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Huh, learn something new (about author). I never read the manga, but I really liked the "Silver Spoon" anime. Something about people opening new chapters and discovering new interest/passions really satisfies me.

> Another candidate (and the first person I thought of when I read the HN link title): Rumiko Takahashi

Same! I have always appreciated her for Ranma½ :)

and of course Urusei Yatsura has been very influential too.

Urusei Yatsura, Maison Ikkoku, and Ranma ½, were all massive successes at the time. Even her minor story Honoo Torippā, once polished into Inuyasha, went on to be pretty big.

I really struggle to look at Tsurita's work and see how she "shaped" manga history in any way, beyond being one of the first published females.

I thought this one too, never heard of the linked person for OP.)

She is hugely popular in east asia. Although the popularity did reach Europe but for some reason not the UK, manga/anime in general I feel. Am I wrong? Could anyone explain why?

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