Heihachi Mishima....is dead.

[New Era Outlaw]

...for real, this time, as his voice actor commits suicide.

Legendary seiyuu Daisuke Gori has died under circumstances police consider likely to be suicide. He was 57.

According to police and witnesses, he was found dead on his back on a Nakano Ward street in Tokyo at 3PM.

He had apparently slit his wrists. A knife was found underneath the body, and police also recovered a note; they are treating the death as a suicide.

Gori, born 1952, was known for hundreds of voice acting roles in anime, movies and games, notably Gundam, Fist of the North Star, Kinniku Man and Dragonball Z. Some of his most recent roles were in One Piece, Doraemon and Slayers; he was active throughout 2009.

Death
According to fellow voice actors, Gori was diagnosed with diabetes mellitus a few years prior to his death and his vision was affected by retinal detachment as a result of the disease. He complained to coworkers, "I can't read the scripts. I can't do my job like I'd like to." (Daihon ga yome nai. Omo yoni shigoto ga deki nai.?) During an Anpanman recording session in late 2009, a depressed-sounding Gori told his close friend voice actor Kazuhiko Inoue, "I've grown old."

On January 17, 2010 at approximately 3:00 P.M., Gori was found lying on his stomach with blood dripping from his wrists in the middle of a Nakano, Tokyo street by a passerby, who then notified the police. Authorities from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Nakano station discovered a utility knife under his body as well as a suicide note (with the words "I'm sorry" (and "Thank you" scrawled on it) addressed to his family in his pants pocket. Gori's death was then ruled a suicide; he was three weeks short of his 58th birthday.

Source: http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/action/tekken6/show_msgs.php?topic_id=m-1-53184594&pid=928302


...not awesome.

[AR!Ø]

old news, this happened quite a while now didn't it?

[New Era Outlaw]

A couple weeks ago, but since nobody posted it up...

[W1nTry]

Why does it say at the start of the article that he was on his back, the 2 paragraph down its says found on stomach?

[TriniWyatt]

yeah, saw this. Real sad news man.

[Larutus]

he was also the voice actor for Dondochaka in Bleach i think