<< Naoko Takeuchi with her boss, Osabu. She usually puts comments on the side of her mangas with her "usagi" (bunny) trademark.

Naoko Takeuchi
mangaka of Codename wa Sailor V and Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon.

Born on March 15, Naoko Takeuchi is a Pisces and lives in Juuban, in Tokyo, the same area where Usagi Tsukino, the main character of her highly successful manga and anime, Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon lives. (My, that's an affluent neighborhood!)

She was said to have many aspects of herself in the characters of all the sailor senshi (soldiers) but any BSSM fan would know for sure that the main character Usagi Tsukino seems to have been patterned after Naoko herself. And from that, I assume that she is total romantic ^.^ not only because she's a mangaka of a famous shoujo manga, but you can see it from the stories, interviews and the songs she writes.

Yes, she writes some of those nice songs from Sailormoon with Route Venus as her favorite and something she actually relates to! ^_^

The success of Sailormoon actually began with a manga called Codename wa Sailor V. The main protagonist is Minako Aino, whose last name "Ai" means "love" for she is a soldier for love and justice.

When it was decided that her manga had potential to become an anime, Naoko decided to further expand the story and add more characters. So Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon was born!

Try to take a backtrack though and see for yourself how Sailor V was in fact Sailormoon. Aside from the fact that both protagonists had guardian talking cats who gave them their brooches to transform into sailor senshi, Minako Aino had her own special mysterious MASKED protector named Kaitou Ace a la Tuxedo Kamen. Actually, the funny thing is...

<< Minako has actually met Usagi in Sailor V. She has even encountered Rei, Ami and Makoto, the people we would know later as Sailormars, Sailormercury and Sailorjupiter in the BSSM manga and anime.

The rest is history. We now know how hugely successful BSSM was in television where it had countless dubs in various countries and officially released in uncut subs, the soundtracks, the art books, the various manga to the merchandise till it was one of the main anime featured in TIME magazine talking about how Japanese pop culture is sweeping across Asia.

Now from where I come from, everyone has heard about Sailormoon... even those dark people who only aspire to take anything gothic. And every Sailormoon fan has indeed heard about Naoko Takeuchi.

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.

Omoshiroii!!! Naoko Takeuchi was married in January 6, 1999 to equally famous mangaka of Yuu Yuu Hakushou, Yoshihiro Togashi.