Otaku Burns Down Mother’s Home in Gundam Revenge
- Categories: Anime Figures, News
- Date: Aug 10, 2009 18:37 JST
- Tags: Arson, Bizarre, Collections, Crime, Gundam, Hyogo, Plamo
A man has burnt down his home after his mother threw out his Gundam collection, lamenting “I’ve lost my precious Gundam, I may as well die.”
The man, a 29-year-old factory worker and Gundam collector in Hyogo prefecture, who needless to say lived in his mother’s house, became so distraught at the loss of his collection at the hands of his mother that felt his only recourse was fire.
He doused his room in kerosene and ignited it with a lighter, causing a conflagration which swiftly burnt the two storey wooden house to the ground.
Apparently not quite ready to die along with his Gundam, he fled the house and escaped without injury.
His mother (55), who was in the building as her son burnt it down, also escaped.
He explained what happened thus: “My precious Gundam plamo were all thrown out by my mother; I thought I’d die too.”
He has been arrested on charges of arson.
Via the Kobe Shimbun.
Mothers thoughtlessly, or spitefully, throwing out their children’s treasured possessions are the stuff of legend the world over; some even feel driven to murder in the face of such loss…
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The fault is not with the Otaku, but with the mother. She makes no effort whatsoever in attempting to understand what her son is going through. It was foolish of her to take matters into her own hands when she could have consulted a psychiatrist on the matter. Psychological addictions can be dangerous and are not easy to cure. It's a case of an amateur playing doctor. Parents are foolish to not understand their children.
Also, his personality is obviously the result of bad parenting. If he lives with his mother, then something is very wrong. I harbor much hatred towards overprotective parents who pamper their children so much that they lose out on their social life and independence that they turn into obsessed otakus. Then the idiotic mother wonders why is her son such a fucking retard, oblivious to her own mistakes. I say fuck off, bitch. You don't deserve to ask that question, you don't deserve to even TRY to treat your son by throwing out his gundams, because it's your fucking damn fault, the damage is done. Obviously it's not a case of bad influence from friends, eh? As if he has any. Seriously, I will arbitrarily assume and conclude that Otakus have sad lives because of pathetic parenting.
I'm done ranting for today kthxbai =D
he doesnt seem 'pampered' given he has his own job in a factory which is a good-paying job (at least in USA)
I'm a little late to this discussion, but I can't believe that not a single one of you nerds even brought up the fact that he could get a roommate if moving out is cost prohibitive.
Seriously. Anti-social much?
In the States, most people move out and would rather live with complete strangers than deal with their parents. Sure, they may get some fringe benefits (e.g. free meals, housekeeping, allowance, etc.), but you forfeit your rights as an individual when you accept those benefits.
If you want to be treated and respect as an adult, then find a way to live without relying one someone for a handout. Living with roommates is more of a business move than anything, even when living with friends. If you live with your parents, it's like you're living at a homeless shelter. You play by the rules or you sleep on the streets.
Was the mother right in destroying his collection? Not really. But if you view it as a landlord-tenant relationship, in which he owed his mother money for several months' worth of rent, the mother had every right to repo all his shit and change the locks. If he can't make good on the payments, then he has loses all rights to his goods and she's allowed to destroy everything.
The amount of rage that you are all showing at the mother's actions leads me to believe that most of you are still living at home and are pissed at some shit your parents recently did. I really hope your parents just kick you out.
I read this as "Otaku Burns Down Mother’s Home in Gundam" and then was disappointed when I saw the full title.
i mean, i don't condone murder or arson but... i could definitely sympathize.
What a heartless bitch. I'd kill myself if anything ever happened to my collection.
Hardcore Otaku, you rock dude!
NEVER TOUCH A MAN'S GUNDAM PERIOD
I feel his Gundam lost-pain
OTAKU MAD!
OTAKU BURN!!
it can't be helped
Houses in Japan are built cheap with thin walls and are meant to be disposeable.
