Kyoto Anime Incident Victim Yuki Omura's Artwork Exhibition Held February 21, Shizuoka 19:01

A picture book exhibition featuring works by Yuki Omura (23 at the time) who died in the arson of “Kyoto Animation” last July has been held since 21st in his hometown, Kikugawa City, Shizuoka Prefecture.

In July last year, 36 employees died, including a fire at the Kyoto Animation studio in Kyoto, including Yuki Omura, who was originally from Kikugawa and just joined the company in April.

The picture book exhibition was held by Omura's bereaved family, hoping that `` I would like many people to see my son's work, '' and at the venue's Kikukawa Red Brick Warehouse, Omura's original picture book created while attending Tokiwa University and Palettes, brushes, etc. that you have been using are on display.

Of these, a picture book that expresses the life of 3.8 billion years of living things is drawn in 28 pages of vivid colors that show how living things are born and evolved from the sea where there was nothing.

Also, from the original picture of a picture book drawn from a local person in Matsuzaki-cho, Shizuoka Prefecture, where depopulation is occurring when he was a third-year university student, he carefully sketched out sightseeing spots to lead to regional revitalization. I can tell.

A junior junior student, Uminagi Sawaki, said, "I had a lot of consultation about the picture. I feel that my sad and regrettable talent has been lost."

Omura's picture book exhibition is open until this month.

Omura's father's comment

Through the Shizuoka Prefectural Police Headquarters, the father of Yuki Omura from Kikugawa City, Shizuoka Prefecture, who died in the `` Kyoto Animation '' studio arson incident, said `` It has been more than six months since the incident, We are still struggling to take a step forward in our deep sadness. "