>>42882 He became a porn addict. He now only draw pornography over real stories.

>>61260 Yep, he's basically the Ye of animation

>>42882 His entire stock of world building documents for his works was destroyed in an earthquake in the 90s. He had everything on paper and lost it all. After that he gave up because he knew he could never recreate it.

>>61487 How much "research for inspiration" and "worldbuilding" could that have been? Like one volume of papers? One entire bookshelf?

clearly always was that way but that doesnt fly in modern sexless society

>>61487 wait really?, never heard about that

>>61487 >Be a proficient cyberpunk writer >HA I have ALL my important research on paper ONLY I dunno, maybe he is either uber idiot OR he wanted to GTFO and used the "dog ate my homewrok" to do so. besides in the late 90's many countries already ahd internet, its not that he could not repopulate his research papers stock again. I dont wish any ill upon him, its that I just dont buy his BS excuse.

>>61891 Or he was ahead of the times and knew digital data storage (hard drives) is more fragile and vulnerable and exploitable than physical data storage (paper) He was just unlucky to get an earthquake, back in those days there was no cloud storage and an earthquake would have fucked it all up regardless

>>61488 Considering he wrote entire histories for fictional companies that developed the tech in his worlds and entire alt histories to go with them, an entire office floor of documents.

>>62049 He went that deep in the worldbuilding? Wow That's almost on tolkien level

>>62041 There was also Floppy disks on that time, they were considered kinda reliable if handled properly, so if thats your excuse, its a lame one. Try harder

>>62691 Paper is more durable than a floppy, you've no idea what you are talking about

>>62691 You're not considering the fact that the research and details were already written down on paper and not all of it was text he could have drawn some drafts that couldn't be digitized reliably. You think you can fit a decent scan of something you drew on 3.5MB? You seriously gonna have binders of floppies for each and every image? He would want the highest resolution possible and the lowest amount of loss, and you aren't going to get that from a jpeg in the 90s. And the Nips are notorious macfags which makes saving things in a digital format even more troublesome. >What do you mean my Quicktime videos files aren't supported anymore? >Am I just expected to convert all 890,000 clips individually to the new standard?

>>62714 >3.5MB I meant 1.44MB, some floppy disks (dual sided? i think) could do 2.88MB And I don't think Zip Disks were cheaply available either in the 90s

>>42882 He still draws pinup for hentai magazine https://exhentai.org/g/3204055/3ace6bf84b/

>>61487 >Tectonic incidents, I hate tectonic incidents

>>61487 He still did GITS 2 and 1.5 long after that though. And he also has worked on other things as well, but not as an artist.

Alright, I'll be the one to say it. Extensive worldbuilding, especially to the degree that he's said to have done, isn't something you do when you're writing. It's something you do when you're procrastinating from writing. Clearly he was already burned out on the creative process before the earthquake happened and decided to use it as an excuse not to try any more. Hey, if he's happy drawing smut, then good for him. But the earthquake didn't stop him from writing the next GitS or Appleseed, not writing the next GitS or Appleseed is what stopped him from writing.

>>62834 Kawakami has done a similar level of world building and has written over 100 LNs.

>>62834 Yeah surely he writes a lot because he hates drawing or whatever headcanon this is supposed to be and not because he just likes it

>>61630 That clip is funny ^_^

>>61891 Tokyo's government stopped using floppy disks a few years ago, and only because of incidents where they were stolen. It's not unimaginable that a private individual, even one who writes about sci-fi settings, would be paper-only for his works. >>62789 GiTS was a very popular work and one that stuck with him.

>>62708 >>62908 Copium OD. but suppose for a minute that I agree with you on le paper (I dont). Ok so he found paper to be the ultimate storage medium, so what about backups? Again for an individual that his work heavily depends on research material, you dont have only one copy, and I dont buy it from a cyberpunk author, cy-ber-punk where tons of stories are about corporate espionage, which is all about the security of information. Nope, he was either dumb enough or burned out enough or fed up with the industry. Remember that GITS 2 was nowhere as successful as GITS. Imagine every reporter asking at interviews "GITS 3 when? is it gonna suck as GITS 2 senpai?"

>>63010 Did you even consider that GitS 2 was bad because of the loss of his materials?

>>63011 no because that was 10000% oshii's shtick

>>63043 We're talking about the manga. Not the movies.

People still remember most of the stuff they wrote, and if gits 2 is really as bad as you all say, then it's simply because what he thought or wrote about it wasn't good enough in the first place.