Funeral for Crayon Shin-Chan’s Creator!
Crayon Shin-chan’s fans offered their last respects for Yoshito Usui, the creator of this delightful series.
Thousands of manga fans flocked to the funeral Monday of Japanese cartoonist Yoshito Usui, whose cheeky schoolboy character Shin-chan delighted millions.
More than 3,000 mourners queued to offer their last respects at central Tokyo’s Aoyama Funeral Hall, where pictures, stuffed dolls, comic books and videos of Usui’s characters were on display and decorated with flowers.
“Mr Usui unfortunately died, but the characters created by Mr Usui are still alive,” said fellow cartoonist Tetsuya Chiba, hailing the artist who created the hit “Crayon Shin-chan” series in the 1990s.
“It was very shocking to me when I heard of his death,” said one fan, Megumi Nagai, a 24-year-old female bartender. “The funeral was very valuable because I could see his works, all the comics, all the videos and the history.”
Source: AFP via Google
Farewell Yoshito Usui…Your legacy will go on. Crayon Shin-chan will run until February 2010!
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Was that unidentified body they found on the mountain his then?
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Toonleap Reply:
December 1st, 2009 at 11:09 am
Yes, his body was found and positively identified by dental records and other means…
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