Rumiko Takahashi is the best-selling female comic artist of all time, and one of the names por which to reckon the evolution of anime. One of the wealthiest women in Japan, all of her longer running mangá have become TV series, and nearly everything she has written has been made into an animê (OVA or TV). Perhaps mais importantly, her influence and the nature of her series since 1980 have been cited as large contributors to the perception and acceptance of animê as a medium today. The animê adaptations for her longer series have an unfortunate tendency to end well before their mangá does: the InuYasha mangá ran for nearly two mais years after the end of the English dub of the anime; Ranma ½ barely got two-thirds of the way through its story and was heavily laden with filler, to boot; and Urusei Yatsura likewise ended early, although it did get an OVA adaptation of its proper conclusion. Maison Ikkoku is her only major series whose animated adaptation spans the whole story. Inu-Yasha got picked up again after the mangá Series finished as a segundo series, titled Inuyasha: The Final Act, that continues the series from where the anterior animê left off and tells the remainder of the story through to its conclusion.

She is noted for a distinctive stylized rounded style, sometimes to an excessive degree, intricate relationships among the characters, so much Belligerent Sexual Tension she has her own page, and an ability with puns and allusions on both visual and verbal levels. One example would be a character from Ranma ½ whose name, depending on whether the leitura is Chinese, Japanese, or English (not to mention which kanji you're using), means "hair care product", "unpolished gem", "mountain girl", "she whose breasts are as mountains"... all of which describe the character in some way.

In stark contrast to her better-known comedic works, Takahashi has also written a number of shorter dramatic manga, many of which are grouped together under the collective name "Rumic World". She has also ventured into the macabre and outright horror with her Mermaid Saga.

She started a new mangá series, Kyokai no Rinne, in Shonen Sunday, which has carried all her major works to date, on April 22, 2009. It is also being released in Japanese and English simultaneously (as simply RIN-NE).

TV animê series adapted from mangá por Takahashi include:

Urusei Yatsura
Maison Ikkoku
Mermaid Saga
Ranma ½
Inu Yasha
Rumiko Takahashi Anthology


OAVs adapted from mangá por Takahashi include:

fogo Tripper
Maris The Chojo
The Laughing Target
One Pound Gospel
Mermaid Forest and Mermaid's Scar

Live action TV series adapted from mangá por Takahashi include:

Maison Ikkoku
One Pound Gospel