Re: [News] Cartoon blamed for youth's fatal beating on mom

Somewhere around the time of 12/01/2003 22:31, the world stopped and
listened as S.t.A.n.L.e.E contributed this to humanity:

> And guess which one it is:
> 
> <http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/archive/200312/02/20031202p2a00m0dm001001c.html>
> 
>    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.
> 
>    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."
> 
>    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.
> 
>    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.
> 
>    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)
> 
> 
> NGE is so old now.
> One would've thought it was another,
> more recent Gainax project - FLCL.
> Kidding.
> 
> Laters. =)
> 
>               Stan

Actually, I was thinking the same thing.  The person must be some random
unstable nut that just decided to go off.  Same thing was said about
video games not that long ago after the Comcubine shootings.
-- 
Daniel Rudy

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