I had to leave my words here after reading this. I just finished Though You May Burn to Ash and I had to say this your manga has touched my soul and your story continues to live on long after you have passed. I believe you wrote this manga with your full emotion and worked hard to get as far as you could with the series while you were having your own battle with death and you pushed on hinting to us even about how you were doing. Your art and story was some of the best I've ever read and truly sad to hear you have gone right after I feel I have just gotten to know you. I hope I can write a story to your standards someday and may you push me to that. Rest in Peace Oniyazu Kakashi Sensei. You have become my inspiration and I hope I can do something with my life like you have done with yours.

This manga although unfinished is a masterpiece in every shape and way and encourage everyone to read this manga because he wrote his soul into this manga and I will forever cherish owning and having to gotten to know him through his creation... R.I.P sensei.

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I experienced an extreme sadness with this series. Not with the plot or the manga itself, but with the news that the mangaka had passed. What impressed me most with Though you may burn to ash is the art. There's no sugar coating that this is gore porn. Many characters deaths are drawn out in gruesome detail far longer than they needed to be. Yet he drags it out whilst filling out the backstory of the character being killed making you sad to see them suffer. Even the ones that deserved it. It's a story I swear I'd read before, unfortunate souls gamble their lives to attain wealth and pay a terrible price. Yet, I can't help but think that this series might have been different, in that it was heading to a happy ending. One in which all the ones that died returned and all the pain and sorrow he inflicted on the reader was covered over with a bandage, a warm hug, and an "I'm sorry".

Therein lies the sadness. We'll never know how it ends. This could've been one of the best battle royale, survival series written and the answer to whether it would've been or not will never be answered. I extend a condolence to the family of Kakashi Oniyazu and hope that he rests easy.

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