{"id":948,"date":"2004-09-09T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-09T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2004\/09\/09\/ask-john-was-miracle-girls-inspired-by-sailor-moon\/"},"modified":"2004-09-09T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-09T14:00:00","slug":"ask-john-was-miracle-girls-inspired-by-sailor-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-was-miracle-girls-inspired-by-sailor-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: Was Miracle Girls Inspired by Sailor Moon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><br \/>\nI was browsing the manga section of Borders the other day and I came across the title &#8220;Miracle Girls&#8221; by Nami Akimoto, and the artist&#8217;s style struck me as oddly familiar. In comparison, I picked up a random copy of the Sailor Moon manga and studied the two side by side. The similarity in artwork was almost uncanny! My question is, was Nami Akimoto heavily influenced as a mangaka by the legendary Naoko Takeuchi, or is Takeuchi-sensei penning her work under a different name now?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\nMy suspicion is that the art style of both Nami Akimoto&#8217;s Miracle Girls and Naoko Takeuchi&#8217;s Sailor Moon were influenced by the visual and artistic style of shoujo manga that pre-dated them both. But more specific to these two titles, it&#8217;s actually not possible that Akimoto&#8217;s Miracle Girls was influenced by Sailor Moon because Miracle Girls is the older manga series of the two.<\/p>\n<p>Miracle Girls debuted in Nakayoshi Magazine in the November 1990 issue. Naoko Takeuchi&#8217;s Codename Sailor V premiered in Nakayoshi Magazine eight months later, in July 1991. The Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon manga didn&#8217;t premier until December 1991, more than a year after Miracle Girls was first published.<\/p>\n<p>In case there&#8217;s any question, as far as I know, Nami Akimoto and Naoko Takeuchi are distinctly different people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: I was browsing the manga section of Borders the other day and I came across the title &#8220;Miracle Girls&#8221; by Nami Akimoto, and the artist&#8217;s style struck me as oddly familiar. In comparison, I picked up a random copy of the Sailor Moon manga and studied the two side by side. The similarity in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-john"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}