Makiho Narita is a Japanese manga artist, illustrator, animator, and character designer, born in 1945 in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. She began her career in the animation industry in 1963 when she joined Mushi Production, the legendary studio founded by Osamu Tezuka. After eight years at Mushi Production, Narita became an independent creator in 1971, a move that allowed her to contribute to various projects across different media.

Narita is best known as one of the original creators of the seminal magical girl anime series Majokko Megu-chan. Alongside Tomō Inoue, she is credited with creating the manga upon which the 1974 Toei Animation television series is based. The anime, which ran for 72 episodes from April 1974 to September 1975, is widely recognized as an important forerunner of the modern magical girl genre. Its characterization and structural elements are considered to have exerted considerable influence on later landmark series in the genre.

Following the success of Majokko Megu-chan, Narita continued to work as an original creator on several other anime productions. In 1975, she served as the original creator for Don Chuck Monogatari, a family-oriented series about a young beaver, which was produced by the studio Knack Eiga. She reprised this role for its sequel, Shin Don Chuck Monogatari, which aired from 1976 to 1978. Beyond her work as a manga creator, Narita contributed her design skills to other notable series. She is credited as the original character designer for the popular super robot anime Chō Denji Robo Combattler V, which aired from 1976 to 1977. Her work also extended to live-action tokusatsu productions; she provided monster designs for Thundermask in 1972 and造型 design for Condorman in 1975. Through her work as both a manga author and a designer across animation and tokusatsu, Makiho Narita made significant contributions to Japanese popular culture, particularly during the 1970s.