The anime entire world lost a hero.
Kazuki Takahashi, the creator of the popular Japanese series “Yu-Gi-Oh!,” died July 4 while striving to save a few other individuals from drowning, in accordance to the armed forces newspaper Stars and Stripes. He was 60.
Major Robert Bourgeau, who was operating as a scuba diving instructor in the location where the manga artist drowned, advised the publication Oct. 11 that Takahashi tried to save three people from a riptide in the waters of Japan’s Okinawa Island.
On July 4, Bourgeau said he read a girl screaming for support as she, her 11-yr-old daughter and a soldier had been getting swept absent by 6-foot waves. He was in a position to rescue the youthful female and her mother, introducing that he later on instructed the soldier how to get out of the whirlpool to shore.
Unbeknownst to Bourgeau at the time, Takahashi—whose beloved manga sequence spawned a strike Television set sequence and film—had also entered the water to assistance those being swallowed by the waves. Bourgeau’s scuba diving students caught glimpses of the Japanese artist right until he disappeared beneath the waves.
Two times afterwards, the Japan Coastline Guard confirmed that Takahashi’s body was found near the shore of Awa, Nago. In accordance to NBC Information, he was identified wearing snorkeling machines and the Coast Guard claimed there were “damages to his human body which looked like they had been brought on by some kind of maritime animal.”
Kazuki Takahashi
Takahashi is now becoming praised for his bravery.
“He’s a hero,” Bourgeau said of the artist. “He died trying to save an individual else.”
