>>1269508>three>posts four>Try to swallow pride.I bet OP started the thread to promote Urusei Yatsura and Ranma which are both from the same author. At the time those two titles came out, the author was reputed by the fans of that time period to be hard against male characters. The author had strong control of her IP contracts at that time which allowed her to make deals on her own. As a result, Rumiko Takahashi made many lucrative royalty and marketing contracts. In some years, she had the highest taxable income in Japan for the female taxpayer category. In comparison, modern oppressive IP contracts typically take advantage of authors and removed all ability of authors to make merchandise deals of their own.
