On December 9 in the same year, after attending the wedding of Yutaka TATSUNO, he had massive internal bleeding and died while working on 'Meian' at the age of 50.
その年、辰野隆の結婚式に出席して後の12月9日、大内出血を起こし「明暗」執筆途中に死去（50歳）。