Rumiko Takahashi

(born October 10, 1957) is a female mangaka and one of the most famous manga producers in Japan and possibly the richest woman in Japan as well. She started her work in 1974 and has created several hits that have become popular in the U.S. and the very icons of Anime in the 80s and 90s. She created several hit TV shows and manga, the first one that made her claim to fame in 1978 was a series called Urusei Yatsura, which was a slice of life, sci-fi comedy anime made in the 80s about a young, perverted, uncommitted Japanese boy named Ataru gets involved in a interstellar crisis, and an alien princess named Lum now wants to marry him. (The alternate English title is Invader Lum). The Lum costume is practically a national icon in japan. Her second series, Maison Ikkoku, a story about a young man named Yūsaku Godai who falls in love with his young widowed landlady, Kyōko Otonashi, was also popular, becoming a classic romantic-comedy. The most popular of her series in the U.S., made in the mid and late 90s, is InuYasha. InuYasha is an action, romance adventure story of a modern Japanese school girl named Kagome who finds a well that takes her back into feudal, mythical japan, where she meets a half-demon young man by the name of Inuyasha, and goes on an adventure to stop demons from reeking havoc all over feudal japan. However, the series that she made that made one of the biggest impact in the anime world in the way of creating the basic themes of most other anime, is her series, Ranma ½. Ranma 1/2 is a martial arts romantic comedy that came out in the mid 80s and early 90s, and it has a very unusual theme to it.

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