Nine days after going missing while climbing a mountain,臼井仪人, author of the popular Japanese cartoon *Crayon Shinchan*, was found dead on the 20th in Mount Arafune's Nanono Makai in Gunma Prefecture's Shimotsuke Town. The passing of "Shinchan's Dad" was confirmed. Upon hearing the news, fans of Shinchan from all over expressed their pain and condolences online. This year marks the 20th anniversary of *Crayon Shinchan*. However, in some of the more recent volumes, there has been a drastic change in the style of the manga, with some characters meeting death as their ending. In Volume 49, made public before the author's passing, Shinchan even makes a "confession of death." As netizens mourned, they couldn't help but look back at the manga and began to question the cause of his death, suspecting that the author had long revealed his "intent to leave" through his work.