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Man Kills Elderly Parents Because They Always Interrupted Anime Viewing

 

In Fukuoka, Japan, a 59-year-old man is in police custody for the murder of his parents, ages 87 and 88. One of the reasons he gave for killing them was that his anime watching kept getting interrupted.

According to Yomiuri Shimbun and The Tokyo Reporter, Junji Matsumoto served as his parents’ caregiver. “It was bothersome that whenever I watched anime, my parents interrupted me,” he said (via Yomiuri). “I couldn’t stand it.”

The three of them—Junji, his father Hirokazu, and his mother Makie—lived together, with the parents getting by on their pensions, and requiring wheelchairs to get around. It is unclear if their son had an occupation other than their caregiver.

Matsumoto killed his parents after his father asked for help going to the restroom. It’s believed this happened on the night of June 20. “During a good scene in an anime, my father repeatedly called for me to take care of him,” said Matsumoto (via Yomiuri). “Because he complained about me, I killed him.” He then did the same to his mother, reports Fukuoka TNC News.

On June 23, Matsumoto fled his family home, first by bicycle, before boarding trains to travel across Japan, going as far as Shizuoka, Yamagata, and Akita. The murders and his escape made national news in Japan.

After a relative wasn’t able to get in touch with the family, on June 28, police arrived at the residence, where they discovered two bodies in a taped-shut industrial refrigerator. Later, authorities identified them as Matsumoto’s parents. An autopsy did not immediately reveal the cause of death.

Finally, on July 5, police captured Matsumoto in a hotel parking lot in Kyoto. It seems that his hotel stays led the police to his location. He was arrested for abandoning a corpse and admitted to the murders, saying he strangled his father with an electrical cord. The authorities are investigating the matter further.

https://kotaku.com/neo-the-world-ends-with-you-the-kotaku-review-1847386418

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Looking forward to this one and Overlord IV

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Fuck, China animation has came a long way

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New City Hunter Movie Announced

 

A new City Hunter anime movie is on its way, with Akira Kamiya reprising the role of Ryou Saeba. The movie is stated to be “coming soon” and has received a special announcement video.

It was also announced that the new movie will use TM Network‘s “Get Wild” as its ending song. The song was first released in 1987 and was used as the ending song for that year’s City Hunter anime series, the first anime to be based on Tsukasa Houjou‘s manga series. It was also the ending song for the most recent City Hunter movie, 2019’s City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes. 

 

The Shueisha-published City Hunter manga ran from 1985 to 1991, while two spin-offs from other manga artists began in 2017 and 2018 respectively. The 1987 anime was followed by multiple series and movies.

Coamix describes the manga as:

Ryo Saeba, a.k.a. City Hunter. A sweeper who fulfills all his client’s needs. He’ll do anything from bodyguarding to contract killing, but he’ll only take the job if a pretty woman is involved, or the client’s sincerity makes his heart tremble. Together with his partner Kaori Makimura, the kid sister of his late best friend, Ryo fights the evil haunting the shadows of the city!!

 

 

 

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School Days ending is still my ultimate WTF anime ending

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Finally, something heavy weight to look forward too.

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6 minutes ago, chamfer said:

 

I watched this series, it's very good

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20 minutes ago, Huat Zai said:

I watched this series, it's very good

I just stumbled on this.....not yet watch.

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3 minutes ago, chamfer said:

I just stumbled on this.....not yet watch.

This is very similar, but I like Meikyuu Black Company more

 

 

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Studio Ghibli producer reveals why Jiji no longer speaks at the end of ‘Kiki’s Delivery Service’

 

 

“Kiki’s Delivery Service” tells the story of Kiki, a 13-year-old witch who lives with Jiji, her talking cat, in a seaside town for a year. In the film’s final act, Kiki loses her magic abilities, making her unable to fly or talk to Jiji. She eventually regains her ability to fly, but she can no longer communicate with her cat, as suggested by his “meow” in the final scene of the film’s original Japanese version.

Since the film’s release in 1989, fans have wondered what exactly happened between Kiki and her cat. The official Twitter account of Nippon TV’s “Kinyo Roadshow” helped solve the mystery last week after posting a series of behind-the-scenes information to coincide with the film’s recent rebroadcast on Japanese television. 

