Rumiko Takahashi

Rumiko Takahashi (高橋 留美子, Takahashi Rumiko^?) (Niigata, Japan, October 10, 1957) is a Japanese mangaka. She studied chemistry at university, while drawing manga.

A prolific artist with works on various themes, Rumiko Takahashi has been and is one of the most notable manga artists, with works such as Urusei Yatsura, Maison Ikkoku, Ranma ½ and InuYasha among many others, due to her great career and success she has earned the title of "The Queen of Manga". The latest work of hers is Kyōkai no Rinne, published from 2009 to 2017.

In 1978, she became the first Japanese woman to sell more than a million copies of a manga.

Career and Important Jobs

Takahashi was somewhat interested in manga during her childhood, although she says that she occasionally drew in the margins of her books when she attended Niigata Chūō High School, although Takahashi's real interest in manga came later. During her college years, she enrolled in Gekiga Sonjuku, a manga school founded by Kazuo Koike, mangaka of Crying Freeman and The Lone Wolf and Her Cub . Under her tutelage, Rumiko Takahashi began publishing her first doujinshi creations in 1975, such as Bye-Bye Road and Useless Dust Star . Koike encourages his students to create good ideas, interesting characters, and this influence greatly impacted Rumiko Takahashi's work during her career.

Takahashi's professional career began in 1978. His first publication was Those Selfish Aliens, a science fiction comedy. During the same year, he published Time Warp Trouble, Shake Your Buddha, and the Golden Gods of Poverty in Shōnen Sunday< magazine. /i>, which would continue to be home to many of its best works of hers for the next 20 years. Later, Rumiko carried out the first long series of him, Urusei Yatsura. Despite getting off to a shaky start due to publication issues, Urusei Yatsura became a series that is still extremely popular (even its protagonist, Lum, is unofficially considered i>The Queen of Future Funk, due to her constant appearance in videos of that genre of music).

In 1980, Rumiko Takahashi founds her niche and begins to publish regularly. Around this time she began her second major work, Maison Ikkoku , in the Big Comic Spirits magazine. Written for mature audiences, Maison Ikkoku is a romantic comedy, which, even almost 40 years after its release, is considered as the great masterpiece of adult romance manga, due to the strong background. that it possesses in addition to the marked and natural evolution that its characters possess. Takahashi manages the work at Maison Ikkoku at the same time as Urusei Yatsura. She finished both series in 1987, Urusei Yatsura would be published in 34 volumes, and Maison Ikkoku in 15.

During the 1980s, Takahashi became a prolific author of short stories. Her stories Laughing Target , Maris the Chojo , and Fire Tripper were all adapted into OVAs. In 1984, during the making of Urusei Yatsura and Maison Ikkoku , Takahashi took a different approach in adapting it and began the dark and macabre Mermaid Saga . This series of short stories was published sporadically until 1994, the final story of which would be Mermaid's Mask. Many fans argue that this work is still unfinished by Takahashi, as her latest story does not end clearly.^{[citation needed ]}

Another short work, like Mermaid Saga, that was published irregularly is One Pound Gospel. Takahashi ended the series in 2007 after the release of chapters in 1998, 2001, and 2006. One-Pound Gospel was adapted into a TV Drama, which ran for 9 of the 11 planned episodes.

Later in 1987, Takahashi began his third major series, Ranma ½, which is considered by many of his fans as his masterpiece for teen audiences. Following the fashion parameters of the early 1990s, a Shonen martial arts manga. The series lasted almost a decade, until 1996, when it was concluded in 38 volumes. Ranma ½ is one of the most popular manga outside of Japan.

Throughout the mid-1990s, Rumiko Takahashi continued her short stories and her creations of Mermaid Saga and One-Pound Gospel, beginning her fourth most successful work, InuYasha. While Ranma ½, Urusei Yatsura and Maison Ikkoku were categorized in the romantic comedy genre, InuYasha is more similar to his dark Mermaid Saga. The series contains action, romance, horror, fantasy (based on folklore) fiction, and comedy. This series was serialized in Shōnen Sunday magazine for twelve years (1996-2008) and his long work was published in 56 volumes.

