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Naoko TAKEUCHI (manga artist)

武内 直子
Family name (in kanji): 武内
Given name (in kanji): 直子
Also known as:
Sumire Shirobara
Date of birth: 1967-03-15
Hometown: Kofu, Yamanishi, Japan
Chronology:
(1999-01-06) Married Yu Yu Hakusho creator Yoshihiro Togashi
Blood type: A
Height: 160 cm
Favorites:
Cars: Ferrari and Porsche (she happens to own one of each)
Color: Gold
Pearls
Hobbies:
Collecting antiques (especially lamps and mirrors)
Gardening
Shopping
Non-anime staff credits:
Boss Character Design for "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" (VG: PC-Engine Super CD-ROM²) (Japanese)
Design for "Pokémon Rumble World" (VG)
Designer for "Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22" (VG)
Game Enemy Design Cooperation for "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" (VG: Super Famicom) (Japanese)
Lyrics for "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon Crystal Character Ongaku Shū Crystal Collection" (CD;Track 1) (Japanese)
Lyrics for "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon Sailor Stars Merry Christmas" (CD; Track 1) (Japanese)
Lyrics for "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon ~Ai wa Doko ni Aru no?~" (CD; Tracks 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9) (Japanese)
Lyrics for "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon ~Mirai e Mukatte~" (CD: Tracks 2, 8) (Japanese)
Nakayoshi Staff (Sailor Moon) for "Welcome Nakayoshi Park" (VG) (Japanese)
Original Creator (Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon) for "Nakayoshi to Issho" (VG) (Japanese)
Original Creator (Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon) for "Panic in Nakayoshi World" (VG) (Japanese)
Supervision for "Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon" (VG; Arcade) (Japanese)
News: Show:
Sailor Moon Musical Stage Show Will Come To London in February 2025 (Nov 29, 2024)
Sailor Moon Will Have Crunchyroll U.K. Blu-ray and DVD Release in 2025 (Oct 28, 2024)
2nd Sailor Moon Cosmos Anime Film Previewed in Trailer (Jun 11, 2023)
Sailor Moon Stage Musical Returns in September After COVID-19 Delay (Apr 1, 2021)
Sailor Moon Eternal Anime Films' New Clip Teases Helios Kissing Chibiusa (Dec 28, 2020)
Sailor Moon Crystal Season III Videos Preview Animation, Theme Songs (Mar 26, 2016)
Sailor Moon Crystal's Chibiusa, Tuxedo Kamen Also Sing New Ending Songs (Mar 23, 2016)
Sailor Moon Crystal Casts Yukiyo Fujii as Sailor Saturn (Jan 27, 2016)
Sailor Moon Crystal Casts Junko Minagawa, Sayaka Ohara as Sailor Uranus & Neptune (Jan 27, 2016)
Sailor Moon Teases 'New Project' in Addition to 3rd Crystal Season (Sep 28, 2015)
Sailor Moon Crystal Gets Character Song Album (Feb 21, 2015)
Sailor Moon Crystal TV Broadcast Gets New Key Visual (Feb 20, 2015)
3rd New Sailor Moon Stage Musical to Run This Year (Jan 28, 2015)
Sailor Moon Crystal Unveils Black Moon's Cast, Designs (Jan 26, 2015)
Sailor Moon Crystal to Air on TV in Japan, Starting in April (Jan 15, 2015)
Sailor Moon Crystal's Black Moon Arc Trailer Previews Chibi Usa, Sailor Pluto (Dec 27, 2014)
Sailor Moon Crystal Casts Misato Fukuen as Chibi Usa, Ai Maeda as Sailor Pluto (Dec 27, 2014)
Free Anime in Australia: 8/Dec - 14/Dec (Dec 8, 2014)
Free Anime in Australia: 1/Dec - 7/Dec (Dec 1, 2014)
Sailor Moon Crystal Anime's 2nd Season to Feature Chibiusa (Nov 8, 2014)
Sailor Moon Musical Gets 1st Overseas Run in Shanghai (Aug 21, 2014)
Sailor Moon Musical's Trailer Streamed (Jul 9, 2014)
Sailor Moon Crystal Cast Adds Misa Watanabe, Daisuke Kishio, Kousuke Toriumi, More (Jun 30, 2014)
Sailor Moon Crystal's Extended English-Subtitled Trailer Previews Music (Jun 25, 2014)
Viz Streams English-Subtitled Sailor Moon Crystal Trailer (Jun 19, 2014)
