I've also got some news to report, and are rather tragic for Ar tonelico and Atelier music fans: Takashige Inagaki, known for having greatly contributed to the music of both series, passed away on November 2009 from a brain tumor, according to the comments published
here by Wacha. As they say in the Ar tonelico world,
yasra dius manaf (Precious life, rest in peace).