Police have warned children and the public to be on guard after an “otaku-like” man asked a schoolgirl for directions.
The advisory (such missives are typically deleted without comment if widely questioned):
At 7:40PM on the 12th, and around 8PM the following day, a man used asking directions as a pretence to start talking to a schoolgirl on her way home.
The two men are thought to be the same man, described as being aged 25-35, 170-175cm in height, of medium build and with unkempt hair, wearing trousers and a dark coloured polo shirt, and otaku-like in appearance.
Parents and guardians are advised to have children undertake the following precautions:
Have them carry an anti-crime buzzer
If they encounter a suspicious person, they should not speak to them but instead flee immediately and seek help
Travel in groups wherever possible
Utilise brightly lit and well travelled routes home
Any suspicious activity witnessed should be reported with a 110 call or straight to a police station.
Since it is now possible for a man to be hunted by police for merely smiling at or being spoken to by a schoolgirl, there is some scepticism as to whether this man’s conduct warranted such a response:
“So they want us to report any otaku we see to the police?”
“This is harsh.”
“What do they mean, ‘otaku-like’!?”
“That is really harsh…”
“Otaku-like…”
“They actually wrote that. Harsh discrimination right there.”
“What do they even mean by that?”
“Being an otaku is about being immersed in a particular hobby – how can you tell that from what they look like?”
“Didn’t you know? ‘Otaku’ just means ‘creepy guy’!”
“The whole report is a bit suspect really.”
“This is an official advisory by the Kumamoto police? Damn…”
“What do you expect?”
“What have you lot been doing to that poor girl?”
“What part of this is even a crime?”
“It’ll be an offence under prefectural anti-nuisance ordinances, mark my words.”
“I doubt you lot have the guts to even ask a girl for directions in any case.”
“How can they say ‘otaku-like’? What the hell is that supposed to point out?”
“Try looking in a mirror!”
“Anyone being asked the directions by you people would want to report it.”
“Otaku angry at being called otaku-like.”
“Stop crying guys.”
“What do they mean ‘using the pretence of asking for directions’? Wasn’t he just asking for directions? And nobody would tell him so he had to keep asking or something, right?”
“What should an otaku do if they get lost?”
“Use your phone or try a police box. You mustn’t frighten normal people going about their business.”
“It’s no good. The only way to avoid this stuff is to become a hikikomori!”
“This is like that one about police looking for a man who smiled at a schoolgirl…”
“Otaku-like… as if the perpetrators of most crimes against children aren’t their parents and guardians?”
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"Normal" people just want to find any possible excuse for persecuting people they want to be bad.
There always has to be someone worse than you to make you feel like a good person, right?
Correct me if i'm wrong, but to be an otaku you simply have to have a strong interest in something. If this is the case, then even 'normal' people qualify.
You could even say that sports fans are otaku. But for some reason, because it is athletic, it isn't seen the same.
No being a sports fan is normal, therefore antigonist to being an otaku.
Meh, I think that their chief concern isn't exactly the "otaku" part but the "appearance" part. They just assume all otaku are fat, sweaty, ugly, and dressed funny.
Society all over do have that in common in that they look for a minority who ever it may be to go after to get browny points with the majority. So all you Ataku make sure you look up and strait and get a dam GPS.
Lol otaku-like in appearance so there's an Otaku clothing line? If they want Otaku then arrest all the one who is in the Anime Convention.
But then, you'd have nowhere to go, dumbshit.
If you don't like altair badmouth english then why bother reading it? Stupid.
You really hate Altair, don't you, EFG-wannabe?
Talk about troll word war this is insteresting anon vs altair. place your bet
Don't blame me Trollyshit. Blame Japanese cop's discrimination.
I don't hate Altair for the same reason you don't hate cheaters at the Special Olympics. Ultimately it doesn't matter and they're all losers anyways just like that mouth breathing brokeass English butchering Altair.
I'll bet that he's never even been oppressed by the Japanese police much less any policeman given he just sits at home fucking his hand.
@ Altair 07:00
Oh no! He called me an English teacher! I'm going to cry!
Look at this bitch. He has to depend on other lameasses to defend his pansy ass. Ohhh thanks Frank! Ooooh please help me, mom!
@ Frank 19:07
Your English teacher used to sound awesome and epicly manly? Or do you mean he used to call your work shitty alphabet soup? Either way, he sounds pretty incredible. He makes me proud.
at frank
English Troll Teacher.
lol Americans are stupid
@ 12:36
You can bet, but this isn't a war, it's a damn massacre. Altair's comebacks are so lame and uninspired they make even shitty 6 grader insults seem like spoken word poetry from Homer (of Greece, not Simpson) himself.
