy}}: A lot of readers unfamiliar with the timeline mistake Minako for an Usagi rip-off, not realizing that Minako came long before ''Sailor Moon''. Those familiar with both series will argue that while both silly {{Genki Girl}}s, Minako is more likely to turn into a drama queen over a situation whereas Usagi will just squat down and cry. In general Minako is more action-oriented than Usagi, and these differences get played up in ''Sailor Moon'' where Minako plays TheLancer and TheCaptain to Usagi's hero.
** Minako's otaku pal Amano is drawn exactly the same as Usagi's otaku pal Umino, though Amano is more proactive and aides Sailor V several times.

* DoomedByCanon - Guess what happens to Danburite/Adonis in the last story?

''Codename: Sailor V'' (or ''Codename wa Sailor V'') is the story of Minako Aino, whom ''Sailor Moon'' fans will know as Sailor Venus. While it started as a one-off, it basically morphed into the story of the [[SixthRanger Fifth Ranger]] before she joins the FiveManBand. Minako in many ways is very similar to Usagi, given that Usagi is actually an {{Expy}} of Minako. But ''Sailor V'' is a generally sillier, goofier series than the ''Sailor Moon'' manga; it's closer in feel to the ''Sailor Moon'' anime, especially the first season.

However it does get a little darker toward the end, and there is a recurring theme of Minako being [[UnluckyEverydude unlucky in love]]. While this is mostly PlayedForLaughs, on a few occasions it's played with melancholy seriousness, especially in the grand finale that leads directly into the storyline of ''SailorMoon''.

Of course, at the end of the series, Minako awakens her Sailor Venus identity and discards her Sailor V one, learning about her past life and moving on to become the character we all know from ''Sailor Moon''. It also goes a good way to explaining why Sailor Venus, in the manga, is much more serious than her civilian self.

It ended in 1997, sometime after the ''Sailor Moon'' manga. Though as it only ran sporadically (in ''{{Nakayoshi}}'s'' sister magazine, ''[=RunRun=]''), it is much shorter, filling three collected volumes, whereas ''Sailor Moon'' filled 18 (or two and 12 in more recent editions). Despite the popularity of ''SailorMoon'' worldwide, ''Sailor V'' was rarely licensed and it wasn't until late 2011 that the series finally received an official translation into English.

* AscendedFangirl: Superintendent Sakurada is a closet V fan and would do anything to get her to join the police force.

This little one off caught the attention of ToeiAnimation, who saw potential (and yen signs), and contacted Takeuchi with the view to expanding it into an anime, though one with more characters. Eventually that series became ''SailorMoon'', a manga and anime that [[AdaptationDisplacement are far better known]].

* ButtMonkey - Artemis, as per usual. As well as Wakagi and his brother, because of V.

** Also Wakagi himself, when Sailor V is concerned: to show up the police, Sailor V solved various cases... And they all happened to be Wakagi's job, causing him a lot of trouble with his boss and getting him temporarily [[ReassignedToAntartica reassigned to Siberia]].

* GenderBender - Minako uses her disguise powers to become a hot teen boy at one point in order to trick a vain MonsterOfTheWeek

* InterspeciesRomance - Well, kinda. Artemis had a short lived crush on a dog named Luna-chan [[spoiler: who turned out to have been part of Wan-Wan's nefarious plot, in that it was Wan-Wan in disguise.]]

* APlagueOnBothYourHouses - Danburite's last words

** Motoki is less this and more a charcter that carried over to SailorMoon

* NoExportForYou: Was the case for many years, then in 2011 it was announced it would finally be getting an offical translation along with a new translation of the Sailor Moon manga (based on the newer edition)

* {{Prequel}} - Actually, its first chapter or so predates ''SailorMoon'' but most of it was completed during or after ''SailorMoon's'' run

* ReassignedToAntarctica - Superintendant Sakurada manages to reassign Inspector Wakagi to Siberia at one point

* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil - In ''SailorMoon'' canon, the BigBad for this storyline is a mere underling of the first manga arc's QuirkyMinibossSquad (specifically under Kunzite) though he does get to control a whole subgroup within the Dark Kingdom - the Dark Agency
* TaughtByTelevision - Well, by video games, Minako learnt Artemis was the name of a ancient Greek goddess from a game. This gives Artemis the idea to have the Sailor V game made to train her.

** She does mention taking her police officer freind/ SecretKeeper, Sakurada, up on her offer of working for the police. This is likely when these occurred.

** She does mention takeing her police officer freind/ SecretKeeper, Sakurada, up on her offer of working for the police. This is likely when these occurred.

However it does get a little darker toward the end, and there is a recurring theme of Minako being [[UnluckyEverydude unlucky in love]]. While this is mostly played for laughs, on a few occasions it's played with melancholy seriousness, especially in the grand finale that leads directly into the storyline of ''SailorMoon''.

''Codename: Sailor V'' (or ''Codename wa Sailor V'') is the story of Minako Aino, whom ''Sailor Moon'' fans will know as Sailor Venus. While it started as a one-off, it basically morphed into the story of the Fifth Ranger before she joins the FiveManBand. Minako in many ways is very similar to Usagi, given that Usagi is actually an {{Expy}} of Minako. But ''Sailor V'' is a generally sillier, goofier series than the ''Sailor Moon'' manga; it's closer in feel to the ''Sailor Moon'' anime, especially the first season.

* TemporaryBulkChange: One of the more elaborate Dark Agency schemes involved DeBrine selling highly fattening (and delicious) chocolates cheap around Valentine's Day. The girls eat them, they get fat, then give them to the boys, who also get fat. DeBrine then creates a weight loss clinic which endorses a miracle treatment, while she's really just sucking the energy of her clients and scamming them out of their money. Meanwhile, "fat" becomes the new in-look for the city even though everyone's trying to lose weight. DeBrine espouses that "this is the age of glamour girls". Despite failing, this was one of the more successful Dark Agency schemes because of how elaborate it was, lasting longer than most of the others.

* EarlyBirdCameo: [[SailorMoon Naru, Motoki, and the rest of the Sailor Senshi of the Inner Solar System]] make pre-awakening appearances here. An [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe manga]] also used the character designs for who would become the ten Sailor Senshi.

* EarlyBirdCameo: [[SailorMoon Naru, Motoki, and the Inner Senshi]] make pre-awakening appearances here. An [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe manga]] also used the character designs for who would become the ten Sailor Senshi.

* DoomedByCanon - Guess what happens to Danubrite/Adonis in the last story?

* ButtMonkey - Artemis, as per usual.

* UnluckyEverydude - Or Dudette in this case

It ended in 1997, sometime after the ''Sailor Moon'' manga. Though as it only ran sporadically (in ''{{Nakayoshi}}'s'' sister magazine, ''[=RunRun=]''), it is much shorter, filling three collected volumes, whereas ''Sailor Moon'' filled 18 (or two and 12 in more recent editions). Until 2011 they were never released in English, but following a recent announcement from Kodansha, they will be getting an English release in Autumn. Fan-translations of the manga (no pictures) are avalible [[http://www.anime-online.com/minako/svmanga.html at this site]]. Scanlations also exist.