AlanMina

AlanMina
GENERAL
Sailor Moon
Character	Minako Aino
Character	Alan (Sailor Moon)
Canonical?	Semi-Canon
Status of Relationship	Friends/Allies/Crush on Minako's side
IN FANDOM
Type (?)	Het

AlanMina is the het ship between Minako Aino and Alan from the Sailor Moon fandom.

Canon

Alan and Minako meet in England, about six months prior to the events of the first season of the anime. Minako is there, searching for information about the Dark Kingdom, when she is introduced to Alan. The two become good friends, despite the age gap between them, and Minako even begins to grow feelings for Alan. She has another close friend, a policewoman named Katarina. Minako decides to introduce Katarina and Alan to one another, as they are the most important people to her in England.

Unfortunately, Katarina is unaware of Minako's feelings for Alan. As such, she begins to fall in love with him as well. While on a mission together, a villain blows up a building that Minako is inside. Katarina, thinking that Minako is dead, runs to Alan's arms. The two console one another. Minako watches on from a deserted alley, having escaped from the explosion. It is in this moment that she realizes that Alan and Katarina are in love with one another. She decides to leave England, letting her two friends believe that she is dead.

Back in Japan, Minako meets up with Katarina again. She asks after Alan, and Katarina assures her that he is fine. Kunzite turns Katarina into a monster, and Minako and Usagi must fight her. Usagi offers to destroy Katarina after hearing that she stole Alan from Minako, but Minako asks that Usagi spare her life. She knows that Alan and Katarina are meant for one another.

In Sailor Moon R, Alan is briefly mentioned when Minako has a dream about him. She is seen whispering his name before hugging Artemis, having mistaken her cat for her former crush in her half-asleep state.

Fanon

AlanMina is not a very popular ship in the Sailor Moon fandom, for a number of reasons. Firstly, Alan is an anime-only character, who only makes an appearance in one episode. Despite being integral to Minako's backstory as Sailor V, he is only ever mentioned one or two other times outside of his single episode appearance. Additionally, Minako is a fourteen-year-old girl whereas Alan is implied to be an adult. Still, her canon crush on him does draw some fans into the ship, especially seeing as Minako does not have a canon endgame ship.

On AO3, AlanMina is the most written ship for Alan. There is currently one written work.

Fandom

FAN FICTION

Alan/Minako tag on AO3

Alan & Minako tag on AO3

Alan/Mina tag on Fanfiction.net

Trivia

• Alan is a character that is only canon to the 90s anime of Sailor Moon