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Imaoka Kiyoshi announced in his blog that his wife Kurimoto Kaoru passed away on May 26th. She was 56 years old and had been suffering from pancreatic cancer.

Sources:
Fuhou.com
GIGAZINE

Update
According to Yomiuri Online, Kurimoto Kaoru had already written Guin Saga up to the volume 129 and volume 130 halfway. She gave up writing the novel on April 23rd and was hospitalized on May 7th. Hayakawa Shobo will publish the incomplete volume 130 as well as the remaining volumes 127 - 129.

Guin Saga was applied to Guinness World Records for the longest novel record in 2004, but was rejected because Guinness judges considered that it's not a single book.

Source: Yomiuri

Noo ):

I never read it and I will not probally read it ever, but the anime is good.


So

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Kurimoto sensei, may you rest in peace...

She posted an entry in her web diary on April 28th. That was her last comment. She said she was pleased with the success of his husband's surgery. But she was a bit irritated that she couldn't work as much as she wanted due to the bad condition of her health.

The volume 127 of Guin Saga novel was scheduled to be released in June. It's unknown that it will be released as scheduled. It's certain that Guin Saga novel ended incomplete.

Related topic: 100 Volumes of Guin Saga Novel Republished as Two Huge Books

RIP

Oh man, sad

Stupid cancer. =(

Same here. Though I've already read a couple of chapters of the manga.
It's such a big loss. The Guin Saga manga left incomplete.


I'd like to say that as well.

That's really sad. She died too young.

Sorry to hear..

By the way, not that it is important or anything, does it mean that the Guin Saga will have no endings? I am assuming that the novel isn't finished yet which implies that the anime will never be either..

Pancreatic cancer. :( That's the worst one she could have had. Most deadly of cancers because it earliest its usually detected is when the cancer is already at an advanced stage with no hope of therapies prolong life. May she rest in peace.

It's a shame she'll never get the chance to finish her life's work. I hope someone is able to finish it for her, if she left notes on how she wanted it completed (like Robert Jordan did for his work, The Wheel of Time). I really want to read this entire story (if it ever gets completely translated).

Guin Saga anime sums up the novel up to volume 16. I don't know if there is any plan to animate the rest of the volumes.

Sad news :(

I do hope that somehow Guin gets a proper ending.

That

Plus I wonder what Amano, Yoshitaka is going to do about it. Even though he didn't write it.

RIP

Sad news :/

RIP
and may u live freely wherever you are

Now we'll never know why Guin has a leopard head. :(

Never read any of her novels, but from what I have seen and heard, they're truly amazing. May consider watching Guin Saga now or perhaps even reading it.

RIP

It can't be, I just looked at her wiki profile that last week and was happy with what she've done with Guin SagaT_T,RIP!

:(

R.I.P.

RIP

though I've only seen 3 episodes of the anime so far, I can see how epic this series is. real shame to lose such a talent so early.