Sailor Jupiter (SMCU)

"Agent of Love and Courage, the Great Sailor Warrior Sailor Jupiter! I'll make you feel so much regret, it'll leave you numb!""

- Sailor Jupiter's introduction

Sailor Jupiter is one of the five original Inner Sailor Senshi of the Solar System, and was the fourth Sailor Senshi to be introduced in the Cinematic Universe. Her civilian identity is Makoto Kino. Her attacks are based around electricity and nature, as well as physical strength.

Profile
Makoto Kino is a tomboyish teenage girl who transfers to Juuban Municipal Junior High School in the first story arc. Born in Rome, Italy, Makoto had lost her parents in a plane accident when she was younger, and lives on her own in an apartment.

Appearance
Makoto has brown wavy hair that is always seen styled into a ponytail and held up by a green hair tie with two turquoise round jewels. She is also always seen wearing pink rose earrings on her earlobes. Makoto is very tall for a Japanese schoolgirl and is the tallest girl among the Inner Senshi.

Origins arc
Makoto Kino is born in Rome, Italy on December 5, 2001. Her parents were killed in a plane accident in 2008.

Jupiter’s Quest
Makoto and Minako Aino meet at Makoto’s apartment in Rome where Minako becomes curious of a mysterious rod she found at the apartment. When several Youma attack the apartment, Makoto says to Minako that the rod is in fact a transformation rod meant for Minako and the inscription on the rod is in Latin and translates to “Venus Power Make Up”.Minako says the words and transforms into Sailor Venus for the first time.

At the National Roman Museum, Makoto encounters a mysterious green crystal. The crystal suddenly becomes attracted to Makoto and fuses with her body. A staff forms on her hand, this time with the engraving “Jupiter Power Make Up” in Latin on it. The spirit of Queen Serenity appears, and reveals to Makoto that she is in fact Sailor Jupiter, and the staff in the museum is actually one half of Jupiter’s thunderbolt. Outside, a snake-like Youma created from a constellation attacks alongside four mysterious entities, who reveal themselves to be the Dark Kingdom Lords. Makoto and Minako are then rescued by Haruka Tenou who picks the two girls up in her car. After Haruka led the Youma out of the city, Makoto transforms into Sailor Jupiter and defeats the Youma. Queen Serenity appears again, showing to the three that the second half of the thunderbolt is hidden in a temple in Sicily.

In Sicily, the girls pose as tourists while looking for information, meeting Michiru Kaioh in the process. Makoto, Minako and Michiru reside at Haruka’s rented apartment, where they talk about the Sailor Senshi and their destiny. Later, they encounter Jadeite and Nephrite, who unleash the Youma Land Star. Michiru transforms into Sailor Neptune to engage it, causing Makoto to realize that Michiru is a Sailor Senshi like Haruka, who transforms into Sailor Uranus. The Youma is subdued by Sailor Uranus using the Space Sword. The girls eventually find the thunderbolt half at a ruin in Sicily. Using her strength from uniting with the crystal, Makoto re-forges the thunderbolt halves, turning it into a formidable weapon. Queen Serenity appears and reveals the girls’ new destiny: to defend the world from the Dark Kingdom, who had the Moon under their control for about 1000 years.

The girls head to Greece to return the thunderbolt to the top of Mount Olympus. They encounter the Dark Kingdom Lords just as they are about to return the thunderbolt. During the battle, Kunzite is given powers by Queen Metallia, turning him into a dragon-like form. Sailor Jupiter engages the dragon Kunzite who almost killed her in the battle. As Kunzite prepares to kill Jupiter, she channels some of the energy from the thunderbolt through her body to electrocute Kunzite with one touch. Weakened, Kunzite is returned to his original form after being hit by Sailor Jupiter’s new move, Sparkling Wide Pressure. Sailors Venus, Uranus and Neptune arrive to help Jupiter, who is exhausted from the battle and numb from the lightning energy in her body. The four Senshi are visited by Queen Serenity’s spirit once again, who tells them that it is almost time for them to meet and unite with more powerful Sailor warriors in the future. Jupiter asks the Senshi about what the girls will be going to do later, and Minako suggests them to have some fun and get a vacation first.

After a vacation in Santorini, Makoto accepts an offer for an international student intake to the Juuban Minicipal Junior Girls’ school.

