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.
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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.
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
get well soon! ><
the fanbase is awesome~
she'll live a long life >_<
The mysterious sickness's probably because an Impurity Spider was clinging on her..
*Uses Nagi's purification power on Takenashi-sensei*
Minna-san damate kudasai yo
great to hear that she's doing fine and recuperating ^__^
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.
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
I will be interested how illness has shaped her view which could mean different storytelling. I really do.
Yay!! More Kannagi!!! :D
Good thing she decided to continue the manga, despite the whole Nagi having an ex-boyfriend thing.
R.I.P
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 pray at the shrine
the prayer forwards
nagi reads it
prayer passed on to the author
yea nagi told me about it last night.
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"...
I like your version a lot better than mine.
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.
the senbazuru part got me crying already sniff*
Good Luck on recovering!!
yeah, that was really sweet of whoever sent them.
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.
STAY STRONG! Eri Takenashi STAY STRONG! we're guna get through this.
I think "weak" is the key word. Now, what kind of "weak" she currently is at the moment is up for debate.
physically? or mentally?
yogatta neh?
keep up the good work.
get well soon.
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.
gideon, improve your japanese first, THEN use it...
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
Alright guys, enough. Let's go back to Gannagi
"Well-behaved women rarely make history♥"
There is no set method on how to romanize Japanese words, smartass.
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...
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.
guys guys lets just speak english we're all good at that
No, but I don't think any method romanizes か as "ga".
Anonymous wins once again.
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.
Could have been a typo....
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 ;))
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.
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?
pobody's nerfect
Yeah, if everyone was berfect, this morld would be perfect!!! LOL
Yeah maybe he just confused が for か.
oh wait, he didn't use hiragana...
Yogatta?
yog-sothoth is far from yokatta
i'm sure he means "yokatta" :)
Too much Lovecraft perhaps?