Crayon Shin-chan Cartoonist Usui Found Dead

[~Nel Tu~]

Sept. 21 (Bloomberg) -- A famous Japanese animation artist, best known for the cartoon series “Crayon Shin-chan,” was found dead after going missing while walking in the mountains, the Yomiuri newspaper said today, citing local police.

Yoshito Usui, 51, went missing on Sept. 11 after telling his family he was planning to climb a mountain in Gunnma prefecture, north of Tokyo, the Yomiuri said in its report. Usui may have fallen from a cliff after being found with wounds to his chest, the Yomiuri report said.

The cartoonist became popular in the 1990s with Crayon Shin-chan, a comedy that features a five-year-old boy’s life with his family and friends at a kindergarten.

The series has sold about 50 million comic books since 1990 and was made into an animation film in 1992, the newspaper said.

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[Black Star]

Damn- what a shame...

Someone should have gone with him, for safety purposes.

[~Nel Tu~]

Originally Posted by Black Star

Damn- what a shame...

Someone should have gone with him, for safety purposes.

Yeah that's true =\ Must have been something normal he always did so going alone wasn't a big deal to him maybe.

[WhiteFang]

Aw. That's sad. I actually always really liked watching Shin Chan. It was hilarious, though a bit perverted at times, lol.

[Bushido Brown]

This is a sad day for me. I loved Shin Chan, specially Action Basterd. It was badly drawn but it was the funniest anime ive ever seen. I watched it every Saturday night on CN, and have 20 episodes record to my TIVO. RIP you gave me and my son some good laughs

[Rikuo86]

More proof that 2009 is the worst year ever