Prince Pandi
D: We're losing all the good ones!
We'll be screwed when Hayao Miyazaki goes. It'd be a terrible tragic day man...
This is pretty much the end of the pokemon movie series, huh?
I WILL cry when Miyazaki dies D8
pftt- I WISH this was the end of pokemon =_=; Takeshi was pretty much cut from the movies around the time the Lucario movie came out. Which IMO is when they really started to go down hill. They've had new writers for pokemon, and despite this death, I don't think anything will really change.
Originally there wasn't going to be a safire and ruby or diamond and pearl series. But due to demand, they made them.
Takeshi was only majorly there for Kanto-Jhoto when he was actually chef of writing.
though- He was a part of pokemon until his death D: which just makes it more sad.
Satoshi Tajiri is still alive, he's the original-original creator of pokemon all around. But He's sold most all his rights and really plays no part in the series anymore.
Alot of people freak out about all the new pokemon, but Satoshi Tajiri originally wrote that their were 500 pokemon.
The series added to it of course xD;;;
Ken Sugimori is still alive to. He's a MAJOR art and designer for pokemon. Granted, he doesn't write or anything, but you can't get a pokemon book, trading card set, or website without his art being on it. xD;;

<- Art By Ken S.