Anime News - Grandia/Gungriffon Creator Takeshi Miyaji Passes Away

The Japanese game developer G-Mode announced on Monday that its representative director Takeshi Miyaji passed away on Friday, July 29. Miyaji created the Grandia, Gungriffon, and Silpheed game franchises.

(animenewsnetwork.com)

This is the saddest of news for me. When I was a kid, Grandia I and II were my favorite RPG games to play. The stories were great, and the characters (as well as the gameplay) were very unique. It is a damn shame that this man was taken from us. I don't know if he made the second and third, but if he did, this'll squash any plans of a sequel. I'm going to rest my head for a while.