Rumiko Takahashi

Is this

by Rumiko Takahashi? Oh, it is.

Oh, was it really by Rumiko? Oh, no.

No.

Never mind.

It does reference...

It references Rumiko Takahashi stuff, though.

Oh, in the write-up? I wonder if that's...

Sounds good.

We are talking, of course, about Rumiko Takahashi's masterpiece, uh, Inuyasha.

Right.

And to understand the scale of this, you have to realize that before this...

I'm going to answer this the way only a true weeb would.

Writers slash creators that I love are Hayao Miyazaki, especially for writing female heroines, and then Rumiko Takahashi for her way to deftly weave not just a love triangle, but a love dodecahedron.

And so I would say those are, one, very influential to me also on the fantasy space of things.

Miyazaki is great with telling high fantasy stories, and so is Takahashi.

That's just how I talk.

I'm going to try and avoid confusing terminology, but for the purposes of this game, we are talking about filler in the context of, did Rumiko Takahashi, the artist behind the Rama 1 half manga, make this? Or was it made by someone else for the anime or something else? That's all that matters for this.

Alright, I cannot wait to... to figure out how my instincts work on this, because I have no idea what you...

I'm just very excited to see how much I can guess, because I can usually guess anime bullshit outside of context pretty well.

Pure comedy series, not a thing I usually partake in.

So I don't know how deranged this is going to be.

There's some deranged stuff here, but it's up to you to decide how much of it is Rumiko Takahashi being deranged and how much of it is other people being deranged.

All right.

Just saying.

Rumiko Takahashi created the series Ranma would have back in 1987, and was serialized in Shogakuken's Weekly Shonen Sunday up until 1996.

The anime premiered in 1989, followed by three feature-length films, two OVA sequels.

Two OVA, wait.

But the real brilliance here is that he isn't the only one.

The sources highlight how the original author, Rumiko Takahashi, basically used these springs to physicalize character flaws.

Like Ranma's dad, Genma, falls into the spring of Drowned Panda.

Which creates this incredibly absurd visual comedy right off the bat.

[coughs]

... written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi, who was, before this, most famous for Ranma 1/2.

Um, it was serialized from November of '96 to June of '08, so a 12-year run, which is really good.

Collected in a total of 56-

This is just like Akira Toriyama.

It's like, who's going to tell Akira Toriyama or Oda or, you know, Rumiko Takahashi or Naoko Takahashi what to do? They have the most powerful mangakas in Japanese history.

Like, what do you or like the Hunter Hunter guy who's

married to Naoko Takahashi?