On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Tony Chen <tonyc_76@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- On Sat, 2/23/13, Bear "replicant" Powell <replicant@triad.rr.com> wrote:
>> Very tragic to hear. I enjoyed her
>> work in KOR
>> and Utena. As for 50... Well, several of us are
>> moving up in our ages also. We can't always
>> be in jr high waiting for Akira to come out. =)
>
> Sad news indeed. Fifty years is too young still. She could have
> another 20 years of voice-acting career.

She didn't quite make it to her 50th birthday.  I don't recall ever
seeing her at an event (maybe a Seiyuu Collection event, but I can't
remember if I went with Hitoshi to that or not...), but Kimagure
Orange Road was the anime that started me off on my path to coming to
Japan, and Kurumi was my second favorite character on that show, so I
suppose I owe her a little debt of gratitude for her talents.

It seems she died of multiple myeloma, a blood cancer not too
different from what I had, so this hits even closer to home.

We're all getting older...until we're not. (;_;)

  - Joe