Naoko Takeuchi's art

This is the Sailor Moon Channel header for August 2008. Image credits to mangastyle.net.

This is the Sailor Moon Channel header for October 2007. Image credits to mangastyle.net.

August is the last month of 2003 which Takeuchi crafted an illustration for... unless mangastyle.net failed me this time. And, considering just how much extremely rare art that site hosted (some of which I’ve never ever seen anywhere else), I honestly doubt it.

The remaining Sailor Warriors from the last postcard of this series. It’s a shame that, unlike the Inners, they didn’t get to be featured in their very own card! Image credits to mangastyle.net. Weirdly enough, while everyone else is in their Super forms, Saturn is wearing her regular uniform! But what may be even stranger is that ChibiMoon’s Super uniform has somehow got her regular form’s sleeves.

Anyway, Chibiusa was the only one to be reprinted on full page, and her illustration is featured as the first page of the Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Short Stories volume 1 of the shinsoban edition:

Production drawings for the Sailor Warriors’ Super uniforms and Princess outfits, along with the human forms of the cat family, coming from the seventh artbook. Image credits to mangastyle.net.

Let’s get started with the settei of the Infinity saga! Here are production drawings for Uranus, Neptune and Pluto coming from the seventh artbook. Image credits to mangastyle.net.

Production drawings for Sailor Pluto coming from the seventh artbook. Image credits to mangastyle.net.

This two-pages spread is the very last illustration from the fifth artbook, but it isn’t original: matter of fact, it’s just a compilation of some of the small pictures that were featured on the sideflaps of the volumes of the original tankobon edition of the manga. Since this collection is incomplete, I’m now going to compile all of this mini-illustrations one after the other.

Here’s Sailor Moon from the first volume’s flap:

Tuxedo Kamen from volume 2:

Sailor Venus (not going under this name yet) from volume 3:

Sailor Mars from volume 4:

Sailor Mercury from volume 5:

Sailor Pluto from volume 6:

Tune in soon for the second part of this compilation, since the files are getting way too heavy!

The Outers over Tokyo. Nice. Image credits to mangastyle.net.

This is it for the second artbook - stay tuned for the next ones! Image credits to mangastyle.net.

The Sailor Warriors play supermodels in this illustration from the second artbook; except for Setsuna, who’s wearing a one-piece bathing suit and a pool towel. Image credits to mangastyle.net. (It’s the second time that Naoko draws Ami seemingly orgasming and at this point I refuse to believe it’s just a coincidence.)

The Crystal Tokyo Trinity. Image credits to mangastyle.net.

This typical Pluto pose has been used several times in anime illustrations and in merchandise. Image credits to mangastyle.net.

This is the splash page of Act 31 of the manga, published on the August 1994 issue of Nakayoshi. Image credits to mangastyle.net.

The cover for the tenth DVD of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal.