I keep thinking about that guitar playing dog at the end of “Animal Crossing”…always thought that was Iwata’s icing on the cake. Maybe they’ll meet in a dream like Murakami and Itoi did so long ago. Something really heavy crushing my will to breathe. It was just like when George Harrison and Michael Jackson died. I was devastated when I heard the news too. I still have a lot to talk to you about, and if I come up with any particularly good ideas, I’ll let you know. You can call me up whenever you like, and I’ll give you a call, too. It feels like I could still get a light-hearted e-mail asking me out to lunch at any moment-after you’ve made sure lunch wouldn’t disrupt my schedule, of course. You were so generous as a friend that this trip might be your very first selfish act. You always put yourself last, after you’d finished helping everyone else. You wore your best outfit and said “Sorry for the short notice,” though you didn’t say it out loud. You went on a trip far, far away, even though it was planned for many years from now. When I’m parting with a friend, regardless of the circumstances, I find it best to just say, “See you later.” We’ll meet again. My unofficial translation of Itoi’s message from today’s blog is below. Iwata came to our office, and we had a nice talk over supper.” The list does, however, include a 11-page interview with Iwata from 2007 that was translated into English, entitled “ Mr. The interviews are only in Japanese, but you can find the list here. Hobonichi staff have compiled a list of some of the feature interviews they’ve had in the past. Iwata often stopped by Itoi’s Tokyo office when he was in town, and has appeared many times in interviews on the Hobonichi website, which he helped launch back in 1998. After the devastating news of Nintendo president Satoru Iwata’s passing, Shigesato Itoi has updated his daily blog, Today’s Darling, with a post reflecting on his intimate friendship with Iwata.

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