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  • Artist Info: Sailor Mercury was one of Princess Serenity's guardians, and was the first Sailor Senshi to join Sailor Moon in her fight. Her current incarnation was Ami Mizuno, and her powers were derived from water. Her sharp mind and analytical abilities made her the strategist of the Inner Senshi.<br />
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    Anime<br />
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    In the anime, the Sailor Mercury who lived during the time of the Silver Millennium was responsible for protecting Princess Serenity along with Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter, and Sailor Venus. All four guardians were killed by Queen Metalia during the Dark Kingdom's surprise attack on the Moon. Queen Serenity then sent the fallen Senshi into the future to be reincarnated.<br />
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    Sailor Mercury was reincarnated on Earth as Ami Mizuno. Although her Senshi powers were not supposed to have been reactivated, this became necessary after the Dark Kingdom were found to have been reincarnated as well. Sailor Mercury was the third of the Sailor Team to awaken, and the second to be awakened by Luna.<br />
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    Eventually, the Dark Kingdom's base was located at D Point. By now, the Sailor Team had recovered their memories of their past lives, and were determined to prevent a repeat of Metalia's devastating attack. However, they were confronted outside the base by the DD Girls, five extremely powerful Youma who proceeded to decimate the Sailor Team. Sailor Mercury was killed by three of the DD Girls, although she succeeded in depriving their leader of her ability to create illusions.<br />
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    Only Sailor Moon survived the battle, but the spirits of Sailor Mercury and the others joined her as she battled Super Beryl. As Metalia was finally destroyed, Sailor Moon wished for herself and her friends to be returned to their old lives. The Silver Crystal acted upon this wish, resurrecting the Sailor Team and Mamoru, and returning them to Azabu-Juuban with no memories of their lives as Sailor Senshi. Only Luna and Artemis retained memories of what had transpired.<br />
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    The peace did not last long, however, and Luna and Artemis were soon forced to reawaken the Sailor Team due to the activities of Ail and An. Sailor Mercury and the others had their memories restored and regained their powers.<br />
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    When Sailor Moon and Sailor Chibi Moon were trapped by Fisheye during the battle with the Dead Moon, Pegasus granted extra power to the Sailor Team, allowing them to achieve their "Super" forms. Sailor Mercury's Star Power Stick became a Crystal Change Rod, which allowed her to transform from Ami Mizuno directly into Super Sailor Mercury.<br />
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    Sailor Mercury, along with the rest of the Sailor Team, had her Star Seed removed during the face off with Sailor Galaxia, causing her to lose her physical form and effectively rendering her dead. Fortunately, her Star Seed was released after Chaos was expelled from Galaxia, and Sailor Mercury was brought back to life.<br />
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    Transformations<br />
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    * Mercury Power, Make Up - Used her first transformation pen to transform into Sailor Mercury. <br />
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    * Mercury Star Power, Make Up - Used her Star Power Stick to transform into Sailor Mercury. <br />
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    * Mercury Crystal Power, Make Up - Used her Crystal Change Rod to transform into Super Sailor Mercury. <br />
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    Attacks<br />
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    * Shabon Spray - Sailor Mercury's first technique produced a thick fog that obscured the area, but in which the Senshi could see clearly. It was a support ability, incapable of directly harming enemies. <br />
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    * Shabon Spray Freezing - A more powerful form of Shabon Spray that could actually harm, or at least immobilize, enemies. First appeared in the R season. <br />
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    * Double Shabon Spray Freezing - An enhanced form of Shabon Spray Freezing, used on one occasion against Giwaku. <br />
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    * Shine Aqua Illusion - Mercury's first purely offensive ability that first appeared in the R season. She fired a water blast that could destroy or freeze its target. <br />
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    * Mercury Aqua Rhapsody - Mercury's most powerful attack; she materialized and played a watery lyre, firing a water blast at the enemy. She received this ability in the SuperS season. <br />
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    * Mercury Aqua Mirage - An attack which appeared only in the manga and in the Ami's First Love special; it engulfed the target in a globe of water which then burst, leaving the target destroyed. <br />
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    Besides her communicator and transformation pens, Sailor Mercury had a hand-held computer which she could use as a scanner and data analyzer, as well as for accessing other computer systems. When she pressed her right ear stud, a blue visor materialized over her eyes, allowing her to scan objects or enemies for detailed information, such as weak points. <br />
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    Costume<br />
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    * Sailor Mercury (Classic, R, S) had a fuku similar to Sailor Moon's. Her dominant color was blue (tiara gem, earrings, choker, collar, center of front bow, elbow fittings of gloves, skirt, and boots) and her accent color was light blue (bows). Her earrings were small blue studs (which she could press to turn on her special visor), her collar had two white stripes, and her boots were the same knee-high style as Sailor Moon's, but in a blue color and without a symbol attached to them. <br />
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    * After the "Super" upgrade (SuperS, Stars), her earrings were three blue studs, her choker had a yellow star attached to it, her collar had one white stripe, the center of her front bow was a heart, the bottom of the shoulder pads was translucent, and the back waist bow was enlarged and lengthened.<br />