At anon 14:50
You sounds like my long dead English Teacher
Speaking of which, I can't wait until the next Assassin's Creed comes out in November >.>
@ 13:22
I'm angry precisely because it's hard to read. It's like swimming through shitty alphabet soup!
P.S. Which reminds me - your English is also like regurgitated mangled Hyena feces. Oh and thanks for the compliment! :)
"described as being aged 25-35, 170-175cm in height, of medium build and with unkempt hair, wearing trousers..."
So any men near the age of 30 should just avoid wearing trousers outside, if they don't want to be accused of being child-molesters.
Yeah, but they were "otaku-like" trousers...maybe she was offended by his "otaku-like" sense of style. If otaku had style, that is.
Actually, I think the real reason this got reported by police is that it was the same guy asking the same girl for directions on 2 occasions. He should have been able to find his way out of town before then. But the other kids have nothing to worry about. He's obviously just stalking that one girl.
They may have felt offended by the lack of it.
Clearly the answer is to walk around naked~
Pretty much, because not wearing pants and wandering around the neighborhood means you are DEFINITELY NOT a child-molestor
Pantless and wandering around? Maybe it was an amnesiac sumo wrestler looking for his stable?
And people wonder why there are hikikomoris.
Just wait until we see "Man arrested for emptying bin of used tissues." In Japan no one is safe.
More likely "Man Arresting For Appearing To Consider Emptying Bin of Used Tissues".
In Japan no one is safe according to Sankaku. Go to Japan and see if you get arrested just for being there.
It really amuses me sometimes how people just repeats what Artefact says like they are doing something cool. While you bash whatever you want for brainwashing, here's a perfect example of how brainwashing works.
Sankaku: Sky is green.
Sankaku User: Sky is indeed green.
Sankaku: Japan isn't safe, you get arrested for everything.
Sankaku User: OMG guys don't go to Japan~~ I mean, is there anything they don't arrest you for?
technically these reports are correct. It is the context they are addressed in.
More intelligent readers can distinguish
People are joking...
You're the only one thinking he's brain washing anyone.
Anyways the Japanese are afraid of foreigners so they would treat you differently.
Who made this stupid report to the police in the first place?
It's just making opinions by selecting which news to show. Same like the media. But really, who of all you readers bothers to check the sources anyway? I'm here for the fanservice, not the news.
No one is safe /anywhere/ according to sankaku, and that's always been the case forever.
Today in the countries we know well it is ridiculously possible to get arrested because of ridiculous child protection measures, among others.
In the past, child protection was not one of the ridiculous ways to get arrested for nothing. That is all.
These observations are merely amusing. That is all, and you're a stupid person for having me have to spell it out to you.
With this descriptions "otaku-like" means EVERYBODY now!
My thougt exactly. I remember half a year ago o so there was an article on sankaku about how government was worried about how many hikkikomoris was there and wanted them to go out of there homes. But now if you go out there will be cops waiting for you.
Well duh, it's harder to catch them when they stay at home.
There is no reason for any grown man to speak to a schoolgirl that is not his own daughter unless it was an emergency. Get over it pedos.
i seriously believe your related to ishihara
sure. when you ask some adult they give you cold glares and say they don't know. face it, if you're otaku-like, you are discriminated as someone creepy so "normal" people move away from you. get the psychology of misused media?
Japan............You're becoming a sad place, I wonder if a foreigner asked for direction if the S.W.A.T. Team and black ops would be called out and wtf is "otaku-like" the guy could be your average unkept guy, OTAKU LIKE! I can't wait to go to japan, wearing anime shirts and asking underage girls for directions and when the police arrive jump in my get away (rental) car and start a epic chase and when they finally caught me and put me in the slammer, I call my immigration and tell them the japanese locked me up because " I asked for directions."
please upload it on youtube
+1 to both of you
When the police arrive, just start speaking English. All japs are absolutely TERRIFIED of that.
it's not THAT bad there... -speaking from experience- if you're a foreigner, you can get away with almost any mishap,
went to japan and didn't know where to go, was asking directions in japanese, and you can see them staring weirdly... went instead to asking in english, and i got all the help needed xD
I don't trust you.
You have squinty eyes and unkempt hair.
:-P Therefore, you must be an otaku, and a threat to society!
Does this mean all otakus have to get in shape and wear "casual/normal" clothes?
Actually, if you're white you'll probably be fine, but if you're black THEN they'll bring the SWAT.
haha, nice but make sure your someone from a influential family or they could care less if they hang you. Get for real if your not from someone the government should care about your SOL.
If you are black and wearing those attires then you will be shot on the spot without warning... thats how they roll
lol
While your there why not ask the guard for the direction's.
what they gonna do lock you up twice :D