Otaku sets fire to anime studio

[Anonymous No.10223903]

Has anyone heard about the attack on the anime studio who produced Lucky Star, K-On!, and Haruhi Suzumiya?

>The suspect was injured and taken to a hospital, officials said. Police are investigating the man on suspicion of arson. Survivors who saw the attacker said he was not their colleague and that he was screaming "(You) die!" when he dumped the liquid and started the fire, according to Japanese media reports. They said some of the survivors got splashed with the liquid.

>A Japanese fire official says at least 23 people are now confirmed or presumed dead in a suspected arson at a popular animation production studio in Kyoto.

>Kyoto fire department official Satoshi Fujiwara says 36 others have been injured, some of them critically.

[Anonymous No.10223905]

But...why?

[Anonymous No.10223906]

>>10223905
Probably just some angry otaku is the best explanation there is. Who else would do it?

[Anonymous No.10223907]

>>10223906
Well, yeah, but what made him so angry he committed arson?

[Anonymous No.10223909]

>>10223907
Take this with a grain of salt until it comes out on an English news site rather than a twitter translation but it sounds like he was another artist? Or someone with delusions.

[Anonymous No.10223961]

33 dead now. KyoAni had a mostly of women working for them with a ratio of 7 women to every 3 men.

[Anonymous No.10223964]

>>10223905
I've heard multiple explanations, one being that he did it for the fame it would bring him.

[Anonymous No.10223965]

>>10223909
Confirmed, rip

[Anonymous No.10223968]

>>10223961
They also had an in-house day care on the second floor. Hope that pos gets the death penalty. More dead than the sarin attack, this is pure domestic terrorism.

[Anonymous No.10223970]

Holy shit, this is insane. What is wrong with people. How did so many people perish in the fire? No escape routes? Faulty fire alarms? This is horrible.

[Anonymous No.10223974]

>>10223970
Sounds like a lot of people got caught up in stair wells and died from smoke inhalation.

[Anonymous No.10223976]

>>10223970
I saw someone mention that the perpetrator blocked the emergency exits

[Anonymous No.10223978]

>>10223970
Apart from what >>10223974 and >>10223976 mentioned, Japan also mainly uses gas for pretty much everything from heating their houses to cooking. Gas hasn't officially been mentioned in relation to this incident, but the presence of gas heating could have also played a part in how the fire spread.

[Anonymous No.10223981]

>>10223978
It’s summer, nobody do any heating now

[Anonymous No.10223983]

What’s wrong with that person? This is terrifying.
Rip. Lucky Star was one of my favorite animes tho.

[Anonymous No.10223984]

>>10223970
The guy had mutiple levels doused in the gasoline. It's an animation studio so there was probably a lot of paper around. Boom.
>>10223981
read the rest of their post, it's used for cooking, heating water, most things.

Also according to twitter we're up to 33 lost.

[Anonymous No.10223985]

From an eyewitness. Jesus christ.

>Someone left in the building was begging for help from a window. I couldn't tell if they were a man or a woman. Their mouth was bright red against their blackened body covered completely in soot, even their face. All I could tell was that they were crying out "HELP! HELP" again and again. Soon they stopped moving against the window and burned into it like a shadow. Then I heard the din of ambulance sirens and helicopters flying by

[Anonymous No.10223990]

>>10223981
Even if the heating is off just the fact that the building has gas lines going into it can be an aggravating factor.

[Anonymous No.10224003]

>>10223903
How did so many die? Lack of fire alarms? Doors which open inward? Lack of escape routes?

They better do something about this instead of just penalizing the perpetrator and leaving it at that. Remember when Logan Paul saw a body in a suicide forest and instead of doing something about the fact that Japan has a fucking suicide forest everyone attacked him?

[Anonymous No.10224011]

>>10224003
There isn't shit Japan can do about that suicide forest. They already post anti suicide messages there and have people patrolling to try to stop people from offing themselves

[Anonymous No.10224013]

>>10224011
This.
>>10224003
Suicide Forest cannot be compared to the heinous act of what this pos coward did to these innocent people.

[Anonymous No.10224015]

>>10224003
>How did so many die?

He soaked multiple levels in gasoline and sprayed people with gasoline. That combined with all the flammable material inside the studio (not just paper but film, especially old film) and you've got one hell of a combustible building.