In 2015, Takahashi published in Big Comic Superior magazine the 15th issue, Stories from a Mirror. A compilation of five short stories plus an autobiographical one in together with Mitsuru Adashi, both telling their stories of how they started in the Manga world. It was published in Spanish by the Ivrea publishing house.

In July 2018, Takahashi was inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame, for her valuable contribution to the comic book industry and her cultural impact. And in 2019 she won the International Festival Grand Prix of Angouleme.

At the end of 2018, the development of a new manga series, under the name Mao, came to light through multiple media. In Mao we are promised a story from another world where we will meet Nanoka, a girl who was apparently killed by a monster when she was younger. However, she seemed to have survived for eight years until she meets the manga's eponymous character. It is about a being who meets her on the border of another world.

It also created a generational succession of InuYasha's story, Yashahime, which gives rise to the lineage of InuYasha and his brother, being the story of a half-demon girl, and two sisters with great demonic powers who fight again in the feudal era against demons and powers of an evil nature, a true shonen.

Animation

In 1981, Urusei Yatsura became Takahashi's first work to be brought to the small screen. This series premiered on Japanese television on October 14, and had many director changes as it progressed. Foremost among them was Mamoru Oshii, who directed Beautiful Dreamer, the second Urusei Yatsura film.

Kitty Films, the studio that animated Urusei Yatsura continuing their cooperation, adapted Rumiko Takahashi's second work, Maison Ikkoku in 1986. The TV series ran for 96 episodes., 3 OVAs, a movie and also a live action movie.

Maris the Chojo, Fire Tripper, and Laughing Target were made into OVAs during the mid-1980s. Their stories Mermaid& #39;s Forest and Mermaid's Scar were also made into OVAs in Japan in 1991.

In 1989, with the cooperation of Studio Deen, Kitty Animation produced his debut feature, Ranma ½. This series started with many ups and downs in audiences and Kitty Animation wanted to cancel it. Ranma ½ does not have a conclusive ending despite having 161 episodes.

Sunrise was the first studio, after Kitty Animation, to adapt a major work by Rumiko Takahashi. InuYasha premiered in 2000 and ended in 2004. The series reached 167 episodes and four movies have been created to date. The anime ended before the manga, so it was left unfinished, also adding 4 OVAS of which 2 were broadcast as chapters of the series, one only available on DVD and the last one published on August 30, 2008 under the name of Kuroi. Tessaiga considered part of the InuYasha Kanketsu-Hen. This was one of his most popular and most viewed series in the world that to date children and young people who love adventure, romance and anime more than anything continue to watch.

InuYasha kanketsu-hen aired one episode per week on Yomuri TV, from October 3, 2009 to March 30, 2010. There are 26 chapters that include all the final volumes of the manga, although with some cuts in the stories of the secondary characters of the series.

There is a video on YouTube celebrating the 50th anniversary of Rumiko Takahashi's work. Urusei Yatsura, Ranma ½, and InuYasha are included. This is nothing more, a trailer for the new DVDBox that the publisher Shôgakukan will launch. It includes 3 OVAs from her 3 most popular series (Urusei Yatsura 32th anniversary OVA: Full Course Swimming contest with obstacles, Ranma ½ OVA and InuYasha OVA: The Black Tessaiga). They will be animated by the InuYasha Kanketsu-Hen staff and was released in early February 2010 at a price of approximately 220 yen.

On April 4, 2015, the broadcast of the adaptation of the manga Kyōkai no Rinne began. It was produced by Brain's Base and directed by Seiki Sugawara, the script is written by Michiko Yokote and the music composed by Akimitsu Honma.

Works

• 1978-1987 Urusei Yatsura (assignificant.
• 1980-1987 Maison Ikkoku (Water.)
• 1984-1994 Mermaid Saga (associated)
• 1989-1996 The world of Rumiko (ENEFITS)
• 1987-1996 Ranma 1⁄2
• 1987-2006 One Pound Gospel (1 devoted betrayal for the sake of encouragement)
• 1994-1997 1 or W(tented・
• 1996-2008 InuYasha
• 2009-2017 Kyōkai no Rinne (innovationRINNE)
• 2014-2015 Stories of a Mirror
• 2019-present MAO (breakfast)

Adapted work

• Rumiko's Theatre (lection)ののード))