Rumiko takahashi net worth

Entry updated 4 November 2024. Tagged: Artist, Comics.

(1957-    ) Japanese comics creator, notable through being a female author largely for magazines with predominantly male readerships, whose best-selling status by the late 1980s helped to propel her to foreign attention. She remains one of the Manga industry's most prominent celebrities, regularly appearing in annual lists of Japan's highest tax-payers, and hence one of the most successful Women SF Writers in the world.

Citing the satires of Yasutaka Tsutsui and the boys' manga magazines read by her elder brother as influences, the young Takahashi was a member of several amateur comics clubs. She earned a history degree from Japan Women's University, writing her final essay on the response of the Tokugawa Shōgunate to vagrants and indigents, and attended the Gekiga Sonjoku ["Adult Comics Cram School"] course run by the writer Kazuo Koike. Under his encouragement, she submitted her first piece, "Katte-na Yatsura" ["Selfish People"] (1977 Shōnen Sunday) to a talent competition run by the publish

Rumiko Takahashi

Japanese manga artist (born 1957)

Rumiko Takahashi (高橋 留美子, Takahashi Rumiko, born October 10, 1957) is a Japanese manga artist. With a career of several commercially successful works, beginning with Urusei Yatsura in 1978, she is one of Japan's best-known and wealthiest manga artists.[1][2] Her works are known worldwide, where they have been translated into a variety of languages, with over 230 million copies in circulation;[3] making Takahashi one of the best-selling authors of all time. She has won the Shogakukan Manga Award twice, once in 1980 for Urusei Yatsura and again in 2001 for Inuyasha,[4] and the Seiun Award twice, once in 1987 for Urusei Yatsura and again in 1989 for Mermaid Saga.[5] She also received the Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême in 2019, becoming the second woman and second Japanese to win the prize.[6] In 2020, the Japanese government awarded Takahashi the Medal with Purple Ribbon for her contributions to the arts.

Career

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Rumiko Takahashi

Rumiko Takahashi (高橋留美子, Takahashi Rumiko, born October 10, 1957) is a Japaneseauthor and mangaartist.[1]

She made popular manga books such as Ranma ½ and InuYasha. She is the richest woman in Japan and her manga is loved all over the world. She joined Gekiga Sonjuku college: a manga school run by Kazuo Koike, also a manga artist. With the school's help, she managed to make a "doujinshi" (self-published work mostly for beginners) manga artwork, for example, Bye-Bye Road and Star of Futile Dust.

Beginning of professional work (as a real job)

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She first started with Those Selfish Aliens in 1978, followed by Time Warp Trouble, Shake Your Buddha, and The Golden Gods of Poverty, published in Shonen Sunday - this place was to become the publisher of her most important works. Later in this year, she tried to work on Urusei Yatsura (Lamu, the invader girl), her first full series of books. This had some publishing problems, but even so, it became the most loved manga comedy in Japan.

Major and important wor

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