Sailor Moon Crystal 1st Promo Video Streamed (Update) (Jun 5, 2014)
New Sailor Moon's Premiere Event Excludes Men — Unless Accompanied by Women (May 23, 2014)
Kotono Mitsuishi Leads New Sailor Moon Crystal Anime Cast (Apr 27, 2014)
New Sailor Moon Anime Adds Majestic Prince Animator, Naruto Composer (Feb 27, 2014)
New Sailor Moon Anime's Producer: Not Remaking 1st Anime (Jan 9, 2014)
New Sailor Moon Anime by Toei to Premiere in July (Jan 9, 2014)
5 Attack on Titan Graphic Novels Land in U.S. Bookstores' Top 20 in September (Oct 4, 2013)
Sailor Moon Is #2 in July Graphic Novel Sales in U.S. Bookstores (Aug 2, 2012)
Sailor Moon Manga Gets New Anime Series in Summer 2013 (Update 5) (Jul 6, 2012)
BookScan Manga Ranking, May 21-27 (Jun 5, 2012)
Sailor Moon Ranks as #2 March Graphic Novel in U.S. Bookstores (Apr 12, 2012)
Sailor Moon Ranks as #2 February Graphic Novel in U.S. Bookstores (Mar 12, 2012)
New York Times Manga Best Seller List, February 12-18 (Feb 24, 2012)
New York Times Manga Best Seller List, February 5-11 (Feb 17, 2012)
New York Times Manga Best Seller List, January 29-February 4 (Feb 10, 2012)
New York Times Manga Best Seller List, January 22-28 (Feb 3, 2012)
Sailor Moon Returns as #1 Graphic Novel in U.S. Bookstores (Feb 2, 2012)
New York Times Manga Best Seller List, January 15-21 (Jan 27, 2012)
New York Times Manga Best Seller List, December 25-31 (Jan 6, 2012)
New York Times Manga Best Seller List, December 18-24 (Dec 30, 2011)
New York Times Manga Best Seller List, November 27-December 3 (Dec 9, 2011)
Sailor Moon Tops Graphic Novels in U.S. Bookstores for 3rd Month (Update 2) (Dec 8, 2011)
New York Times Manga Best Seller List, November 20-26 (Dec 2, 2011)
Sailor Moon Tops October Graphic Novels in U.S. Bookstores (Nov 3, 2011)
New York Times Manga Best Seller List, October 16-22 (Oct 28, 2011)
New York Times Manga Best Seller List, October 9-15 (Oct 21, 2011)
New York Times Manga Best Seller List, October 2-8 (Oct 14, 2011)
Kodansha: Sailor Moon 1 Reprinted after 50,000 Sell Out (Oct 14, 2011)
New York Times Manga Best Seller List, September 25-October 1 (Oct 7, 2011)
Sailor Moon Tops September Graphic Novels in U.S. Bookstores (Oct 6, 2011)
New York Times Manga Best Seller List, September 18-24 (Sep 30, 2011)
New York Times Manga Best Seller List, September 11-17 (Sep 23, 2011)
Sailor Moon Creator Takeuchi Makes Bentō Class Cameo (Feb 28, 2010)
Japanese Comic Ranking, December 21-27 (Dec 30, 2009)
Sailor Moon's Takeuchi, Hunter X Hunter's Togashi Have 2nd Baby (Dec 24, 2009)
Sailor Moon's 5 Main Voice Actresses Reunite for Event (Oct 29, 2009)
Isao Takahata to Base Next Film on Taketori Monogatari (Aug 12, 2009)
New Year's Greetings — Anime Style (Update 11) (Jan 1, 2009)
3rd Sailor Moon Musical Actress Kanbe Dies at 24 (Jun 21, 2008)
Comic-Con Int'l to Host Bleach's Kubo in San Diego (May 21, 2008)
New Sailor Moon Details (Jun 7, 2003)
New Sailor Moon Script? (May 20, 2002)
New Sailor Moon? (Jan 12, 2001)
Kissing Cousins? (Jul 12, 2000)
Interest:
Minato City, Tokyo Gets 5 New Sailor Moon Manhole Covers (Feb 13, 2024)
Sailor Moon's Naoko Takeuchi Illustrates Single Cover Art for Blackpink's Jennie (Oct 26, 2023)
Sailor Moon 30th Anniversary Museum Unveils Naoko Takeuchi's Key Visual (Apr 29, 2022)
Eiichiro Oda, Hajime Isayama, Naoko Takeuchi, Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Draw Illustrations for Olympic Program (Jul 13, 2021)
Make Your Wedding a Moonlight Romance with Sailor Moon's Wedding Dress (Jul 1, 2020)
Press Release:
Kodansha USA Publishing Reveals Summer & Fall 2020 Debuting Print Titles (Mar 19, 2020)
Other articles: Show:
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: The Super Live Comes To America (Apr 5, 2019)
