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...