• 380 x 270 mm
• The January issue of Nakayoshi 1994, supplement
• Medium / Water Color Pencil, Color ink, Pastel
• Paper Type / Canson paper

I don't usually have the chance to draw pictures of Sailor Soldiers in Yukata so I was glad that, again this year, I was able to paint one.

• 380 x 270 mm
• The December issue of Nakayoshi 1993, cover
• Medium / Color ink, Color spray, Fiber-point pen
• Paper Type / BB Kent rough

Merry Christmas

[That's all she says]

• 382 x 540 mm
• The February issue of Nakayoshi 1994, cover
• Medium / Color ink, Color spray
• Paper Type / BB Kent rough

This picture was used on the autograph paper at the International Book Fair. A person from the Public Relations Department of Kodansha looked at it, and then laughed hard and said, "Their poses look like they are doing a two-man comedy act." Ouuch! Since then, every time I look at the picture I see the words "a two-man comedy act…." Sob. Anyhow, Usagi is boke (the slow one in the two-man comedy) and Chibi-Usa is tukkomi (the quick one).

• 270 x 380 mm
• The May issue of Nakayoshi 1993, supplement
• Medium / Color ink
• Paper Type / BB Kent rough

This picture was drawn for a notebook which was a supplement to Nakayoshi. In general, the requests for the supplements are made very much in advance. When I was still working on Part One and trying to bring the story to a climax, I also had to draw for the supplements for Part Two. I think I was in a fluster as I tried to decide of what the shape the new Sailor Moon rod should be. I drew the shape of the brooch halfheartedly.

• 275 x 200 mm
• The April issue of Nakayoshi 1993, supplement
• Medium / Color ink, Color tone, Water color pencil
• Paper Type / BB Kent rough

Around this time the number of color pictures that I had to draw increased drastically. I had no time and ran out of ideas. I did not want to draw color pictures for a while. And I thought: "I am busy enough drawing the cover pages. Do I have to draw the supplements also?" This picture became the cover of a supplemental booklet titled Sailor Moon Official Fan Book, which analyzes Sailor Moon Part One. The booklet was made for substantial reading and was very interesting. Do you have it? I hope that they will print it again.

• Sailor Moon: 170 x 196 mm
• The August issue of Nakayoshi 1993, supplement
• Medium / Color ink, Color spray
• Paper Type / Canson paper

This is a cut from the special card collection of the supplement to Nakayoshi.

Sailor Mercury: 230 x 145 mm
The September issue of Nakayoshi 1993, supplement
Medium / Color ink
Paper Type / BB Kent rough

We included two supplemental cards every month as a part of the card collection.

Sailor Mars: 110 x 145 mm
The October issue of Nakayoshi 1993, supplement
Medium / Color ink, Color spray
Paper Type / Canson paper

Osabu said from behind me that this card was a monumental supplement because it has a hologram.

Sailor Jupiter: 165 x 160 mm
The November issue of Nakayoshi 1993, supplement
Medium / Color ink, Color spray
Paper Type / Canson paper

I put the individual's data on the back of the card. It was harder to compile the data than to draw the picture.

Sailor Venus: 275 x 230 mm
The December issue of Nakayoshi 1993, supplement
Medium / Color ink, Color spray
Paper Type / Canson paper

It was difficult not to have the same color tone for all twelve pictures.

Sailor Pluto: 210 x 193 mm
The January issue of Nakayoshi 1994, supplement
Medium / Color ink, Color spray
Paper Type / Canson paper.

I think this picture of Pluto is my favorite among the twelve cards.

• Usagi: 197 x 100 mm
• The August issue of Nakayoshi 1993, supplement
• Medium / Color ink, Water Color pencil
• Paper Type / Canson paper

We gave out this card collection to the readers as telephone cards. Twelve cards in one set! What a luxury!

Ami: 150 x 120 mm
The September issue of Nakayoshi 1993, supplement
Medium / Color ink, Color tone
Paper Type / BB Kent rough

I heard that the editorial department has received many phone calls from the readers who failed to purchase some of the cards in the card collection. They were asking for the cards that they had missed.

Rei: 145 x 103 mm
The October issue of Nakayoshi 1993, supplement
Medium / Color ink, Color tone
Paper Type / Canson paper

Did everybody collect all of them?

Makoto: 140 x 184 mm
The November issue of Nakayoshi 1993, supplement
Medium / Color ink, Color spray
Paper Type / Canson paper

I had the idea of drawing Princess and Tuxedo Mask together so I am hoping for another supplement project in which I can use the idea.

Minako: 273 x 140 mm
The December issue of Nakayoshi 1993, supplement
Medium / Color ink, Color tone
Paper Type / BB Kent rough

Actually I am using these twelve cards as the title pages of files. They come in handy.

Chibiusa: 212 x 135 mm
The January issue of Nakayoshi 1993, supplement
Medium / Color ink, Color spray
Paper Type / Canson paper

I like little Luna P. She looks like a bomb.

• 418 x 326 mm
• The January issue of Nakayoshi 1994, the first page
• Medium / Water color pencil, Color ink, Fiber-tipped pen
• Paper Type / Canson paper

When I was painting colors on this picture, my staff asked me, "Is it going to be stickers?" I know. I wanted to make it into stickers but I was told that it would be too difficult to do so (because the picture has too many details). Osabu, will you make it into stickers? Let's do it. There is nothing Osabu cannot do. So let's do it!

• 380 x 270 mm
• KC Volume 6, the cover
• Medium / Color ink, Color spray, Pastel, Tone
• Paper Type / BB Kent rough

While I was spraying sepia color on the background of this picture, the phone rang. I thought that I would spray while talking on the phone. I don't know what I was thinking but I took a turquoise spray, which was next to the sepia spray, and sprayed it. That moment my mind went blank: a big turquoise colored stain on an almost completed picture. Yet it is not noticeable at all, right? These kinds of things always happen. When it comes to correcting, leave it to me.

• 362 x 257 mm
• The March issue of Nakayoshi 1994, title page
• Medium / Water color pencil, Color ink, Color spray, Pastel
• Paper Type / Watson paper

Osabu said, "Let's put this picture on the last page." So I did what he said. I couldn't spend two hours on drawing that picture. As a result, I made some mistakes. Yet it was a memorable work since it became the color title page of the end of Part Two. Speaking of the color pictures, Osabu praises all of them, but which one do you like the best? Please let me know next time, ok?

• 382 x 540 mm
• The Original Picture Collection, a newly drawn picture, pinup
• Medium / Color ink, Color spray, Modeling paste, Pastel, Tone
• Paper Type / BB Kent rough

I wanted to draw this picture for a long time, and finally was able to do so for the collection. I initially planned to draw it with darker colors but I really wanted to paint Usagi's background in pink and needed to paint V's hair in yellow. This is how my pictures have become more colorful and louder than they were originally planned.