COMIC ARTIST

Rumiko Takahashi

1957 - Today

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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. Her works are known worldwide, where they have been translated into a variety of languages, with over 230 million copies in circulation; 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, and the Seiun Award twice, once in 1987 for Urusei Yatsura and again in 1989 for Mermaid Saga. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rumiko Takahashi is the 18th most popular comic artist (up from 19th in 2019), the 279th most popular biography from Japan (down from 252nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Rumiko Takahashi ranks 18 out of 226. Before her are Hugo Pratt, Peyo, Zdeněk Miler, Jean Giraud, Jack Kirby, and Matt Groening. After her are Jean-Jacques Sempé, Bob Kane, Tsugumi Ohba, André Franquin, Go Nagai, and Leiji Matsumoto.

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Among people born in 1957, Rumiko Takahashi ranks 41. Before her are Richard E. Grant, Spike Lee, Dani Rodrik, Peter North, Stefan Löfven, and Kelly McGillis. After her are Bruce Beutler, Masayoshi Son, Ai Weiwei, Ivo Josipović, Rinat Dasayev, and Faustin-Archange Touadéra.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Rumiko Takahashi ranks 279 out of 6,245. Before her are Takashi Shimura (1905), Sugawara no Michizane (845), Mikao Usui (1865), Tatsuya Shiji (1938), Nogi Maresuke (1849), and Hisao Kami (1941). After her are Masao Takada (null), Oichi (1547), Akira Nozawa (1914), Emperor Ninken (449), Tamon Yamaguchi (1892), and Emperor Seiwa (850).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Rumiko Takahashi ranks 3. Before her are Osamu Tezuka (1928), and Akira Toriyama (1955). After her are Tsugumi Ohba (1950), Go Nagai (1945), Leiji Matsumoto (1938), Kentaro Miura (1966), Eiichiro Oda (1975), Naoki Urasawa (1960), Hirohiko Araki (1960), Katsuhiro Otomo (1954), and Shotaro Ishinomori (1938).

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