I was deciding whether or not I should headline this and I apologise for the delay. This really is worthy of a headline.
On Thursday the 15th of January, 2009, a public announcement was made via Japanese blog posting that Handsome JET had passed away 8 months ago. His passing was kept private by his family.
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My best friend from elementary school Handsome JET passed away.
It was 8 months ago...
It seems he was riding on the back of a friends motorcycle when there was a traffic accident.
A fellow classmate informed me by phone today.
Having not felt the full impact of it, I phoned his parents, and they simply said "That is already a fact". They also said that they were making up stories to everyone about his whereabouts. I talked with one of his aunts for about an hour.
I felt bad for the aunt and I wanted to comfort her, but too many memories began flooding back and I couldn't finish. The aunt spoke much about him as well.
All your friends play DDR, but I'll sing about your P.P.R., Handsome Jet. God, I'll miss you. You were one of my fav. GF/DM artists. You even helped on Little Little Princess, one of the best Happy Sky songs.
This sucks, it's really sad. I'm not too big on GFDM music, but Little Little Princess is an amazing song. It really stinks when a BEMANI artist dies, and sucks that this isn't the first Bemani artist death. I would really like to see another Twin AmadeuS song...
P.S. I'm the one who translated the thingy-ma-jig and it was originally posted on ziv blah blah
Posted by Deca - Thu 01/22 2009 - 08:19 AM [ quote ]
God I really can't believe this...he was such a huge part part of what GFDM has always been..
oh, and i talked to a friend of mine in japan, and he said this article was featured in purotora, and some bemani artists have commented on it on their blogs/diaries. so it really is true. *sob*
