So, it's my first post in a month and this one has a pretty grim tone. 3 days ago, that's August 24th if you are too lazy to subtract or happen to read this in say...a year, Satoshi Kon died. If you aren't away of who Satoshi Kon is, he was a famous anime director famous for such titles as Paprika(2006) and Paranoia Agent, a slightly disturbing 13 episode anime that at one point ran on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. He was a pretty powerful figure in the anime world and died while working on his 5th movie. I feel kinda bad not having seen most of his works so throughout the course of this blog you might see some of them pop up in WDs or elsewhere. He left his last words, translated in English at this site, and I think that we should admire his strength considering he knew he was living on borrowed time due to incurable pancreatic cancer. My advice is to check out his works, even if you have to do it illegally. From what I've seen, they are quite thought provoking and tell pretty amazing stories, regardless of how surreal they are. To compound on Satoshi Kon's death, there were 2 deaths amongst Japanese DJs that I thought I would point out, Nujabes and KAGAMI. Nujabes, or Jun Seba, would probably be best known for his work in Samurai Champloo to anime viewers and he died in February of 2010 in a motor vehicle accident; his last.fm page is here. KAGAMI or Takashi Yasumi was a DJ who did a couple of tracks for the anime Eureka 7 and who worked with bands like ORANGE RANGE, his last.fm page is here. Remember all, humans live only a short while and if you do great things, people will remember you. Hopefully, I'll be posting normally again soonish but I wouldn't count on it.
--CsMiREK
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