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YAMAGATA -- A boy 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 youth 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)
::sigh:: the increasing stupidity of humanity worries me... _________________ "Life's a journey, not a destination..." -Aerosmith ('Amazing')
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Tue Dec 02, 2003 9:10 pm
John_Bono_Smithy_Satchmo
Joined: Nov 13, 2002
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Yeah--the kid's a moron. Didn't he watch the entire thing? The idea was to bring the idea up, then prove it wrong. That's what the movie/last 2 episodes were for. _________________ This space left intentionally blank.
Tue Dec 02, 2003 11:06 pm
WhtHawk
Joined: Jan 30, 2003
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I think that the kid's lawyer is a genious, why not blame animation for violence. Music and video artists have been sued already. Fresh meat.
Honestly, they all need to be thrown out of the gene pool. _________________ To do two things at once is to do neither. —Publilius Syrus, Roman slave, first century B.C.
Wed Dec 03, 2003 1:28 am
Andromaton
Joined: Nov 17, 2003
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Do they really think he wouldn't have done it eventually anyway?
Wed Dec 03, 2003 2:14 am
Beatdiggga
Joined: Nov 07, 2002
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YE GUILTY.
That's all I have to say. _________________ Sometimes I miss my sanity- Wedge Antilles
Wed Dec 03, 2003 2:20 am
Rycel
Joined: Nov 09, 2002
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All kidding aside, this is going in my "Why Humanity is Doomed to Self-Extinction" file (or "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Stupidity"). Oh, I've got some golden material so far, but I'm not quite ready to present it before the National Social Sciences Summit yet. _________________ Rycel's Death Count on this board: 7
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Wed Dec 03, 2003 2:31 am
wildarmsheero
Joined: Jun 27, 2003
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I'm just wondering why he's 22 and living with his mom.... _________________ Comic | Wallpapers | Art | Music
Wed Dec 03, 2003 10:54 am
Green-Bird
Joined: Apr 14, 2003
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I can answer that. He's a loser.
TOP FIVE REASONS THE KID DID IT
5. Retardation
4. Just plain stupidness
3. Depression
2. Loser
1. Mental Illness
You know, they could also have blamed the Matrix Revolutions...
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Wed Dec 03, 2003 3:16 pm
AnimePrime
Joined: Nov 08, 2002
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Some crazy woman here already did that. Actually that guy was on the right track. He just needs to start with other stupid people first. And if “The ultimate conclusion of human evolution is ruin.” Why didn’t he kill himself first instead of other people? _________________ To err is human, to forgive is prime.
Wed Dec 03, 2003 10:13 pm
JohnnyPsycho
Joined: Nov 14, 2002
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...because the psychological type that believes in these types of nihilistic fantasies tend to have both delusions of grandeur and low self-esteem... they simultaneously hate themselves and believe themselves to be better than every other human in the world, so basically they're self-abusing, but in their own world they're the only real person in the world, so they retaliate for being shunned by wishing to kill everybody around them... Plus killing themselves would be counter-productive and counter-intuitive to these people, because they believe it is their right to kill everybody else... they will only resort to suicide once they feel that they have killed enough people to finally get noticed by the rest of the world, that their existence means something and that their innate "superiority" has finally been verified... That's basically how most people who go on killing sprees based on nihislitic fantasies work...
...then again, I'm no psychologist...
...booyah, grandma... _________________ "The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world." -Blaine Lee
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Hiroyuki Tsuchida, the 23-year-old (he was 22 at the time of the murder) that killed his mother with a baseball bat, has been found guilty of murder by the Yamagata district court.
Inspired by aspects of Neon Genesis Evangelion, Tsuchida believed that human beings are unnecessary beings, responsible for the destruction of the environment. This brought him to want to kill people and he chose to start with family members as he believed it would be easier and it would desensitize him to the process of killing.
Tsuchida was sentenced to fourteen years in prison.
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Thu Feb 26, 2004 9:17 am
Kalma
Joined: Nov 03, 2003
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This is funny. If he really belives this, he shoud have blamed Knives, who is more about destroying all humans than that guy?
JP, your reason for why he didn't kill himself first was a little off. You see he was not destroying humans because they are destroying the planet. No, his desire was to fulfill that purpose to the logical end.
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Thu Feb 26, 2004 10:57 am
ToonamiL
Joined: Nov 07, 2002
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So, this is what the world has gone too. If he saw the show and saw the messsage, wouldn't he kill himself? No, because we all fear death, but we love to see others die in the media of movies and television. So much...
Tue Mar 02, 2004 4:26 pm
Kalma
Joined: Nov 03, 2003
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Actually, I think we all fear the pain associated with killing. Not the empotional part, the part with ow that hurts. _________________ You're An Inu (Dog)!
Loyal and protective. A true friend all the way.
You love having yours ears scratched, and being near your loved ones.
"If you people cared as much for human life as we do, we wouldn't have to kill all of you."
Thu Mar 04, 2004 3:35 pm
Fodder
Joined: Apr 02, 2003
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I'm just wondering why he's 22 and living with his mom....
Todays offtopic life lesson: You will learn very fast that most kids do not move out of their house when their 18. They make just enough money to be happy at their entry level jobs but not enough for apartments, cars, insurance and bills. You will even hear of people in their late 20's (not me but i know people like this) who have gone back home during this last recession. The whole idea of moving out by 18 is something you dream about while growing up.
Back on topic: I agree that this is one smart lawyer. He will either get the guy off on the charge. Or get his sentence reduced. Considering this to be a 22 year old adult and not some kid. The story takes on a couple different problems. Most notably is that at 22 he would have known better then to emulate an anime. Unlike a 13 year old kid doing something off of Jackass.
I would be curious to hear what the jury finds in the end
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