The Secret Files of Codename Sailor V
1991 ~ Just one year before Sailormoon started there existed a
tale about a courageous Sailor Senshi in training. A soldier that would capture
the imaginations and hearts of millions across Japan, France and China,
The one and only…. Codename Sailor V.
The series would prove to be so popular, that by the time the third issue had
hit store shelves, creator Naoko Takeuchi had already been asked to write
another series, adding to the already growing cast, but centered on a team of
Sailor Senshi, rather than just one heroine.
This would be one of many concept art drawings made be the manga-ka, before the
finished product (Sailormoon) would be produced:
Initially, Sailors V and Moon were slated to be the same young woman, with
Artemis (first drawn as a girl) as sole guardian. But Naoko Takeuchi had
greater plans, and soon Sailor Moon with her guardian Luna, would take on a
life of her own before being joined by Artemis (officially a boy in all manga
issues) and his partner Sailor V, now christened Sailor Venus. The rest as they
say… is history.
Or is it?
The Codename Sailor V manga initially ran for one whole year, then in 1992 the
series came out sporadically alongside the Bishojo Senshi Sailormoon series,
until both manga titles’ dramatic end in 1997.
Though the Codename Sailor V series never officially had it’s own anime or
video game outside of the fictitious world of the manga and Sailormoon anime, the
series was strong enough that it could have had more merchandise on it’s own.
Most fans outside of Japan have never truly been initiated into the spastic
world protagonist Minako Aino knew. That was of course until now….
Minako Aino
The starring character first meets Artemis while at school.
Minako accidently lands on Artemis while practicing gymnastics. The 13 year old
7th grade student curses the mysterious white cat with the
moon-shaped bald spot, then focuses her attention on the class cutie: Higashi-senpai.
Higashi suggests that she would appear more pretty with a red bow in her hair
(which she will wear until Parallel Sailormoon), but ultimately Minako can’t
seem to pin him down for very long, as he is the most popular boy in school.
Later that night, Minako spots the mysterious cat from before, spying on her in
the shower. The cat reveals himself as Artemis (once Minako stops trying to
kill him) and he tosses her a moon-shaped compact. Minako uses the compact and
soon she and Artemis are high above Earth, gazing at the planet Venus. Artemis
names Minako “Venus” and informs her that she is capable of becoming a stronger
woman.
She passes out.
The next morning Minako dismisses what she saw as a weird dream, and goes about
her day. She again tries to gain the affections of Higashi, but he instead
possesses her. Artemis smacks Minako out of this dark spell, and tosses her a
transformational pen. She transforms into Codename Sailor V and battles Higashi’s
minions. It is revealed that Higashi is really Narkissos, an enemy working for
the Dark Agency. Sailor V uses her newfound power to melt Narkissos away.
Killing her first (seen) love proves to be too much for Minako, who runs home
crying. But Artemis cheers her up, encouraging her to stay on course. The next
day, Minako is still wearing her red bow, and daydreaming about her next crush.
And so begins the tale of Codename Sailor V.
Minako is just as boy crazy (and twice as unlucky in love) as her future self
in Sailormoon. She lives at home with her mom, dad and Artemis. Her best friend
is Hikaru.
Artemis
The perverted yet lovable cat spends a majority of his time trying to groom
Minako into being her best as a Sailor Senshi. But often he laments that his
partner is lazy, won’t study and is too klutzy for her own good. (Sound
familiar?) He is even seen daydreaming about what if Hikaru was a Senshi
instead of Minako, though secretly he carries a torch for Minako in his heart.
His memories of the Silver Millennium only seem to glimmer in once in a while,
but his strongest memory is of his dearest friend and future lover, Luna.
Boss
While never seen, Boss relays information to Minako via her pen. Boss also
communicates with Artemis, via the Sailor V game in the basement of the Crown
Game Plaza. (The same machine Luna later uses.) It is never said in the Sailor
V manga officially who Boss is, though Boss is referred to as “He”.
