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Sunday, August 29, 2010

The final blog post of Satoshi Kon

Amplify’d from io9.com
The final blog post of Satoshi Kon
Paprika and Paranoia Agent director Satoshi Kon passed away this week, but before he died, he wrote a final blog post to his friends, family, and anime colleagues.

Kon's post is a meditation on death and tying up loose ends. In one particularly sad passage, the director regrets that he wasn't more open about his upcoming robot "road movie," The Dreaming Machine. At one point, he meets with Madhouse Studios founder Masao Maruyama and realizes that the project is in good hands. It's poignant to read about Kon letting go of an endeavor he had planned so meticulously; it's also heartening to see that his colleagues will do it justice:

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