2009-09-20
Body Identified as Crayon Shin-chan's Yoshito Usui
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.
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What can I say? Just found out that... well... there goes another childhood memory...
Just like what Ai Ginn said, Crayon Shin-Chan will now stay as a 5 year old child forever and never grow up. Because now he can't. He is now stuck in between the past and the future, replaying his funny dances and signature humours as we slip back our old comics and watch his cartoons again. Should this be a good thing, as the creator now no longer need to worry about his creation's once golden age now slowly fading as time passes?
To our (most of us's) childhood idol's legendary creator, Yoshito Usui:
