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Title: Veteran Director Satoshi Kon Passes Away.
Post by: Brooklyn Luckfield on August 24, 2010, 09:40:37 PM
While I was never a big fan of his, he died at 47, which is pretty shocking.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-08-24/award-winning-director-satoshi-kon-passes-away (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-08-24/award-winning-director-satoshi-kon-passes-away)


Title: Re: Veteran Director Satoshi Kon Passes Away.
Post by: EyeOfPain on August 25, 2010, 01:05:36 PM
46, apparently. Based on the message posted to his website on his behalf after his passing, it sounds like MADHOUSE will likely continue production on his last film.


Title: Re: Veteran Director Satoshi Kon Passes Away.
Post by: Yuko-san on August 29, 2010, 02:00:58 PM
wow, seems like tons of celebs are dieing these days.

And I liked Paranoia Agent. I thought that series needed a little more explaining, but it was a good anime.


Title: Re: Veteran Director Satoshi Kon Passes Away.
Post by: R. Daniel 01 on August 29, 2010, 02:39:38 PM
God Damnit. I love this guy. Someone better live up to his madness.


Title: Re: Veteran Director Satoshi Kon Passes Away.
Post by: D on August 29, 2010, 04:04:39 PM
I came here to say something but I was transfixed by danolk's signature


Title: Re: Veteran Director Satoshi Kon Passes Away.
Post by: Randolf on August 29, 2010, 04:53:07 PM
The article mentions he worked on Roujin Z. Damn it, I've had that DVD sitting on the shelf-- not two feet away from me as I type this-- and I never watched it in the seven years or more I've had it. Now I feel bad. I'll have to watch it soon.

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I came here to say something but I was transfixed by danolk's signature
I've got sigs turned off. Sorry, Dan, but it wasn't just yours. It just makes the boards look so much tidier.


Title: Re: Veteran Director Satoshi Kon Passes Away.
Post by: EyeOfPain on August 30, 2010, 09:32:59 AM
The article mentions he worked on Roujin Z. Damn it, I've had that DVD sitting on the shelf-- not two feet away from me as I type this-- and I never watched it in the seven years or more I've had it. Now I feel bad. I'll have to watch it soon.

Looks like he only did the art design, but wow, hard to believe I missed that the first time I watched that.


Title: Re: Veteran Director Satoshi Kon Passes Away.
Post by: Tifaria on August 30, 2010, 09:49:50 AM
His last blog post (http://makikoitoh.com/journal/satoshi-kons-last-words) was translated a few days ago. 

It was really hard for me to read, and I pretty much sat and cried like a sissy the whole way through.  It's so hard to read the regrets of a dying person, to know that they saw their illness as the most disrespectful thing they could do to their peers and family, as if there was anything he could do to help it.  I greatly respected his work and am very sad to know that I'll never get to see what he would do in the future.  I think the loss of potential is more sad than if he'd had a full long life and a large body of work. 

I've seen a quote going around from a blogger on Twitter who said, "It's not that anime will never be the same with Satoshi Kon gone. It's now much more likely that anime will always be the same." 


Title: Re: Veteran Director Satoshi Kon Passes Away.
Post by: R. Daniel 01 on August 30, 2010, 10:01:38 AM
Very well said.


Title: Re: Veteran Director Satoshi Kon Passes Away.
Post by: Brooklyn Luckfield on August 30, 2010, 12:27:57 PM
I think it is safe to say that this has not been a good year for Anime fans. First veteran voice director and Anime pioneer Carl Mack, Peter 'Speed Racer' Fernandez, Satoshi Kon and master puppeteer Kihachiro Kawamoto who died just a few days after Kon.


Title: Re: Veteran Director Satoshi Kon Passes Away.
Post by: Leonard Shelby on September 21, 2010, 01:53:59 AM
"Paprika" is one of my 5 favourite animated movies. I'll never stop thanking and blessing him for doing it, wherever he's now. :'(


Title: Re: Veteran Director Satoshi Kon Passes Away.
Post by: R. Daniel 01 on November 08, 2010, 04:43:16 PM
wherever he's now. :'(

At least we know that when Anno dies, he will have dissolved into a puddle of LCL, and be connected to Rei Ayanami at the groin for all eternity in swirlyland.


