Ayaka Dino/Sailor Sun (manga)

""I am the pretty guardian of Love and Cleverness. I am Sailor Sun! And now, in the name of the Sun, you'll be sorry!""

- -Sailor Sun's introduction

Ayaka Dino (綾香ディノ, Ayaka dino, called Amanda Dino in the English dub) is the Sailor Guardian of Love and Cleverness, Sailor Sun (セーラーサン Sērā san). Originally from a prosperous civilization on the Sun known as the Solar Kingdom, she was reborn on earth and re-awoke as a member of the Sailor Senshi.

Etymology
As you probably know, "Dino" is slang for "Dinosaur." However, adding some Greek words to it, Dino can mean "fearfully great of terrible" or "Double". In this case, Ayaka's last name means "double."

Ayaka is written with using several different Kanji characters and can mean "Colorful, flower 彩夏, "colorful, summer".

Ayaka Dino means "Double Colorful."

Nomenclature

 * Zodiac sign: Leo; Creative, passionate, generous, warm-hearted, cheerful, humorous
 * Gemstone: Onyx
 * Flower: Sunflower
 * Blood type: AB+

Appearance
Ayaka has orange eyes and shoulder length hair which is sometimes in a braid. She has porcelain skin and a slim figure. She is the second tallest of the Senshi.

Since she goes to another school, she wears a different uniform. The uniform consits of a high collared white blouse worn under a yellow-lined white blazer and bright yellow bow, accompanied with a white skirt and brown shoes. She also wore white knee-high socks.

Sailor Guardian
Sailor Sun’s standard uniform consists of a white chest-armored leotard with a yellow sailor collar that has three white stripes on it, white gloves with three yellow arm fittings that reach just below her elbows, white shoulder pads, a yellow skirt with a puffy white belt sat above it, along with a orange bow on the chest and at the back. She also sports a pair of orange short heels. Earrings consisting of yellow studs with golden stars and golden suns beneath, and a yellow choker with a golden sun on it and a clip that is similar to her transformation brooch attached to it. Her brooch is worn in the middle of her chest bow, and she wore a mask that disappeared after Act 16. Her tiara is golden with a red gem in it. As Super Sailor Sun, her uniform underwent many changes; her earrings are now singular stars affixed to her ears, her choker is yellow with a red heart in the center, the stripes on her collar change from white to golden, and her shoulder pads are white, translucent, and more wing-like in shape. Her back waist bow becomes orange, long, translucent, and billowy. Her collar is yellow in the front and orange in the back, the colors blending into each other over her shoulders. Her skirt is now white with a red and yellow border at the bottom; the colors blend into each other similar to how they do on her collar. The red gem on her tiara is replaced with a gold star, a puffy golden belt sits above her leotard. When Ayaka became Eternal Sailor Sun, her uniform underwent the most radical changes; she no longer wears a tiara and instead has a golden sun on her forehead, her leotard no longer has chest armor, her earrings have a golden star attached beneath each sun, and her choker is yellow and v-shaped with a pink star at the center and a golden sun beneath it. The collar itself is like her original one, but it is a darker shade of yellow with three golden stripes. In the place of her shoulder pads are orange bubble-like sleeves with two red fittings at the ends; they have somewhat of a translucent aspect to them. In the area where her chest bow was located is a pair of golden angel wings with a yellow heart that has a golden sun attached to it sitting at its center. Her gloves now have yellow, v-shaped wristbands with golden stars on them, the fittings at the ends of the gloves have feather barrettes attached to them and the gloves themselves are now extended to reach up to her upper arms. Her belt is now comprised of two ribbons (the one on top is yellow and the one beneath it is pink) clipped together by a yellow sun; the bottom ribbon extends past her skirt, mimicking the flowing effect that her previous back bow had. Her back bow is replaced with a set of small white angel wings, her skirt is now composed of three layers (the top layer is yellow, the middle layer is red, the bottom layer is white), and her boots are now white and knee-length with a slightly larger heel and yellow v-shaped borders. Main Page: Princess Trinity Princess Trinity was the previous incarnation of Ayaka Dino/Sailor Sun. While Ayaka is shown to have abundant powers as Sailor Sun and her future self, Queen Trinity, Princess Trinity did not have any significant powers. Main Page: Queen Trinity Queen Trinity is Ayaka Dino’s future self; she is the Queen of the Sun, she has been shown to have strong powers. Eternal Sailor Sun is closest to this form.
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Personality
In her first appearance in act 62, Ayaka is seen to be a cheerful, bubbly girl. Though she is a lot like Usagi, it takes a lot to make her cry. Ayaka has a huge heart and is always there for everyone.

Information
Ayaka only appears in the 6th arc of the manga. She moved from South Korea to Japan in the 20th century. She had met her guardian cat, Sol, there as well. She is scared when she first meets Sol, thinking he's a ghost cat but develops trust for him.