Since its founding in 1981, Kyoto Animation has regularly adapted novels into anime series....
Local authorities said two bodies were found on the first floor of the burned-out building and eleven others on the second floor. Another body was discovered in a stairwell leading from the first to second floors. The remaining 19 bodies were found in a stairwell leading from the third floor to the roof, whose door was closed but which could have been opened from the roof.
July 19, 2019
"They stole my ideas"/"They copied my novel"/"They ripped me off"/"Since [the studio] stole my novel, I poured out the liquid and set it ablaze."
Statements allegedly made by Shinji Aoba, arrested for killing 33 persons at Kyoto Animation in Japan (reported in Variety).
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One must make allowances for artists.
It would make a good comic book story.
You forgot to mention they took his red Swingline stapler!
"Okay, but that's the last straw."
That will show them.
All art tells a story.
Don't know if Japan has the death penalty (Probably not) but I am betting a lotta people are thinking they need one.
Fire is how Europeans and Asians kill each other en masse until they get easy access to guns and ammo. Been that way since the Middle Ages.
Japan executed the sarin gas attackers.
Well, Japan has already banned guns, so I guess they need to ban matches and all flammable liquids now?
Don't give Taylor Swift ideas.
Taylor Swift is in the new live-action Cats movie. As are dozens of big stars.
It's--as the kids say--cringe.
From "Anime was a mistake" by Hayao Mizaki
To Anime literally kills by Shinji Aoba
That didn't take long...
It would make a good comic book story.
You stole my idea!
Correction...Hayao Miyazaki.
Don't they have lawyers and copyright law in Japan?
Lesson. The Rule of Law is the most valuable thing we have in this country. And, of course, the Dems pervert and destroy it at will. See, e.g., The Kavanaugh hearings where the process was ignored and a liar was given a national stage.
Wikipedia claims that Japan does have the death penalty, but it’s generally reserved for multiple murders and unusually heinous individual murders. Seems that this case should qualify.
As with the Twin Towers on 9/11, escape via the roof was blocked by a locked door. Someone needs to lose his job over that.
"Don't know if Japan has the death penalty (Probably not) but I am betting a lotta people are thinking they need one."
It took them 22 years, but they executed Shoko Asaha (the leader of Aum, responsible for the Tokyo Sarin attack):
"Twelve other members of Aum Shinrikyo were sentenced to death for their roles in the Tokyo attack. Asahara's death sentence was finalized in 2006, according to public broadcaster NHK, but trials of his co-conspirators dragged on for a further 12 years.... Asahara was one of seven members of the cult hanged this week. The others are Tomomasa Nakagawa, Tomomitsu Niimi, Kiyohide Hayakawa, Yoshihiro Inoue, Seiichi Endo and Masami Tsuchiya, according to Japanese Justice Minister Yoko Kawakami. Six other people are still sentenced to die in connection to the 1995 attack and other Aum Shinrikyo crimes. The date of their executions is not known. Executions in Japan are done in secret, with no advance warning given to the prisoner, their family or legal representatives, according to Amnesty International. Prisoners often only learn hours before that they are to be killed."
I thought this only happens in the US?
"Lesson. The Rule of Law is the most valuable thing we have in this country. And, of course, the Dems pervert and destroy it at will. See, e.g., The Kavanaugh hearings where the process was ignored and a liar was given a national stage."
That's part of the legal process. Or don't you know that?
BTW, using a case of a crazy person setting a building on fire in Japan simply to slip in your screed about "the rule of law...in this country" (where, despite the rule of law, people kill each other all the time) is really reaching for weak tea.
Japan's capital punishment system is interesting. Execution is by hanging and without warning to the prisoner and family. One day, they just take you into the room and its over.
"As with the Twin Towers on 9/11, escape via the roof was blocked by a locked door. Someone needs to lose his job over that."
I agree the doors to the roof should have been unlocked, but...how would the people inside the tower have escaped if they had reached the roof? Sure, the police could have arranged for helicopters to land and fly people away, but the few people who could have been taken by each copter would have required hours of copters flying in and out to evacuate them all. As we know, they did not have hours.
Cook:
DiFi had the letter from CBF and held it for weeks and then sprung it on the media AFTER the hearing was over. That's not how the process is supposed to work. In fact, process was installed after the high tech lynching of Justice Clarence Thomas. But, of course, the Dems just ignored them and pulled the same stunt again.