It's land that is expensive. They still own the land, so that momma can now build herself a brand spankin new house.
Or a casino with blackjack and hookers
In fact, forget the blackjack.
It got him out of the house, if that's any consolation to the inconsiderate mother :P
I pity both sides. The guy for losing his precious gundam collection and mother's belief in him. The mom for losing her home and son's belief in her. She just wanted her son to be a normal person to her while he just wanted to do something which is normal to him. Due to misunderstanding, on both and toward both sides, both caused self-destruction toward each other.
.... And delivered some lulz to teh internets
It can't be helped.
a great success, mothers needs to know what is important for the sons
I'd do it, man, I'd seriously do it. I put some serious money and work into these things.
cool act bro
ウリは火遊びが大好きニダ
I would have bin pissed......very pissed......maybe even violent, but arson is a bit much
i installed security cameras, and laser on my collection room to avoid this, else i would have to
live under a bridge
THE FUCK LADY?!
You dont just through out gundams! I hope you burn...and actually die this time >_>
Ameeeeen!
It doesn't really seem surprising as to why he lived with his mother... with the global recession and all that, I can say that it maybe one very smart move one could make in order to save money.
True independence is not measured when you live on your own alone.
That will teach the mother to throw away valuable collector items.
Four and Psycho Gundam? Hmm... Four never had a chance to become a mother anyway, so something doesn't connect here.
lol only in japan
what a dumb bastard
he should just rethink his plan on burning the house; he should build and equip his gundam with self destruct device since he lives with his mom. weirdest collection would be a mine or trap like the american movie the collector.
Since i heard no word about a father, am surprised no one noticed the very likely possibility since old women in Japan are usually house-wifes that he may lived in her house but he was the one supporting her.
In my family, we leave and come back periodically before marriage. Afterwards, we just show up less often. I don't think that the problem is that he was living with his mother. My mom often lives with other people including my grandmother. Honestly, I don't think we might never see each other again if all of us didn't live together now and again. My brother has his own house now and doesn't really speak to us anymore.
Poor guy, plamo takes a lot of work to build.
They should arrest his mother, not him.
He did the rigt thing - you dont fuck with otaku's proud soul
Hey I might have snapped too. A lot of those models are DAMN expensive.
Gundams srs bns
lol puss
Such BS, they should arrest the mom. If she didn't throw away his Gundams, this wouldn't have happened in the first place. Bad parenting.
Yeah, last time I checked, destroying someone else's property was a crime... Could have been thousands of dollars of gundam stuff.
i bet the house was more expensive though.
And I bet he had the money to move out though
not that quite as well as i presume sure budgeting and saving by living with her mother just to buy the plamos or if not then he might not found a suitable place to live in asides from his mother's quite understandable enough
Perfect Grade Plamos cost hundreds. If his collection is what I'm imagining it to be. It would cost more than a two storey wooden house.
yes and if she didnt give birth to him, he wouldnt exist in the first place
Another reason why to move out when you're an adult >_>
Yes. I got a shitload of action figures (well, not THAT much), so i do need some personal space to display them.
An approx 30yo man still living with his mother aside, what's up with parents still doing the oldschool "If you don't.. I'll throw your precious (item) away." on their grown up son?
Oh well, the son's later senseless act really explained it all..
If it were my dad, i'd burn his porn collections revenge.
Since it was his mother, he should've burned her yaoi.
Pwned? As if. How many 50 something year old women read yaoi?
PWND!! XD
one thing;s for sure....
spare parts for modellers! harhar
I feel for the man, but he should have moved out long ago. If you live with your folks past your 18th birthday, then you are just a leech. People who refuse to support themselves when they have the means to have no right to live.
I live in an Asian country, I'm 23, and I live with my parents. Should I be ashamed? Nope. The average age of marriage, and thus buying a new home (or rather, putting down the down payment and being shackled by installments) is around 32. So far, every one of my friends are still living with my parents, including the 3 poor buggers who had shotgun marriages.