HOWEVER in Act 10 of the Sailormoon manga, Queen Serenity reveals that she had
awakened Artemis and Luna from their cryogenic sleep, via a back-up power
source in the Moon’s main computer. She also divulges the information that it
was her spirit’s will that kept up constant contact with the cats via this
computer while the Senshi were training. Thus it seems that “Boss” is none
other than her majesty Queen Serenity in disguise.
In the anime, there’s a bit of confusion still as to who Boss is. Luna and
Artemis are seen together with the Senshi gaining information from this
character (who exists in the anime with no name) but then in a later episode,
Artemis is revealed to be the “Boss” Luna has been answering to, and no further
mention of this character is made. In the DiC version of Sailormoon, the “Boss”
character is renamed “Central Control”.
Hikaru Sorano
Minako’s best friend since elementary school. Hikaru looks exactly like Ami but
with green eyes and black hair. Hikaru is energetic, spunky and is the vice
president of an un-named volunteer school. In Vol. 13 of the Sailor V manga,
she gets both Minako and Sailor V to assist her with a blood drive, without
ever suspecting that her two friends are one and the same.
Narkissos AKA Higashi-senpai
Sailor V’s first enemy. Looking similar to Jedite, 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
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 CD’s to young males, and uses her music to
brainwash all of Japan, including Minako’s mother! 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.
Gurikazu Amano
Class geek, very much like Usagi’s classmate Umino. His classmates refer to him
by his last name, Amano. He loves computers, idols and Bishojo-style manga. In
one issue, he helps guide Sailor V when she’s trapped in Luga’s video game.
Toshio Wakagi
Wakagi-san is 27 years old and is a Special Officer for the Metropolitan Police
Office. Wakagi has no idea that Minako has a minor crush on him, as he despises
Sailor V for well… doing a better job than the police. He often finds tied up
villains in her wake and would love it if she were to just vanish. His main job
is to investigate the strange happenings of the Dark Agency, and track down
Sailor V, but he always comes up short.
Natsuna Sakurada
The superintendant of the Metropolitan Police Board, Natsuna is less serious
than Wakagi. She accidently discovers Minako’s identity as Sailor V… and doesn’t
care! Instead, Natsuna develops a friendship with Minako, and tries many times
to recruit Sailor V for the police force, at least part time. She calls Minako
once a week, and Minako in turn refers to her as “One-chan”. (Big Sister) Boy-and-Idol
crazy Natsuna has an older sister named Haruna, who happens to be Usagi’s 8th
grade teacher.
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.
Unlike her big sister, Petite Pandora takes much longer to melt, and she leaves
behind an odor as she dies.
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. 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. 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 Rambo warrior, 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 and Fluorite one at
a time.
Cyber warrior Girl Luga
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,
because fights are breaking out all over Japan with the upsurge in violence
being blamed on the fighting simulation. But Amano loans Minako a copy of the
game. The next morning, Minako’s parents are beating the hell out of each other
over the game! 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). Luga appears over the console (FamiFami
~ A joke based on Nintendo’s Famicom) 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 console, 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 the lady of Amano’s
house as Sailor V escapes.
Hibiscusy
Certainly the best looking villain of the Codename Sailor V manga, Hibiscusy
was a representative of Dark Agency’s Hawaii branch. She had planned to kill
Sailor V on one of her planes, but later found out that Minako and her parents
had gone to Greece instead. 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.
Wakagi’s Older Brother AKA Aloha Kamen
Wakagi’s “Ani” (Older Brother, can also be called Oni-san) doesn’t have an
official name. He is weak-willed and easily taken advantage of. When he learns
that Minako has won the trip to Hawaii in a contest he entered, he is furious
and vows revenge against her. However just like Minako, he winds up in Greece
along with Wakagi and Natsuna. Hibiscusy finds him, and turns him into Aloha
Kamen. His powers stemmed from his hatred of Minako, 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….
Okamoto-sensei
The kind-hearted home economics teacher at Shiba junior high,
she once announced her engagement in the presence of her former student,
Saitou, unaware that Saitou was in love with her. When Minako meets her,
Okamoto-sensei is happily married to an unseen man. The one thing she ever
asked her star pupil (Saitou) to do was to stop fighting. Her nickname is
Oka-P, and her hobby is making promise rings.
