21/09/2009:

Crayon Shin-Chan creator dies in climbing accident

ANN is reported that the body of Crayon Shin-Chan creator Yoshito Usui has been discovered at Arafune Mountain in Japan.

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.

The editorial staff at Futabasha’s Manga Town magazine has stated that the "future publication [of Crayon Shin-chan] is to be determined."

Source: ANN and macloud

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