{"id":8578,"date":"2009-09-22T13:02:33","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T17:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=8578"},"modified":"2009-09-22T13:16:28","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T17:16:28","slug":"crayon-shinchan-creator-yoshito-usui-dies-after-falling-off-a-cliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/22\/crayon-shinchan-creator-yoshito-usui-dies-after-falling-off-a-cliff\/","title":{"rendered":"Crayon Shinchan creator Yoshito Usui dies after falling off a cliff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8579\" title=\"CrayonShinchan\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/CrayonShinchan.jpg\" alt=\"CrayonShinchan\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/CrayonShinchan.jpg 200w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/CrayonShinchan-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Thanks to a tweet from <a href=\"http:\/\/japanamerica.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Roland Kelts<\/strong><\/a> <strong>(Osaka-shi, 1998-99)<\/strong>, I just read the news that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yoshito_Usui\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Yoshito Usui<\/strong><\/a>, the creator of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crayon_Shinchan\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Crayon Shinchan<\/strong><\/a>, died after falling off of a cliff.\u00a0 Apparently he was taking photos in Nagano and must have slipped.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the article:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/nn20090922a2.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/nn20090922a2.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is very sad news.\u00a0 I learned Japanese thanks to Crayon Shinchan.\u00a0 No joke.\u00a0 When I went on JET, I subscribed to <em><strong>Manga-Jin<\/strong><\/em>, a now defunct magazine that would do line-by-line explanations of <em>manga<\/em>.\u00a0 It was studying from an issue of <em>Manga-Jin<\/em> one day that introduced me to Crayon Shinchan.<\/p>\n<p>I was hooked, and I proceeded to buy ever new Crayon Shinchan book I could find.\u00a0 The relatively simple language combined with use of <em>furigana<\/em> plus the appealingly crude humor that also inadvertently explained a lot of Japanese social dynamics was exactly what I was seeking in those pre-Internet days of JET.<\/p>\n<p>The news of Usui&#8217;s death reminded me that I had a sort of fantasy (long since forgotten) where I would track down Usui-san and thank him and let him know how influential he was in my Japanese language study.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that opportunity no longer exists.\u00a0 But if anyone else wants to share any thoughts or memories about their experience with Crayon Shinchan, feel free to post below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a tweet from Roland Kelts (Osaka-shi, 1998-99), I just read the news that Yoshito Usui, the creator of Crayon Shinchan, died after falling off of a cliff.\u00a0 Apparently he was taking photos in Nagano and must have slipped. Here&#8217;s the article:\u00a0 http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/nn20090922a2.html This is very sad news.\u00a0 I learned Japanese thanks to Crayon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,26,30,18,1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartoonillustration","category-celebrity","category-japan-trends","category-translatinginterpreting","category-uncategorized","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-2em","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8581,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578\/revisions\/8581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}