Big Inuyasha news below!

For all the deviants out there who love Rumiko Takahashi and/or her works, this club is for you!
>>more information about Takahashi and her works can be found at [link] , but be sure you come back here if you go there!


December 12
Just thought I should update. If anyone would like to contribute ideas to our monthly fanart contests, or would like to contribute prizes to the winners, please note the club or ~Kaching12
Still looking for some new admins to fill a special post, called "Favorites Admin". What you'll do in this post is basically add all the Rumiko Takahashi fanart on dA to our favorites collection. I realize there's about 1 million pieces of art, and since new pieces are added daily, this may take a while. That's why there will be at least 3 Favorites Admins (your main admin here will try to do some adding as well). If more than 3 people volunteer to fill these posts, I will gladly add them. This post of "Favorites Admin" serves many purposes: 1) Helps spread and show our appreciation of Rumiko Takahashi and her work, 2) Will give both the favoriters and our club visitors a chance to see some nice work, 3) Makes the artists feel a little better about themselves by getting their work favorited.
There are, of course, a few guidelines for favoriting the fanart (must be Takahashi, must be appropriate, no screenshots, etc.) These will all be explained in my reply note, which brings me to this: If you wish to be made a Favorites Admin or if you'd like to help organize contests and increase participation please send a note to ~Kaching12 NOT TO THE CLUB with the subject "Club Admin". I'll follow with some more information on what you'd be doing, the guidelines for faving, and if you send a confirmation note back that you want to be an admin, then you'll get the password.


Inuyasha: The Final Chapter debuted in Japan October 3. You can watch the subtitled episodes on [link] or [link] on Mondays (formally Saturdays).

Also reminding you that Rumiko Takahashi's new series, Kyokai no RINNE (known as just RINNE in English) can be read at [link] (although apparently non-US or Canadian servers have trouble accessing it :/ ). The first volume is out in English and the second volume should be out soon.

Don't forget about the contest!




Contests
You know, this club has been up for over a year and a half, and we've had one contest entry?
The next contest: Gender-bender! Take any of your favorite characters, from any of Takahashi's works, and make them the opposite gender! It can be that they've always been this way, or a sudden change. Also note that you can submit fanfiction to the club in the contest topic, but it will not be counted as a contest entry unless we get a lot of fanfic entries. Also, pictures of just Ranma Saotome are not allowed. He can be accompanied by other gender-bendered characters, but not just by himself.
Deadline You have until February 1 to get your entries in.
If you'd like to donate prizes for the winners, which can be as simple as featuring them in your journal, doing a request, or even providing the winners with subscriptions, please note the club with details. Anything to get these contests going would be swell.




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Have a question about Rumiko Takahashi or one of her series? Go ahead and ask! I'll get back to you as soon as possible. And feel free to try answering someone else's question. If you're wrong, you will be corrected. And please note, there's no ill-will in correcting someone else.
Also note, all information comes from official sources, not just random internet rumors.

Rules for questions
So long as it relates and is appropriate, you can ask. It is, however, preferable that you read the above questions so our poor admins don't have to answer the same questions all the time. But it is, however, understandable that you'd rather not read a million questions.


FAQ

Urusei Yatsura

Maison Ikkoku

Ranma 1/2
How old is...?
-Okay, only 3 characters' ages have been explicitly revealed in Ranma 1/2, but using clues and common sense, we can figure out the ages of others. Ranma, Akane, Kodachi, Ryoga, Ukyo, Tsubasa Kurenai, and possibly Shampoo are 16. Kuno and Nabiki are 17 (I think Mousse might be 17 as well). Kasumi is 19. I seem to vaguely remember something about Dr. Tofu being 21, but I don't know if that's true or not. Genma and Soun are probably in their 40s. Happosai and Cologne are apparently more than 100 years old.

InuYasha
What's that fluffy thing Sesshomaru has?
-Possibly the most debated thing in InuYasha fandom. Here's the truth: an exaggerated piece of armor. Yes. When Takahashi was doing some preliminary sketches of Sesshomaru, she just drew the right shoulder bit too big, and decided she liked how it looked. And thus we have the fluffy thing. In the series, though, no one knows. It is apparently a part of Sesshomaru's body, but we don't know what part. A very odd thing is that it bleeds, so it must have blood vessels in it somewhere - so it can't just be all fluff. Many people believe it is a tail, but this is not confirmed, and it doesn't appear to actually be attached to... where a tail would be. In fact, in my observations, the fluffy thing doesn't seem to be attached to anything.

How old is...?
-In the entirety of the series, only one character's age is stated for certain. Kagome's. There is a lot of speculation and completely wrong information on the web about character's ages, so let me tell you this: all of this information comes from the published word of the creator, Rumiko Takahashi. So please believe it.
*In the cases of demon, it's their age in appearance and state of mind. They're likely several hundred years old, just look 15 or something.
Kagome - 15 (specifically stated in first chapter)
Inuyasha - appears 15
Miroku - 18
Sango - 16
Shippo - 7
Kohaku - 11
Kikyo - 18 (at death)
Koga- appears 15
Sesshomaru - appears 19
Naraku - appears 23
Kagura - appears 17 (is less than 1 year old)
Kanna - appears 10 (less than 1 year)


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Miscellany

March 30
Megumi Yayashibara, voice of Maison Ikkoku's Yosuke Nanao and Ranma 1/2's Ranma (female), among so many other non-Takahashi characters, celebrates her birthday!

