Natsuki Takaya

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox person Template:Nihongo is a Japanese manga artist best known for creating the series Fruits Basket.

Born Nana Hatake, Takaya was raised in Tokyo, where she made her debut as a manga artist in 1992. Takaya had wanted to be a manga artist since first grade, when her sister started drawing.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Her manga series Fruits Basket, which debuted in 1998, became one of the best selling Template:Transliteration manga in North America.<ref name="ICv2_18mil">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Newsarama">Template:Cite news</ref> Fruits Basket has also been adapted into an anime series twice; the first, which premiered in 2001, aired as one season of twenty six episodes. The second, which premiered in 2019, consists of two seasons of twenty five episodes and the third season comprised 13 episodes and concluded in 2021.

In 2001, Takaya received the Kodansha Manga Award for Template:Transliteration manga for Fruits Basket.<ref name="KodanshaHahn">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> As revealed in a sidebar of Fruits Basket, Takaya broke her drawing arm after Fruits Basket volume six was published. She had to go into surgery, and as a result, had put Fruits Basket on a brief hiatus. Takaya made a full recovery, but complained that her handwriting had gotten uglier due to the surgery.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Works

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Phantom Dream	1994–1997	Serialized in Template:Transliteration Planet Template:TransliterationTemplate:PbPublished by Hakusensha in 5 volumes	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Tsubasa: Those with Wings	1995–1998	Serialized in Template:TransliterationTemplate:PbPublished by Hakusensha in 6 volumes	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Fruits Basket	1998–2006	Serialized in Template:TransliterationTemplate:PbPublished by Hakusensha in 23 volumes, Template:Transliteration edition in 12 volumes	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Songs to Make You Smile (Template:Lang)	1999 (vol.)	Short story collection. Serialized in Template:TransliterationTemplate:PbPublished by Hakusensha in 1 volume	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Twinkle Stars	2007–2011	Serialized in Template:TransliterationTemplate:PbPublished by Hakusensha in 11 volumes	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Liselotte"/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Liselotte & Witch's Forest	2011–2013 (hiatus)	Serialized in Template:TransliterationTemplate:PbPublished by Hakusensha in 5 volumes	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Fruits Basket Another	2015–2019	Serialized in HanaLaLa onlineTemplate:PbPublished by Hakusensha in 4 volumes	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Fruits Basket: The Three Musketeers Arc	2019	Serialized in Template:TransliterationTemplate:PbPublished by Hakusensha in the last volume of Fruits Basket Another
Fruits Basket: The Three Musketeers Arc 2	2020	Serialized in Template:TransliterationTemplate:PbPublished by Hakusensha in the last volume of Fruits Basket Another
Kakumo Chiisaki Sekai ni te	2023–present	Serialized in Manga Park	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

External links

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