Look at the smoke here: https://twitter.com/sakuma_mayu_0/status/1151674029859696640

And you'll see why the death toll is so high.

Japan has excellent fire safety standards and response times. This unfortunately wasn't an ordinary fire.

[Anonymous No.10224016]

>>10224003
They do tons of stuff already, it wasn’t like Logan found a hidden place. How can you be this dumb?

[Anonymous No.10224057]

>>10224011
And the thing about that suicide forest is the more people talk about it the more people go there to commit suicide. That's why Japan was pissed off about that shitty horror movie with scarjo, japan has a very serious suicide problem and all hollywood does is sensationalize it for white audiences

[Anonymous No.10224089]

>>10224003
"You wouldn't have been shot if you weren't in the way of that bullet" - You, probably

[Anonymous No.10224106]

>>10223907
unconfirmed source but this is circulating too.

[Anonymous No.10224107]

>>10223970
Reputable news sources are saying that the fire was lit on the ground floor and spread to an enclosed stairwell to the upper floors. Because of how the stairs were built the fire was pushed upward rapidly. Many employees tried to get to the roof when the stairs were blocked but the access door was locked.

[Anonymous No.10224108]

>>10224107
Also their office and sales department had been getting threatening emails telling them to die so it could be the same person.

[Anonymous No.10224129]

>>10224106
I had heard it was some otaku upset about them using a song in their new euphonium movie and ranted on 5ch before he did it

[Anonymous No.10224203]

>>10223985
I don't have a suitable reaction image to express my horror.

[Anonymous No.10224251]

>>10224107
Apparently this studio had a spiral staircase, and with fire catching plastic in the studio it's fair to believe most people died from lack of oxygen rather than burns.
Honestly this news is awful and disgusting. I can hardly believe this is happening in year one of the Reiwa era.

[Anonymous No.10224309]

>>10224106
This is fucking fake as shit. Online friend of mine lives in the area confirms that some residents are talking about the rip off instead of some bullshit non virgin autist shit.

[Anonymous No.10224394]

>>10224106

from /news/

The culprit is suspected to be a famous train photographer that's posted on 2channel's train board and camera board for the past several years.
This person would frequently post long copypastas containing the catchphrase "baribari junkou saktto barisaku", so people called him Barisaku-kun.
It's thought that the catchphrase is supposed to mean "be sure to take train pictures with the light source coming from behind the camera".
This catchphrase didn't catch on at all, but Barisaku-kun seemed to be proud of it and go on with barisaku barisaku everyday.

In that time, the word "barisaku" became famous for a totally different meaning.
In the Kyoto Animation anime about a brass band "Hibike! Euphonium" there was a scene involving a solo done with a baritone sax that became popular under the name "barisaku solo".
Shortening baritone sax as barisaku has actually been done since a long time ago, but Barisaku-kun didn't know anything about music and assumed that Kyoto Animation had ripped off his "barisaku" catchphrase.
Hibike! Euphonium had a collaboration with Keihan Trains to run a wrapping train (train with anime characters painted on it), and and the anime otaku it attracted frequently clashed with the train photographers, something that had Barisaku-kun furious.
He went into the anime board and has been trolling the Hibike! Euphonium threads daily about how "Because of Hibike! Euphonium's barisaku solo my life is in chaos. I will never forgive this!"

That Barisaku-kun has suddenly disappeared off of 5channel.
And then the fire at Kyoto Animation happens the next day.
The culprit is said have screamed about how "they copied me".

[Anonymous No.10224439]

>>10224394
Absolutely insane.

[Anonymous No.10224465]

Another case of "this sort of thing only happens in America." Lmfao.

[Anonymous No.10224720]

>>10224465
Well ya it does only happen in 'merica

[Anonymous No.10224727]

>>10224394
All debunked now except the
>they copied me
part. Barisaku was not there. Though the offender was mad about some alleged plagiarism of his novel (we are not even sure it exists). That's why he was screaming about being copied.

[Anonymous No.10226915]

Rest in Piss culturally-marxist SJWs
Think twice next time about making lesbian cartoons

[Anonymous No.10226918]

>>10226915
Your virginity is showing m8

[Anonymous No.10230171]

>>10223985
Thats horrifying. Jesus Christ ):