Nitroplus’s music producer has had the incredible misfortune to have been stabbed to death in a random knife attack on the streets of Osaka.
The killer, a 36-year-old unemployed man of no fixed abode, attacked a woman in her sixties and a man in his forties on the street at 1PM in central Osaka.
Both victims were stabbed repeatedly and died shortly after being taken to hospital. The killer was arrested at the scene on charges of attempted murder, shortly to be elevated to murder.
Nobody else was injured in the attacks, though witnesses reported he appeared intent on further attacks.
The identity of his female victim is not yet known, but his male victim was 42-year-old Shingo Minamino, confirmed by visual novel producer Nitroplus as being in charge of scoring their various games and anime productions under the auspices of his employer Georide.
According to police, the killer claimed to have selected his victims at random and “wanted to commit suicide so I bought a kitchen knife nearby, but it was no good so instead I thought I’d kill some people and get the death penalty.”
“random stabbing??” victim “a music producer?” killers don’t usually just go around murdering ppl, this was an assasination
What a fucking asshole… Why do these people have to kill OTHERS before killing themselves? He should’ve done us all a favor and simply killed himself.
And while we are debating the symptoms, let’s not forget the cause for people to end up unemployed and without a perspective up to where they just want to lash out at this fucked up society.
I’m sure, nothing of that will find its proper place in the news. Sympathy for the culprit? Not for him being a murderer but certainly for the fact that the true culprits are still destroying lives on a daily basis.
They shouldn’t give this guy death penalty. Instead, I think he deserves to be tortured slowly and painfully, like Griffith in Berserk.
Is it just me, or do Japanese people die from stab wounds a lot easier than others? I’m always hearing about some Japanese person dying in a stabbing attack, but here if someone gets stabbed they pump them fully of blood, stitch them up, and send them on their way. It’s rare that anyone dies from it…