manga

Manga In Memoriam: 2017

Posted on by Lesley Aeschliman

Taking a look back at those we lost in the manga industry in 2017:

  • Hinata Takeda, manga creator, passed away in January 2017 due to an unspecified illness.
  • Jiro Taniguchi, manga creator, passed away on February 11, 2017 at the age of 69.
  • Mutsumi Tsukumo, manga creator, passed away on March 4, 2017 at the age of 65 due to lung cancer.
  • Daisuke Sato, manga creator, passed away on March 22, 2017 at the age of 52 due to ischemic heart disease.
  • Yu, manga creator, passed away on July 1, 2017 due to an unspecified illness.
  • Enaga Takabatake, manga creator, passed away on August 21, 2017 at the age of 29 due to a stroke.
  • Jun Tsukaji, manga creator, passed away on September 25, 2017 at the age of 27 after a battle with cancer.

 

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Google+ photo

You are commenting using your Google+ account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s