Title: Re: Veteran Director Satoshi Kon Passes Away.
Post by: Sharpshooter005 on December 22, 2010, 05:52:47 PM
Paranoia Agent was neat yeah.

Having recently started re-watching twin peaks, I'm still pretty convinced that thing with the cherry stem in like, the first episode of paranoia agent was definately supposed to be a reference
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At least we know that when Anno dies,

They'll find him surrounded by half empty bottles of zoloft, in a pool filled with money gouged from cretins who like to watch the exact same thing regurgitated once every other year, and anyway it was just one cliche nested inside another, and given a veneer of freudianism and completely unrelated religious symbolism.


Title: Re: Veteran Director Satoshi Kon Passes Away.
Post by: R. Daniel 01 on December 22, 2010, 05:59:52 PM
Oh man I am just LOVING your hatred for all things Evangelion. I happen to like that series, derpaderps.

You're completely right, but it's not like I can change my feelings for Eva. It'd be like denying myself Big O YEAH I WENT THERE.


Title: Re: Veteran Director Satoshi Kon Passes Away.
Post by: Brooklyn Luckfield on December 23, 2010, 12:31:28 AM
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They'll find him surrounded by half empty bottles of zoloft, in a pool filled with money gouged from cretins who like to watch the exact same thing regurgitated once every other year, and anyway it was just one cliche nested inside another, and given a veneer of freudianism and completely unrelated religious symbolism.

"But but Sharp! It's one of the greatest shows of all and it's totally deep and meaningful!" Yeah, I never really got the appeal of Eva. The mecha action is neat, but that's pretty much it. The religious imagery was more or less shock value.


Title: Re: Veteran Director Satoshi Kon Passes Away.
Post by: Sharpshooter005 on December 23, 2010, 12:27:55 PM
Didn't he entirely admit "It means absolutely nothing, I thought it looked good so I used it"

Also FLCL, supposedly, was borne largely out of gainax being relieved they didn't have to put up with anno anymore


Title: Re: Veteran Director Satoshi Kon Passes Away.
Post by: R. Daniel 01 on December 23, 2010, 02:19:54 PM
That was for the name of the series. I dunno about the rest of the religious mumbo-jumbo.

It probably applies to that, too, though. And I love it! So serious and important-sounding.


Title: Re: Veteran Director Satoshi Kon Passes Away.
Post by: Sharpshooter005 on December 23, 2010, 05:01:44 PM
If the spear of longinus is the size of a small building, wheres the spin-off about a gigantic roman centurion fighting godzilla.

And by spinoff I just mean why hasn't Godzilla fought a massive legionnaire, it's not the worst idea, I've seen the one where he teams up with the ultra-man ripoff.


Title: Re: Veteran Director Satoshi Kon Passes Away.
Post by: R. Daniel 01 on December 23, 2010, 05:02:55 PM
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the ultra-man ripoff

Jetto Jaguah!

Apparently made from a composite of elementary schoolers' COOLEST ROBAWT EVAR designs.


Title: Re: Veteran Director Satoshi Kon Passes Away.
Post by: Randolf on December 28, 2010, 11:56:47 PM
Jet Jaguar was the most ridiculous piece of junk I've ever seen in film. It's ugly as balls and its powers are useless.

Seriously, it reprograms itself to grow to kaiju-size. Reprograms. Itself. To grow in size. There are so many things wrong with that I can't even be bothered.


Title: Re: Veteran Director Satoshi Kon Passes Away.
Post by: Sharpshooter005 on December 31, 2010, 04:08:56 AM
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the ultra-man ripoff

Jetto Jaguah!

Apparently made from a composite of elementary schoolers' COOLEST ROBAWT EVAR designs.

King Kong versus Godzilla INFURIATED me

Electrocuting a damn monkey does not give it superpowers, and allow it to beat some giant nuclear dinosaur FAR LARGER THAN IT, WHAT THE HELL THAT MOVIE WAS RETCON UPON RETCON


Title: Re: Veteran Director Satoshi Kon Passes Away.
Post by: Yuko-san on January 05, 2011, 09:24:51 PM
>.>
Gogira go pau? Japanese for big explosion.