Hiroshi Osaka Passed Away
The co-founder of the BONES animation studio and animation director of several works including The Vision of Escaflowne, Cowboy Bebop, and Fullmetal Alchemist: The Movie - Conqueror of Shamballa. Animation director Kazuaki Moori (Pokemon, The Daichis - Earth Defence Family) confirmed on his official website’s diary that his colleague saka passed away on the morning of September 24. saka had been reportedly diagnosed with cancer in spring of 2007, and had been convalescing in his family home in the city of Osaka.
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