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Rumiko Takahashi was born in Niigata, a city located on the west coast of Japan, in 1957. Her interest in manga as a child was restricted to just being a fan. As a student in high school she founded her school's manga appreciation society. By her junior year she had decided to become a manga artist, but Takahashi made sure to enroll in college, as well as, Manga School.
Takahashi enrolled in Nihon Joseidai (Japan Women's University) and while obtaining her degree she enrolled in night classes at the Gekiga Sonjuku, an elite manga school established by Kazuo Koike, creator of Lone Wolf and Cub and Crying Freedman.
In 1978 Takahashi was nominated by one of Japan's most respected and prolific manga publisher, Shogakukan, as New Artist Award. In that year her first manga series Urusei Yatsura (These Obnoxious Aliens) began to run in Shonen Sunday a weekly manga magazine geared toward teenage boys. Shonen Sunday is where the majority of Takahashi's works have appeared over the course of her career; making Takahashi one of the few women to create successful manga geared toward males.