Justice Kavanaugh was then not only subjected to the lies of CBF but also Michael Avanati's client Julie S who alleged young Brett organized rape parties. Finally, Senator Harris took an anonymous and unsworn allegation of rape seriously. The woman said she was from CA but lived in KY. She later recanted and made the whole thing up. Complete lies.
We are becoming a lawless society. Face facts, dude.
"I thought this only happens in the US?"
It's a big wide world and people are the same all over. But you know that, and your rhetorical snark is just stupid.
Begley: you say they were lies, many people believe they were lies, they may very well have been lies. However, they have not been proven to be lies.
In the legal process, witnesses are called, testimony is heard, and those charged wit hearing the case make a decision. That's how it works.
Hey, Cook. Google "Sarah Root Iowa Nebraska." She was in a car wreck not four miles from where I sit right now. She'd just graduated (with honors) from college. Her murderer was an illegal alien that should have been deported. We can then talk about the Rule of Law.
My two daughters are about the same age as the late Sarah Root.
"We are becoming a lawless society. Face facts, dude."
Oh, we are a lawless society, to be sure, with most of the lawlessness coming from our government and the mega-corporations who largely control our government.
Cook:
The hearing NEVER should have happened. CBF's letter was held for weeks by DiFi. And then leaked to the Fake News. It was a political show trial.
The Dems are the party of lawlessness.
Access to a gun would have saved lives here.
With a semi-auto hand gun and multiple clips it would have been difficult to kill this many people.
Lock the exits throw a gallon of gasoline and you have a good chance of killing everyone in the building.
John Henry
"I agree the doors to the roof should have been unlocked, but...how would the people inside the tower have escaped if they had reached the roof? Sure, the police could have arranged for helicopters to land and fly people away, but the few people who could have been taken by each copter would have required hours of copters flying in and out to evacuate them all. As we know, they did not have hours."
It wasn't that tall of a building. They'd have air and could have stayed alive longer — long enough, perhaps, for rescue from the ground.
Begley: I don't know what point you're trying to shoehorn into the discussion (that had to do with a crazy person in Japan who killed a bunch of people). It's tragic this young woman was killed by a drunk driver. That the drunk driver was an illegal immigrant is of little or no significance, a statistical fluke. People are killed every day in this country by drunk drivers who are legal, mostly natural born U.S. citizens.
We're hardly allowing illegal immigrants to flow across the borders unimpeded, and haven't been. The rate of illegal immigrants coming across the borders have been declining for for the past decade or longer. In fact, Obama deported more of them than Trump has. (Of course, Obama's adoring supporters are ignorant of that, or didn't care because he is the one who could do no wrong.)
"It wasn't that tall of a building. They'd have air and could have stayed alive longer — long enough, perhaps, for rescue from the ground."
I was referring to the Twin Towers, not the building in Japan.
"The hearing NEVER should have happened. CBF's letter was held for weeks by DiFi. And then leaked to the Fake News. It was a political show trial."
Perhaps. But, this is the state of our politics in general now...a big show. (Again, it has not been proved that the testimony against Kavanaugh was false, so we don't know if this was actually a "show trial" in the true meaning of the phrase. It was a "show trial" in that it was broadcast to gain ratings by the networks, and they profited handily.)
"The Japanese were shocked by this macabre incident. From every mouth it was the same outcry: “The sheer lunacy of it all! What on earth’s become of Japan, when such mass insanity walks among us? Where were the police? It’s the death penalty for Shoko Asahara no matter what …” Thus, to a greater or lesser degree, people all jumped onto the “right,” “sane,” “normal” bandwagon. There was nothing complicated about it. That is, placed alongside the likes of Shoko Asahara and the Aum cult, compared to the deeds they had done, the overwhelming majority of Japanese were indeed “right,” “sane,” and “healthy.” It could hardly have been a more open-and-shut case. The media merely played along with this consensus and accelerated its force. There were a few lone voices that bucked the trend. “Shouldn’t the crime be punished as a crime, without all this talk of ‘goodness’ or ‘sanity’?” they insisted, but were largely ignored in the general furor. Only now, several years after the event, just where has this ramshackle bandwagon of mass consensus delivered us Japanese with “right on our side”? What have we learned from this shocking incident? One thing is for sure. Some strange malaise, some bitter aftertaste lingers on. We crane our necks and look around us, as if to ask: where did all that come from? If only to be rid of this malaise, to cleanse our palates of this aftertaste, most Japanese seem ready to pack up the whole incident in a trunk labeled THINGS OVER AND DONE WITH. We would rather the meaning of the whole ordeal was left to the fixed processes of the court and everything was dealt with on the level of “the system.” Certainly the legal process is valuable and will bring to light many truths. But unless we Japanese absorb those facts into our metabolism and integrate them into our field of vision, all will be lost in a mass of meaningless detail, court-case gossip, an obscure, forgotten corner of history. The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground. The legal system can deal with only one facet of the issue on the basis of the law. There is no guarantee that this will settle the matter."
