Natsuki Takaya, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Japanese manga artist
Date of Birth: 07-Jul-1973
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Profession: mangaka
Nationality: Japan
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
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About Natsuki Takaya
- Natsuki Takaya (?? ??, Takaya Natsuki, born July 7, 1973) is a Japanese manga artist best known for creating the series Fruits Basket. Takaya was born and raised in Tokyo, where she made her debut in 1992.
- Takaya is left-handed and had wanted to be a manga artist since first grade, when her sister started drawing.Her manga series Fruits Basket was one of the top selling shojo 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 shojo manga for Fruits Basket.As 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 complained that her handwriting had gotten uglier due to the surgery.
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