Takahashi worked with clockwork regularity in getting her manga out, garnering numerous fans, several deals for overseas publications, and contracts for many of her most popular works to be made into anime, including Urusei Yatsura, Ranma 1/2, and Inuyasha.
Stephen Karl Rassin (born 1967 in Wilmington, NC), better known as Steve Rassin, is an American voice actor best known as the voice of Ataru Moroboshi in 5 of the 6 Urusei Yatsura movies.
In another Japanese reference, the banners around the arena are written in Japanese hiragana and spell out Ataru, Lum, urusai yatsura (a misspelled reference to Urusei Yatsura), Kei, Yuri, Akira and Tonari no Totoro.
He began his career as an animator with the anime adaptation of Rumiko Takahashi's Urusei Yatsura and subsequently into episode direction and as a director with Studio Deen's anime adaptation of another Rumiko Takahashi work, Ranma ½.
It has also been used in various Japanese animation; including Inuyasha, Urusei Yatsura, Sekirei, Aku no Hana, and Yu Yu Hakusho.
Shimazu is notable for having had voice roles in all four of the major anime TV series based on the works of Rumiko Takahashi - she played Shinobu Miyake in Urusei Yatsura, Sayako Kuroki in Maison Ikkoku, Kodachi Kuno in Ranma ½, and Abi-hime in InuYasha.
Ataru Moroboshi, the main character from Rumiko Takahashi's manga and anime series Urusei Yatsura
One of her influences is Rumiko Takahashi, in particular Takahashi's series Urusei Yatsura.