>>263891017To be honest, I’m with you anon
I was initially down in the dumps when I got the news but I was already in a bit of a lower mood and hungry at the time so it feels like my brain just told itself it was my body and I went to bed but consciously it’s hard to believe
Like how? He was the very heart and soul of Dragon Ball and was gonna oversee a lot and still work on other things too. It was Dragon Ball’s 40th anniversary and he seemed happy to work on a more pre-Z adventure type of story which was gonna fit his current artstyle some well. Everything was going good and then all of a sudden while scrolling on twitter, this?!
I’ve never really lost someone personally close to me yet and consider myself a person who’s already (almost) cried out to ever shed a tear in my life again outside of any of my immediate family passing before me somehow, which I hope doesn’t happen. But I actually felt something. And I know my brains probably suppressing most of the emotional impact but I can’t help but feel that sooner or later it’s going to hit me hard
Despite all the changes in life, new technology, old content creators retiring, and everything feeling different, I felt fine but now… now things finally feel different. Like the first part of my life has come to an end and now this is an entirely different phase
It’s just not fair. Mid-typing and I realized maybe this is a bit much so I’ll just wrap it up. Sorry for the blogpost btw, I just wanted a space to say this while I still have one. I just hope this awkward melancholic period slowly dissipates instead of leading to some sort of break down…
Thank you Toriyama for being that first part of my life. I hope he improved your guys’ lives as much as he did mine. I hope I can pay it forward someday too, though I know that’s an impossible feat to live up to