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    Manga<br />
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    Transformations<br />
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    * Mercury Power, Make Up - Used her first transformation pen to transform into Sailor Mercury. <br />
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    * Mercury Star Power, Make Up - Used her Star Power Stick to transform into Sailor Mercury. <br />
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    * Mercury Planet Power, Make Up - Used the planet powers granted to her by Neo-Queen Serenity to transform into Sailor Mercury. <br />
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    * Mercury Crystal Power, Make Up - Used her Mercury Crystal to transform into Super Sailor Mercury.<br />
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    Attacks<br />
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    * Mercury Aqua Mist - An attack given in the reprints of the manga to create a fog, similar to Shabon Spray in the anime. <br />
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    * Hyperspace Area Formation - A mysterious ability used only once in the manga to protect the Game Center Crown from destruction. <br />
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    * Shine Aqua Illusion - An attack that would blast away enemies with a stream of water. <br />
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    * Shine Snow Illusion - Created a snow storm to blast enemies. <br />
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    * Mercury Aqua Mirage - An attack which only appeared in the manga and the Ami's First Love special episode in the anime. <br />
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    * Mercury Aqua Rhapsody - Sailor Mercury played the Mercury Harp to send blasts of water at her enemies. She gained this power after transforming with the Mercury Crystal.<br />
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    * Sailor Mercury's first costume in the manga was mostly identical to the anime version, the only differences being that her collar had three stripes, she had no shoulder pads, and her earrings were always three blue studs. <br />
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    * After the "Planet" upgrade, her brooch changed from a circle to a heart. <br />
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    * After the "Super" upgrade, her costume was completely identical to the anime version. <br />
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    * After the last upgrade in the Stars arc, her choker was V-shaped and the center of her front bow was a blue five-pointed star. Her shoulder pads were large light blue puffs with two patches of blue fabric attached to the bottom. Her gloves became longer, reaching to her upper arms. In artbook illustrations, she had blue V-shaped wristbands with golden five-pointed stars on them, but they were not present in the manga. Her belt consisted of two blue ribbons, a blue one and a light blue one, with two long, thin back ribbons, clipped together by a golden five-pointed star. Her back bow was light blue. Her skirt became two-layered, the top layer being blue and the bottom light blue. Her boots were knee-length and white, and each had a blue V-shaped border with a five-pointed star at the top. Her tiara gem was a blue five-pointed star and her earrings were blue, dangling five-pointed stars.<br />
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    Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon<br />
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    In the live-action series, Sailor Mercury had the ability to create a sword from standing water to protect herself, an ability which never appeared in the anime or manga. After she awakened her Senshi power in Act 29 she gained the ability to generate a stream of bubbles, and she used this power twice in the series. She was also able to turn her Sailor Star Tambourine into a different sword in order to fight the Youma created by Princess Sailor Moon in the Final Act. This same sword also appeared in the Special Act, only that time it was to protect Sailor Moon.<br />
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    Transformations<br />
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    * Mercury Power, Make Up - Used to transform into Sailor Mercury. <br />
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    * Dark Power, Make Up - Used to transform into Dark Mercury.<br />
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    Attacks<br />
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    * Mercury Aqua Mist - Sailor Mercury's first attack, which sent a spray of water at her target. <br />
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    * Shine Aqua Illusion - An attack similar to the same attack in the anime and manga. <br />
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    * Mercury Aqua Blizzard - An attack which sent a torrent of snow at her target, encasing it in ice. <br />
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    * Mercury Aqua Cyclone - An attack which only appeared once in the live-action series; it sent a powerful stream of water at the target. <br />
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    * Mercury Aqua Storm - Sailor Mercury's special attack using her Sailor Star Tambourine. <br />
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    * Unnamed attack - Sailor Mercury used an attack which was not named on screen, in which she used her Sailor Star Tambourine to send blue star-shaped energy toward her target.<br />
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    Costume<br />
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    * Sailor Mercury's costume in PGSM was identical to the manga version, except that all dark blue portions of her costume (choker, collar, elbow fittings, skirt, and boots) were changed to sky blue.<br />
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    Dark Mercury<br />
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    In Act 21 of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Mercury was captured by Kunzite and turned to the forces of evil using Queen Metalia's power, by preying on her feelings of loneliness among the Senshi. Despite being "made" by Kunzite, Dark Mercury (also called "Darkury" by the production staff and fans) never accepted him or any other Dark Kingdom member as her superior.<br />
