Line #21 Creator/NaokoTakeuchi


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3	Naoko Takeuchi (武内直子, born March 15, 1967) is the creator of ''Manga/TheCherryProject'', ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'' and the world famous ''Manga/SailorMoon'' manga, which codified the MagicalGirlWarrior SubGenre. She is married to fellow manga-ka Creator/YoshihiroTogashi, and has had two children with him: a boy in January of 2001, and a girl in 2009. A pharmacist-turned-mangaka, she has been a {{shojo}} inspiration for many years.
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5	!!Naoko Takeuchi provides examples of:
6	* ApprovalOfGod: Naoko loves reading ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' fanfic and encourages different interpretations of her work heartily
7	* AuthorAppeal: White haired {{Bishonen}}, racing cars (her favorite is a Ferrari 512M), figure skating, and modern fashion, namely. ''Manga/SailorMoon'' was inspired by Series/WonderWoman1975, which gives the inspiration of most of the senshi having {{combat stiletto}}s. [[AllWomenLoveShoes She likes drawing shoes.]] Her ''Material Collections'' are full to the brim with characters wearing outfits inspired by fashions she's seen in magazines, and she puts great work into drawing each individual fold of fabric. Also, much like [[Creator/YoshihiroTogashi her husband]], she loves writing about LGBT characters, in part because she adores the openly homoerotic Creator/TakarazukaRevue.
8	* AuthorAvatar: Usagi is stated to be this in ''Sailor Moon''. Also, in the Sailor Moon manga, there would occasionally be notes or messages from the author and Takeuchi would draw herself as a cartoon rabbit.
9	* CreatorBreakdown: [[invoked]] Sadly, Takeuchi recounts in ''Punch'' that she was burned out after completing the last chapter for Sailor Moon. As she put it, she was working on artbooks, script consultations for the anime, drawing and merchandise approval. Then on her vacation, she was working on a new manga at the behest of her editors. The final straw came when Kodansha lost several pages of ''PQ Angels'' and kept passing the buck; Naoko quit and didn't finish the series.
10	* ExecutiveMeddling: A victim of it in her early years, though in many cases not to her detriment:
11	** Had it not been for executive meddling asking her to add more characters to the cast, ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'' would have never become ''Sailor Moon''.
12	** Sailor Moon's iconic PrimaryColorChampion costume was the result of an editor telling her that her original mostly white costume would look bad on magazine covers.
13	** For that matter, this is also the main reason that the series continued beyond the final battle with Queen Beryl at all - she had originally planned for the end of the story arc to be the end of the manga itself, with [[EverybodyDiesEnding all five sailors DYING]] - [[KilledOffForReal for good]]!
14	** Naoko herself also enforced this when it came to approving the new dub of ''Manga/SailorMoon'' from Creator/VizMedia. She had to personally approve the new cast in order for the dub to become a reality, otherwise, Viz wouldn't be able to re-release it.
15	* IWasJustJoking: When she came to her boss one day in the 1990s and said that she would like to draw a manga about a female superhero, the editor remarked: "Right. A female superhero. Maybe a schoolgirl at that, who is a crybaby, and yet saves the day?" And thus, ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'', and by extension, ''Manga/SailorMoon'', was born.
16	* {{Fangirl}}: Naoko Takeuchi is a [[https://www.sailormoonforum.com/index.php?threads/1996-naoko-takeuchi-interview-in-animerica-magazine.31405/ huge fan]] of ''Anime/CaptainHarlock'' and recounted in an interview that she would watch it again and again.
17	* GodNeverSaidThat: There has been a viral post in social media regarding Naoko Takeuchi saying "I was in a low place, so I write about girls I wish were my friends." This quote is false, fabricated to pretend the author is some sort of underdog that didn't have any friends. Naoko Takeuchi is known for being quite reclusive, and one of the very few interviews she gave stated that she created ''Manga/SailorMoon'' based on how she and her friends don't need to rely on men all the time.
18	--> '''Naoko Takeuchi''': “I was a regular college student and got a regular job and then started drawing. So I have quite a few normal students and OL [office lady] friends....My friends and I would have chats about relationships or work and we'd always conclude that we shouldn't depend on men. I think that women are actually stronger, and I wanted to draw that in Sailor Moon.”
19	* LapPillow: Says of [[https://sailormusic.net/wordpress/images/artbook1/sailormoon-artbook-1-44.jpg this cute drawing:]] "I love sleeping with my head on someone's lap. I also love having someone's head on my lap. Since both really put me at ease, I can be happy."
20	* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: This was what killed ''PQ Angels''. She had submitted the original drawings to Kodansha, who proceed to lose enough pages that were a chapter's worth. No one could find them, and the editors and executives played the BlameGame.
21	* OnlySixFaces: A lot of her characters look very similar to each other, having the same face and body-type.
22	* OrphanedSeries: Several after ''Sailor Moon'':
23	** ''PQ Angels'' ends on a cliffhanger where Peanut and Kyuuri haven't found the queen, but they are celebrating a new year.
24	** ''Love Witch'' goes into Love making a SadisticChoice to sacrifice Yuu to gain the powers to save his life.
25	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Usagi has a father named Kenji, a mother named Ikuko, and a younger brother named Shingo, just like her creator, Naoko.
26	* RuleThirtyFourCreatorReactions: She enthusiastically encourages and enjoys reading fanworks based on it, including hentai material, and has been known to say so in her manga marginalia.
27	* ShoutOut: She makes one of them as part of an artbook drawing, since she loves when fans homage her works, and compliments it back as she can.
28	* TenderTears: In an artbook she comments that "[[ThirdPersonPerson Naoko]] is prone to tears". She cries when she is overwhelmed by something beautiful and from touching letters from fans.
29	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: A lot of the elements she wanted to include in Sailor Moon can be found in her artbooks, but most especially the Materials Collection she released as a {{doujinshi}}. Tuxedo Mask was supposed to play a much larger part (and would have been named Mysterious 2098 Face!), Makoto would have been a smoker and sukeban leader... the list goes on.
30	* WriteWhoYouKnow: Usagi's parents and brother are based on and named after her own family members. She also did {{miko}} work at a shrine, using this experience as the basis for Rei's character. Likewise she's stated that Michiru[=/=]Sailor Neptune was the hardest character for her to write because Naoko is in no way that calm or reserved.

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