07th Expansion’s BT passed away from illness
Ryukishi07 has announced on his diary that BT who has been working with 07th Expansion since the start of the Higurashi series has passed away to an unnamed illness on the 10th of July. He has been in charge of the 07th Expansion website as well as various scripting and debugging.
Ryukishi07 writes that BT was not only his best friend but also was his first reader, Higurashi and Umineko were almost like they were written just to surprise BT.
BT was also the person who suggested putting up Higurashi ep 1 for free download on the website, which caught the attention of a lot of people, and it was one of the main factors leading to Higurashi’s popularity now.
October 26th, 2009 at 11:44 am
So who was the top?
October 26th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
My condolences.
Sure hope this doesn’t affect the schedule for episode 6.
October 26th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Wow. That has got to be a big blow to Ryukishi.
My condolences. All 07thExpansion must really miss him.
“BT was also the person who suggested putting up Higurashi ep 1 for free download on the website, which caught the attention of a lot of people, and it was one of the main factors leading to Higurashi’s popularity now.”
And that practically immortalizes him. Rest in peace.
October 26th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
:(
October 26th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Oh man… :(
October 26th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
;A; i fucking hate 2009, everyone dies.
October 26th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
>;A; i fucking hate 2009, everyone dies.
go join them.
October 26th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
I wonder how Ryukishi is taking the loss? Think we’ll feel it in Ep06?
And yeah, 2009 is turning out to be a horrible year.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
>And yeah, 2009 is turning out to be a horrible year.
for what? i wonder if these motherfuckers dying really affects your life on a level where you are paralyzed by fucking grief.
October 26th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
Geez, what’s with the trolls? O.o
October 26th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
It’s always the talented people who pass away, because they’re overworking themselves maintaining the 1% of the world’s content that isn’t utter crap.
October 27th, 2009 at 5:48 am
> Sure hope this doesn’t affect the schedule for episode 6.
Pretty sure it won’t. For one thing he died in July, which was before the big push to get episode 5 finished and released. The rest of the post is all stuff like how he knows if he was to stop writing, BT would be the one who would be saddest.
So yeah, Umineko should continue on time. I don’t think it’ll be the same writing it, though.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:10 am
>N(ry
Keep the nihilistic “starving children in Africa” fallacies to yourself ok?
October 27th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
@Varion
So BT died to give us EP 05?
October 27th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
BT was Kinzo.
That is the only explanation.
October 27th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
>for what? i wonder if these motherfuckers dying really affects your life on a level where you are paralyzed by fucking grief.
that’s like saying I can’t be affected by the death of a stranger. If you were sitting there, minding your own business, and some kid gets slammed by a car and dies, would you be unaffected? And the problem isn’t that they’re strangers, it’s that they’re KNOWN and they’re ALL DYING THIS YEAR. It’s just a prevalent negativity in the news that makes people pessimistic about this year.
it’s like that; you might feel differently, but there are people who can feel affected by random strangers.
October 28th, 2009 at 8:13 am
Shit hope he doesn’t lose his motivation,since it sounds like BT is the reason why this exists,becouse he wrote it for him.But i think he can continue anyway.
October 31st, 2009 at 6:55 am
@N(ry
Kill yourself, internet tough guy.
November 4th, 2009 at 1:33 am
:( We’ll miss you man.
February 16th, 2010 at 12:05 pm
Shit man! why does everyone die in 2009?!?