Saitou-san
Saitou (who looks like Kunzite) is a High School student, and former pupil of
Okamoto-sensei. He has a deep crush on his former teacher, but she has no idea.
Similarly, he has no idea that Minako has a crush on him! Saitou gets into many
fights, and has been involved in gang related violence, but he has a kind side,
and protects Minako from a rival gang, who had planned to beat the hell out of
her. However, Minako learns that it Saitou is caught in one more fight, he will
be expelled from Shiba High. Minako disguises herself as Okamoto-sensei, to
convince him to stop fighting. Saitou ~ not realizing it’s Minako in disguise ~
kisses Minako deeply, and confesses his desires for her. Eventually though,
Minako gives up on her crush, acknowledging that his heart will always yearn
for the teacher he can never have.
Vivian
Vivian calls herself the President of the Dark Agency. She sets her sights on urban
violence, 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.
DeBrine
DeBrine introduces the world’s most delicious chocolate: Rainbow Choco’s,
wrapped candies shaped to look like roses. 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, with the ads
falsely stating that you can lose weight here. Instead, DeBrine just steals the
chubby girls’ energy. Sailor V eventually discovers the plot, and 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!
Ace
Kaitou/Saijou/Danburite/Phantom Ace/Adonis
Making his first appearance after DeBrine’s death to hand out weight-loss candies
to all of her victims, Ace soon makes himself an Idol by appearing on TV in his
own show, and by helping Sailor V (much like Tuxedo Mask). His “Earth” name is Ace
Saijou and he soon becomes Minako’s top love interest. His façade is that he
wants to help all of the girls in the world, but in reality he’s the main man
behind the Dark Agency. Minako soon discovers that Ace is actually Danburite,
and his story is the saddest of all…
During the Silver Millennium, Ace lived as Adonis, a foot soldier on the planet
Venus, but was so low in rank that he could never meet his dream lover,
Princess Venus. (Minako) But just like his dream woman, he too can make the
sign of Venus appear on his forehead, and he lived at her castle, Magellan. He
was sent to Earth, to serve under the 4 Generals as Danburite. Here, he was
finally able to see his princess up close, but by this time she was falling in
love with Kunzite. Danburite told himself he didn’t have a chance with her, and
never told her about his feelings. He would soon join Metallia’s group, once he
realized that the only true thing Princess Venus was ever married to, was her
mission to protect the young Princess Serenity.
Once reborn, he was driven mad by his unrequited love, and was insistent on
winning the love of Venus in this life. However he was already in charge of the
Dark Agency, and had to answer to Kunzite for each action of his minions.
Ace was gifted at fortune telling with regular playing cards, a talent he had
retained from his past life on Venus. He also used the cards in all of his
attacks.
While filming a movie with her, he revealed that he knew Minako’s secret life
as Sailor V. He even teased her emotions by giving her a near-engagement ring
in the shape of the Venus sign. But this was all just leading to his final act.
Towards the end, he was locked in a fight with Sailor V on a movie set in
China. But when a stone from Princess Lin-Lin’s castle fell on her head, V
began to remember her life during Silver Millennium. Her transformation as Sailor
V melted away, and she instead became Sailor Venus.
Once Venus had learned of Ace’s true form, the two continued battling until
Venus accidently knocked Ace over a building’s edge. She snatched his hand,
begging him not to die, but Ace instead threw one more card, damning her to
only have all of her love end hopelessly. In a twisted way, he also figured
that by not focusing on love anymore, she could stay on her path as a Sailor
Senshi, thus doing her a favor. With that, Ace exploded, ripping himself apart
in front of her.
His last resort however would prove to be a failure, as Minako later marries a
man who works on a sitcom, and she has a daughter, Mina.
Liquid, Powder, Solid and Water Founda
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 eldest
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 younger 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.
