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Koichi Sugiyama, composer of Dragon Quest, has passed away (SEE STAFF POST)
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yes, let's be respectful to the war crimes denier who went on television to laugh about youth lgbt suicide
that's a good hill to die on
Welp, i sure won't miss him... i still love his early music but man... i sure hope he didn't compose much for DQXII
There's assholes, and then there's extremely rich assholes who spend their considerable fortunes and social capital propping up ultranationalist causes, denying war crimes and gleefully celebrating the suffering and suicide of LGBT youth. For years and years. And never show a hint of remorse or self-awareness. Sugiyama was like that until the day he died.
You don't have to speak ill of the dead if you don't want to, but the man was full-spec evil.
In terms of successors, I think I've seen something about Hayato Matsuo thrown around before. He has worked on arranging a bunch of music for the games, alongside composing on a bunch of other games and anime (Front Mission 3, FFXII, Hellsing Ultimate, etc).
Like, it's very hard not to bring up some of the comically cruel things he's done (literally laughing off suicide, buying up ad space denying war crimes, etc). He was a titan, and we can't take that away, but he was also not a good person.
I hated his stance on imperial japan but I loved me some of his music.
yeah many composers really have shit views. richard wagner for example… shame that he could not respected other as much as the world respected his talent.
Made some good music, was also a terrible human being. Not going to be any mourning for him here.
I wonder what actions this guy has done to get this reaction. Maybe if they behaved a different way, it would have been different?
Amazing composer, awful person. I can imagine cultural differences here are going to play a role in response to this. Much of us in the West here may be more hostile to this man's abhorrent views, whereas Japan may be more sympathetic to this announcement given the cultural significance of his work.
lol
He was an awful and dangerous person who still managed to live until he was 90.
there's nothing sad about this.
User banned (permanent): Constantly excusing bigotry, account self-destruction
I'm not going to mourn his death. But go ahead and ban me and delete my account. You guys already want to initiate the dogpile.
Yeah, this is the right reaction here.
Glad this evil binch is dead. Tell me why I shouldn't be.
End of an era, everyone knew this day would come, though, I cannot imagine a DQ game without his music.
Condolences to his family.
Condolences to his family.
I can respect his work as part of video game history. That much is going to remain on the record, particularly but not only inside Japan.
Yet I don't think he deserves much respect as an individual though, given his public lack of empathy and tolerance for others. Which makes it very hard to mourn him.
Are you going to explain why a man who openly laughs at LGBT deaths dying is a bad thing or are you just gonna immediately turn yourself into the victim?
Yes I too love war crime denying fascists!
Peace out, dipshit. You didn't even say why you think his death shouldn't be celebrated, dumbass.
Literally what is the point of posting any of this but to try to incite that dogpile?
The beauty of art is you can reclaim it for yourself. Some artists are bad people, but when we engage with their works, we bring something of ourselves to it -- our personal experiences, our emotions -- and that work of art becomes our own. I look at the DQ music as something created by a bad person that we then picked up, dusted off, and claimed as our own.
Lol.
Go read up on the Nanjing massacre and then come back here to see if you still want to defend this guy.
RIP I guess.
Anyways, wonder how his heir feels about us not going through hoops to have orchestral.
Anyways, wonder how his heir feels about us not going through hoops to have orchestral.
I knew you were the same guy who said "cool forum" when we joked about carving the foreheads of nazis with a swastika a la Inglorious Basterds. Piss off back into whatever basement dwelling forum you actually frequent.
To the rest, no point in entertaining the obvious bad faith troll.
Watching the new Dragon Quest Dai show (great btw, would recommend) shows that the series is better off without his music anyways.
Made some of the greatest soundtracks ever. RIP, hopefully the new composer isn't as problematic.
I get acknowledging that someone is a bad person , but some yall really celebrating a humans death.
Simmons from YoVideogames described it best: There's having shitty opinions & there are people who use their money to directly bring harm to women & the LGBTQ+ community. There's no defending him.
Where do you personally draw the line? like how much influence on human suffering total?
Dude was a massive piece of shit. A few comments on a forum who feel better knowing that just maybe, a few less people have to endure this type of person aren't as bad as you're thinking they are.
Yep, I sure am! War crime denier and homophobe? Glad the prick is dead.
Tell me why I shouldn't be.
