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Profile: Rumiko Takahashi, manga queen
In 1976, when she was 19, Rumiko Takahashi asked her parents for Y70,000 to attend manga school in Tokyo. Concerned about her career, they said she could have the money but that when it ran out, she had to look for a “proper” job.
Takahashi has never had to find one.
Born in Niigata on the northwest coast, Takahashi has become one of Japan’s most successful and influential “mangaka” – and reputedly the country’s wealthiest woman. Although she says she always wanted to be a manga artist, Takahashi had done little drawing before she enrolled at manga artist Kazuo Koike’s Gekiga Sonjuka school.
Biography of rumiko takahashi
Despite that, and while studying history at Japan Women’s University at the same time, her first professional work, the one-off Katte na Yatsura, came out in 1978, before she had graduated. The story of Kei, a newspaper delivery boy who is abducted by aliens, was published by Shogakukan, the company she has been with ever since.
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