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Naoko Takeuchi


Naoko Takeuchi began writing manga in high school, and at the age of 19 she won the Kodansha New Manga Artist award with her manga romance Love Call. She followed this with Chocolate Christmas, Wink Rain, Maria, Miss Rain and The Cherry Project, before hitting it big with Codename wa Sailor V in 1991. A 2-volume collection of short stories called Prism Time was published after Sailor Moon. From 1992 to 1997, BSSM appeared monthly in the Japanese girls' manga magazine Nakayoshi. The monthly installments were periodically collected into a total of 18 volumes. The tankoubon included bonus side stories (4 chapters of ChibiUsa's Picture Diary, the 3 Exam Battles, Casablanca Memory, and The Lover of Princess Kaguya) that had been previously published in Run-Run and Nakayoshi. Three volumes of Codename wa Sailor V were also collected as that series continued to run at the same time as Sailor Moon, but in the magazine Run-Run.

Five illustrations collections (artbooks) were released which collected the original color illustrations of each year drawn by Naoko for each chapter, supplements, Nakayoshi covers, etc. The artbooks also include new art. Each year of the manga has a corresponding artbook, the fifth being released a few months after the last chapter of Sailor Moon was published in March 1997. There are no artbooks for Sailor V. Following the completing of Sailor Moon and Sailor V, Naoko self-published her own doujinshi (fan manga) called The Original Art Collection of Sailor Moon: Volume Infinity, a personal collection by herself and her friends reflecting their individual visions of Sailor Moon. This softcover fan book was printed in very small numbers and distributed only in Japan. As is typical of doujinshi, this Original Art Collection of Sailor Moon: Volume Infinity was printed in very small numbers and cannot be purchased in stores. In 1999 a memorial sketch book called the Sailor Moon Materials Collection was released. This is a collection of sketches and profiles of all the characters used in creating the manga. It also features a new short manga story and some very lovely original illustrations.

After Sailor Moon

Two collected volumes called Prism Time were published after Sailor Moon, containing her previously uncollected stories, from the debut Love Call through to her first work after the completion of Sailor Moon. A cute new series called PQ Angels ran in Nakayoshi from September to December 1997 (four chapters) but was never continued due to her leaving her publisher, Kodansha. Starting in the December 1998 issue of Young You, she wrote four rounds of an autobiographical manga or "private essay comic" called Princess Takeuchi Naoko's Return-to-Society Punch!! detailing her day-to-day life, her upcoming wedding, and the release of the long-awaited Sailor Moon Materials Collection. In January of 1999 she married the manga artist Togashi Yoshihiro, author of Yuu Yuu Hakusho. Following the birth of their son, she returned to Nakayoshi with a new one-shot manga special in the September 2001 issue, entitled Toki*Meka. Naoko currently appears very busy publishing the new manga editions of Sailor Moon, with beautiful new covers and updated materials. There is also a live action TV series debuting in October 2003 which features costumes based on her manga designs. She regularly updates her official web site with news about these developments, in her personal section called Princess Room.

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