 

According to one of the tweets, as translated by SoraNews24, Kiki appears to be “able to fly again but Jiji remains silent. Actually, it’s not because Kiki’s magical powers have weakened, but because Kiki has progressed to a new stage that Jiji has returned to being a ‘just a cat.’”

 

 

Director Hayao Miyazaki has hinted at something similar in the past. In previous interviews, he claimed that by the end of the film, Kiki has already grown and no longer needs to communicate with Jiji. 

A follow-up tweet provided new information from one of the film’s producers: “Regarding this topic, this is what producer Toshio Suzuki has to say: ‘Jiji is not just a pet, he’s another self [for Kiki]. So when she’s conversing with Jiji, she’s really just talking to herself.’”

 

 

 

 

• Since the release of the beloved Studio Ghibli film “Kiki’s Delivery Service” in 1989, Japanese fans have long wondered why the young witch Kiki can no longer hear her talking cat Jiji by the end of the film.
• The official Twitter account of Nippon TV’s “Kinyo Roadshow” shared behind-the-scenes information last week that could help solve the mystery for fans.
• “It appears that Kiki is now able to fly again but Jiji remains silent. Actually, it’s not because Kiki’s magical powers have weakened, but because Kiki has progressed to a new stage that Jiji has returned to being a ‘just a cat,'” the “Kinyo Roadshow” account wrote.
• Another tweet provided new information from one of the film’s producers: “Regarding this topic, this is what producer Toshio Suzuki has to say: ‘Jiji is not just a pet, he’s another self [for Kiki]. So when she’s conversing with Jiji, she’s really just talking to herself.”

A Studio Ghibli producer shared information about “Kiki’s Delivery Service” that could help Japanese fans solve a decades-long mystery surrounding the beloved film.

“Kiki’s Delivery Service” tells the story of Kiki, a 13-year-old witch who lives with Jiji, her talking cat, in a seaside town for a year. In the film’s final act, Kiki loses her magic abilities, making her unable to fly or talk to Jiji. She eventually regains her ability to fly, but she can no longer communicate with her cat, as suggested by his “meow” in the final scene of the film’s original Japanese version.

Since the film’s release in 1989, fans have wondered what exactly happened between Kiki and her cat. The official Twitter account of Nippon TV’s “Kinyo Roadshow” helped solve the mystery last week after posting a series of behind-the-scenes information to coincide with the film’s recent rebroadcast on Japanese television. 

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According to one of the tweets, as translated by SoraNews24, Kiki appears to be “able to fly again but Jiji remains silent. Actually, it’s not because Kiki’s magical powers have weakened, but because Kiki has progressed to a new stage that Jiji has returned to being a ‘just a cat.’”

 

Director Hayao Miyazaki has hinted at something similar in the past. In previous interviews, he claimed that by the end of the film, Kiki has already grown and no longer needs to communicate with Jiji. 

A follow-up tweet provided new information from one of the film’s producers: “Regarding this topic, this is what producer Toshio Suzuki has to say: ‘Jiji is not just a pet, he’s another self [for Kiki]. So when she’s conversing with Jiji, she’s really just talking to herself.’”

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This is further explained in the next tweet: “Her being unable to speak with Jiji at the end means that she no longer needs her alter ego, and that she can now do well in the town of Koriko. Kiki will grow into a fine witch who can do things by herself without having to rely on the existence of Jiji.”

 

 

For the English-dubbed version of the film, Disney changed the Japanese version’s ending to show Jiji speaking to Kiki again in the final act.

“Kinyo Roadshow” shared other interesting trivia, such as details about the inspiration behind Ursula’s painting, which was based on “Niji no Ue wo Tobu Fune” (“The Ship That Flies Over the Rainbow“), a piece of artwork created by special needs students from Hachinoheshi Ritsuminato Junior High School.

 

 

According to another tweet, the girl riding a horse in Ursula’s painting does not appear in the original artwork.

Hayao Miyazaki’s cameo in the film was also mentioned: “Pay attention to the person behind the old man bragging, ‘I lent her that scrubbing brush!’ The man wearing glasses in the upper right corner of the screen… Do you think he looks like someone?”

 

 

https://nextshark.com/studio-ghibli-kikis-delivery-service/#Echobox=1651688439

 

 

 

 

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Enjoyed the last season, hopefully this one is good too.

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