Not sure if anyone knew about this but thought is was too nice to pass up. I'm also curious if any of his family got the messages within? Here's the Pixiv preview page with a list of artists involved.
http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=48291523

this is why i don't visit pixiv. merely linking to a page with japanese text does little for those of us who can't read japanese outside of romanji.

treos said:
this is why i don't visit pixiv. merely linking to a page with japanese text does little for those of us who can't read japanese outside of romanji.

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pixiv.net%2Fmember_illust.php%3Fmode%3Dmedium%26illust_id%3D48291523

treos said:
this is why i don't visit pixiv. merely linking to a page with japanese text does little for those of us who can't read japanese outside of romanji.

If you use Chrome, it will automatically translate the page

TheHuskyK9 said:
If you use Chrome, it will automatically translate the page

Also (OS X) Safari.

But who uses that.