Marie-sensei
Marie is a manga-ka, who has been writing her manga “Aurora Wedding” since she
was in 8th grade. It’s now in it’s 108th volume. (She’s
20) Her manga stars a heroine named Linda, her 10 sisters (Who each look like
Usagi, Chibiusa, The Inner Senshi and the Outer Senshi) and Swallowtail Kamen
(Linda’s love interest). Marie bases Swallowtail Kamen on her young editor,
Baishaku, whom she’s in love with. Marie has thick glasses just like Umino and
Amano, but beneath them she is beautiful, spitting image of her character,
Linda. After Sailor V saves her from Wan-Wan, she marries Baishaku.
Baishaku Shinrou
Baishaku is Marie-sensei’s editor. He looks like Ace Kaitou, and is very good
at keeping Marie on her deadlines. He briefly hires Minako as her copy
assistant, and has no clue Minako is crushing on him. Eventually he marries
Marie, and Minako is seen wearing black, and crying at the wedding.
Maiku
Otonaru
Maiku is a long-time love interest of Minako. He was born with a weak heart,
and often misses school. (He’s in Minako’s class.) Minako encourages him to try
out for the marathon, but he collapses during training. Once she figures out
that he lives in the Karaoke area of the Roppongi district, Minako races over
with a rose, to beg for forgiveness. They start spending time together at
karaoke bars, and he tells her about how much he loves living in the district.
The villain Mike Makkii briefly costs Maiku his will to live, but once Sailor V
defeats her, Maiku regains his will. After he watches Minako win the marathon,
he has a successful operation and then gets engaged… to his pen-pal in Russia.
Yeah. Really.
Maiku’s fiancée
She only appears in these two panels. She’s from an undisclosed location in
Russia.
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 suddenly had a special event to go to in China, 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 ~ 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! 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!!”.
Minako’s past as Sailor V was never shown as it was in the Sailormoon anime.
Instead, a sad and short tale was spun in episode 42.
Her anime tale begins with Minako (aged 13) living in England for one year.
There she helps an Interpol policewoman named Katarina.
She is first seen aiding Katarina by defeating a youma, whom has kidnapped a
little girl:
Soon Katarina and Minako become friends, and Minako calls her “One-chan”.
Soon Minako has an older boyfriend named Alan, and I can’t help but notice a
few things:
Life seems easy for Minako, who is enjoying life with Katarina and Alan. But
soon, Alan and Katarina begin seeing each other behind Minako’s back. But the
happy teen doesn’t realize what’s going on until one fateful day…
While trying to stop a bandit, Sailor V runs into a shack. The bandit sets off
a bomb while she’s inside.
Sailor V survives, but is badly wounded. While in an alley, Sailor V discovers
the truth between Alan and Katarina:
Seeing that the two now feel free to love each other in the open, since they
think Minako has died, Sailor V sits weeping in the alley.
She returns to Japan, silently. Letting them believe she is dead. Artemis gives
her a new pen and she is now Sailor Venus.
By this time, Minako is 14 and has been joined by Luna and the other Sailor
Senshi. But soon she catches up with Katarina, who takes her to a hotel room,
to rekindle a friendship:
But Katarina is possessed by Kunzite, and has become a youma, Papillion:
After hearing the tale, Sailor Moon offers to kill Katarina outright while she’s
still a youma, but Sailor Venus begs her to heal her former friend instead.
Sailor Moon reluctantly agrees, and Katarina is saved. Katarina apologizes for
not knowing how wrong it was for her to take Alan from Minako, and soon she
leaves.
Minako then releases her last photo with Alan, but still thinks of him until
the end of Sailormoon R.
Why this sad story replaced the original is beyond most fans. Maybe this was
meant to add depth to Minako’s character? Who knows. But it is largely rumored
that Katarina was LOOSELY based on Natsuna, and that Alan was meant to replace
Ace and Wakagi. Another interesting note is that while in the anime, Minako
works with Interpol, in the manga she never works with the police, but does
consider an offer from Natsuna. For the record, in the Sailormoon manga series,
Minako HATES all cops.
Toei Animation originally only wanted to animate Sailor V, if there were four
other Senshi beside her, each with a different costume so that they could
market the series just as Super Sentai had been. Though the new formula worked,
one can only wonder how a complete Codename Sailor V series would look.
