Rumiko Takahashi

Rumiko Takahashi is a Japanese manga artist whose career began in 1978 with Urusei Yatsura. Her works have been translated into many languages and have more than 230 million copies in circulation. They include Maison Ikkoku, Mermaid Saga, Ranma ½, Inuyasha, Rin-ne and Mao.

She studied at Gekiga Sonjuku, the manga school founded by Kazuo Koike, and worked as an assistant to horror artist Kazuo Umezu. Her first published work, the one-shot Katte na Yatsura, earned an honorable mention at Shogakukan's New Comics Contest, and Urusei Yatsura began in Weekly Shōnen Sunday the same year.

She won the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1980 and 2001, was inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in 2018 and won the Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême in 2019.