Yet another morning with this kind of bad news and the entertainment world has lost another warrior as news from Japan confirms that Kazuki Takahashi has died at 40 years old, leaving a big legacy in the manga/anime and gaming world.

Kazuki Takahashi is best known to be the artist behind Yu-Gi-OH, having started his career in the 80's with minor success until publishing Fighting Hawk and Tennenshoku Danji Buray that finally had his career booming.

But his real big success came in the hand of his love for game (also he is a game designer) is the creation on the manga and later turned anime that we know Yu-Gi-Oh and later, adapted a card game Duel Master (based on an early concept known as Wizards & Magic) and integrated both and here we are 26 years laters.

Pretty much he died active in the Yu-Gi-Oh's day-to-day activities.

Unfortunately the Japanese Coast Guard did confirm that Takahashi's body was discovered floating on Nago, Okinawa Prefecture and while there has been a official word on how he died, it was noted that he was using snorkeling gear.

Via Japan Times