Stabbing rampage in Akihabara

IlMrm · Post by **IlMrm** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 12:36 am

UnscathedFlyingObject · Mon Jun 09, 2008 2:34 am

Gosh, what the hell drive people to do stuff like this. If I was so "tired of life," I'd drive the knife through my neck.

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 3:03 am

Yeah, you'd think he'd commit seppukku and go down like a man. But no, he has to go and take innocent game players with him. I hope they chop his testicles off, with a dull, rusty hatchet.

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 3:11 am

will this have any effect on game prices?

StoofooEsq · Post by **StoofooEsq** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 3:23 am

Yahoo News article

Crazy. If he lacked that much self-faith, he'd have been better off removing himself from the world instead of stabbing innocent people that did nothing to him.

elfhentaifan · Post by **elfhentaifan** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 3:32 am

Vincent wrote:
Crazy. If he lacked that much self-faith, he'd have been better off removing himself from the world instead of stabbing innocent people that did nothing to him.

Thats just too boring for most of the people.
THis is why there also is so much suicide in public. Just annoying

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:41 am

THis is why there also is so much suicide in public.

Most suicide (in Japan) isn't. The train would be the one that is, but I believe it's more for convenience (for the jumper, obviously) than wow factor of doing it in public.

In fact, since the latest fashion in suicide puts others in the immediate area at risk, many groups will take a tent out in the woods to inhale their cocktail of poisonous fumes, and of course, leave a note on the tent door warning any would be intruders.

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 11:13 am

He probably saw the Ketsui kit price in Mak Japan.

Post by **nZero** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 1:41 pm

Looks to me like he got more people with the truck than with being stabby.

UnscathedFlyingObject · Mon Jun 09, 2008 1:49 pm

GaijinPunch wrote:
THis is why there also is so much suicide in public.
In fact, since the latest fashion in suicide puts others in the immediate area at risk, many groups will take a tent out in the woods to inhale their cocktail of poisonous fumes, and of course, leave a note on the tent door warning any would be intruders.

自殺中近寄らないでください

jisatsuchuu chikayoranaide kudasai

Committing suicide please don't get close

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 2:40 pm

I guess you will run amok not because you lost your will to live but because you hate people. I bet there are a lots of misanthrope people out there, and once they decided that everything in their live is fucked up they decide to "get back" on society (or whatever). I think the suicide part in most killing sprees just comes from the insight that after killing many people your life wouldn´t head in any favorable direction anymore

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 5:50 pm

duplicate infos close thred plz

anyway, lol @ people saying it was the video games

"Somebody should have told him that in real life you can't hit the reset button" I'm sure that would have stopped this rampage, moron

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 7:36 pm

He probably had a memory card in his pocket before going bananas.

ForceDevice · Post by **ForceDevice** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 10:35 pm

lol, he was a Tales of Destiny fan... even had a Leon drawing on his notebook.

Maybe his knife was called Chaltier and talked to him... and he screamed "MAJINKEN" as he stabbed people.

...seriously now, after that the old "games make you violent" crap discussion is about to start all over again. Being a gamer is the most obvious reason why someone decides to go out killing people with a knife, after all. >_>

UnscathedFlyingObject · Mon Jun 09, 2008 10:40 pm

Personally, I think it was because he played tennis.

majors · Post by **majors** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 10:40 pm

Guilty Gear players are so messed up.

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 3:21 am

Don't worry, he'll be seen as higher than the people he killed in the eyes of the Japanese vocal moral minority because he showed incredible ambition by killing those who don't have the guts to do such a thing.

Post by **spadgy** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 1:20 pm

Have a look at bullet point three in the box in this article

I knew there was something wrong with cute doujin shooters...

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 5:22 pm

giving a new meaning to the term INTERNET HACKER GANGZ

Lordstar · Post by **Lordstar** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 6:13 pm

Its really quite depressing this. Any loss of life (not including virtual pixel related stuff which is not life at all) is just bad. I am traveling to Japan on Saturday with the intention of spending some serious time in Akihabara. I am likely to be there this time next week. I hope the feel of the place does not change while im out there.

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 6:33 pm

required reading

The most messed up part is that much of this lashout at games is there to hide his troubles with his temp job (an industry that is tormenting a lot of young Japanese workers), as well as doing the damndest best to prevent the name of the company (toyota) from coming out. I'm sure they want to regulate the net; that way peoplell never know the truth, or at least the possibilities.

Lordstar · Post by **Lordstar** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 6:53 pm

Twiddle wrote:required reading

yeah it sucks that. It funny becuase there only shooting themselves in the foot. Computer games is a fucking huge business. Its nothing next to car manufacturing but its on the rise with little sign of stopping or even slowing down. Why would any government want to hinder such a nice tasty slice of economy.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 7:56 pm

Lordstar wrote:Its really quite depressing this. Any loss of life (not including virtual pixel related stuff which is not life at all) is just bad.

Astounding insights as always, Lordstar.

@ Twiddle:

loool gg nextmap

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 8:34 pm

Lordstar wrote:I am likely to be there this time next week. I hope the feel of the place does not change while im out there.

I hope this massacre doesn't disturb the video game shopping atmosphere, too. That'd be a real tragedy.

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 9:21 pm

spadgy wrote:Have a look at bullet point three in the box in this article

Great. Japan's going for it too.

Eternal Fighter Zero is a fighting game made by Twilight Frontier (often shortened to Tasofro), who also made the two Touhou fighting games that everyone fanboys over. I'm guessing "cutesy bullet hell shooter" refers to Touhou.

Lordstar · Post by **Lordstar** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 9:32 pm

Ed Oscuro wrote:
Lordstar wrote:Its really quite depressing this. Any loss of life (not including virtual pixel related stuff which is not life at all) is just bad.
Astounding insights as always, Lordstar.

It was more to stop some one making a joke of me loving killing them Koreans in crysis.

Lordstar · Post by **Lordstar** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 9:37 pm

Rob wrote:
Lordstar wrote:I am likely to be there this time next week. I hope the feel of the place does not change while im out there.
I hope this massacre doesn't disturb the video game shopping atmosphere, too. That'd be a real tragedy.

you said it rob not me. . . . but yeah. I really hope the loli cafes are still full of chirppy little just legal ass so i can perv a bit.

StoofooEsq · Post by **StoofooEsq** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:00 pm

As I've never resided in Japan for any amount of time and don't read news from Japan very often, perhaps an expert on the culture can answer this question for me. How sensationalist can the Japanese media be with regards to crimes that have at least a remote connection to a form of entertainment?

CIT · Post by **CIT** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:02 pm

I heard the killer wore pants. Surely pants are to blame!

Lordstar · Post by **Lordstar** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:25 pm

CIT wrote:I heard the killer wore pants. Surely pants are to blame!

Its a well known fact Japanese men with glasses are usually plotting something and are extremely calculating. It was to be expected. well at leas thats what anime has been telling me.