Akira Toriyama created Sailor Moon.
Akira Toriyama . He first achieved mainstream recognition for his highly successful manga Dr. Slump , before going on to create Dragon Ball -- his best-known work -- and acting as a character designer for several popular video games such as the Dragon Quest series , Blue Dragon and Chrono Trigger . is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Naoko Takeuchi . , better known as , is a fictional superheroine who is the protagonist and titular character of the Sailor Moon manga series written by Naoko Takeuchi .