Fragments Satoshi Kon dead

I feel this is an interesting subject to type up a post about. He died age 47, which is fairly young, or more-so the youthful stages of being old. He worked in the animation industry and produced (all that I’ve seen and admired) Paranoia Agent. One of the few animes to interest me, one of its many themes is that death is a temporary solution, as shown that those who commit suicide are stuck to forever do it.
However he died due to pancreatic cancer, a health related issue; whilst he was in the midst of completing another animated feature. I can’t comment too much on his overall lifestyle due to my own ignorance, but animation seems to drain the life out of those who put their heart and soul into it.
I believe this is one of the reasons, I want to take my art in a more Visual novel style route despite it being more niche. If I worked as a pro-animator I would be back to living off a cereal box for an entire week, due to not being able to afford a week’s shopping. It isn’t that great of a lifestyle. I’m sure if I had created multiple motion pictures I would be rich. But animation is too great of a risk, especially an entire film. No, in my case its best left as a side hobby, one would never be rid of drawing frame after frame compulsion(obsession) completely.


Basically he took the hard path and succeeded RIP ect ect.

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EDIT; stop reading this post, it sucks. It's just bringing up a daft point about animation and health degeneration.