Is it OK to gush over Celebrity couples when they’re the one documenting it?
Naoko made her husband read romantic novels to her unborn son
I love this woman so damn much.
TOO CUTE
Naoko’s doodle of the seiyuu (voice actors) of the Inner Senshi. :P
They are
- Kotono Mitsuishi (Usagi),
- Aya Hisakawa (Ami)
- Michie Tomizawa (Rei)
- Emi Shinohara (Mako)
- Rika Fukami (Minako)
All five women are accomplished voice actresses with successful careers.
Naoko Takeuchi: Why she kicks ass
- She is a Japanese manga artist, whose works have a wide following among anime and manga fans worldwide. Her most popular work, Sailor Moon, rose to become one of the most recognized manga and anime products of all time.
- Seriously, all hail the Queen of Awesome.
- She graduated from Kyoritsu University of Pharmacy, where she received a degree in chemistry. (Kyoritsu University of Pharmacy merged with Keio University in 2006.) She became a licensed pharmacist. Her senior thesis had the title “Heightened Effects of Thrombolytic Actions Due to Ultrasound”
- At the age of 19 she published Love Call, which received an award. She worked steadily on one-shot pieces until writing Maria. She based this work, her first serial comic, loosely on Daddy-Long-Legs and on her friend Marie Koizumi, who helped her write it. She also had another serial call The Cherry Project, which ran for three volumes and dealt with skating.
- Upon completing The Cherry Project she wanted to do a manga on outer space and girl fighters. Her editor Fumio Osano (nicknamed Osa-P) asked her to put the fighters in sailor-suits, and thus began Sailor V. When plans began to turn Sailor V into an anime, she reworked the series and added four other Sailor Soldiers. This became Sailor Moon, which proved a hit. While she worked on Sailor Moon she also simultaneously worked on Sailor V.
- Takeuchi established a company, “PNP” which stands for “Princess Naoko Planning”, to manage her properties, mainly Sailor Moon. Later this encompassed Yoshihiro Togashi’s work as well and showed up in the credits for such anime as Level E and Hunter × Hunter, and on several musical credits such as Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu. Takeuchi runs the company herself.
- After production of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon ended, she worked on Toki*Meca. During Toki*Meca Fumio Osano returned and became her editor. At the same time she worked more closely with managing PNP and gave talks to college students.
- Simultaneously she wrote a children’s book titled Oboo-nu- to Chiboo-nu- as a birthday present to her son. (Her husband illustrated the children’s book. She made mention of it in the back of volume 1 of Toki*Meca.) She still works on the website, updating it about once a month with new flash animations or profiles.
More Princess Shinju! :D
If you’re familiar with Hans Christian Anderson’s “The Little Mermaid” (which Mermaid Panic is based off of), the Princess was told by the Sea Witch that if she wished to return to her mermaid form (and end the suffering she had thus far endured as a human), she would need to stab the man she had fallen in love with and let his blood drip onto her feet, which would turn her into a mermaid again.
This is Princess Shinju (Princess Pearl) from the novel series “Mermaid Panic,” which Naoko provided the illustrations for. Isn’t she gorgeous?
Shinju’s hair is normally portrayed as pink but I changed it to blonde because I thought it would look nicer with her color scheme.
From the end of chapter 43 of the Hunter x Hunter manga
seriously though
look how sweet this is
OH MY GOSH
Awwww
PERFECT COUPLE
PERFECT MARRIAGE
This was confirmed by @osabu8 on Twitter (:
BRB SENDING THIS WOMAN A 15 PAGE LETTER even though I doubt she’ll be able to read it
Happy 46th birthday to the woman who created our favorite girls!
Happy Birthday to our Queen ^^*
(her birthday is March 15th but it’s the 15th in Japan currently! ^^)
Omg she’s my mom’s age! Awesome! And Naoko, you gorgeous, flawless woman, thank you so much for being gorgeous and flawless. <33 I hope she’s having a great time celebrating with her loved ones!
