Eri Takenashi’s Tearful Gratitude for Fan Devotion
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Apr 23, 2009 05:15 JST
- Tags: Announcements, Eri Takenashi, Kannagi, Mangaka, Otaku, Shinto, Suspensions
Kannagi mangaka Eri Takenashi, struck down by a mysterious illness and forced to stop publication amid a huge online fracas, has finally updated her site, Takenashi Note, some six months since its last update.
She reports that she is recuperating at home after being discharged from hospital, though she apologetically refrains from supplying any details.
She is, however, exceedingly grateful for the support of fans, and mentions her earnest intent to restart Kannagi:
A lot of people were very worried for me, and I received an unbelievable amount of mail – something like 270? I was truly moved by the warmth shown by all those supporting me.
I cried when I received flowers and senbazuru [strings of a thousand paper cranes said to grant recovery from illness]. Especially all those cranes, which must have been hard, and for my sake.
I also heard there were fans who prayed for me at shrines, for which I can’t express my gratitude fully.
Since the anime was airing, I really caused everyone a lot of extra worry. Please excuse me for this, and thank you.
I am completely focused on recovery every day now, and I am aiming to restart Kannagi. Writing manga is a trial of strength, so if I restart it when I’m still weak I may make a mess of things. I’d be immensely grateful if you could continue waiting for my return.
Eri Takenashi
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I think "weak" is the key word. Now, what kind of "weak" she currently is at the moment is up for debate.
yogatta neh?
keep up the good work.
get well soon.
Yogatta?
i'm sure he means "yokatta" :)
Too much Lovecraft perhaps?
yog-sothoth is far from yokatta
gideon, improve your japanese first, THEN use it...
Could have been a typo....
pobody's nerfect
Yeah maybe he just confused が for か.
oh wait, he didn't use hiragana...
Yeah, if everyone was berfect, this morld would be perfect!!! LOL
LOLOL
I say it like "yogatta" a lot. Same with "baka" = "baga" and the like.
You guys... it gives me great joy to see you guys trying to sound like smartasses and failing.
Mimi, do you hail from Hokkaido by any chance? Because "yogatta" and "baga" sound like it's either Hokkaido dialect or said while crying (or quite possibly both ;))
if nobody's perfect...and I'm a nobody therefore i'm perfect?
oh dear, watta silly anon I am. @_@
And I pronounce the word 'comfortable' as 'comfterbal', that doesn't give me free reign to spell it like a dipshit on the net.
We have these really neat things called grammar and diction, just because there are those of us who suck ass at speaking, that doesn't mean it changes how a word is spelled.
Now if it was a simple typo, then okay, but seriously, how fat do your fingers have to be to accidentally type g instead of k?
Whether your perfect or not, the internet will make fun of you for it, for when ppl connect to the internet they automatically become douchefags...
There is no set method on how to romanize Japanese words, smartass.
No, but I don't think any method romanizes か as "ga".
guys guys lets just speak english we're all good at that
Enjoy being a unique little flower as the only person in the goddamn world who romanizes it into g, then. Excuse me while I decide to romanize の into something like yu.
Perhaps that is your aim, who knows. Maybe you can replace your periods with ♥ to stand out even more! Oh, if only this site allowed for colored text too, you could find the most obnoxious, cataract-inducing color to supplement it all.
"Well-behaved women rarely make history♥"
Alright guys, enough. Let's go back to Gannagi
Ah, that's the way to do it. 8')
If no one ever got to practice a foreign language while they were learning, no one would ever be able to speak more than their native language at all. So, cut the guy some slack, eh? I'm sure everyone was a novice at SOMEthing in the past too, eh?
its ogay to use japanese @ sangagu gomplex
Actually there ARE several set methods to romanise Japanese. They're called kunrei-shiki and Hepburn (there's also a modified Hepburn system, which seems to be the most common among Westerners)
God you all sound like such faggots. It feels like I'm on Gaia.
Anonymous wins once again.
DID SOMEBODY SAY... "WEEABOO"?
