Satoshi Kon Satoshi Kons Final MessageYesterday we reported the death of Anime director Satoshi Kon at the age of 46 from pancreatic cancer. An update was posted to his official website. It is Kon’s last message to his fans. You can read a google translation here (it’s from a cache on ANN as the official website is being overloaded). or you can head over to the ANN forums where user “maaya” is translating the message manually and doing a much better service to his final message. It’s a real tear jerker at times.

After that, I was left to wait for death, alone in a dreary/dark sick room.
I was lonely, but what I thought was: “Maybe dying isn’t all that bad.”

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All those people I met during my life, whether they’d agree with me or not, surely they were all necessary for me to become the person I am. I am grateful for every encounter.
Therefore, even if it all ends with an early death, I am accepting this as my fate. After all, I also lived through a lot of good experiences.

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With feelings of gratitude for all that is good in this world, I put down my pen.
Well, I’ll be leaving now.

Satoshi Kon

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