Man, this just makes me even more upset that I never got Paranoia Agent when it was still cheap/easy-to-get. This is a bad blow to the industry though, and I will miss his work.
Perfect Blue has still left me slightly scared to this day.
It was the first serious anime that I recall watching. It was also the first anime that was playing when I worked my first as a panel room attendee at an anime convention.
This has been a crappy year for anime. First Carl Macek, now Satoshi Kon!?? This is probably the second most tragic death in anime, being only slightly beaten out by the death of Osamu Tezuka.
I'm very poignantly sad about this. My heart just sank when I read it. He was a brilliant artist and a funny guy. It seems slightly surreal, even now, that he's gone.
I seriously cried over this. He was one of my favorite director and the first I attached myself to.
I will always remember when I met him in DC when they showed Tokyo Godfathers and the premiere of Paprika. He was pleasant and signed stuff for people even though he didn't have to. He was called to leave so I didn't get anything I signed. We were both walking the same way and he stopped and held out his hand. I offered mine to shake his and the most fangirlish of noises escaped my mouth. "Da!" I exclaimed and he chuckled and gave me a bow to which smiled and did the same.
I will always remember that time and also regret saying "Da!"
What is going to happen to The Dream Machine?
It'll dream forever, my friend. It'll dream forever...
I'm not one to care about celebrity deaths -- oh no, an actor I've seen will no longer make movies I'll watch! -- but this flat-out sucks. Truly, this is an awful day for entertainment as a whole, never mind anime. Kon was a visionary, and we're losing a lot in his death.
A news segment would be timely, but a retrospective will take a while (Time not being in abundance recently.) and may be better when everyone's not running around like headless chickens.
First Nujabes and now this, my money's on the guy who heads up Team Ico for the next big potential to cop it.
I know what you are talking about Gunter and I'm kind of at a loss for words to describe what it is. In a way, I can understand why it would be somewhat crass to release something like a retrospective just days after Kon died (depending on if Scrym ever get it done that fast which is certainly unlikely). But at the same time, I feel like that this man made too much of an impact on the medium of anime to not have a kind of retrospective done. Especially by people who both know as much about anime and are articulate and intelligent enough to do something truly that is both truly meaningful and honorable to Kon's legacy.
You dun goofed. Here is a short list of anime and manga staffers you could have taken instead of Satoshi Kon: Koichi Ohata, Yoshinobu Nishizaki, Toshio Maeda, Seiji Matsuyama, (the directing side of) Ichiro Itano, and anyone who works at Bee Train.
You dun goofed. Here is a short list of anime and manga staffers you could have taken instead of Satoshi Kon: Koichi Ohata, Yoshinobu Nishizaki, Toshio Maeda, Seiji Matsuyama, (the directing side of) Ichiro Itano, and anyone who works at Bee Train.
Love, Peter
Also, Ken Akamatsu. Even though some his works are among my (nostalgically shameful) favorites.
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Talk about awkward.
I will always remember when I met him in DC when they showed Tokyo Godfathers and the premiere of Paprika. He was pleasant and signed stuff for people even though he didn't have to. He was called to leave so I didn't get anything I signed. We were both walking the same way and he stopped and held out his hand. I offered mine to shake his and the most fangirlish of noises escaped my mouth. "Da!" I exclaimed and he chuckled and gave me a bow to which smiled and did the same.
I will always remember that time and also regret saying "Da!" Well said, Victor.
Making a dedication 'cast as soon as the guy hits the grave feels wrong to me, for some reason.
First Nujabes and now this, my money's on the guy who heads up Team Ico for the next big potential to cop it.
You dun goofed. Here is a short list of anime and manga staffers you could have taken instead of Satoshi Kon: Koichi Ohata, Yoshinobu Nishizaki, Toshio Maeda, Seiji Matsuyama, (the directing side of) Ichiro Itano, and anyone who works at Bee Train.
Love,
Peter