{"id":24911,"date":"2011-03-09T14:11:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T18:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=24911"},"modified":"2011-03-09T14:11:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T18:11:15","slug":"hoero-bun-bun-creator-dead-at-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/hoero-bun-bun-creator-dead-at-69\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoero! Bun Bun Creator Dead at 69"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/animefair03-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Moribi Murano in wheelchair\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/animefair03-4.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/animefair03-4-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Manga creator and illustrator Moribi Murano passed away due to heart failure in a Tokyo hospital on Monday, March 7, at 10:00 p.m. He was 69, and is survived by his wife Taeko Sato. Murano may be best known as the creator of the Hoero! Bun Bun (Howl! Bun Bun) children&#8217;s adventure manga that was adapted into a 38 episode anime television series in 1980 and a 1987 anime film. Murano also directed the 1983 Unico: To The Magic Island motion picture and provided the character designs for the 1985 Dagger of Kamui feature film.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2011-03-08\/kamui-designer\/unico-helmer-moribi-murano-passes-away\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manga creator and illustrator Moribi Murano passed away due to heart failure in a Tokyo hospital on Monday, March 7, at 10:00 p.m. He was 69, and is survived by his wife Taeko Sato. Murano may be best known as the creator of the Hoero! Bun Bun (Howl! Bun Bun) children&#8217;s adventure manga that was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24913,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24911\/revisions\/24913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}