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    Sera Myu<br />
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    In the musicals, Sailor Mercury was played by Ayako Morino, Yukiko Miyagawa, Hisano Akamine, Mariya Izawa, Chieco Kawabe, and Manami Wakayama. She had one image song, "Drive Me The Mercury." <br />
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    Sailor Mercury's sailor fuku in the musicals had two major versions.<br />
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    * In the first version, Sailor Mercury's bows, glove fittings, choker, and sleeves were blue, while her skirt and collar were navy blue. Later versions of the costume had a blue top skirt layer, collar, and boots, while her bows, glove fittings, and sleeves were light blue. The brooch attached to the front bow was a golden circle with blue gems. She also had a circle in the center of her choker and dangling circle earrings. All of the trim on her costume, as well as the stripes on her collar, was gold. This version was never shown after Sailor Moon S - Henshin - Super Senshi e no Michi (Kaiteiban). <br />
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    * The second version was essentially faithful to her "Super" version in the manga and anime. At first her front bow, back bow, and glove fittings were light blue, and her collar, boots, and choker were cerulean. Her skirt had two layers, the top one cerulean and the bottom one light blue. Later versions of the costume changed her glove fittings to cerulean instead of light blue. Her choker ornament was a golden star with an cerulean circle and the Mercury symbol in the center. The brooch on her front bow was a heart-shaped blue gem ringed in gold. Her earrings were three large blue studs.<br />
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    Ami Mizuno was the present incarnation of Sailor Mercury, and appeared in all versions of Sailor Moon. <br />
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    Personality<br />
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    Ami was a shy girl who did not make friends easily, preferring to be alone with her books instead. Her classmates mistook her withdrawn nature for arrogance, so they did not approach her either until Usagi started doing so. She studied very hard and regularly finished at the top of national exams, leading her classmates to speculate that she was superhuman and had an IQ of 300. Math and science were her favorite subjects, and she was aiming to become a doctor like her mother. Usually calm and level-headed, she was the voice of reason of the Senshi team. The others often relied on her plans and analyses, but they often thought she should "loosen up" more.<br />
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    Ami was a kind and gentle person who disliked quarrels and abhorred harming innocent people. This trait was even cited in the title of anime episode 122, where she persuaded Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune not to kill Hotaru. Like her comrades, her loyalty to Sailor Moon was unwavering, and she would sacrifice her life for her princess if necessary.<br />
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    In Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Ami was far less innocent and trusting, and was a more conflicted character. In this continuity, her desire to become a doctor was actually due to pressure by her mother, and it would take a while for them to reach an agreement. At one point in the series, she was kidnapped and brainwashed by Kunzite; her evil identity was referred to as "Akumi."<br />
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    Family<br />
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    Ami lived with her mother in all continuities, although they were not particularly close due to her mother's busy schedule as a doctor. Ami's father, a painter, was divorced from her mother. He sent Ami a birthday card every year, but she had not seen him for a long time.<br />
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    In the story "Parallel Sailor Moon," she was married to an unseen man and had one child, also called Ami. Ami worked as an underpaid doctor alongside her husband, and her daughter was also a Sailor Senshi.<br />
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    Hobbies<br />
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    Ami spent most of her time studying and fighting as Sailor Mercury, leaving little for hobbies. However, she enjoyed swimming and playing chess, both of which she excelled at. She also liked listening to music.<br />
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    In the anime, Ami also acquired other hobbies and talents, including songwriting and fixing cars.<br />
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    Relationships<br />
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    In the first season of the anime, Ami and Ryo Urawa developed feelings for each other, but Ami denied them at first, saying she had no time for a boyfriend. The two eventually went out on a date, but Ryo left Tokyo soon after, and though he appeared in the penultimate episode of the first season as a non-speaking illusion, he was never mentioned in the series again. In the video game Sailor Moon: Another Story, he returned for the holidays, but was attacked by Youma. He gave Ami a prophecy he learned in a vision, then disappeared shortly after and was not seen again.<br />
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    In Sailor Moon Sailor Stars, Ami initially seemed to be attracted to Three Lights keyboard player Kou Taiki, who was also very intelligent and a studious type like herself. However, Ami's idealism and her faith in Sailor Moon clashed with Taiki's cold reasoning and dislike of the Senshi. At one point, when Ami (as Sailor Mercury) was losing a battle against a monster, Taiki actually left instead of helping her. They interacted quite a lot during the season, but there was no romance, even implied, between them.<br />
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    In the somewhat infamous Senshi/Shitennou pairing picture drawn by Naoko Takeuchi, Ami was shown together with Zoisite. The only canon occurences of this pairing were in some of the musicals, but it appeared in numerous fanfictions. In the live-action series, she seemed to feel pity for Nephrite when she was Dark Mercury, and she gave him a new cape. After Nephrite's rebirth as a human, he tried to find a gift to repay her.
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