*Brandishes a paddle*
how nice... so many people loves you Gideon...
In sankaku, everybody cares about Gideon...
Go anons. Insert Russian Reversal.
physically? or mentally?
STAY STRONG! Eri Takenashi STAY STRONG! we're guna get through this.
Great news and I wish miss Takenashi well.
At least she has an excuse! what's Kodakawa's reason for 'jerking' fans around with Haruhi season 2??
This women was sick for 6 months and one of the First things she did was acknowledge her fans when she got out of the hospital- I hope she rebounds nicely! She sounds like a lovely women.
May Kaizen be with you, Eri!
Otaku are some of the most devoted fans around. I'm glad their support is reassuring her.
Even though they themselves might had been the cause for this in the first place...
Not to mention that if you piss them off enough, you'll find them in front of your door with a gun.
lol... but well japan doesnt allow guns (I belive)...wait there were events of otakus shooting ppl before in japan.
Civilians are normally not allowed to possess firearms in Japan, but just like in pretty much every country in the world, if someone wants to have a gun, there are plenty of ways around the law to obtain one.
I could have used a gun in front of the door of the author of ichigo 100%. wait, is there a female form of "author".. ?
That would be an authoress.
"you’ll find them in front of your door with a gun"
Maybe in some fuck-backwards hellhole like the USA. In Japan they'll just take photos of all the smashed up merchandise they destroyed in their hissyfit on 2ch...
another kannagi post! i noticed that SC love kannagi that much every week i noticed 2-3 post of kannagi material every week..
oh and need more Zange on S2...
Sankaku Complex users love Kannagi.
i love u more than Kannagi
lol!
Artefact's rod would emit white aura... i mean, magic wand...
couldn't agree more
It didn't exactly go the way I wanted it to, so I only think it's okay.
It makes for good 34, though. Like Dennou Coil.
Indeed.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
becomes tear of joy...
Screw you Ichiro.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Reverts back to tears
cryingnagiface.jpg TT_TT
^Also see above.^
Yay! It's great to hear that Takenashi-san is making a full recovery.
It's also great to hear that the manga will be starting up again soon!
She didn't say "soon". When it starts depends on her recovery.
It better be soon if she knows what's good for her.
Indeed it would seem I missed the last couple lines.
Well, in any case I hope she's able to restart it soon.
SO we will be waiting for another season? :D
new posts? moar?
May Ms. Takenashi be blessed with a speedy recovery.
Look like Ichiro not the only one with tear of joy.
only 270 mails?
i had expected more...
The fact that someone would actually mail something in this day and age is a testament in itself.
She said "mail" which probably meant email. It does sound too low for email though...
You're right. I highly doubt her address is listed.
At least she's very appreciative!
Kip: Her personal address is probably unlisted, but her publisher will have business address. That's how fan-mail typically works: it's addressed to the care of the publisher, who will collect it, and periodically pass it on the the artist (usually after screening it, I believe, these days).
Given the popularity of her work, I wouldn't be at all surprised if she got 270 actual letters, and I don't think she'd be expressing surprise at that volume of e-mail. The flowers and senbazuru, at least, were obviously not virtual.
You send to magazine
Magazine forwards
Someone reads letter (office assistant probably)
Letter passed on to actual if warranted
Anon's account sounds plausible, but she did say "mail" and not "tegami"...
you pray at the shrine
the prayer forwards
nagi reads it
prayer passed on to the author
yea nagi told me about it last night.
I like your version a lot better than mine.
the senbazuru part got me crying already sniff*
Good Luck on recovering!!
yeah, that was really sweet of whoever sent them.
I wasn't even aware she was still sick, or whatever the hell it is that is wrong with her. Hasn't it been like three months since the first reports, she must have gotten something pretty bad.
mental illnesses take longer to recover from, and are NEVER cured, only controlled thru medications.
SEASON TWO! SEASON TWO!
I'd watch it!
Crowning moment of heartwarming for me.
i'm glad she's all right
When Mangaka need a break from their work, I really wish they would just be honest about it. We're all human; we understand work can be quite stressful. There's no need to jump through all these hoops for a few months of resting time.