You might be living with your parents but that doesn't mean every Asian still lives with their parents.
Firstly this happened in Japan and in Japan while some do still live their parents before marriage (or even after marriage), just as many move out to live on their own after getting a job. That is why the term "parasitic singles" are used in Japan. While the age of independence is a little older compared to the west, many actually do move out once they get a permanent job.
If the mother was pissed enough to throw out his plamo, I think many arguments might have already happened before this action was taken. If he was clashing with his parents because of this, he with a regular income, should have moved ages ago.
I am not saying his mother had any right to throw his possessions away, I am saying he should have done better in solving this issue before it escalated to house burning. He had every means to solve this problem but he didn't. Instead, he chose to burn the house down. If that wasn't a cowardly and whingey move, I don't know what is.
Again, I would like to push the point that the mother wasn't faultless, but as an adult, he wasn't a helpless kid, he had a plenitude of choices that he could have made.
Ok, you are speculating that he doesn't have enough income but I am saying that he might have, but who the fuck knows since we are all speculating... But if he had the ability to do so but didn't and then stayed with his parents to save on rent and be taken care of like some 10 year old, he brought it upon himself.
* Parasite singles is not a Japanese phenomena but the term itself is. I have no idea how deep your knowledge of the Japanese society is, but the phenomena is well spread enough to garner a name term. Most singles stay with their parents because they not only save on rent so they can spend it on their own hobbies and interest, it is also because they get housekeeping as well. The savings aren't just monetary but in other aspects as well. So even if they are paying rent (survey shows that 50% GETS an additional allowance from their parents) to their parents, they are still getting pampered in other ways. And the ones who seriously can't afford to move out are the freeters, NEET or hikkikomori, and any of those three choices are more personal than financial/social.
but again the problem is japan's housing price even with a stable income it would not necessarily mean he could have acquired a decent place to live in even with the necessary sacrifice
lucky, if i were your friend, i would definitely live with your parents.
Without even knowing all the details you sure are quick to judge someone, a right you don’t even have in the first place. There are several reasons someone would still be living with their parents after their 18th birthday. I too think it’s pretty harsh to burn down your parent’s house just for throwing out your toys. Who says he wasn’t paying rent on the place? He could’ve been making enough money to give some to his mother and still buy Gundam figures. And if he really is just a worthless NEET then proper actions should have been taken to help the man not drive him insane by forcing reality on him!
Again, you are speaking with no knowledge of how Asian culture works. Generally, people only buy their own homes after getting married, partly because of the price of housing.
this is partly true as like any other housing problems in the world price, location, and size is all that matter to a house and i do remember condos in japan have limits on how you can take cre of it like not putting more shelves as such or letting stay as it is
A 29 year old living with his mama gets mad and burns down HER house because of a bunch of toys? Now I'm not saying his collection wasn't precious, but if such collection became a nuisance in his mother's house (and I bet he didn't pay rent or shit) then she's entitled to tell him to gtfo all the toys or at least respect her place.
That's why you're supposed to move out and get your own place 9 years ago. What a fucking loser.
See my comment above, and next time please make an attempt to understand Japanese culture before spewing out meaningless vitriol.
Pwnd!
What comment are you talking about? if understanding culture means that within his society he was somehow justified in burning down the house you're out of your rocket. She was a bitch for throwing his stuff yes, but that doesn't condone his actions either, take this case into court in any other country and nobody will take his side, moron.
Do you seriously think that what this mother did was good?! I don't know what their situation is like but a parent that won't talk it over thorougly with his child before doing something that evil shouldn't get any respect from others.
Burning down a house is bad too and the fact that he did it again without seeking to talk it over before seems to point out that this family had a lack of communication.
So, if we don't want our collection getting thrown out and being forced to burn down our house, we should talk about any problem with the poeple around us first, ne? (=^.^=)
No one said the mother was a saint, she was a disrespectful retard for throwing his stuff, that doesn't mean he gains any sympathy from any person after burning down a whole house.
