When she was still very young Rumiko Takahashi developed a passion for Manga. Born in 1957 in Niigata, Japan this women started a programm in her high school that honored mangas and decided to make a career out of her passion. When she got out of high school she started making her first manga called Katte Na Yatsura/ Overbearing People which was published in the magazine called Shonen Sunday. Later on in college she studied comics books and comics authors with a well known author called Kazuo Koike who wrote Crying Freeman and Lone Wolf and Cub and was the assistant of Kazuo Umezo the author of Makotochan. Rumiko Takahashi was very impressed by the manga version of Spiderman written by Kosei Ono and developed an even more interesting passion towards mangas.
In 1977 Rumiko Takahashi's Katte Na Yatsura/ Those selfish Aliens was nominated for the "Best New Comic Artist" award by the important manga compagny called Sogakukan. In 1978 Rumiko Takahashi published the manga for which she was nominated and won under the name of Urusei Yatsura (it's the follow up of Katte Na Yatsura) and sold over 22 million copies in 7 years of her manga.
In 1980 Maison Ikkoku began and brought many fans to the already large collection of fans she had. Indeed this manga was based for teenagers and older people. Big Comic Spirits published this serie and not Shonen Sunday for some reason.
In 1987 Maison Ikkoku and Ukusei Yatsura ended after 34 albums. The two mangas that had brought her so much fame had ended but not without reward. Indeed now she had a very good reputation and improved her drawings immensely.
In 1994 Takahashi won the "Inkpot Award" in the United States.
From then on Rumiko Takahashi started working on Ranma 1/2 which became a huge hit for people of all ages. In 1996 this manga will end with 38 volumes published.
A few months after Ranma 1/2 Rumiko Takahashi published a new manga called Inu-Yasha Sengoku Otogi Zoushi /Inu-Yasha A Feudal Fairytale. Later on she created and published One or W, Firetripper, Maris the Chojo, Mermaid Saga and One Pound Gospel.
In her mangas published in the magazine called Shonen Sunday she included little notes at the end of her story commenting things in life she likes. Takahashi has the first lady to write mangas that are adressed to girls as well as boys for being able to do that she is titled the "Princess of Manga".
