The official Twitter account and web site for the Edens Zero franchise introduced after the anime ended on Sunday that the anime’s director Yūshi Suzuki handed away on September 9 at a Tokyo hospital.

Suzuki labored as a key animator on a number of sequence comparable to Fairy Tail, Valvrave the Liberator, Fairly Rhythm Aurora Dream, He then directed episodes of the third Fairy Tail season, Log Horizon: Destruction of the Spherical Desk, Cardfight!! Vanguard GZ, Talentless Nana, Chō Soku Henkei Gyrozetter, and different sequence. Edens Zero was the primary full sequence he directed.

Sources: Edens Zero anime’s Twitter account, Oricon