I agree they should've talked if first, but we honestly don't know how things in that household were. Maybe she never said anything and just threw everything, maybe she did ask and he completely ignored her. All we have is that in the end they're both douches, ones for throwing property the other for burning it.
I'd put it like this:
If the amount of figures of his was a problem to her, it's likely enough of a collection that he spent a large part of his money buying them, and a large part of his free time building them.
I do not have a plamo collection, but if someone threw my most prized possessions that I spent most of my money and life on out, no matter what they are, I'd probably snap in some fashion or another, too.
While legally it's not on the same level, morally I'd place throwing out his collection on about the same level as him taking her home from her. In fact, I'd actually consider the former worse. If you lose your home, pack your irreplaceable stuff and go somewhere else. If you lose your irreplaceable stuff... well, fuck.
I have zero sympathy for parents who pull shit like this on their children and expect to get away with it because they're parents. If he earned his own money, chances are she wasn't even the one who paid for the gundams. At the very least, she should be charged for theft and/or destruction of property/whatever is applicable if a stranger did the same thing. And give him a mild sentence due to the cirumstances.
I speak from own experience when I say that getting the things you hold dear destroyed or thrown away by people you love can be highly traumatizing for children. I doubt it's any different for adults. If anything, even moreso for the latter because there's more time and emotional investment involved.
But:
-in the house might be large amounts of irreplaceable possessions and memorabilia. Heck, the house might be an ancestral home. All those things completely and utterly irreplaceable too.
-and he probably save all those money from not moving out and then spent it on his plamo. And probably save time from not doing any mundane house chores and spend it on building his plamo. Both were things he couldn't have had if he weren't living at home.
Living with your parents when you are 29 is not necessarily a bad thing but it is certainly a privilege more than anything else. If you live in someone else's place, you have to follow the house rules, if you can't, find your own place.
Like what Yaku said, they were both asses. They were both old enough to behave in a fashion more befitting.
Japanese culture is a lot different than other places...
Bullshit. That's just what YOU want to believe. It's the same everywhere. Stories of how otakus live by themselves, shutting themselves in and leeching off everyone else are too romanticised outside of Japan, when they are considered a social problem inside the country itself. If I were the parents, I'd have him pay back the house.
I'd start off by selling him to a brothel.
>linkinstreet
I recently read a book about hikkikomoris and for those mothers who did have them they were actually accepting (although grudgingly) of their children staying at home. Said something about how the children being around sort of fulfilled the mothers life, or something to that effect. Whether or not this mother felt that way is up in the air but if she let it get to this case, I'd say she did feel at least an inkling of not wanting to let go.
Clearly this man having a job means that he is not your shut-in hikkikomori type so this case would probably be more fitting of the "parasitic single" which is another thing covered in the book where the children remain at home. You might want to look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasite_single for more about that.
I probably should have expounded on the matter in the previous comment that you replied to but I don't remember all of it clearly enough to feel comfortable in putting down anything and calling it concrete. Book is titled "Shutting Out the Sun" by Michael Zielenziger if you want to take a look at it. I'd recommend it just as an image of Japan's growing social problems as it covers a lot of other matters (declining birth rates, newfound female independence, abovementioned hikkikomoris and parasitic singles, etc) about their society. As the one and two star reviews on Amazon will tell you it is not a perfect book by any means but it does bring various things to the forefront for one to think about.
In any case, it is as much the mother and father's fault as it is the son's.
Even if you take into consideration the culture he's still being a leeching mama's boy jerk.
Yes she was a damn douche for throwing his stuff, that still doesn't give him any right to burn down the house of the person took care of him his whole life and who was giving him a roof, not to mention the luxury to please his hobbies.
I don't know anything about how recession affected this household, maybe they were still good enough so he could purchase so many gundams they were cluttering her house, maybe the collection was small and she was a bitch, maybe he didn't contribute to the house and spent all his money on gundams, I don't know.
