Author of Zero no Tsukaima, Green Green, dies of Cancer

[Defeated Detective]

Some of you may have enjoyed the anime Zero's Familiar, featuring the adventures of Saito and Louise. I am sad to report that the author just succumbed to Cancer a few days ago. Here's an official statement from Media Blasters:
http://www.mediafactory.co.jp/bunkoj/20130411/index.html

This is really unfortunate, considering one of the author's wish was to finish said light novel before he died, this was one Twitter post he posted back in 2011:

Novel author Yamaguchi Noboru posted in his twitter that he will be hospitalized tomorrow and will take a major surgery in August. He said he would have been dead if he had missed the chance to take the operation. "The 21st volume of Zero no Tsukaima novel will be delayed at least for two months. Please forgive me! Damn! I'll live on. I had been desperate, but I miraculously got an opportunity to take the operation. There is a possibility of survival. I really want to live."

This is not the first time someone from the anime/manga industry has succumbed to cancer, Satoshi Kon, the anime director behind Paranoia Agent, Perfect Blue and the critically acclaimed Paprika, succumbed to cancer in August 24, 2010, before completing his current project called Dreaming Machine.

Source:
boards.4chan.org/a/res/83270855
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-04-10/zero-no-tsukaima-author-noboru-yamaguchi-passes-away

 

[Ultress]

I was not a particular fan of Zero(the adaption anyway) but it's sad none the less.

 

[Beffudled Sheep_v1legacy]

Damn, this is unfortunate news. I wonder if anyone will be trying to finish where he left off?

 

[somonels]

I thought this happened a a while ago when the Dream Machine was making headlines, but I might also be mistaking him for someone else.

 

[Shinsei-J]

While finishing the final season of the anime he worked in collaboration with the company knowing that this might come.
He wanted the show to still be able to meet expectations even without the novel as guideline.
The man was an artist, even though the novel was never finished at least his work was completed in some way by the anime.

It always make me sad to see a work that shall never be finished but the fact that he was so close just makes me hurt even more.

 

[JemothSkarii]

Aww man, I loved Zero no Tsukaima (easily a favorite series of mine)...well, the anime at least, can't read manga/light novels unless they're a physical copy...I have no idea why. He will be missed, this makes me sad.

 

[Silvianoshei]

Wasn't my thing, I sort of left that brand of shounen behind me a while ago, but this is still very sad. I always hate to see an artist die before he finishes his work. For some reason, there are very few things that are more painful to see for me.

 

[BlazeRaider]

I'll always remember ZnT as the series that had a guy in a fighter plan shooting down dragons... sad to see the artist go