Life goes on with Crayon Shin-chan!
This is just an small update for Crayon Shin-Chan fans. It seems Crayon Shin-chan will go on, just like Life itself. Apparently, Futabasha will assign the series to a new author and the series will be resumed next summer.
The 18th movie of Crayon Shin-chan anime will be premiered on April 17th. The title is “Crayon Shin-chan: Chojiku! Arashi wo Yobu Ora no Hanayome” and Shinnosuke time-travels with his future wife.
It will be interesting to see who´s assigned to the task of bringing Crayon Shin-chan back to life…metaphorically speaking.
Source: Nikkan Sports via MAL
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!
Final Crayon Shin-chan manuscript found!
It seems Crayon Shin-chan’s creator left something before his unexpected death.
Futabasha announced that they found a few pages of the late Usui Yoshito’s Crayon Shin-chan manga manuscript. The serialization of Crayon Shin-chan was extended by another three months and will end on February 5th, 2010.
Crayon Shinchan creator’s death confirmed!
The worst news for Crayon Shinchan’s fans is real.
The police confirmed the body found 120 meters below Tomoiwa cliff is Crayon Shinchan’s creator, Usui Yoshito. The police also found his broken digital camera, his shoes and backpack as well confirming the bad news.
On Sunday, authorities have identified the body discovered at Arafune mountain as that of missing Crayon Shin-chan manga creator Yoshito Usui through dental records and other means.
The body was discovered 120 meters below the mountain’s Tomoiwa cliff and reported at about 10:25 a.m. on Saturday by a male climber. Usui’s backpack, camera, and other items had fallen about 50 meters away. Inside Usui’s backpack was his mobile phone, wallet, and clothes. A police helicopter from Gunma Prefecture airlifted the body on Sunday afternoon. Police from the nearby town of Shimonita concluded that the 51-year-old creator died from collapsed lungs and other injuries sustained across his entire body sometime in the afternoon of September 11.
According to Usui’s family, Usui had said that he was “going hiking for a day in Gunma Prefecture,” as he often did, on the morning of September 11. His mobile phone was last detected in the vicinity of Karuizawa, a town about 100 kilometers (about 60 miles) northwest of his Kasukabe home, on Monday. Karuizawa is located in the mountainous eastern part of Nagano Prefecture, near the border of the equally mountainous Gunma Prefecture. In particular, Usui was said to have expressed his intent to climb the Arafune mountain, which towers 1,422 meters (4,665 feet) high at the border between Nagano and Gunma Prefectures. Authorities had been searching this area since his wife reported his disappearance on September 12, after he did not return the night before.
The editorial staff at Futabasha’s Manga Town magazine has stated on Sunday night that the “future publication [of Crayon Shin-chan] is to be determined.” Futabasha said it was “going through great shock, now that the worst outcome has come to past. There are no words to express the anguish of the surviving family, but we just pray for his happiness in the next world.”
Source: Mainichi Shimbun (link 2), Sankei Shimbun, animeanime.jp Nikansports via ANN
It is indeed a sad day for Crayon Shinchan and his fans. We want to express our condolences to his family as well.
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