Man is sentenced to death for arson attack at Japanese anime studio that killed 36

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[BenLurkin]

Aoba stormed into Kyoto Animation's No. 1 studio on July 18, 2019, and set it on fire. Many of the victims were believed to have died of carbon monoxide poisoning. More than 30 other people were badly burned or injured.

Judge Keisuke Masuda said Aoba had wanted to be a novelist but was unsuccessful and so he sought revenge, thinking that Kyoto Animation had stolen novels he submitted as part of a company contest, according to NHK national television.

Aoba plotted the attacks after studying past criminal cases involving arson, the court said in the ruling, noting the process showed that Aoba had premeditated the crime and was mentally capable.

About 70 people were working inside the studio in southern Kyoto, Japan's ancient capital, at the time of the attack. One of the survivors said he saw a black cloud rising from downstairs, then scorching heat came and he jumped from a window of the three-story building gasping for air.

The company, founded in 1981 and better known as KyoAni, made a mega-hit anime series about high school girls

[RasterMaster]

Gun, knife, sword, or fire. It's not about the WEAPON....it's about the perpetrator.

[Yo-Yo]

Can’t Japan enact common sense match control? And who needs a military-grade assault lighter?

[RasterMaster]

Ah, but then there's the pesky gas station loophole!

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

This arson attack threw the entire anime industry into chaos. The typical anime studio is small, with maybe 20-30 employees. Yet they are also interconnected, with directors, voice actors, and other people having projects in several studios at once.

The bottom line was that there was a 3-6 months hiatus in production.

[alstewartfan]

Now CARRY IT OUT.

[RasterMaster]

OH! Now we've got to ban HIGH CAPACITY gas tanks!

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Kyoto Animation arson attack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Animation_arson_attack

[dfwgator]

Japan doesn’t mess around. They basically show up at your cell without warning and tell you, “It’s Time!”

Then they announce the execution a few weeks after the fact.

[struggle]

Yeah, I remember this well. They’re probably going to hang him immediately.

[RasterMaster]

That's a SCARY-LOOKING "assault" gas tank (looks too much like a mean black rifle)! BAN IT!

[Yo-Yo]

Which is why we need to enact mandatory EV laws immediately so we can have vehicles that don't catch on fir....

Never mind.

[Sirius Lee]

Nobody tries to burn down Gibli because they’re great.

[null and void]

What? That’s normal preparation for driving Highway 50.

[j.havenfarm]

I understand where he was coming from
In wanting to destroy this scourge, but I want to make clear I do t favor the murder of people who produce anime.

[RasterMaster]

You need a SPECIAL LICENSE for that! That’ll be $3,000 Application Fee and an annual $3,000 renewal. Oh, now that the new bill has been passed, we’ll need a DNA sample.

[null and void]

Yes, and the prisoner may wait months never knowing if today is the day.

[Vigilanteman]

Notice of execution is generally the same day. The family of the perp is notified within after the fact, so the media gets a courtesy notice shortly thereafter.

And the hangings are properly conducted, so it is quick, clinical and reliable.

[Vigilanteman]

. . . within hours after the fact.

Sorry.

[null and void]

Eh? I thought Japan didn’t do a drop and snapped neck hanging, but the dangle and strangle version?