- Originally wanted to kill all of the main characters at the end of the first Sailor Moon manga arc but her editor wouldn't let her do that since it was a girls series.
- Was in the manga & astronomy clubs in high school, which provided her w/ background knowledge to build up the extensive mythologies for her works.
- Much of her work's based on aspects from her life.
- Based her "Sailor Moon" protagonist Tsukino Usagi on her teenage self in her teenage years: scatterbrained and dreamy, but bighearted & romantic. She also wears an odango style, something Takeuchi did in college for good luck. Similarly, she based the Tsukino family on her own: she had a devoted but busy father named Kenji, a loving but nagging mother named Ikuko & a bratty younger brother named Shingo.
- Served as a shrine maiden at the Shiba Daijingu Shrine during college. She made her Sailor Moon character Rei Hino a shrine maiden based on this experience.
- Enjoys racing cars just like her "Sailor Moon" character Haruka Teno, even liking the Ferrari 512M.
- Wanted to be a manga artist but was advised by her father that she study for an alternative profession in case she didn't achieve her dream, so she went to university to study chemistry.
- Usually draws herself as a little bunny or a human w/ rabbit ears, her husband Yoshihiro Togashi as a dog, her son as a puppy & her editor Fumio Osano as a pig.
- Japanese manga artist.
- Graduated from Kita Middle School.
- Graduated from Kofu Daiichi High School.
- Graduated from Kyoritsu College of Pharmacy.
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