Codename: Sailor V Review (both volumes)

So we are all familiar with Sailor Moon (I assume), but have you ever read Minako Aino (Sailor Venus's) story before she met the rest of the Sailor Scouts? Well, here it is!

Codename: Sailor V by Naoko Takeuchi is a manga duology on how Minako meets Artemis (the cat), and learns that she has an ultimate mission to fufill as a Sailor Guardian. She finds out what it is via fighting and defeating the bad guys that come after the citizens of Tokyo (and later other places!). The bad guys are from the Dark Agency, and their plan is to take over Earth and then destroy it. They all go after people by taking advantage of things that are popular amongst humans, from idol singers to candy. The leader of the Dark Agency ends up being the person Minako least expects, and it almost destroys her. Ultimately, it leads to her mission to find the rest of the Sailor Scouts (what we see in Sailor Moon). 

I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this! I wish that one day Minako's story could get animated. We already have two different versions of the Sailor Moon anime, so why not? 

I did give volume 1 4.5 stars and volume 2 4.5 stars. That was just for some things that didn't age well. But what did you expect from a manga from over two decades ago?