We don't know how it happened yet.  A coworker just Tweeted it.  All we know for sure is that the world just lost one of its greatest animators.  He was only 47.

Kon wrote the "Magnetic Rose" chapter of Otomo's film Memories.

Then he directed Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, the 13 episode series Paranoia Agent, and Paprika.  He was working on his fifth and final film, The Dream Machine, when he died.  They're not sure if they're going to finish it without him or not.  Now all we have to look forward to is Wolfgang Petersen's live action remake of Paprika.

Damn.

Damn... He made such great movies. I really like Millennium Actress.

Paprika was some freaky shit.

A true loss here today.

Paranoia Agent was a very good anime. A loss indeed.

EDITED: oh Paprika, now I remember where I heard it. I read that it's plot was similar to Inception's. Now, I'll definitely watch it.

Rest in Peace

I saw the first half of 'paprika'. I was confused & decided to watch it again later

I mourn your loss, Rubang.

this is sad :( I loved all of it with perfect blue being my personal favorite

at the one guy that mentioned it.

it is similar to paprika, I never noticed that for some reason when I watched inception

I have only seen 2 of his movies they were great sorry to lost a great artist.

The loss of any animator that hasn't fallen to CGI is indeed a tragedy, though i found his style a little... disturbing, and not in the right way (since disturbing is a good quality for something like Paranoia Agent)

this is a huge loss for the medium, especially since barely anyone wants to get into anime as a career