Alone - Richard E Byrd
Before this I read Endurance - Alfred Lansing, i came on it by chance while arguing about polar exploration with some friends and been loving the exploration stories, probably seek out another one when I'm done with Alone
“I see now that the circumstances of one's birth is irrelevent,it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.” Pokemon - Mewtwo
It’s a beautifully sad anime, still play the album version of the free bird intro and blue flow song sometimes
Had nothing to do with the merger, hironobu sakaguchi was a major driving force at the company, the man knows how to create magic but not by himself by finding the best people for a project and throwing a concept and letting them imagine the most fantastical music/settings/stories, he made a crap extremely expensive movie called spirits within that flopped hard and got booted for nearly bankrupting the company, after that merger/money became more important to keep square from dying and the creative teams afloat and the rest is history