Takahashi rumiko biography definition
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Talk to my brain
After the delicious wallowing in English of last week, I was very tempted to continue to wallow and pick up another of the English books waiting so patiently to be read. But I realize there are other ways to wallow, and sometimes, the best way is a book you have read a million (give or take a hundred thousand) times. I’m pretty sure this stems from the same part of your brain that just wants a grilled cheese sandwich and some tomato soup after one too many food “adventures” in a country that considers ham a vegetable. (It is not, people. Let’s stamp this thing out.) Rumiko Takahashi is my mental grilled cheese sandwich.
When I moved back to Canada after nearly a decade in Japan, I had to get rid of a lot of stuff (stuff my friends were only too happy to take, except for one sad futon, which ended up staying in the closet. I assume the new tenant threw it out, but I like to imagine that that faithful futon went on to serve another as well as it had served me. I m
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Takahashi Rumiko and the Turning Point in the History of Manga and Anime
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Natsume Fusanosuke | November 11, 2021
“Takahashi Rumiko to Manga/anime-shi no tenkanki”
from Volume 14 of Shōgakukan’s Manga Artist series: The Takahashi Rumiko Book (2019)
Translated bygd Jon skogsdunge and Teppei Fukuda
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Takahashi Rumiko’s entry onto the manga scene represented the turning point in the history of manga and anime. This turning point signifies the emergence of the genre of romantic comedy (rabukome = “love comedy”)—a romantic relationship-centered genre certainly common to shōjo (girls’) comics category at the time—now beginning to appear in shōnen (boys’) comics, too.
Takahashi debuted with her short story manga, Selfish Bastards (Kattena Yatsura) in Weekly Shōnen Sunday (Shōnen Sandē) in 1978. She was only a college lärjunge at that time. In the same year, Takahashi suddenly became a popular manga artist with her Urusei Yatsura (1978-1987). It was soon adap
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Rumiko Takahashi (born October 10, 1957) is the best-selling female comic artist of all time, selling more than 170 million copies of her work in Japan alone, and one of the names by which to reckon the evolution of anime. She is one of the wealthiest women in Japan, all of her longer running manga have become TV series, and nearly everything she has written has been adapted into animation (OVA or TV). Perhaps more importantly, her influence and the nature of her series since 1980 have been cited as large contributors to the perception and acceptance of anime as a medium today. Of course, every master was once an apprentice; Takahashi was a graduate of the Gekika Sonjuku program, a college course by Kazuo Koike, meant to teach people how to be a manga artist.
The animated adaptations for her longer series have an unfortunate tendency to end well before their source comics do – the Inuyasha manga ran for nearly four years beyond the anime's end (to put it in perspective, IY's