... Not to say that this is the case with Miss Takenashi. She might really be sick. Either way, I'm glad she's making a recovery, whether it be from sickness or stress.
Best of luck, Eri.
We're glad that you're alright.
yay :)
Good news indeed! I'm looking forward to reading more exploits of my favourite deity.
And I agree that the senbazuru are very impressive. When I tried to make those (for myself while hospitalised and SO RONERY), I only managed to make less than 200 cranes within a week before I gave up. Luckily they seem to have had a partial effect at least, as I was discharged only ten days later. :)
I have to wonder, though: Were those cranes mailed or handed over personally? Assuming the former, what volume box is required to pack a thousand origami cranes? This sounds like a great question for a traditionally-minded Japanese maths teacher to use on a test ....
If you read the wiki entry it appears they can actually be bought - don't tell her until after she recovers...
Great news!
Though I've never even seen any Kannagi, I wondered yesterday "Heh, I wonder how the author of Kannagi is doing now, with all that fan uproar etc."
Now I know she is alright, and that a number of her fans are nice. So, great!
Same for me too. Haven't seen it yet, but it's always nice hearing positive news like this.
When the kind-hearted and peaceful among the otaku do something, usually no one is going to ever hear about it.
The number of times I've found myself classically conditioned to cringe before visiting this site...
I like reading news like this too, but most of the time it's news about crazy otakus doing anything for their favorite show that makes me feel horrible to be classified as one.
mysterious???
Great to see her fine again. Watch out for loose cannon otakus.
The mysterious sickness's probably because an Impurity Spider was clinging on her..
*Uses Nagi's purification power on Takenashi-sensei*
the fanbase is awesome~
she'll live a long life >_<
get well soon! ><
I hope she doesn't rush recovering. She might get sick again. Than we all will run around and go "Nagi is not a virgin, than what happens?"
“Nagi is not a virgin, than what happens?”
gb2 normal life..nothing changes whether they tell she's a slut or not i enjoyed the anime its cute in a sort of way
Not exactly a fan of the Kannagi manga, but I am really glad she's waiting until she is actually healthy before she returns to the series.
Some people push on even when they are terribly sick, just to meed deadlines and the occasionally ridiculous demands of the fans.
Anyone remember how HunterXHunter looked about two years ago? Yeah, Togashi took it way to far, couldn't draw for crap in his state and refused to hire assistants.
Yay!! More Kannagi!!! :D
Good thing she decided to continue the manga, despite the whole Nagi having an ex-boyfriend thing.
R.I.P
great to hear that she's doing fine and recuperating ^__^
Minna-san damate kudasai yo
Artefact, the terms "mysterious illness" you used here is likely to cause unnecessary misunderstanding.
the original japanese text which Takenashi posted on her blog:
"何の病気だったのか てのは 皆さん ほんと気になるところでしょうけど
つつみ隠さずお話して余計にご心配をかけるのもアレですので
「無理がたたった末の大病」とだけ今のところはお知らせさせて下さい"
rough translation:
"I'm sure you're really concerned about what kinds of diseases I've got, but I don't want you to became more and more worried about me by confessing a disease name without disguise. For now, I'd like to just say that I've got a severe illness caused by overwork of many years"
I was referring to the way previous announcements were completely non-specific, and even this fails to specify it; I did not mean to imply the illness itself was "mysterious". I'm sure they know exactly what it is, which may be why no revelation is forthcoming...
Thanks for your reply. I understand exactly what you mean.
It's not really unusual for famous people not to reveal the names of serious diseases they've got, especially politicians and mangaka, because it might affect their work. I know a number of mangaka who died before revealing diseases names. I hope she won't follow this precedent.
Btw, you have really long ears. I wonder when you actually sleep.
I will be interested how illness has shaped her view which could mean different storytelling. I really do.
Good news to hear she is getting well, now let hope berserk mangaka get well from his not so mysterious illness and continue his work soon.
May RROD be with you