Venus Wink Chain Sword

This offensive technique casts a weapon of light for Sailor Venus, and it turns up across a wide spread of media: the printed story, the Crystal series, the Sera Myu stage shows, and a run of video games. It is closely tied to her Venus Chain, with the Crystal version also drawing on the Sword of the Silver Crystal. Its earliest appearances fall in the twenty-seventh chapter of the comic and the matching first part of Crystal's twenty-seventh installment, and it later gives way to the upgraded Venus Love and Beauty Shock.

The comic first deploys it against a Daimon in that twenty-seventh chapter, where Venus bends her chain into a blade seemingly forged from pure light. The stage productions bring it out in the S-era musical Usagi Ai no Senshi e no Michi, using it to finish off one of the Death Mannetjes.

Game adaptations handle it in their own ways. Another Story renders it as a light-blade flung at the foe, and the S-series fighting titles feature it as well. In the SuperS game, the powered-up Venus whirls her chain to raise a tall column of light with the outline of a sword showing within it.

In Crystal she debuts it in the twenty-seventh episode, teaming with Jupiter's Coconut Cyclone to destroy a Daimon that has taken over a Mugen Academy student. There she winks to form a heart, converts it into the Sword of the Silver Crystal, and sweeps the weapon around herself until it stretches out into linked Venus Chains that bind the enemy. Notably the manga and Crystal reverse each other's logic: in print the chain grows into a sword, while in Crystal the sword unfolds into the chain.

Sailor Venus alone performs this attack. Though the 90s anime never actually staged it, the opening sequence for the S season slips in a clip of Venus that is widely read as this very technique.