I owe him much of my love for anime.

When I was just a kid, his work introduced me into this world of complex characters, sad and tragic stories, beautiful scenes and scattered wisdom that is called anime.

Couldn’t wait each sunday afternoon to watch Captain Harlock and Starzinger (which was based on the Chinese Buddhist classic Journey to the West, which has spawned also Dragonball and which, incidentally, set me on a course to learn more and more about Chinese and Japanese culture that I had followed since I was six or seven years old). Can’t wait today to feel the pain and the pleasure of living an anime kind of life.

And he loves cats as much as I do. And strong, slender, tragic women…