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Rumiko Takahashi
Urusei Yatsura, Maison Ikkoku, Ranma 1/2, the Mermaid Saga, Inuyasha, Rin-ne, Mao. An alien oni girl from space, a love story around the manager of an old boarding house, a martial artist who turns into a girl when splashed with water, a well that leads to the Warring States era — Rumiko Takahashi has blended laughter, romance and adventure into a single story, and has kept drawing at the front line of boys' manga for more than forty years. Born in Niigata, she debuted at twenty in 1978 with Katte na Yatsura. Urusei Yatsura, begun the same year, made her a star; Maison Ikkoku followed in 1980 and Ranma 1/2 in 1987. On 13 November 1996 Inuyasha began in Weekly Shonen Sunday, and in 2002 it brought her a second Shogakukan Manga Award. She went on with Rin-ne and Mao, was inducted into the Eisner Awards Hall of Fame in 2018, and received the Grand Prix of the Angoulême International Comics Festival in France in 2019. Why did all four of her major works begin within the twenty years of her twenties and thirties? What was the vessel promised at her birth? We read the vessel she was born with against her destiny and the phases of time.
At a Glance
The case
- Subject
- Rumiko Takahashi (高橋留美子) — Manga artist
- Period analysed
- 1957–2026
- Three pillars
- Day 乙卯 / Month 庚戌 / Year 丁酉
- Void branches
- 子丑 (Rat–Ox)
- Destiny area
- 0.26 The area of the triangle formed by the three pillars on the sixty-cycle circle (maximum 1.30)
- Format
- PDF, 14 pages — written in Japanese
- Price
- ¥50,000 including tax
Research Brief
What the case shows
- Her destiny binds the place of the self to the place of society more strongly than anything else. It is a vessel in which her own effort is rewarded directly in society. This bond can be shaken only by a bond of the same form arriving from outside. Her fifties are the decade in which that form arrives, and as long as she holds to her first resolve, a strong fortune continues.
- She holds a strong fortune of honour and the power to act, yet she shows it not on the public stage but in a specialist world she completes alone. The more she takes on heavy roles that others have avoided, the more it turns into honour.
- The twenty years from age twenty to thirty-nine are a period in which the flow of time shifts greatly. Her debut and the beginnings of all four major works fall within it. The answer to the stories begun in this period comes in the first year of shift after it ends: Inuyasha concluded in 2008, and the anime completed the story with its final act in 2009.
- 1996, the year Inuyasha began, was the last year of those twenty years; a second shift overlapped it, and two protective forces surfaced together.
- She holds the stars of one who opens the road as the first of her line without leaning on the family, and who stays at the front line as the years pass, active for life.
Questions
The questions the report answers
- Why did all four of her major works begin within the twenty years of her twenties and thirties?
- What overlapped on 13 November 1996, the day Inuyasha began?
- Where in her destiny was the author who kept a weekly serial running for more than forty years born?
- Where in the phases of time did recognition from the world arrive?
Public Record
The record, year by year
Selected events from the public record. Analysis and judgement are given in the report itself.
| 1978 | 戊午 (天) | Debuts with Katte na Yatsura; Urusei Yatsura begins |
| 1980 | 庚申 (天) | Maison Ikkoku begins |
| 1981 | 辛酉 (天) | 26th Shogakukan Manga Award |
| 1984 | 甲子 (天天) | The Mermaid Saga begins |
| 1987 | 丁卯 (天) | Ranma 1/2 begins |
| 1996 | 丙子 (天天) | 13 November: Inuyasha begins |
| 2002 | 壬午 | 47th Shogakukan Manga Award |
| 2008 | 戊子 (天) | Inuyasha concludes |
| 2009 | 己丑 (天) | Inuyasha: The Final Act airs; Rin-ne begins |
| 2018 | 戊戌 | Inducted into the Eisner Awards Hall of Fame |
| 2019 | 己亥 | Grand Prix, Angoulême International Comics Festival; Mao begins |
Year pillars change at Risshun, in early February. (天) = void year or void decade. (天天) = void year within a void decade.
Contents
14 pages
- Destiny profile and chart
- Yin and yang charts
- Axis and type of destiny
- Ten-year phases
- Composite numerical table
- The full union of day and month pillars
- The chart of honour
- The Rat–Ox void and its two stars
- The blank twenty years
- The phase after the void and the decade echo
- The four layers of 13 November 1996
- Timeline chart
- Public record
- Conclusion
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Analysis supervised by FAITH (Makoto Tokunaga) — MSc Economics, University of Warwick · CICP · Shugakuin Saii