Evangelion-related killing in Japan
Drinian
> "Cartoon blamed for man's fatal beating on mom"
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> YAMAGATA -- A man accused of beating his mother to death with a baseball bat was influenced by a cartoon that made him believe humans were unnecessary beings, prosecutors told the Yamagata District Court on Monday.
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> In opening statements at the trial of Hiroyuki Tsuchida, 22, prosecutors claimed that watching the science-fiction cartoon "Neon Genesis Evangelion" had made Tsuchida believe a phrase in it that said, "The ultimate conclusion of (human) evolution is ruin."
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> He also came to believe that humans were unnecessary beings who were destroying the world's environment, and in turn began to want to kill people, prosecutors said.
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> They said the man fatally smashed his mother in the head with a baseball bat at about 2 p.m. on June 25, thinking that if he killed family members he would not hesitate when murdering others.
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> A representative of Gainax, the firm involved in writing and producing the cartoon, said it did not think the content of the cartoon was related to the killing. (Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, Dec. 2, 2003)
Article available here:
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20031202p2a00m0dm001001c.html
Personally, I've always thought Evangelion to be pretty powerful in its
ability to maniupulate human emotions, but mostly towards
self-destructive tendencies. If you really believed that the "end of
humanity is in ruin," wouldn't you kill yourself and not others?
It also seems to me that this quote is taken out of context. Where is it
from in the show?
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Ren Driver
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> Oh wow, people are so easy to blame other things arn't they?
> "Drinian" <sailr...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> > From the Manichi Daily News:
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> > > "Cartoon blamed for man's fatal beating on mom"
Oh hell, here it comes... Anime's "heavy metal lyrics" trial.
James M
> Oh wow, people are so easy to blame other things arn't they?
why is the nutjobs never pickup on the good themes? He didn't seem to hear;
You must not run away. You need to take resposibility for your own life.
Do'nt hurt others because you hate yourself. Do'nt assume your thoughts and
feelings reflect the way the world really is.Find the value in what you can
do.; No! He gets poeple are valueless and should be distroyed!
Do they have the death penality in Japan? this guy almost deserves it.
Ren Driver
there is cause the good themes tend to be more difficult to comprehend than
bad ones.
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Sakaki
Actually they do have the death penality in Japan, they just sentanced
the guy who headed up the cult that did the gasing of the Tokyo subway to
death.
Sakaki
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Actually he's still involved in court battles I beleive (this is if you are
referring to Asahara (real name: Chizuo Matsumoto) and Aum Supreme Truth),
however some of his upper cult officials may have been executed (I can't
remember :p).
http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/prophet/1.html?sect=
22
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