カテゴリー: Anime
Shinji Aoba was arrested after attack in July 2019 in which 36 people diedJapanese prosecutors have charged a man with murder over the 2019 arson attack on Kyoto Animation in which 36 people died, the country’s national public broadcaster has reported,…
As the death toll rises to 35, police say Shinji Aoba was caught on camera visiting sites in the city of UjiThe suspect in the Kyoto Animation arson attack visited locations featured in one of the company’s anime series in the days before the attack, a…
The studio that nurtured creativity and treasured its staff made anime that found magic in the everydayLike many fans, I wasn’t really aware of specific animation houses or companies when I first got into Japanese animation as a kid. Anime, as far as I…
Mourners gathered in Japan on Friday to lay flowers outside Kyoto Animation after an arson attack that killed at least 33 people. Many of the victims were employees of the studio, which works on movies and TV productions but is best known for its mega-…
Witnesses say Shinji Aoba claimed he started deadly blaze over plagiarisation disputeJapanese police have named a 41-year-old man suspected of carrying out an arson attack on an animation studio that killed 33 people.Witnesses said Shinji Aoba confesse…
Sense of loss spreads beyond fans of the genre as Justin Trudeau and Tim Cook voice their shock“I have watched animation since I was a student, and this was a terrible event,” says Jun Shin, a 30-year-old fan from Osaka who visited the site of the Kyot…
Dozens more injured after ‘man threw liquid and set fire’ to building, police sayJapan has been plunged into a state of shock after an arson attack on an anime studio left at least 33 people dead and dozens injured in the country’s worst mass murder in…