[124Y]

MAEBASHI, Japan, Sept. 19 (AP) - (Kyodo)—A climber found a body, which may be that of Yoshito Usui, cartoonist of the popular "Crayon Shinchan" series adapted for TV and film, in a mountain straddling Gunma and Nagano prefectures on Saturday morning, police said.

The body will be recovered from the bottom of a steep cliff on Mt. Arafune on Sunday to verify whether it is indeed Usui, 51, who has been missing since Sept. 11, the police said.

Before he left home in Kasukabe, Saitama Prefecture, on the morning of Sept. 11, Usui had told his family that he was going hiking on Mt. Arafune and would return by the evening, according to the police.

His family reported him missing the next day and the Saitama prefectural police have been searching for him in cooperation with the police in Gunma and Nagano prefectures.

Usui started drawing "Crayon Shinchan," the story of a feisty kindergarten boy Shinnosuke Nohara living in Kasukabe with his family, in a comic book published by Futabasha Publishers Ltd. in 1990.

The city of Kasukabe issued a special residence card for the Nohara family in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the municipality and has also been using Shinchan since April as the city's mascot for its childrearing support campaign.


Link: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9AQARQO1&show_article=1

http://media.animevice.com/uploads/0/4/7390-shinchan_large.png

[Drow]

OH GOD NO.

i rmb reading that shit back when i was a kid, i loved it.

if its him, RIP

[EmOne]

shittt, brings back memories

i was reading these when i was like 8 or 9

some of it was so funny


RIP

[Jeffield]

RIP...

I just bought another DVD of his yesterday

[fobulaus]

NOOOOO, what am i going to read when I take a crap??????

[getalove]

goddamn skytrain

[Vansterdam]

rip

[124Y]

OH GOD NO.

i rmb reading that shit back when i was a kid, i loved it.

if its him, RIP

I started reading the comics before I immigrated to Canada more than a decade ago and I still read it quite often.

[!Shuya80]

NOOO!!! one of my favorite comics can't end like this.

if it is him RIP.

gotta tell mom to buy me all of em.

[twitchyzero]

i have one of the original manga and i thought it was hilarious and still do.

http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/3789/shinl.jpg

[ilvtofu]

NO!!!
Fuck i grew up laughing at crayon chan :(, he got me into toilet humour

[StealthFighter]

those cartoons were hilarious. the kid would just whip it out for no reason.

[wnderinguy]

shittt, brings back memories

i was reading these when i was like 8 or 9

some of it was so funny


RIP


http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/3789/shinl.jpg

WTF :confused:

[jtanner_]

^ lol.

I spent quite a while looking through these recently actually...RIP

[124Y]

WTF :confused:

It's a popular cartoon/manga in Asia in the 90s. Everyone was reading it...from elementary school kids to high school teens to people in their 30s or 40s! One of my favourite of all time!

[dub.g]

its only a matter of time until some fucking idiot post something like this here
I agree, lots of people die every day. She just happened to be cute so the media is all over this.

Even as far as murders go, there are much more tragic stories than this.

anyways holy crap.. ya i remember reading his stuff when i was 10 years old.. rip.. fell down the mountain while hiking.. damn

[BMW135i]

I hope the dead body is not him. I still have the whole set of Crayon Chan cartoon at home. I heart that cartoon so much

[Mugen EvOlutioN]

I hope the dead body is not him. I still have the whole set of Crayon Chan cartoon at home. I heart that cartoon so much

werd

me too


i was still really looking forward to the latest release, # 48 or sth

sigh....pretty much have every single one of them

its been wat? 16-17 years of drawing this comic

[sil3nt]

RIP .. Crayon Chan was the shit !

[Razor Ramon HG]

I grew up on this stuff. I hope it's not him.

[getalove]

i hope its him .... my collection of autographed crayon kid stuff gonna worth a lot of money

[Ikkaku]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO :(

no more of stuff like this
3CEYHfz2Dcg

[michimaro]

loved reading these (actually still do)...
rip

[!Tigger]

Shin channnn =( RIP

[asian_XL]

so many people died this year =(

[GLOW]

RIP

surprised no one put up a kanye pic yet

[tool001]

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Shin-chan-creator-falls-to-death/H1-Article1-456068.aspx

http://static.indianexpress.com/m-images/2009-09-14/M_Id_108527_Shinchan.jpg

Shin-chan creator falls to death in mountains
Agence France-Presse
Tokyo, September 20, 2009
First Published: 19:48 IST(20/9/2009)
Last Updated: 20:20 IST(20/9/2009)






A body found on a mountain in Japan was confirmed as popular cartoonist Yoshito Usui, whose manga and animation series "Crayon Shin-chan" has attracted a worldwide fan base, a report said.

Usui, 51, had been missing for more than a week when a body covered in bruises was found on Saturday by a climber in a mountain range straddling Gunma and Nagano prefectures, Kyodo News agency reported.

The report said his family Sunday confirmed it was the cartoonist and quoted police as saying he may have fallen from a climbing path.

It added there was no sign of a suicide note.

Usui had been missing since September 11 after telling his family at his home in Saitama prefecture, near Tokyo, that he would be hiking on the mountain and would be back by the evening.

When he failed to return his family contacted police.

Usui made his debut as a manga author in 1987 and gained popularity in the 1990s with "Crayon Shin-chan" featuring the daily life of Shinnosuke, a mischievous five-year-old boy

:( RIP

[getalove]

God Bless 2009 :(

[moomooCow]

I was watching his cartoons on tv when I was like 8 or 9. =/ Just rewatched some the other day and I still cracked up. hahah RIP =/

[124Y]

The death is confirmed.

RIP :(

[tool001]

duplicate thrd....lock plz

[Drow]

wehhhh i bought sooo many of his books

RIP

[Unagi]

I love his cartoon! RIP!

[sweetiee]

awww...!! whyy?!.. so sad.. i love that perverted character and i own a lot of his comic books!!! RIP =(

[kwistol]

i remember watching the tv show back when i was in kindergarden...this is sad... RIP

[shenmecar]

Morale of the story, dont go hiking alone.

RIP.

[TRD3000GT]

This is sad...
R.I.P.

[yellowpower]

"childrearing support campaign" AHAHAHA

[Mugen EvOlutioN]

The death is confirmed.

RIP :(
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :(
Morale of the story, dont go hiking alone.

RIP.

ya no shit, the fuck he went hiking for

if he stayed and draw more stuff, he would've survived. And i would've end up with more comics to read

[NimbeeTT]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Im heart broken..

I have nearly all the Crayon Shin Chan seasons on dvd's and a lot of manga, and i even have the game for the gameboy.. it was actually fun :(
Please dont let it be him </3

[Simplex123]

oh nooooo!
i loved his vcd's and mangas!