Mina

Mina is one of the five main Jammbonian children on Jelly Jamm. She is a blue alien girl with long hair, a long neck, and a casual summer outfit.

JellyJamm.com (2011-2018)
"Mina's facts and technology have often benefited the group and she is the go to person when things get out of whack. Science and invention are her world of play. Like any good scientist Mina wants to see "what will happen next!"

Mina tries to be loose, cool in hopes of learning how to have fun. But her attempts at spontaneity end comically. The only time the right and left side of Mina's brain meet is when she is experimenting in her laboratory or in the field."

Cartoonito
"Mina is very clever and knows lots of useful facts. She loves everything to do with science and inventing, and she always loves to see what will happen next in situations."

Japanese
"Mina's keen eye for detail sometimes confuses her friends. But, she always is well-intentioned.

However, her knowledge and skills are, in many cases, are often helpful to her friends and come in handy when they are in a difficult-to-manage situation.

''Mina is proud of her extensive knowledge. When she's able to be in control of things, it brings her peace of mind. She's very lively and gets excited to strange degrees. But, there are things she doesn't know.''

''Mina is like a captain. She's in charge of everything, but she doesn't know what true fun is. For example, she wouldn't really enjoy going to a beach party much. She doesn't know how to have fun like the rest of her friends. She has read a lot of books to learn what fun is, but her attempts have always ended in comical failure.''

''To Mina, performing experiments in her laboratory is how she immerses herself in fun. Her way of playing is by doing research on science and inventions. Like many talented scientists, Mina has an irresistible desire to know: 'what will happen next?' "''

StarTimes
"Mina is a genius. You won't find a smarter kid anywhere. If you're looking for her you're almost guaranteed to find her in her lab coming up with a fabulous new invention. She’s a right genuine problem-solver she is [sic]. Once she was lonely and built herself her own little friends!*" ''*Despite this information being a headcanon, StarTimes included it in their official character description of Mina. Therefore, it is worth including on the page.''

Taiwanese
"Mina is very intelligent, with quite the high IQ. She likes to use scientific experiments to analyze everything, and she is well versed in scientific theories, geometry, laws of nature, magic formulas, and so much more. She’s pretty much an expert at anything she does."

Personality
Mina is a true child prodigy. She is the most mature of the Jammbonian kids, both emotionally and intellectually speaking, but she is still just as much of a child as the others - she finds fun in dancing and playing about, and has an insatiable sense of curiosity as she explores Jammbo in a scientific manner. Her hobbies are doing self-conducted research via books and scientific experiments, as well as building over-the-top inventions to make her life and her friends' lives easier. Mina's high intelligence causes her to be a great help to the others, as they turn to her superior intellect for solutions to their problems. When Mina is helping a friend, she’s at her happiest. She always looks out for the best interests of her friends and loves sharing her vast knowledge. When things go wrong, Mina is very forgiving.

At first, Mina had difficulties letting loose and considering others’ ideas, as evidenced in "Mina's Party". The aforementioned episode served as a major turning point in terms of Mina’s emotional growth, as from then on out she became a less rigid and more easy-to-be-around girl. Her cleverness and sensibility allow her to serve as the voice of reason often, but she can be rather direct and somewhat of a perfectionist at times. Mina looks at everything through a logical lens and doesn’t like it when others are illogical. She is wise beyond her years but her own slight sense of childish self-centeredness comes out when others don’t listen to her.

Despite her overall seriousness, Mina also has a comical side. She seeks to relate to her more spontaneous peers who are not as mature as herself, and often her attempts to achieve this come across as wacky. Sometimes she manages to amuse both herself and her friends, leading to good feelings and laughs - but other times she is ridiculed as her silliness and ways of having fun in her own way are perceived as awkward in the eyes of others. But despite this, she is very popular and many of her friends view her as like an idol because they admire her intelligence.

Appearances
Mina does not appear in every episode or music video. Below, please find a list of episodes and music videos Mina has appeared in.

Voice Actors

 * Flag of the United Kingdom.png Emma Weaver
 * Flag of Spain.png Isacha Mengibar
 * Flag of Mexico.svg Gaby Ugarte (Episodes 1-38); Xochitl Ugarte (Episodes 39-77)
 * Flag of Brazil.svg Andressa Bode (both in the Discovery Kids and BKS dubs)
 * Flag of Portugal.svg Joana Carvalho
 * Flag of Romania.png Lulia Tohotan
 * Flag of Poland.svg Katia Paliwoda
 * Flag_of_Japan.svg Misako Tomioka (冨岡美沙子)
 * Flag_of_Italy.svg Francesca Rinaldi
 * Flag_of_Albania.svg Ledina Rabdishta

Etymology
"Mina" is a multicultural girls' name with a variety of meanings, the one of which is most relevant to her character being the Persian meaning of "blue glass". Mina is the color of blue glass, and as a scientist, she would be likely to use glass in the lab. The Japanese name Mina has a variety of meanings depending on which kanji are used to write it; one of such is "water" (水), which could refer to Mina’s color. In Korean, Mina, when spelled “min-a” (민아, from Hanja 敏娥), means "smart and beautiful", referring to Mina’s intelligence. In Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay, "mina" is merely a slang term for any woman.

Trivia

 * Mina's name is pronounced "Mih nah" by everyone except for the Queen, who utilizes the more common "Mi nah" pronunciation.
 * Some characters like Rita and her own robot creation, Mini-Mina, occasionally use a pronunciation that is somewhere in between "Mih nah" and "Mi nah."
 * There have been instances in which the "Mi nah" pronunciation is mistakenly used, such as by Goomo in "Flying Lies" and "Agent Mina", and Mina herself in "Mina's Swing".
 * In every foreign dub of the series except the Turkish dub, Mina's name is solely pronounced "Mi nah".
 * Mina spoke with a foreign accent at the beginning of the series, but it gradually vanished as the show progressed and her accent became just as British as the other characters'. Mina's accent was gone save for the occasional trilled "r" sound by the end of Season 2.
 * Her accent is not from any one country; it shares aspects of French, German, Russian, Hungarian, Italian and British accents. Though fundamentally British-based, some traits that stand out about her accent include varied pronunciations of "r" (from the more guttural French/German "r", to a trilled "r", to a dropped British "r" depending on the word) and the occasional pronunciation of "w" as "v" and "th" as "z".
 * The strength of her accent varies from episode to episode. In "Radio Goomo" and "Sound Detective", it was noticeably at its strongest.
 * Mina's accent varies from dub to dub. Her accent in the European Spanish dub is German-influenced, whereas in the BKS Brazilian Portuguese dub it sounds like a cross between French and Russian. She had a São Paulo accent in the Brazilian Portuguese Discovery Kids dub. In the Latin American Spanish and reportedly Romanian dubs, Mina’s accent has been described as sounding solely Russian (although there is no footage to prove the latter), and the Albanian dub gives her a solely French-accented voice. In the Singaporean English dub, she has an Irish accent. She has a slight Shikoku dialect in terms of her pitch inflections in the Japanese dub courtesy of her voice actress being from Kochi, but other than that she does not speak with a noticeable accent. Most dubs don’t give her any accent at all.
 * Mina seems to have undergone the most vocal progression of all the characters on the show. Her voice was much squeakier in early season 1, but toned down and became lower-pitched as the series progressed.
 * Mina has a signature sound effect, a high-pitched screech. She makes this sound when she is shocked or injured. Episodes in which she has been known to make her signature sound effect include "Mina's Party," "Radio Goomo," and "Great Student."
 * Her symbol in the end credits is an atom.