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About Rumiko Takahashi |
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This was taken off the back of an Inuyasha Manga (vol. 8) I didn't right the biography so don't give me credit for it.
Rumiko Takahashi was born in 1957 in Niigata, Japan. She attended women's college in Tokyo, where she began studying comics with Kazuo Koike, author of Crying Freeman. In 1978, she won a prize in Shogakukan's annual "New Comic Artist Contest," and in that same year her boy-meets-alien comedy series Lum*Urusei Yatsura began appearing in the weekly manga magazine Shonen Sunday. This phenomenally successful series ran for nine years and sold over 22 million copies. Takahashi's later Ranma 1/2 series enjoyed even greater popularity.
Takahashi is considered by many to be one of the worlds most popular manga artists. With this publication of Volume 34 of her Ranma 1/2 series in Japan, Takahashi's total sales passed one hundred million copies of her compiled works.
Takahashi's serial titles include Lum*Urusei Yatsura, Ranma 1/2, One Pound Gospel, Maison Ikkoku, and Inu-Yasha. Additionaly, Takahashi has drawn many short series which have been published in America under the title "Rumic Theater," and several installments of a saga known as her "Mermaid" series. Most of Takahashi's major stories have also been animated, and widely available in translation worldwide. Inu-Yasha is her most recent serial story, first published in Shonen Sunday in 1996.
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