Minako Aino (Sailor Venus) MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Minako Aino (Sailor Venus)? Minako Aino (Sailor Venus) is an ESFP personality type in MBTI, 3w2 - sx/so - 378 in Enneagram, SLUAN in Big 5, ESE in Socionics.
Although I can clearly see where the divide stems from, Minako is a sure three. She’s incredibly competitive, as we’ve seen when she’s in the arcade with Usagi, and ruthless and pragmatic when it comes to it, too. Threes have a core fear of being insignificant, and to cope they find ways to reassure themselves that they are valuable. We definitely see this in Minako, namely when she became jealous that she hadn’t been targeted by the enemies for her ‘pure heart crystal’, and she became desperate to prove she was just as ‘good’ as the rest of the Sailor Senshi’s. She couldn’t cope with the idea that she was any less of a pure person than the rest of them, and Minako even adopted an almost workaholic approach—stereotypical of a three—to prove herself. While her academics are no better than Usagi’s, she’s been described as “surprisingly powerful in a tight spot” by her friends, and can become highly goal-driven and tenacious when a situation demands it of her. I think a lot of the mistyping comes from her dominant subtype; sexual threes often appear like a seven in that they tend to be positive, supportive and enthusiastic of others, and can even sometimes appear like a two. However, Minako takes her image and self-presentation a lot more seriously than a core seven and a core two (she literally introduced herself as “the Pretty Guardian” and “the Goddess of Love and Beauty”), and none of the other core motivations or fears line up with Minako quite like that of an enneagram 3: her main motivation is not to avoid feeling bored or uninspired like a seven, and she doesn’t cope with a fear of being alone and unloved by making herself central to other peoples lives like a two. Sexual threes don’t feel the need to have as many external achievements, and instead their successes come from pleasing (mainly through enthusiastic support for others) and making themselves appear attractive as a way of earning love. Minako is a pleaser and a helper, and we can always see her expending a lot of energy to support others, mainly the other Sailor Senshis. With this instinctual subtype, threes don’t often seem like a three, namely with their lack of focus on their own status and external achievements, but they all share the core motivation of wanting approval and love and significance, Minako included. Sexual threes just garner that approval from pleasing, rather than other forms of success like academic or materialistic. Like a sexual three, Minako also has fantasies about an ‘ideal partner’ and living ‘happily ever after’ (though it’s largely disheartened since she was told in the last chapter of Sailor V that she’ll be unlucky in love forever due to her duties as a Sailor Senshi). She has even said herself that, “everyone I meet, they’re all leading up to that special someone I’ll find someday.” These threes lean towards pleasing others in the sense of a family or team mentality and focus on what’s good for the ‘family’, and a good exemplar of this, for Minako, is when she allowed Katarina and Alan to believe she died in an explosion because she saw that they loved eachother and didn’t want to interfere. The two of them being happy together was good enough for her to feel content with moving away. Really, she’s just a subtype of a three that appears like a seven.
Biography
Though she joins the team last, Minako has been active as a Sailor Guardian for quite some time using the alias of "Sailor V". She served as the leader of the Four Guardian Soldiers during the Silver Millennium and currently continues in that role, second only to Sailor Moon. Her ditziness and wacky antics belie an incredibly strong and capable heartbroken badass. She was the first character in the franchise to be created, originally starring in a 1991 one-shot that eventually became the prequel manga Codename: Sailor V, which was published alongside the Sailor Moon manga.
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