Animator Shojuro Yamauchi Passes Away
Writer/director Akitaro Daichi has confirmed that veteran animator Shojuro Yamauchi passed away yesterday. Yamauchi served as a key animator for prominent anime including Graveyard of Fireflies, Cagliostro’s Castle, and Spirited Away. He served as animation director for the Ojarumaru television anime, under series director Akitaro Daichi. As recently as last year Yamauchi was drawing for the Mainichi Kaasan television series and Kawa no Hikari TV special.
Source: Anime News Network
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And it has to happen just in the week that Rei Hiroe wrote that he wishes that everyone who reads manga online to drop dead. =( that’s the result of wishing dead to people so far away. Life is not Death Note.