Meeting the Crusaders
Makoto and Rei see posters of a concert held by new rising pop star Mimi Hanyu. The concert is held at a night club with a Jacuzzi. Realizing that Mimi may be one of the five mysterious entities that they encountered last night, Makoto sources information about them and saw some similarities between the pictures of Mimi and a silhouette from a photo taken during a busted Death Busters operation in 2014. It was from this moment that Rei and Makoto found out about the Five Witches. By the time they get out of the cyber café, a group of squid-like Demons similar to the one they battled the night before attack the café. Makoto and Rei transform into their Sailor Senshi identities and took them out one by one, including its stronger leader, before coming face to face with Eudial, who introduces herself and unleashed a Fire Buster move on them, which they dodged, before disappearing again. The Fire Buster burned the cyber café, and Sailor Mars and Sailor Jupiter rush in to rescue the trapped citizens. Sailor Jupiter is certain that Eudial must be one of the Five Witches.

Later that night, the two go to Mimi Hanyu’s concert at the night club. At the night club, Makoto encounters a teenage girl named Ceres near a Jacuzzi. Later, they meet Mimi Hanyu at the Jacuzzi. Later at Mimi’s concert, Makoto and Ceres discover that Mimi is using her concert’s music to drain energy from the audience. In the process, they meet another two girls, Pallas and Jun, before reuniting with Rei and Ves.

The next day, an attack at OSA-P jewelry store was caused by the awakening of a Demon from a geode at the store. Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Mars jump in to engage the Demon, when they encounter Mimete. Upon looking at Mimete, the Senshi realize that Mimi Hanyu is in fact Mimete. Mimete manages to injure Sailor Jupiter before the four mysterious Sailor Senshi arrive to defeat the Demon with their combined move (Crusader Asteroid Arrow) and engage Mimete in battle, who they managed to overpower. The four Senshi reveal themselves as the Sailor Crusaders of the Asteroid Belt.

Knowing a location of a possible Death Busters operation, Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Mars and the Sailor Crusaders arrive at a newly-opened fun house at an outdoor exhibition. There, they encounter Mimete again and Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Ceres chase Mimete into the fun house.They eventually corner Mimete at a hall of mirrors and they fight. Mimete gains the upper hand in the fight, until her staff is destroyed by Sailor Jupiter with Sparkling Wide Pressure. Sailor Jupiter then breaks Mimete’s arm before Sailor Ceres then finishes off Mimete by impaling her onto shards of a broken mirror, and then with her broken staff.

Another Story


Sailor Jupiter led a team along with Sailor Uranus, Sailor Starfighter, Sailor Juno, Sailor Eris (Petz) and Sailor Iron Mouse to New York City in the USA to find Nephrite’s Stone Gate. They eventually find the stone gate at the Empire State Building where they encounter Jupiter’s Opposite Senshi counterpart, Marduk, and unlock Nephrite's Stone Gate.

Transformation Items

 * Crystal Change Rod – Ami raises the rod into the air and recites: “Jupiter Crystal Power, Make Up”

Weapons

 * Thunder and Lightning Antenna – An augmentation on Sailor Jupiter’s tiara that absorbs electrical energy from the air.
 * Rose Earrings
 * Leaves of Oak – used to perform Jupiter Oak Evolution.

Attacks

 * Supreme Thunder - Sailor Jupiter crosses her arms over her chest with her index and pinky fingers extended. Then the Thunder and Lightning Antenna extends from her tiara, crackling with electricity. Lightning rains down from the sky, collecting around the antenna until Sailor Jupiter extends her arms and sends it towards her enemy.
 * Super Supreme Thunder
 * Supreme Thunder Dragon - Using her tiara, Sailor Jupiter gathers electricity and fires it at her opponent. The electricity itself takes on the form of a dragon.
 * Sparkling Wide Pressure - Sailor Jupiter brings her hands together and hurls white bolts of lightning which would later take the form of a large disc at the enemy.
 * Flower Hurricane - unleashes a flurry of stinging flower petals to immobilize opponents.
 * Jupiter Oak Evolution - uses the Leaves of Oak, which appear to be a column of swirling leaves. With them, Sailor Jupiter projects her lightning energy in order to send green oak leaf-shaped blasts of electrical energy at her enemy.
 * Jupiter Coconut Cyclone - Sailor Jupiter's Thunder and Lightning Antenna collects lightning and she raises her arms above her head and spins rapidly creating a blue ball of lightning. The ball of lightning enlarges and Sailor Jupiter blasts it at the opponent, sending out shock waves of high-voltage energy in a large spherical blast.

Trivia

 * Cinematic Universe Makoto’s birthplace as Rome is actually inspired by the actress Allison Miller, who is also born in the city.
 * This also explains why Makoto is able to read and understand Latin.