Takaya Natsuki Furūtsu Basuketto Kyarakutā Bukku

by Natsuki Takaya

JAPANESE VERSION

Genres: Manga, Shojo, Romance, Fantasy

Tankobon Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Name (in native language) : 高屋奈月

Natsuki Takaya (高屋 奈月 Takaya Natsuki, real name Naka Hatake) is the penname of a Japanese manga artist best-known for creating the series Fruits Basket. She was born on July 7, 1973; (Tanabata). Takaya is left-handed and once revealed that she wanted to be a mangaka since first grade, when her sister started drawing.

She was born in Shizuoka, Japan, but was raised in Tokyo, where she made her debut in 1992. She enjoys video games such as the Final Fantasy series or Sakura Wars, or working on her different manga series, such as Fruits Basket, which is the second best-selling shōjo manga ever in Japan, and the top selling shōjo manga in North America. Fruits Basket has also been adapted into a twenty-six-episode anime series.

In 2001, Takaya received a Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo manga for Fruits Basket.

According to Takaya (in a sidebar of a Fruits Basket manga volume), she enjoys drawing girls (girly ones) more than she does boys. Takaya also enjoys electronics and music, but dislikes talking about herself. Also revealed in a sidebar of Fruits Basket, Takaya broke her drawing arm (left) 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 complains that her handwriting had gotten uglier, due to the surgery. During her hospital stay, she gained an interest in baseball.

Reviews

[Inès · Rating 3 out of 5]

Assez limité, la dernière partie du bouquin était la plus intéressante mais sinon on n'apprend pas grand chose...
Les fanbooks étaient mieux.

[Ysabet · Rating 3 out of 5]

The character book is extremely limited, since it only includes material from vol. 1-8 (Kureno and Rin hadn't even appeared yet), and most of that material was reproduced or updated in the Neko Fanbook released in 2005.

[Rebecca · Rating 3 out of 5]

This fan book contains a lot of nice graphics from and associated with the manga and anime Fruits Basket. I'm told it also has a lot of interesting information on the characters and the plot, but I can't confirm that because the book is written in Japanese.

[Rosaleendhu · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed flipping through this book, but with my weak Japanese skills, I couldn't follow it very well. There was a lot of small kanji.