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BSSM Original Picture Collection Vol. V

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  • 297x434mm
  • 1996 Nakayosi May front matter
  • Media: Marker, pastel, poster color, color spray
  • Paper: OK Feather Waltz

This is a drawing of the whole team in uniform. When the white-clad Setsuna-sama came out in the musical, followed by army tights, I was knocked out. Within myself, I still think Setsuna-sama should forever wear white clothes. ^_^

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  • 383x270mm
  • 1996 Nakayosi August cover
  • Media: Color ink, color tone, marker
  • Paper: Fine BB Kent

Once more. A fan service picture. I like this one too. Looking at it myself, it's a little hot. With these two, I just kept drawing it up more and more.

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  • 378x266mm
  • 1996 Nakayosi December cover
    Media: Color ink, marker, water based ball pen, pastel
  • Paper: Fine BB Kent

Having drawn many cool pictures, this time, I decided that being a shoujo manga house and all, to stop drawing so many such pictures. So this is a pretty strange picture. I like the Usagi-chan in western clothes.

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  • 342x494mm
  • Drawn for the CD BOX
  • Media: Pencil, color ink, marker, color spray
  • Paper: Fine BB Kent

The kind and generous folks at Columbia accepted my request to include my CD jacket work in their box set! Thank you Honchi-sama. ^_^ However, as the box was being prepared, the original picture collection went to press first <G>, and I certainly have no control over the CD. ;_; Everyone should buy the CDs in the box set. ^_^

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  • 364x250mm
  • Written below
  • Media: Color ink, poster color, tone
  • Paper: Fine BB Kent

I thought they were gonna use this drawing for the August '95 frontispiece. However OSABU discarded it, saying "a picture with one guy in it is no good." A friend of mine asked me "Why would Usagi-chan like such a useless guy." Poor thing. Actually, Usagi and Chibiusa would probably go "Mamo-chan Love Love" instead.

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  • 374x272mm
  • 1996 Nakayosi July first page
  • Media: Color ink, marker, modeling paste, color spray
  • Paper: Canson

As I look at this drawing right now, it's apparent how much I liked the Bo- brand at the time. (The Bo-V brand, actually.) But right now I'm more fickle. Right now my favorite western brands are Ann Sui and Vivian Tam.

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  • 374x277mm
  • Kodansha Comics Vol. 18 back cover
  • Media: Color ink, poster color, InstanTeX, marker
  • Paper: Canson

For the last volume of the Sailormoon comics, I drew a happy couple's kissing scene. How sweet. In the past, often, in planning this kind of composition and this kind of love look, I drew out a lot of these kind of paintings with a night sky in the background. I put all my heart and soul into depicting their emotion. Of course right now that passion shows through. Usagi-chan not as much, but hey.

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  • 210x153mm
  • 1997 Nakayosi April frontispiece
  • Media: Marker, color spray
  • Paper: Postcard, marble paper

This is what I painted for the last page of the last part of Sailor Moon. This picture was made into telephone cards which were distributed to all the various staff members at Nakayosi to which I am indebted as presents by OSABU. Has anyone actually used the cards yet? Congratulations ^_^ They're commemorative cards ^_^ Guard them well ^_^

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  • 364x515mm
  • 1997 Nakayosi April popularity poll
  • Media: Color ink, marker, pastel, tone
  • Paper: Fine BB Kent

When this drawing appeared in Nakayosi, it was painted rather quickly and the colors looked a little stiff, so this time around I repainted it. This one is very dear to me. All of the Sailor Moon characters drawn here, and all the many goods in the bookstores, from the picture collection I to V, together with all the fan letters and presents from the fans, is something I will treasure for eternity.

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  • 382x273mm
  • 1997 Nakayosi March cover
  • Media: Color ink, beads
  • Paper: Fine BB Kent

This is the last single page. It's the cover of the last volume of Sailormoon that appeared in Nakayosi. Up to now this has been the easiest of all to draw, and I'll probably never forget it for the rest of my life. For this last drawing, I received assistance from all the fans whose love I put in to it. This one's for you. ^_^

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  • 390x539mm
  • Drawn for the CD jacket
  • Media: Color ink, marker
  • Paper: BB Kent

This picture is the six-part CD jacket for the box set that's on sale. There really are six CDs in this jacket, and the idea is that when you line them all up you get this poster from the original picture collection, but there are all sorts of ways to line them up in the wrong order <G>. But once you do it you can see the CD jacket. Everyone please buy it, and check it out, ne?

[Last Page - Closing Message]

Today, after I drew the cover for this book, I read a couple of fan letters. One letter was from Jakarta. From the Indonesian island of Java. Another letter was from Reunion island. An island that broke off from the Seychelles. Immediately I opened my massive blue National Geographic atlas. (Until they come out with a map of the universe, this is the book for me ^^)

And there it was. Floating in the Indian ocean next to the Republic of Madagascar, a little island! All this time, I had thought there was nothing on either side of it.

In such a far away unknown place, to find supporters of Sailormoon manga and anime... I was astonished! And two of them to boot (both teenage girls). The power of Japanese manga and anime must be amazing!

As I was reading all the fan letters from far away places, tears of happiness came to me. (Naoko is very prone to tears.) From this day forth, let's live life to the fullest! That's right. If there is that much happiness in it, then I will start to draw Sailormoon with that in mind.

Sailormoon manga was, at first, a creation of my own humble mind, nothing more than a personal fantasy world. Then, thanks to the power of countless people throughout the world, a great many fans of the series were born. I still can't believe it myself, but it's true.

The people of the world, all of them, whether it is the wrong race or the wrong language or the wrong lifestyle, tend to only think about what we cannot share. But our brains are all the same. We are the same people. With everyone's strength, we can all share the same feelings. That much is obvious. But it won't come easily.

My dream is (and I have many dreams), someday, to go out into the cosmos and gaze back at the Earth. Right now, even while at my desk (or lounging in my bed), I picture myself looking at the Earth while piloting a spaceship from far above.

We only have one Earth.

To be able to feel such joy is true happiness.

For being able to draw Sailormoon, I am truly grateful. To everyone, my deepest thanks.

--In this book, to all the fans of Sailormoon around the world, I enclose my love.

Please accept, in the name of happiness everywhere.

1997.5.23 Naoko Takeuchi

  • Original art and text © TAKEUCHI Naoko
  • Published September 25, 1997
  • ISBN4-06-324522-5. 2200 Yen.
  • English translation © 2002 David Jao. Used with permission.