April 3
Willow Johnson, voice of Ranma 1/2's Kasumi and InuYasha's Kikyo, celebrates her birthday.

April 21, 2009
Takahashi's fifth series, Kyokai no RINNE debuts in Japan! Viz already has the license to publish it in English, and you can read official English scanlations of the series (called Rin-ne in English) a day after they come out in Japan, at this location [link]

April 25
celebrates its birthday!

April 26
Happy birthday to Kouji Tsujitani, the Japanese voice actor of Ranma 1/2's Hiroshi and Inuyasha's Miroku!

May 11, 2008
Major Inuyasha spoiler!: Goodbye, Naraku. Several will miss you. R.I.P.

May 19
Happy birthday to Jason Gray-Stanford, the English dub voice for Ranma 1/2's Shinnosuke, Mermaid Saga's Yuta, and Maison Ikkoku's main character, Yusaku Godai!

May 20
Happy birthday to Tessho Genda, the Japanese voice of Rei from Urusei Yatsura

May 23
A very big happy birthday to Kappei Yamaguchi. He is a voice actor of many, but most notably and relevantly, the voice actor of Ranma and Inuyasha! Happy birthday, guy!

May 24
Happy birthday to Satsuki Yukino, voice of Inuyasha's Kagome!

May 25
Michael Benyaer (Ranma 1/2's Japanese Hikaru Gosunkugi) is celebrating his birthday today.

June 10
Izumi Ohgami, Japanese voice actress of Inuyasha's Kagura, is another year older today.

June 17, 2008
The final chapter (558) of Inuyasha is published in Japan. Farewell, old boy.
On an interesting note, this is also the anniversary of Takahashi's first published work: Katte ne Yatsura (Obnoxious Guys, can be found in Rumic World Trilogy Volume 1, published by Viz).

July 2, 1978
Rumiko Takahashi's first professionally published work Katte ni Yatsura (Those Selfish Aliens) is published in Shonen Sunday.

July 6, 2003
The first episode of Rumiko Takahashi Theater debuts in Japan with The Tragedy of P.

August 29th
Today is Ian James Corlett's birthday - voice of Ranma 1/2's Jusenkyo Guide & Dr. Tofu.

September 16
Happy birthday to Kazuko Sugiyama, the voice of Ten from Urusei Yatsura. Born 1947 - she just might be the oldest of the Rumic voice actors. Or at least one of the oldest. She's older than Takahashi, actually.

Fall, 2009
Official date pending: New Inuyasha anime series debuts in Japan! This covers the last 21 volumes of the manga.

Third Week of September, 1978
Rumiko Takahashi debuts her first serial work, Urusei Yatsura in Shonen Sunday. Happy birthdays, Ataru, Lum, Shinobu, and the rest of you!

September 25
Kikuko Inoue, voice of Kasumi Tendo from Ranma 1/2, celebrates her birthday today.
1992
The final episode of Ranma 1/2; Nettohen aired.

October 3, 2009
The first episode of Inuyasha: The Final Chapter airs in Japan!
October 3
Richard Ian Cox, voice of the title leads in Ranma 1/2 and InuYasha, is another year older!

October 7
Happy birthday to Kumiko Watanabe, voice of Shippo from InuYasha!

October 10
And today we celebrate the birth of Rumiko Takahashi. If you don't know who that is, please either learn or vacate the premises.

October 14
Happy birthday to David Kaye, English voice of Ranma 1/2's Soun Tendo and Inuyasha's Sesshomaru!
1981
Today marks the anniversary of the first airing of the first episode of Urusei Yatsura, one of the most popular anime series in Japan, a land where pretty much nothing is still popular 30 years later - but this is!

October 15
Masako Katsuki actress for Ten's Mother from Urusei Yatsura, Miason Ikkoku's Yuko and Hobo, and Ranma 1/2 OAV's Natsume was born.
It's funny, Ten's voice actress is nearly ten years older than the actress playing Ten's mother.

October 16, 2000
InuYasha the animated series airs its first episode!

October 18
Happy birthday to Norio Wakamoto, Maison Ikkoku's Cha-Cha Maru Master, and Yuuji Mitsuya, Ranma 1/2's Tofu Ono!

November
This month in 1980, Maison Ikkoku was first published in Big Comic Spirits.

November 13, 1996
Inuyasha debuts in Shonen Sunday!

December 1
Akiko Nagakawa, Japanese voice of Inuyasha's Souta Higurashi, was born!

December 7
A very happy birthday to Paul Dobson, voice of Ranma 1/2's Happosai, and Inuyasha's Myoga, Ginta, and Naraku, as well as Hamtaro's Howdy (just thought I'd throw that last one in )

December 26
Brad Swaile (Ranma 1/2's Mousse & Sentaro, Maison Ikkoku's Godai, InuYasha's Nobunaga) celebrates his birthday today.

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