Manga Answerman - How Come Only Some Manga Use Honorifics? (Sep 28, 2018)
The List - 7 Drastic Character Design Changes (Jul 14, 2018)
The List - 6 Things You Might Not Know About Naruto's Masashi Kishimoto (May 5, 2018)
Anime Spotlight Summer 2014 - The List (Sep 1, 2014)
Jason Thompson's House of 1000 Manga - Special Guest Edition: Wish (Aug 4, 2011)
Jason Thompson's House of 1000 Manga - Sailor Moon (Mar 3, 2011)
The Gallery - Cari Corene (Nov 28, 2009)
The Gallery - Bettina Kurkoski (Oct 17, 2009)
The Gallery - Amy Reeder Hadley (Aug 8, 2009)
The Gallery - Elda The (Feb 7, 2009)
The Gallery - Lanny Liu (Aug 16, 2008)
Hey, Answerman! (Mar 9, 2006)
Ms. Answerman: I wanna be a columnist! (Mar 7, 2003)
The Month in Review - May 2002 (Jun 9, 2002)
The Month in Review - February 2002 (Mar 1, 2002)
Answerman: The Yaoi Debate Rages On! (Feb 26, 2001)
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Sailor Moon (TV) : Special Thanks To (Viz Media)
Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (TV) : Special Thanks To
Sailor Moon SuperS (special) : Special Thanks To
Sailor Moon SuperS (TV) : Special Thanks To (Viz Media)

Staff in:
(The) Cherry Project (manga) : Story & Art
Chocolate Christmas (manga) : Story & Art
Codename: Sailor V (manga) : Story & Art
Compiler 2 (OAV) : Character Design (Nerima Queen)
Love Witch (manga) : Story & Art
Make Up! Sailor Guardians (movie) : Original creator, Theme Song Composition (lyric) , Theme Song Lyrics
Maria (manga by Takeuchi) : Story & Art
Miss Rain (manga) : Story & Art
PQ Angels (manga) : Story & Art
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (live-action TV) : Original creator, Theme Song Lyrics (OP; ED1)
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie : Original creator, Chief Supervisor, Insert Song Lyrics, Theme Song Lyrics (OP2)
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal (ONA 2014) : Original creator, Theme Song Lyrics (ED)
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal (ONA 2015) : Original creator, Theme Song Lyrics (ED)
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal: Season III (TV 2016) : Original creator
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal (movie) : Original creator, Supervision, Theme Song Lyrics (Part 2; ED 2)
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: Act.Zero (live-action special) : Original creator, Theme Song Lyrics
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: Special Act. (live-action special) : Original creator, Theme Song Lyrics (ED)
Prism Time (manga) : Story & Art
Sailor Moon (manga) : Story & Art
Sailor Moon (TV) : Original creator, Insert Song Lyrics ("Illusionary Silver Crystal ～ Silver Crystal"), Theme Song Lyrics (ED2)
Sailor Moon R (TV) : Original creator, Insert Song Lyrics ("Hottokenai yo"; ep 54)
Sailor Moon R: The Movie : Original creator
Sailor Moon S (TV) : Original creator, Insert Song Lyrics ("I am Sailor Moon"; ep 114), Theme Song Lyrics (ED2)
Sailor Moon S: The Movie : Original creator
Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (TV) : Original creator, Insert Song Lyrics ("To the Shooting Star", "Route Venus", "Todokanu Omoi -My Friend’s Love-", "Sailor Star Song"), Theme Song Lyrics (OP)
Sailor Moon SuperS (special) : Original creator
Sailor Moon SuperS (TV) : Original Manga, Insert Song Lyrics ("Route Venus", "Sailor Team no Theme"), Theme Song Lyrics (ED2)
Sailor Moon SuperS Plus - Ami's First Love (special) : Original creator, Theme Song Lyrics (ED)
Sailor Moon SuperS: The Movie : Original creator
Toki*Meka (manga) : Story & Art

Staff in:
(under the name of Sumire Shirobara)
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal (movie) : Theme Song Lyrics (ED 1)
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