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 🌜 Biography of Naoko Takeuchi 🌛

    Naoko Takeuchi is best known as the creator of Sailor Moon, and her forte is in writing girls’ romance manga. Manga is the Japanese word for “comic,” but in English it means “Japanese comics.” 

Naoko Takeuchi was born to Ikuko and Kenji Takeuchi on March 15, 1967 in the city of Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. She has one sibling: a younger brother named Shingo. Takeuchi loved drawing from a very young age, so drawing comics came naturally to her. She was in the Astronomy and Drawing clubs at her high school.

    At the age of eighteen, Takeuchi debuted in the manga world while still in high school with the short story “Yume ja Nai no ne.” It received the 2nd Nakayoshi Comic Prize for Newcomers. After high school, she attended Kyoritsu Yakka University. While in the university, she published “Love Call.” “Love Call” received the Nakayoshi New Mangaka Award for new manga artists and was published in the September 1986 issue of the manga magazine Nakayoshi Deluxe. Takeuchi graduated from Kyoritsu Yakka University with a degree in Chemistry specializing in ultrasound and medical electronics. Her senior thesis was entitled “Heightened Effects of Thrombolytic Actions Due to Ultrasound.” Takeuchi worked as a licensed pharmacist at Keio Hospital after graduating. While working at the hospital, her editor encouraged her to continue drawing manga. These manga continued to be serialized in the girls’ manga magazine Nakayoshi.

Summaries of Takeuchi’s Most Popular Works

Maria is a manga based on the book Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster. The story begins with a fifteen year old girl whose father died when she was young. Suddenly her mother becomes terribly ill and is hospitalized. Immediately following, Maria is warded a scholarship to go to a prestigious quality academy, Green Academy, that is being paid for by a mysterious man called Daddy Longlegs who she also finds out she is betrothed to. Maria eventually falls in love with a classmate who has a secret past with her. The beautiful romance unfolds while Maria is determined to find out the true identity of Daddy Longlegs.

Sailor Moon is about a fourteen year old girl named Usagi (Serena in the English translation) who, like ordinary girls, goes to school, hangs out with friends, and talks about boys. On the other hand, when evil strikes, she turns into a female super-hero called Sailor Moon. Usagi discovers that she is the reincarnation of Princess Serenity, the princess of an ancient moon kingdom. Her role as defender of the Solar System has been reissued to her in light of the reemergence of the evil force that originally destroyed her kingdom, the Silver Millennium kingdom. She fights using the identity of Sailor Moon. As the series progresses, Sailor Moon is reunited with other reincarnated defenders: the princess’s guardian soldiers (Sailor Mercury, Sailor Venus, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Saturn, Sailor Uranus, Sailor Neptune, and Sailor Pluto). She is also reunited with her lover, Prince Endymion, who serves equally as romantic interest and primary protector. Sailor Moon began its run in Nakayoshi with the February 1992 issue and ended in March 1997 with 52 acts/18 volumes