Naoko Takeuchi

About Naoko Takeuchi

Best known for her work on the popular Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon and Codename: Sailor V manga series, this Japanese artist was the 1993 recipient of the prestigious Kodansha Manga Award.

Naoko Togashi, known by her maiden name Naoko Takeuchi, is a Japanese manga artist. She is best known as the author of Sailor Moon, one of the most popular comics of all time. She has won numerous awards, including the 1993 Manga Kodansha Award for Sailor Moon. Takeuchi is married to Yoshihiro Togashi, the author of Yu Yu Hakusho and Hunter x Hunter.

Pseudonym(s)	Sumire Shirobara
Area(s)	Manga artist
Children	2
Born	武内 直子, March 15, 1967, Kōfu, Yamanashi, Japan
Notable works	Sailor Moon, '

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Trivia

A lyricist as well as an artist, she penned character and theme songs for the anime television series based on her most famous manga works.

Naoko Takeuchi before fame

While studying at the Kyoritsu University of Pharmacy, she worked as an attendant (miko) at a Shinto shrine, an experience that informed the characterization of spiritually-inclined Rei Hino in the Sailor Moon series.

Achievement of Naoko Takeuchi

She wrote character and theme songs for anime television programs based on her most renowned manga works, and she was also a lyricist.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Naoko Takeuchi family life

She was born and reared in the Yamanashi Prefecture of Japan, in the city of Kofu. Yoshihiro Togashi, a fellow manga artist, and she had two children together.

Associations of Naoko Takeuchi

Some of Megumi Ogata's Sailor Moon anime roles were voiced by her.

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