Rumiko Takahashi

is a Japanese mangaka. Takahashi is one of the wealthiest women in Japan. The manga she creates (and its anime adaptations) are very popular in the United States and Europe where they have been released as both manga and anime in English translation. Her works are relatively famous worldwide, and many of her series were some of the forerunners of early English language manga to be released in the 1990s. Takahashi is also the best selling female comics artist in history; well over 100 million copies of her various works have been sold. She has twice won the Shogakukan Manga Award: once in 1981 for Urusei Yatsura, and again in 2002 for Inuyasha. Born in Niigata, Japan, Rumiko Takahashi showed little interest in manga during her childhood. Though she was said to occasionally doodle in the margins of her papers while attending Niigata Chūō High School. Takahashi's interest in manga did not come until later. During her college years, she enrolled in Gekiga Sonjuku, a manga school... full article at wikipedia