For one of the richest women in Japan, life has not been about sitting back and enjoying her glory. It has been constant work, constant success and constant joy. Rumiko Takahashi, who created the original Inuyasha manga, grew to unprecedented heights in popularity and demand since the beginning of his career. An incredible 100,000 of her works have been sold worldwide, making her not only one of the richest women in Japan, but also the best-selling comic book artist ever.
He didn’t even get obsessed with cartoons. He loved manga all his life and even founded a manga appreciation society in his high school. It was in his junior year of high school that he decided to make a career out of manga art and embarked on it with intensity until two years later he found some success. Her story, Katte Na Yatsura (Dominant People), appeared in Shonen Sunday magazine. Almost all of Takahashi’s work was from then on exclusively featured in this magazine.
In Shonen Sunday, along with her work, there are also featured comments from the author herself. He has a favorite baseball team, the Hanshin Tigers, and his favorite musical group is Shazna. Sometimes he talks about his childhood. It’s a great way to get to know her.
Studying comic drawing at a Japanese university and working as an assistant to another well-known cartoonist, Kazuo Umezu, she became the original artist in her heart, drawing her stories from an unlimited imagination.
In late 1978, Rumiko worked on her first full-length series Urusei Yatsura. It became one of the most beloved manga and anime comedies in Japan. And in 1980, when he began publishing regularly, he began his second major series, Maison Ikkoku. This series is now considered one of the best manga novels of all time.
As his stories appeared and attracted many fans, he grew in popularity as an artist while improving his own artistic and writing skills. In 1987, a great year for her successful career, they finished three of her best-known stories and she began working on Ranma ½.
This story is about a teenage martial artist named Ranma Saotome. He ends up transforming into a girl every time he is bathed in cold water. This series was the longest of all his series and finally came to an end in 1996.
One of his first short stories called Fire Tripper was a model for Inuyasha. They both have a high school girl as the main character, they both contain time travel. There are also many similarities in the personalities and clothing of the main characters.
All of Rumiko Takahashi’s work has become popular around the world, and with more than 20 years of publishing her manga art, she earned the title of The Manga Princess. He has won many awards, including the 1978 New Comic Artist Award and the 1994 Inkspot Award in the United States.
There are no signs that she will stop her artistic endeavors and her fans are not so patiently waiting for what will come next.
