She made debut in commercial comic magazine Princess GOLD, July issue, published by Akita Shoten, with her Sorairo tea time (宇宙色ティータイム) in 1985.
Her first long and serialized manga story is Harukanari, Itoshi Roman, later published as 14 volume tankōbon, September 1992 to July 2000.
[5] Naoko Moto's second long and serialized story is Lady Victorian, published as 20 volume tankōbon, December 1998 to March 2007.
Naoko Moto has constantly contributed manga works to magazines and they have almost been published as tankōbon for around 40 years.
Ariko Kawabata (ja) and Riko Murakami (ja) mention Moto as representative manga artist who published Victorian manga stories from 1998 (the start point of Lady Victorian), along with the famous Emma by Kaoru Mori.
[24] While Waiyee Loh discussed in her doctrate thesis: Empire of Culture: Contemporary British and Japanese Imaginings of Victorian Britain in April, 2016.
[25] Loh mentions Moto's Lady Victorian, analyzing its depictions of the various scenes in the manga.