- She is responsible for having established a genre of shojo manga that focused on yaoi (love between young men). She began the trend in December 1970, when she published "In the Sunroom", a short story which was possibly the first ever shonen-ai manga (boy-love comic) and featured the first male-male kiss ever in manga.
- She is regarded as "one of the first successful crossover women artists" to create both shojo manga (girls' comics) and shonen manga (boys' comics). Before, shojo manga was written mainly by male manga artists (eg Osamu Tezuka's "Princess Knight" series) and attempts by female manga artists to write manga for girls were relatively new. Fortunately their manga were welcomed by all and their success paved the way for the appearances of many female manga artists.
- She is a member of the Year 24 Flower Group, an exclusive club of female manga artists considered to have revolutionized shojo manga, who were born in the era Showa 24 (1949). Included in this group are Yasuko Aoike, Moto Hagio, Riyoko Ikeda, 'Yumiko Oshima', Toshie Kihara, Ryoko Yamagishi, Minori Kimura, Nanae Sasaya, and Mineko Yamada.
- She serves as dean of the Kyoto Seika University, and since 2000 has taught at that university's Faculty of Manga.
- She shared an apartment with Moto Hagio in Oizumi in Nerima, Tokyo from 1970-1973.
- She credits her friend Norie Masayama for inspiring her and Hagio to start careers in manga. Masayama, while not a manga artist herself, introduced the two to the gay Japanese magazine "Barazoku" and the gay film This Special Friendship (1964), which inspired them to. Hagio described Masayama as Takemiya's "brain staff.".
- Kamukura, Kanagawa Prefecture (June 2010)
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