Why throw it out in the first place? At least sell it and make it worth something.
It probably wasn't a real problem for her in the first place. I've been sent to live from place to place and often when people rent or give you a room they still think it's theirs. They let their kids go in, complain if it's organized or arrange differently (this woman was an anal homemaker), or they think it's ok to store stuff in it. The problem probably isn't that it's their mom but just how most people act when you rent a room in their house. No respect for privacy or property.
Still that'no reason for her mother to throw it away, don't forget that stuff is expensive as hell, if he had a huge collection his mother would be throwing hundreds of dolars and don't forget how much time and commitment you need to build some of those figures
In times of recession, it's not embarrassing to go and live in your parent's home.
Well, if he could spend so much money on buying those expensive as hell stuff, I am sure he can afford rent elsewhere and his stuff wouldn't have been thrown away. He can only blame himself. Dumbshit.
Why didnt he just throw out HER stuff? Like, I dunno, uhh.... all these makeup and shit.
I hate the 'normal' stereotype that's got everyone brainwashed.
You are supposed to talk if something is a nuisance first. Or so I heard. Burning a house is not a solution either though.
All this crap about how lame otakus are always cracks me up. ^_^
These parents thinks forcing is the easiest way.
It is, once you lube it up.
if no fit, put spit.
Why would she throw them out?
It's one thing if his Otaku hobbies made him a lazy NEET that lives in his room all day but he's got a job...
How exactly is he a NEET it says in the article that he has a job.
There's a thing in Japan about having hobbies that are relevant to your age. I guess she thought toy collecting to be childish and decided to do away with them.
Mothers are people to..
If they throw away their childrens' most prized possessions, they don't deserve to be called human anymore.
hm... i wonder how my mom would throw away my priceless possession if told her it was her... >=3
That was touchingly beautiful.
Now do what they do on 4chan and tell her you love her and report back the results.
True.
One down, a hell lot of more inconsiderate parents to go
The guy 29 and was living in HIS MOTHER'S HOUSE. Who's the real inconsiderate one here?
It's very common for people to live with their parents in Japan... what, with space being at a premium at all. There's less of a social stigma attached to it than in the Western world.
I know, but still, he burnt the house down. I'd like to see his factor paycheck pay that off.
Parents have been inconsiderate since the dawn of time. That guy needs to grow the hell up, or get his own space to store his collections.
Well look at it this way: By one inconsiderate act she started a chain of events; that now only caused the loss of her house, but her son as well.
Also, its not as if he was being a useless ass, he had a job.
gundam collection loss XD
poor man, had to be very rage saying
"mother, you’re gulty moaarrrrrrrrrrrr"
The mother lived so that wouldn't really count towards the one down,more to go thing.
This never works with any addiction or obsession. Ever see someone get their Heroin thrown away? Not a pretty sight.
I understand that man's feelings very well. My dad once chop off my Venom (from Spider-Man) action figure with a matchet, just because he haet my hobby of collecting toys even when i'm already 18. My vengeance? I stole his money. Not a big one. Just 50000 Indonesian Rupiah... Each week for 1 year.
Accidently opened my bookshelf... *sigh*
But hey, good thing i haev 50 DVD Doujin Scans!! XD
Another reason to kick overgrown kids out of the house: Thieving little bastards.
Sounds nasty ^^;; 50,000 X 41 week (in 1 year) = 2.050.000 Rupiah...
Too bad(?) I don't have teh guts like you are, Razor Claw... *Dad also chops my pr0ns*
You obviously didn't hide your pr0n well *chuckles*
Razor : perhaps your dad would love to see you collecting jap model kit instead of those =))
Then throw both the heroin and the addict away. Solves 2 problems at once.
GUNDAM!!!!
being thrown away or being 2nd hand is the same thing in my case.
As the saying goes: "You shall reap what you sow." :D
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no one posts on 4ch so it must have a pretty high concentration of idiots