The organizers of Harvey Awards, which honor excellent work in comics and sequential artwork, introduced on Wednesday that they’ll induct manga creator Rumiko Takahashi as one in all 5 new members for his or her Corridor of Fame this yr, alongside Bernie Wrightson, Jeffrey Catherine Jones, Barry Windsor-Smith, and Michael Kaluta.

Since making her debut in 1978, Takahashi has created such manga as Urusei Yatsura, Maison Ikkoku, Mermaid Saga, Rumic Theater, Ranma 1/2, One-Pound Gospel, and Inuyasha. In her profession of over 4 many years, a lot of her works have turn into internationally standard and impressed anime and live-action diversifications.

Takahashi ended her RIN-NE manga in Weekly Shonen Sunday in December 2017. The fortieth and closing compiled quantity of the manga shipped in Japan in January 2018. She launched a brand new manga titled MAO in Could 2019. Takahashi’s Inuyasha manga can be inspiring a presently airing anime spinoff titled Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon (Hanyō no Yashahime).

The digital screening of the Harvey Awards will happen on Friday throughout New York Comedian Con.

Manga nominees for the Harvey Awards’ Finest Manga class this yr embody Naoki Urasawa‘s Asadora!, Keito Gaku‘s Boys Run the Riot, Tatsuki Fujimoto‘s Chainsaw Man, Junji Ito‘s Remina, and Tatsuya Endō‘s SPY x FAMILY. The Harvey Awards added the Finest Manga class in 2018. Kabi Nagata‘s My Lesbian Expertise with Loneliness manga received the primary award on this class. Kamome Shirahama‘s Witch Hat Atelier received the award final yr.

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