Rumiko Takahashi has been spinning gold from her oekaki pen for decades... Not really in love with Yasha Hime (inuyasha spinoff, basically a "the next generation" type of deal), and Kyōkai no Rinne took me being in the right mood to get into, but most of her stuff is amazing.
sidenote: read the inuyasha manga. it's a lot darker, more in line with Mermaid Saga than her more light-hearted stuff, and the visuals give you a better idea of why inuyasha had so much trouble choosing between kagome and kikyo.
It is still endlessly amusing to me that the "harem" manga that Western women love to complain about being sexist or terrible was straight up created by a woman who became basically one of the top 5 most popular creators in Japan.
To this day every single harem archetype can find its roots in Ranma, for better or worse.
Eh, I enjoyed most of her stuff but I won't go so far as to call her characters "deep."
Most of her bigger stuff works because the characters are serviceable for the role they need to be, and never really develop beyond that. You already know 90% of their development and arc within their intro and a single story beyond it.
Not that that is an inherently bad thing, she has made it work incredibly for her and her biggest series are great for "oh that's on" watching forever, similar to Family Guy in the West. I just take umbrage with that descriptor.
not all of them of course, but main characters especially are often given time to develop and grow. over the course of a given series. maison ikkoku is a great example of this.
Rumiko Takahashi has been spinning gold from her oekaki pen for decades... Not really in love with Yasha Hime (inuyasha spinoff, basically a "the next generation" type of deal), and Kyōkai no Rinne took me being in the right mood to get into, but most of her stuff is amazing.
sidenote: read the inuyasha manga. it's a lot darker, more in line with Mermaid Saga than her more light-hearted stuff, and the visuals give you a better idea of why inuyasha had so much trouble choosing between kagome and kikyo.
It is still endlessly amusing to me that the "harem" manga that Western women love to complain about being sexist or terrible was straight up created by a woman who became basically one of the top 5 most popular creators in Japan.
To this day every single harem archetype can find its roots in Ranma, for better or worse.
well, that, and the woman's work was genuinely good. she's brilliant at writing memorable, even deep characters, even in her more comical works.
Eh, I enjoyed most of her stuff but I won't go so far as to call her characters "deep."
Most of her bigger stuff works because the characters are serviceable for the role they need to be, and never really develop beyond that. You already know 90% of their development and arc within their intro and a single story beyond it.
Not that that is an inherently bad thing, she has made it work incredibly for her and her biggest series are great for "oh that's on" watching forever, similar to Family Guy in the West. I just take umbrage with that descriptor.
not all of them of course, but main characters especially are often given time to develop and grow. over the course of a given series. maison ikkoku is a great example of this.
Read the entire manga back around the time it finished, many years ago. Only seen a few episodes of the tv show.
have you read mermaid saga yet? same kinda dark horror themes, less grewsome artwork, but better writing in my opinion than junji ito.
that being said, a collaboration between the two would be amazing...