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Hare Tokidoki Buta Novels Author Shiro Yadama Dies at 80

posted on by Joanna Cayanan
Yadama's novels inspired 1988 Fair, then Partly Piggy anime film, 1997 Tokyo Pig TV anime

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© Shiro Yadama, Iwasaki Shoten
The official website of publishing company Iwasaki Shoten announced on Tuesday that author Shiro Yadama died on July 14 due to old age. He was 80.

A private family funeral was held in accordance to Yadama's wishes. The announcement stated that Yadama had been in poor health since this spring, but still responded to text/e-mail messages. According to Yadama's family, the author had "lived to the fullest."

Yadama launched the Hare Tokidoki Buta novels (image right) in 1980, and it has become a best-seller and long-selling book that still gets reprinted every year. The novels inspired the 1988 film titled Fair, then Partly Piggy. Discotek Media released the film on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in 2018 in Japanese audio with English subtitles. The novels also inspired a separate television anime adaptation in 1997 that ran on ABC Family with an English dub under the title Tokyo Pig.

Source: Iwasaki Shoten's website via Otakomu

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