Manga stacked high in a typical otaku room - dangerous.

In what may be the only recorded incidence of death by manga, if we are to exclude the murderous rampages politicians and the mass media assure us are the result of such things, a man (37) was tragically buried alive by his impressive collection of many hundreds of volumes, apparently toppled onto him in the recent severe earthquake in Tohoku.

His death was only discovered after he failed to show up at work, and one of his co-workers thought this amiss, and so called on him, only to discover his former colleague dead under a mountain of manga, each wall having been stacked with manga to the height of two metres, which had collapsed onto the man. He is thought to have suffocated due to the weight of the volumes upon him. We do not hear which titles ultimately killed him.

A lesson to us all – please take care to ensure otherwise innocuous items cannot topple over and cause an embarrassing death, especially if you are fortunate (and tasteful) enough to have every volume of Berserk or some such. Via Sankei.


    Comment by Ten
    2008-06-16 19:59:12

    That’s tragic and awful in so many levels.

    There goes my Yomiko Readman-esque apartment fantasy.

     
    Comment by issa-sa
    2008-06-16 20:50:18

    Ouch. Nothing more to say really. Lower bookshelves maybe?

     
    Comment by BuggyBY
    2008-07-13 08:49:25

    But don’t you see? I HAVE to put all volumes of Kochikame into the same shelf! Otherwise it just wouldn’t FEEL right!

    Comment by nifty507
    2008-08-20 15:57:38

    i know, its a constant battle to have to re-arrange my manga every time I buy more. EVERYTIME! “Well, this series has 12 volumes so it can fit with these 6, and these 2… but then i have to move this here, and that has to go somewhere else…” Don’t even get me started on those art books. They need their own shelf to fit on, and thats close to being full… i dont know what im going to do! *cries*

     
     
    Comment by Narmi
    2008-07-24 18:07:16

    Damn, that’s quite unexpected… Thank god I don’t have a large collection.

     
    Comment by EvilDevil
    2008-09-27 03:10:15

    Oh, dammit. I bet this is how i am going to die…

    Comment by raikentb
    2008-10-16 05:58:51

    What he said lol.

     
     
    Comment by ern3sto
    2008-10-11 09:25:10

    u know what, there is quite some irony in that text

    “We do not hear which titles ultimately killed him.”

    that sounds just so…. i dunno, cant find the right word^^

    anyway as far as im concerned im not going to die that way

     


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