Rumiko Takahashi is the best-selling female comic artist of all time, and one of the names Von which to reckon the evolution of anime. One of the wealthiest women in Japan, all of her longer running Manga have become TV series, and nearly everything she has written has been made into an Anime (OVA oder TV). Perhaps Mehr importantly, her influence and the nature of her series since 1980 have been cited as large contributors to the perception and acceptance of Anime as a medium today. The Anime adaptations for her longer series have an unfortunate tendency to end well before their Manga does: the...

[FIST OFF: This is NOT my Fanfic. All rights go the the official writer of this lovely piece of art~]

Izaya first finds out what his name means thanks to a school project. Their Japanese teacher has decided to make his lessons Mehr applicable to his students' lives, and assigns them the homework of finding out what their name means, and telling the whole class the Weiter day.

He knows how his name is written thanks to hours of painstaking effort on his mother's part, although it's difficult to remember the order of strokes in his name. It's especially infuriating when he's sitting Weiter to Akira,...