Shortly after the news that celebrated anime director and animator Osamu Kobayashi passed away, hundreds of tributes and remembrances were posted across the internet to remember the man best known to Western anime fans for directing BECK and episodes of Naruto Shippuden.
The messages can be in any language and be about Kobayashi or his work, or a combination of both.
Osamu Kobayashi will be missed dearly, not only by his family, friends, and close colleagues but by the thousands of fans across the world who were simultaneously inspired and profoundly affected by his work, myself included.