In 1986, while she was attending Kyoritsu Yakka (pharmacy) University, she made her debut as
mangaka with "Love Call" which received "Nakayoshi New mangaka award." It was published
in "Nakayoshi Deluxe" September 1986 issue.
After the Sailormoon manga and anime ended Naoko moved on to make another manga that was
probably about to become just as popular as Sailormoon. It was called "PQ Angels".
Unforunatly, the manga was never completed so it was abandoned after December 1997 when she
stopped working for Nakayoshi. Ever since Kodansha Lt. lost her transcripts she decided to
find another pubilsher that would let her make a different kind of manga. After that she
decided to make a biographcial manga called "Princess Naoko's Return to Society Punch" .
She made 4 different rounds of it. She released it in a magazine called "Young You".
This manga was aimed at an older audience then her mangas before. Now she is currently running a
manga called, "Princess and Prince's Marriage Punch" which she does with her husband,
Yoshihiro Togashi.
(Here is a list of some of the mangas/anime that she's involved in.)
Naoko has been involved in various projects such as The Cherry Project and the recent one
after Sailormoon, called PQ Angels. Shoujo material but none has eclipsed the enormous
success of Sailormoon so far, an anime that ran for 5 years and 18 manga volumes.
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![]() PQ Angelz |
![]() The Cherry Project |
![]() Codename Wa Sailor V |