 and that's incredible seeing her image like when she looks so young and if you look it up now she's like oh i forget how old she is she's like 60 70s 60 70 years old and this is her at that time right so super cute super cute right romiko tagahashi okay romiko tagahashi was born in 1957 in uh negata japan she attended a woman's college in tokyo where she began studying comics with uh kazuo koki the writer of lone wolf and cub in 1978 she won a prize in uh shaga shagahakans annual new comic artist contest and in that same year her lump uh and lump uh astrid uh yurusi yatu sarah sarah began appearing in the weekly manga magazine shonen sunday this phenomenal this phenomenally successful series ran for nine years taguchi is currently the most popular comic writer artist in japan her other titles include mason uh iku iku iku iku iku iku iku iku ranma half and one pound gospel i read some of ranma half right i like they were enjoyable reads but i like this character a lot more i thought this had a lot more fun feel to it okay and she does have darker stuff for example i have um i found one copy of mermaid's mask and i've read through this and it's very dark this one it's the same it's her doing it as well right so keep this in mind even though this is very cute series and stuff like this she has done darker work as well i'm not sure what year this came out at this would have been is where so it must have been late 80s mid-1995 right mid-1995 and this one is dark like like pretty dark like how dark there's a lady here cutting off her own face okay pretty dark pretty dark but fantastic this was a great read by the way i i actually don't have i don't think i've read any other mermaids mask um so i wouldn't mind getting my hands on some of these okay uh japanese horror is phenomenal phenomenal right but since we're staying with cute let's read lumb number one okay