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Created by Naoko Takeuchi, the Japanese manga and anime franchise Sailor Moon was an international hit during its initial run (1992-97). Sailor Moon is the alter ego of klutzy teen Serena (her name in the North American version). Serena is a cowardly "Meatball Head" (a nickname based on her hairstyle), insecure about boys and perpetually late for school. But Sailor Moon is a beautiful, graceful and romantic princess, and the leader of the all-girl Sailor Scouts. Serena/Sailor Moon battles magical, extra-dimensional evil ones from the Negaverse, while living an ordinary teen life on Earth.
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Naoko Takeuchi (????- March 15, 1967) is a mangaka. She debuted in 1986 with "Love Call" which received "Nakayoshi New mangaka award.". Her most popular work, Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon was made into an anime, Theater Musicals and JDrama. To date, her Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon has been distributed in several countries. As for her other works- they are only in Japanese. PQ Angels was at one time going to be made into an anime, but due to Nakayoshi lossing seven manscripts of PQ Angel.
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Naoko Takeuchi's wonderful Sailor Moon series will always have a place in a manga fan's collection. The Sailor Moon series features her distinctive style of artwork which is great, but is ruined a bit due to the mangas change of the Japanese right to left format to the western left to right.
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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.
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The manga's creator, Naoko Takeuchi, devised the idea when she wanted to create a cute series about girls in outer space. Her editor, Fumio Osano (whom Takeuchi calls "Osa-P"), asked her to put them in Sailor Suits. This resulted in Codename wa Sailor V, which is considered (canon-wise) a prequel to Sailor Moon. When that manga was slated to become an anime, Takeuchi decided to merge in plot elements from the popular sentai genre, most notably the concept of a team of five heroes, consequently remaking the manga into BishЕЌjo Senshi Sailor Moon, with a new central character. Thus Usagi and her friends were born. After the completion of the first series, she was surprised when she was asked to continue the metaseries; this gave birth to the other four manga arcs.
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Naoko Takeuchi was upset at the loss of seven pages of the PQ Angels manuscript in 1997. The manga was originally slated to become a tankoubon, but with the manuscript pages lost it became impossible. Osano Fumio ... left her for a shounen magazine. Then the plans for the Materials Collection were canceled.[11] Naoko Takeuchi left Kodansha. She went to Shueisha hoping to find out more about the manga industry and if manuscripts are often lost.
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