Biography: Born on October 10, 1957, at Niigata, Japan. Rumiko Takahashi had a normal childhood, but her interest in manga seemed no more developed than that of most Japanese adolescents. She occasionally doodled in the margins of her notebooks while attending Niigata Chuo High School, but never considered tackling the difficult life of a manga creator as a profession. Even during her college years, manga had only risen to a hobby for Takahashi. During her years at Japan Women's University she enrolled in Gekiga Sonjuku, a manga school that was known for the demanding nature of its founder, Kazuo Koike (best known in the United States for Lone Wolf and Cub and Crying Freeman). Koike is a giant creator in Japan, and his personal overseeing of Takahashi's formative years clearly left an impression on her work. During her time at Gegika Sonjuku she worked alongside another up-and-comer Atsuji Yamamoto. While attending Gegika Sonjuku, she also entered Nihon Josei-dai, an exclusive women's university, where she became friends with Hanako Meijiro, a fellow manga artist and Reiko Hikawa, a fantasy writer. Takahashi would become more noted than any of her acquaintances, and her popularity would rival, and perhaps surpass that of her instructor, Koike.
Her Main Work Contains:
Maison Ikkoku
(it's
about a young
student, Yusaku Godai, who has fallen for his apartment mangager, Kyoko
Otonashi while trying to fend her other suitor, Shun Mitaka a man that can offer
everything Godai can not)
One Pound Gospel
Rumic World and Rumic Theatre
Mermaid Saga
