• 390x538mm
• Original Picture Collection cover [fold-out version]
• Media: Color ink, marker
• Paper: BB Kent

For the final volume of the original picture collection, it's Sailor Moon by herself. For the back I decided on a thick blue (sky) color. The yellow flowers adorning Sailor Moon are cymbidiums which appeared in "Happy Barry Sailor Moon" * of volume 18 of the comics. Aren't they awesome? One of these flowers is named after Sailor Moon. The day the final Sailor Moon anime was released, I received this flower from Tomari-sama, the Toei director of animation, and I was so happy that I tried putting them on the cover as well.

[The text in volume 18 says "Happy Barry 'Sailor Moon' " in both English (roman characters) and Japanese katakana as the name of the flowers. It appears there really is a type of cymbidium called Happy Barry 'Sailor Moon'! (also here)]

• 375x274mm
• Kodansha Comics Vol. 18 pinup
• Media: Color ink, color spray, marker
• Paper: Canson

Here's the "Happy Valley Sailor Moon" cover that also features the cymbidiums. I wanted to put a few more flowers in the picture. Surrounded by the Sailor Moon flowers, a happy Usagi and Mamo-chan are sealing their vows with a kiss. In my heart this is the last scene in Sailor Moon.

• 373x550mm
• 1997 Nakayosi March front matter
• Media: Color ink, marker, InstanTeX, water based ball pen, aeroflash
• Paper: Canson
• Edited by Terralune

In the last installment's frontispiece I decided to do a wedding ceremony. Everybody is full of happiness in their wedding dresses. I didn't have much time to draw these so while going through Yamahodo's wedding dress book I decided to use what everyone there was wearing, and it really was a lot of fun. My dream is also to be a bride ^_^ Hurry up and let me wear a beautiful wedding dress, my future husband.

• 395x547mm
• 1997 Nakayosi January supplement
• Media: Color ink, marker, Japanese paper, color copy, sticker, poster color
• Paper: Feather Waltz Cherry

Some day or other I was going to draw the whole gang in kimono figures and I finally got around to doing it! It was fun but terribly difficult! Even in the best of circumstances it's really hard work to draw kimonos x 11 people! The pink flowers in the back were cut out for me by manager Yurika-sama, but it was still tough. Whenever she was cutting them she would have to leave her desk.... Thank you so much, Yurika-sama.

• 383x545mm
• 1996 Nakayosi July front matter
• Media: Color ink, marker, transparent watercolor paint, pastel, modeling paste
• Paper: Fine BB Kent
• Version 2 edited by Terralune

Here I wanted to do a refreshing piece. The main lines I succeeded in doing in watercolor, and the back was done in classic. So in the midst of my usual work is this very un-Sailormoon-like illustration. You could say it's my experimental drawing. The 11 girls' poses, with their loving eyes, are very pleasing. But in this drawing, during the design stage (when I was testing it out) everyone's hair, clothes, flowers, and the back were all yellow!

• 381x542mm
• Materials Collection cover
• Media: Color ink, marker, color spray
• Paper: Fine BB Kent

The color of the cover of the materials collection would be yellow, I decided. This picture is the last one I drew out of all the pictures in this book. Having gone such a long time since last drawing all the soldiers I was pretty nervous. The materials collection is loaded with lots of cherished drawings that are really embarrassing, but together with the five picture collection volumes they commemorate my life's work. Everyone please check it out!

• 380x540mm
• 1996 Nakayosi December front matter
• Media: Color ink, marker, water based ball pen
• Paper: Fine BB Kent, marble paper
• #1 edited by Diana. #2 edited from tankoubon poster by Terralune

In this composition, as I started drawing Sailor Moon and the others, I thought the ten figures somehow turned out really small and the picture ended up without any intensity. Looking at it myself, it seems to be a very strange picture. The colors of the sailor senshi aside from Sailor Moon might be different from the colors I'm used to seeing, I wonder.

• 550x395mm
• 1996 Nakayosi April first page
• Media: Color ink, color spray, marker
• Paper: Cloudscape hydrangea

Looking at it now, I really treasure this picture. While I was drawing it for the fifth season, I decided that I wanted to try using a cool color for their puppy eyes. It seems that this determination was very stubborn on my part. The contents of season 5 ended up being cooler than I thought as well. Sorry to all my fans. But personally I liked the fifth season. I think it looks like what I would have done if I were totally free to draw what I want.

• 387x269mm
• 1997 Nakayosi February front matter
• Media: Color ink, marker, water based ball pen
• Paper: Fine BB Kent, Japanese paper

This picture was originally supposed to be two pages facing each other, but I forced it into a one-sided piece, because I didn't really have enough time. It was during the middle of '96 when I felt the most strongly that I didn't want to work. On the job and in my private life, I was hemmed in and stressed. I wonder why nowadays when I think something is stressful that I can't remember what it was like back then <G> I really wanted to see Sailor Cosmos in the anime.

• 396x275mm
• 1997 Nakayosi March first page
• Media: Color ink, color spray, breed proof, white
• Paper: Thick art drop, Cloudscape marble

Eternal Sailor Moon and Sailor Cosmos's two images are layered on top of each other in this drawing. The main lines were drawn in purple ink, but when I took it over to Nakayosi the pink started to come out, so I finished it up very softly. The lace paper was glued to a cardboard back and on top of that I drew the picture on tracing paper. I really enjoyed how the colors came out in this book.

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