Satoshi Kon Passes Away
Acclaimed animator and anime film director Satoshi Kon passed away on August 24 at 6:20 a.m. due to pancreatic cancer. He was 46 and leaves behind his wife Kyoko. At the time of his death, Kon was directing the original children’s sci-fi adventure anime film Yume-Miru Kikai (The Dreaming Machine). Tentatively the Madhouse animation studio will continue production and completion of the film. Evidently Kon learned that his cancer was terminal this past May.
While Satoshi Kon is most recognized for his anime productions that feature alternate realities and states of consciousness, including Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, Paprika, and Paranoia Agent, Kon also helmed the acclaimed anime drama Tokyo Godfathers, which contains none of his trademark reality bending.
Source: Anime News Network
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Hearing this news is the equivalent of waking up to the worst non-alcoholic hangover evar.
I hope Madhouse continues to put out wide-appeal, “prestigious” anime features like Kon’s, because it’s sad to think we’ll be seeing 1 less of those every 2-3 years due to his death. The only other guy who puts those out regularly at Madhouse is Mamoru Hosoda (and yeah, there’s Mai Mai Shinko and Redline to look forward to from the studio as well)
I also hope enough of Yume Miru Kikai was produced so that it can be completed while still feeling like one of his films, albeit a children’s film which seems like a fun yet logical departure for his sensibilities
What I hate most of this tragic event is the shadow of irony over the fact that he has to die of cancer just in the week that some mangaka comented that they wish to manga pirates on the internet to get cancer or other (fatal) diseases. People like that doesn’t have a heart and neither know that maybe the one next to their would be the first to die of such a disease.
This is rough news… I love this guy’s work so much, as I’m sure countless other anime fans do. Time for a Kon marathon movie session this weekend.