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Japan Sentences Kyoto Animation Arsonist To Death For Mass Murder
A man who deliberately set fire to a three-story animation studio in the Japanese city of Kyoto in 2019, killing 36 people, has been sentenced to death for mass murder. The guilty man, Shinji Aoba,…
The guilty man, Shinji Aoba, is reported to have held a grudge against Kyoto Animation, which is also known as KyoAni, in the belief it had stolen ideas from novels he submitted to a competition run by the company. The 35-year-old studio, created by husband and wife team by Yoko and Hideaki Hatta, was known for works such as The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid and Violet Evergarden. His mental state divided two testifying psychiatrists, but presiding Judge Keisuke Masuda ruled that Aoba had been in possession of his senses at the time of setting the building alight and was responsible for the crime.
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