Sailor Moon & Hunter x Hunters Creators Are a Manga Power Couple

Sailor Moon & Hunter x Hunter’s Creators Are a Manga Power Couple

Contents

Sailor Moon and Hunter x Hunter’s creators are two of the biggest names in the manga and anime industry. They’re also married and have two kids.

You Are Reading :[thien_display_title]

Sailor Moon & Hunter x Hunters Creators Are a Manga Power Couple

Manga artists are so often looked up to as creative titans that some forget they’re people with lives beyond their creations. Because manga artists end up meeting and talking to other manga artists, they frequently end up forming relationships. Sometimes, these relationships are friendships or mentorships. Other times, the feelings are far more romantic.

One of the greatest power couples in manga history is Naoko Takeuchi (Sailor Moon) and Yoshihiro Togashi (Yu Yu Hakusho, Hunter x Hunter). Takeuchi took the real-life story of their romance and turned it into her autobiographical manga Return-to-Society Punch! and later …Punch! manga essays. Though they’re not the only manga power couple to publish an autobiography (Moyocco Anno wrote the comedic manga Insufficient Direction about her husband, Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno), they might very well be the most legendary.

Meeting

Sailor Moon & Hunter x Hunters Creators Are a Manga Power Couple

Following the completion of Sailor Moon, Takeuchi left publisher Kodansha for Shueisha, the company that published Weekly Shonen Jump. She met Togashi at a meeting for Weekly Shonen Jump artists. She was invited by the party’s host Kazushi Hagiwara, the creator of Bastard!!! There, she met numerous artists of then-major manga, including Tetsuo Hara (Fist of the North Star) and his family (his daughter was cosplaying Sailor Moon) and an uncomfortable meeting with Nobuhiro Nishiwaki (Rurouni Kenshin). However, one meeting that stood out was with an unprepared nerdy guy described by many there as a “game otaku.” This was Yoshihiro Togashi, who, like Takeuchi, was also of marrying age and single. By her own account, Takeuchi was almost immediately smitten.

See also  Supergirl Reveals Why She Wont Adopt Her New CW Costume in the Comics

From there, mutual friends like Megumi Ogata (voice actress of Sailor Uranus, Kurama, and Shinji Ikari) would help the two get to know one another. When Takeuchi got to visit Togashi in private, she seemed stunned by his living condition, with his apartment being very messy and his diet consisting primarily of pudding. She immediately tried to help him take better care of himself.

While Takeuchi helped Togashi get his personal life together, he helped her get back on her feet career-wise. Takeuchi, who was currently unemployed and depressed following the finale of Sailor Moon, started to collaborate with Togashi as an assistant on Hunter x Hunter, working on backgrounds until younger, upcoming artists for Shonen Jump replaced her. The work proved overwhelming for her, so she quit working for the publisher Shueisha. Shueisha’s intense work schedule would later take a toll on Togashi’s health. Togashi would later help Takeuchi develop Toki*Meca, her first fictional manga success following Sailor Moon.

Marriage

Around 1998, rumors started spreading on the internet among Yu Yu Hakusho fans that Togashi was engaged to another high-profile manga artist. By this point, Togashi and Takeuchi had been discussing the prospect of marriage, with Takeuchi half-joking that she could retire from making manga so she could be a full-time bride instead. They ultimately ended up marrying in January 1999, After receiving a Sega Dreamcast as a wedding gift, they went on a honeymoon to Turkey and Spain.

The wedding attracted countless icons of the manga and anime industry to it. Among the people who wished them well were manga creators like Moyocco Anno (Chasing Amy) and Wataru Yoshizumi (Marmalade Boy) as well as voice actors like Kotono Mitsuishi (Sailor Moon, Misato Katsuragi) and Megumi Ogata. Takeuchi transcribed many of the warm messages (except for Ogata’s, whose writing was impossible to read).

See also  Dragon Ball Super Is Teasing Another Secret About Gokus Father Bardock

Once married, the two kept their names. They had two children: a son born in 2000 and a daughter in 2009. The two have kept relatively private since the writing of the …Punch! manga essays, which ended in 2004, though Takeuchi has also written about her difficulties giving birth and the challenges of raising children. Both Takeuchi and Togashi continue working on manga, with Hunter x Hunter coming on and off hiatus due to Togashi’s health conditions. Thankfully, he has someone who clearly cares for him to help him recover during these hiatuses.

Link Source : https://www.cbr.com/sailor-moon-hunter-x-hunter-creators-married/

Movies -