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.
That’s tragic and awful in so many levels.
There goes my Yomiko Readman-esque apartment fantasy.
Ouch. Nothing more to say really. Lower bookshelves maybe?
But don’t you see? I HAVE to put all volumes of Kochikame into the same shelf! Otherwise it just wouldn’t FEEL right!
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*
Damn, that’s quite unexpected… Thank god I don’t have a large collection.
Oh, dammit. I bet this is how i am going to die…
What he said lol.
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
This may be the best ever arguement for scanlations. No worries about hundred or thousands of volumes on a Computer HDD or DVD burying you alive.
QFT
READ OR DIE… or probably Death Note killed him. ;P
Poor guy. That looks like my room… only without the extra bookcase I have… Hope no earthquake comes and knocks my manga over me while I’m sleeping… T_T
*continuation*
although that is a HELL of a lot of manga o_O, its almost as many titles as my local bookstore sells x_x
this is why i stick to keeping things on my computer
Damn it! My dream was to have a collection this big and then i hear this :(
Eh its a good way to go, killed by what you love
This.
And at 37. Good age for a rock star death. Lived true to yourself, followed your dreams, and nature/fate graciously sees you off surrounded by what you loved before you get older and society finds even more reasons to brand you as an outcast.
Unless he still had things he wanted to do, or had one of those rare circles of friends who make you feel it’s alright to just be who you are. Then this is fucking tragic.
I wonder what his last thoughts were, excluding “shit, this is really it isn’t it?” and the like.
what a way to die…
lol i find this funny
This Reminded me of the Collyer brothers who brownstone was packed solid by a wall of old newspapers,
In the Year 1947, Langley had been crawling through a newspaper tunnel to bring food to his paralyzed brother when one of his own booby traps fell down and crushed him.