Murakami, Haruki. Underground (Vintage International) (pp. 225-226). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Cook:
The tort concept of proximate cause applies in the death of Sarah Root. But for the fact that illegal aliens get into this country and are allowed to stay (there were a number of times he should have been deported) Sarah Root would still be alive today.
There's an unnecessary crime spree in this country that is being worked on citizens by illegal aliens.
If you value human live and the importance of each individual then it is not just a stat to you.
Sarah Root was just one year older than my youngest daughter. To this day, I'm incensed about her unnecessary death. It outrages me and I feel terrible for her parents.
"Executions in Japan are done in secret, with no advance warning given to the prisoner, their family or legal representatives, according to Amnesty International. Prisoners often only learn hours before that they are to be killed."
I like it.
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition.
not been proved that the testimony against Kavanaugh was false,
Wow. For a guy that rails against big government and nasty big business, that is one hell of a criteria.
"There is no guarantee that this will settle the matter." I think the writer finds some points of agreement with the Aum Cult but fears voicing that outright. So, he writes in metaphor, but is clear when he disagrees with just destroying the Aum Cult.
""They stole my ideas"/"They copied my novel"/"They ripped me off"/"Since [the studio] stole my novel, I poured out the liquid and set it ablaze.""
Surprise!! Surprise!! The anime artist is a paranoid schizophrenic.
"There's an unnecessary crime spree in this country that is being worked on citizens by illegal aliens."
The crime rate among illegal immigrants is lower than for U.S. citizens. They bring no "crime spree." (Crime rates overall in the U.S. are at 20 year lows.) You are just fear-mongering because this is a pet political peeve of yours.
Cook: "Again, it has not been proved that the testimony against Kavanaugh was false..."
You are saying the burden of proof was on Judge Kavanaugh? Didn't think that was the way due process works.
Oshikuru: Demon Arsonist.
Leaving the doors to the roof unlocked in The World Trade Center wasn't really a practical option given given that people committing suicide would have been drawn to it like moths to a flame. How many people jump off the Golden Gate Bridge each year? I would guess around 20-30 a year, and probably a multiple of that are talked down each year. The WTC would have probably been double that.
"You are saying the burden of proof was on Judge Kavanaugh? Didn't think that was the way due process works."
No. I never said anything of the kind. I merely point out that those condemning CBF as a liar and the charges against Kavanaugh as a total fraud do not know or have proof either is the case. Kavanaugh is given the presumption of innocence, of course, and he was not determined to have committed the acts of which he was accused. But, neither CBF proved to have lied. It was a dispute without a determination of the truth. Kavanaugh denied the accusations, and, in the end, he prevailed, as he is now sitting on the Supreme Court. This is the way it works in criminal trials as well: sometimes innocent people are convicted and sometimes guilty people are acquitted.
All those dead and not a single assault rifle used. A mass killing that can't be exploited by anti-gun forces. What a tragedy!
Gospace,
An argument for banning fossil fuels, though.
Female animators dominate casualties.
Cook:
You totally missed the proximate cause point. These illegal aliens aren't supposed to be here at all. Their crimes should have be committed in their home countries. All of the murder victims killed by illegal aliens in the US should still be alive. Get it?
As to the crime rate of illegal aliens, tell the victims of MS-13 that getting killed by them is no big deal. MS-13 executes its victims in especially horrible ways.
Althouse outlined the difference in societal perception between Japan and US - conformity, righteousness, search for meaning.
Nobody took her up on it.
“I was referring to the Twin Towers, not the building in Japan.”
Ok.
I think it would have been better for them to have gotten onto the roof, even if it the hope of rescue would ultimately have failed.
Cmon Mr Cook: you may hold different beliefs firmly, but you are not generally so ...vague.
I grant that it is difficult to call someone a liar when the answer to many questions that might ascertain validity is "I don't remember"
But do Try this scenario on for size. (I presume you to be innocent btw)
Mr X: I saw Robert Cook assault a homeless man.
Where? Can't recall exactly. This side of the Mississippi.
When? maybe mid 1990s. It was a Hot Summer Night. The sort Meatloaf sang about.
What term do you want people to use for Mr X, if, perchance, you consider yourself innocent of the accusation, and they believe you?
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