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Takeuchi Naoko was born March 15, 1967 in Tokyo, Japan. She is a well-known mangaka worldwide. Takeuchi's works are widely ired by anime/manga fans. Her most popular work, Sailor Moon, has been widely reprinted and marketed worldwide.

Takeuchi Naoko was born to Kenji and Ikuko Takeuchi. She has a younger brother named Shingo. She used their names in the manga of Sailor Moon and mentions this in interviews and several comic strips she did in the place of author notes.

She attended Kofu Ichi High. She wore sailor suits and was in the astronomy and manga clubs. This experience later heavily influenced her work, Sailor Moon as well as previous manga such as Love Call and Rain Kiss. She wanted to be a manga artist at this age, however her father, Kenji, said that in case she did not make it that she should find another profession. This is when she went to college for a degree in chemistry.

Takeuchi Naoko then worked for Kodansha starting at the age of 19 when she published Love Call which received an award. She worked steadily on one-shot pieces until Maria. Maria was her first serial comic which was loosely based on Daddy-Long-Legs and her friend Marie Koizumi, who helped her write it.

She again had another serial with The Cherry Project which ran for three volumes which was about 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 Sailor V was born. When Sailor V was going to be turned into an anime she reworked the series and added four other Sailor Soldiers. This became Sailor Moon which was a hit. While she worked on Sailor Moon she also simultaneously worked on Sailor V. However the magazine that Sailor V was running in was canceled. The project to turn Sailor V into an anime was canceled with the magazine.

She then worked on PQ Angels. This gained a fair amount of popularity but was suddenly canceled due to Kodansha losing seven pages of manuscript. It is possible that it was meant to be turned into an anime since there was mention of Toei having the manuscript.

Takeuchi Naoko was upset at the loss of seven pages of the PQ Angels manuscript in 1997. The manga was originally slated to become a tankoubon, but with the manuscript pages lost it became impossible. Osano Fumio also left her for a shounen magazine. Then the plans for the Materials Collection were canceled. Takeuchi Naoko left Kodansha. She went to Shueisha hoping to find out more about the manga industry and if manuscripts are often lost.

In her short comic strip Princess Naoko Takeuchi Back-to-Work Punch!!, she states that she met Yoshihiro Togashi at a meeting and had a meeting arranged between them by Megumi Ogata, voice of Sailor Uranus as well as Togashi's character Kurama. She worked for him as an assistant (doing screentone) and a manager on volume 1 of Hunter × Hunter. However the work and the demands were more than she expected so she ended up quitting.

Around this time she conceived of the idea for Toki*Meka which eventually turned into Toki*Meca. Togashi had a similar idea at the same time as her, but it was never fully realized. He helped somewhat with Toki*Meka at this point in developing the idea by drawing some concept sketches, which Takeuchi Naoko showed in Toki*Meca volume 1.

They dated and were married in 1999. They have a son, born in January 2001, whose real name they choose not to disclose, but whom they have nicknamed "Petit Ouji," which means "little prince" in combined French and Japanese.

Sailor Moon's license was about to expire. Kodansha eventually made a deal with Takeuchi and she returned in 1999 to make the Materials Collection. Her first serialized manga after her return was and made Love Witch. Love Witch was cancelled for unknown reasons. Takeuchi also started to work on the reprints of Sailor Moon and Sailor V.

Takeuchi Naoko has won several awards including the 2nd Nakayoshi Comic Prize for Newcomers, for "Yume Janai no Ne," in 1985. She also won for "Love Call" which won Nakayoshi's New Artist award which debuted in the Nakayoshi Deluxe September 1986 issue. In 1993 she won the 17th Kodansha Manga Award for shoujo for Sailor Moon.