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Viz Fields Reader Questions for Rumiko Takahashi Today
posted on by Egan Loo
The North American manga publisher Viz Media is asking its readers to submit a few short interview questions for manga creator Rumiko Takahashi today. All questions must be submited by 3:00 p.m. PDT on Friday. Viz Media has been simultaneously posting chapters of Takahashi's new Kyōkai no Rinne manga online as they are published every week in Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine in Japan. Takahashi had ended her previous work, Inuyasha, in the same magazine last June. Her other works include Urusei Yatsura, Maison Ikkoku, Ranma 1/2, One-Pound Gospel, and Rumic Theater. Viz Media has been releasing most of Takahashi's manga in North America, and it has also released many of their anime adaptations.
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