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Takahashi's career began when she won Shogakukan's Best New Comic Artist Award in 1978 for the short story Those Selfish Aliens (Kattena Yatsura), not to be confused with Takahashi's famed series Urusei Yatsura (Those Obnoxious Aliens), which also began in 1978.
Those Selfish Aliens is a 32-page short story that first appeared in Shonen Sunday number 29. It is an utterly ridiculous sci-fi comedy, about a newspaper boy named Kei who is kidnapped by aliens, fishmen, and the Japanese Government to be used as a weapon of war. In the midst of being kidnapping Kei meets a lovely young woman named Akane who was kidnapped by the fishmen as well. Together they try to save Kei from the battling factions, all who want Kei dead.
Time Warp Trouble was the second story Takahashi had published, it appeared in Big Goro in 1978. Time Warp shows how Takahashi can take a very typical story and make it profound. Time Warp Trouble opens up on Saturday at Bellyful High School during the Chemistry Club. Minoru is very concerned because scientists have predicted unless Japan changes the way it produces its food, in fifty years there will be a devastating famine. So while conducting and experiment and trying to eat lunch at the same time he drops food into the experiment causing a rip in the space time continuum and hungry raiders, who appear to be from the Tenmei Era, which began in 1783 when Mt. Asuma erupted killing 920,000 Japanese people.
After a struggle for their food, the students agree to help the hungry marauders by giving them food to take to back to their village, plus the principal said he would disband the Chemistry Club and send the hungry group to jail, if the group of marauders did not return to the hole from whence they came. Minoru is proud to help these people, especially their leader who is a more handsome version of himself, and whom Minoru believes to be a distant relative. And so as the hungry marauders leave they promise to return for more food, as well as, message of hope and promises of retribution.
Shukumaru and Suzu are in a terrible fire in Medieval Japan, but when Suzu wakes up she is in the future, in a field near a construction plant. Now a high school student named Suzuko, she is quite happy and content. On her way home from school she picks up her neighbors young son Shuhei, and as they walk past a gas powered power plant it explodes, thrusting Suzuko back into medieval Japan amongst a field of dead soldiers.
She begins to search for Shuhei when she finds his clothes amongst a pile of old clothes from dead people. She believes despite this omen that he is still alive and forces Shukumaru to take her back to the field until Shuhei is found. One day she is forced to forgo her daily search,