Police have forced a Touhou event to cancel after threats were mailed to its venue, mirroring what happened with Kuroko and confirming the worst fears of doujin fans that a wave of unchallenged event cancellations may be imminent.
The event in question is Touhou Kamuisai 7, a regional Touhou event which was scheduled to be held in Sapporo on February.
However, the event’s organisers report police and the venue forced them to cancel as a result of what happened at Comiket and missives sent to the event itself:
As a result of the influence of the threats, due to various circumstances our venue, the Teisen Hall (mostly used for pro-wrestling it would seem), contacted us to discuss suspending the event.
We discussed the matter with them, but the demands of the venue and local police to cancel the event were so strong we had no choice but to cancel.
Further clarification of this excruciatingly vague explanation was forthcoming after speculation about the nature of the threat (it was thought the event might have been cancelled just because of what happened with Kuroko) ran rampant online:
Unfortunately, our explanation of it being due to ‘various circumstances’ caused much confusion. This was inexcusable.
[…]
The reason for the cancellation was that the Kamuisai itself received threats.
Without going into details as to the content of the threat the Teisen Hall reported receiving, there was a threat against the event and the police and venue’s operators then demanded we cancel it.
We did discuss a plan involving heightened security with guards and baggage checks, but as there is bowling alley next to the venue, it was decided it should be cancelled out of concern for the safety of those patrons.
They also formally reported the incident to police, but if their record in similar cases is anything to go by not much can expected from them – despite the culprit actually attending Comiket and leaving threatening letters in the hall, they have still yet to announce any progress.
There is considerable suspicion that the event’s cancellation is a direct result of the precedent set by Comiket in yielding completely to the terrorist threats it received, and that now any such event is entirely at the mercy of crazies sending threatening letters to their venue:
“Just as expected…”
“They gave in?”
“Obviously a copycat inspired by what happened at Comiket.”
“Expect more. The police probably want to eradicate doujin events in any case.”
“First Kuroko fans, now Touhou otaku…”
“I don’t care about this event, but you can’t just give in like this. It’s inviting more of the same.”
“There is actually a Kuroko event at the same venue two weeks earlier.”
“So the Kuroko fujoshi and Touhou otaku are squaring off against each other…”
“How useless are the police for allowing this stuff to go on?”
“That area is now the most unsafe part of Sapporo, so it’s obvious that station is staffed by total incompetents.”
“Our police are too busy forcing people accused of brushing up against schoolgirls to confess to groping to bother with such inconsequential matters.”
“The cops are desperate to shut these events down and with Abe and his cronies back in things are only going to get worse.”
“They aren’t even investigating this stuff. Unless something actually happens they will do nothing.”
“Just because they have not said or done anything doesn’t mean they aren’t investigating this at all, does it?”
“This is exactly what the criminal wanted… now all these events are vulnerable to random cancellations because of threats like this.”
“Everyone was saying Touhou would be next, but because they were just a bunch of fujoshi the first time nobody took things seriously. Somebody is just going to start sending letters to every event and that will be the end of things.”
“Comiket is going to be in serious trouble now.”
The Flandre banner is fucking cute!
Wow, man. So I wonder what happens if someone makes one of these threats at their next elections? Guess they’ll have to cancel those too.
Am I the only one that gets a distinct feeling this is the government keeping creepy otaku away from the public eye?
And this is why you DON’T give into terrorist threats.
terrorist here … terrorist there…. arent you using such a word A LOT TO LIGHTLY?
you might as well call it bullying.
Can anyone tell me if any venues sponsored by any uyoku dantai have been canceled due to threats?
I doubt anyone would cancel an event where politicians or yakuza could make some money.
Otakus are regarded as burakumin 部落民 so it’s easy to just shut them down.
Its actually Ishihara sending all the threat mail. Can’t anyone see that?
Fucking Eat-Shit-hara he’s ruining everything that’s good about Tokyo.
Wasn’t this threat shit over some fucking stupid basketball manga? WTF? I belive this shit is just Japanese government trying to shutdown what they down like. Ishitara abusing his power because no one buys his books anymore.
hmm maybe these things r influential.. it seems terrorists in Croatia r nowadays popular2..
the minister says “it’s just a lunatic, ignore him” tho =/
Why don’t they make a complain against the polic for frame up, since the possibly the culprit could be payed by the police or any social group.
Leave it to Japanese police to just look for the easiest way out of problems that requires no one to do anything resembling work.
I find this funny because when Kuroko was banned it was funny for you guys.
To quote a user, “And nothing of value was lost”.
I’m just copying what he said in a similar situation. <3
Hey, it’s all part of the Illuminati’s plan to get male and female anime dorks to fight each other. Divide and conquer.
Not so much “terrorism” as “blackmail”.
In fact, “blackmailing” in Japan isn’t too hard at all since almost all of the higher-ups are corrupt to the core and they leave more traces than a horde of elephants in a cheesecake manufacture.
For those who don’t know: Forced socializing events in Japan are an easy way to witness pure corruption. That place is a veritable wonderland for possible court cases. Too bad that the general populace is living on its knees.
Bending over to terrorism sets some really bad precedent.
Congrats, guys – you’ve proven terrorism works great in Japan. Enjoy the inevitable deluge of similar threats made from everything from delusional would-be killers to bored school kids.
america: we don’t respond to terrorists.
japan….. ok, at least police: we will suck your dicks dude who we don’t know of.
>america: we don’t respond to terrorists.
Last time I checked…
…we killed them by the bushels.
Correction: We don’t play with terrorists. We kill them.
Japan is truly the land of pussies. That nuke did more damage than we thought.
I only wonder won’t the ones sending threat just sit infront of their computers at home and bit their fingernails if the police didn’t cancel the event? lols
The only thing these threats will achieve is turn the doujin scene into an underground movement.
How about people reply to threats like that with the following.
“Dear XXX,
We receieved your letter demanding the cancellation over the event in which you would threaten with bodily harm if it continues.
Please be advised that we have enacted the following in response.
1. A shoot-to-kill order against you.
2. Heightened security and mandatory body frisk searching.
3. Metal detectors and signs everywhere.
Kindly be informed that we have taken measures, and that you can go fuck yourself. You will be shot on sight if you start trouble.
Great idea, let’s fight terrorism by pissing ourselves over unrealistic threats. How about a plain “Fuck you” response instead?
I bet these cops can’t find their IP so thought it’d be impossible to find the culprits
So they cancelled another event just because of an empty threat? Just another fail for Japanese cops, in which we already know about.
how about stating to threath the very government ?
“ban ishihara!”, “build gundams!”, “shorter and cuter uniforms in schools !”… the possibilities are endless \o/ !
wise man once said, “FUCK THE POLICE”
i’m a sniper with a hell of a scope.
First they came for the Kuroko doujins, I did not speak out because I was not a fujoshi.
Then they came for the Touhou doujins, I did not speak out because I was not a Touhou otaku.
Then they came for the rape and guro doujins, I did not speak out because I was not into rape and guro.
And when they came for the ordinary doujins, there was no one left to speak for me.
In other words, you 2ch otakus should stop moaning and actually start a protest or something. You were so fired up in your anti-Korean and anti-Chinese protests, so why can’t you do the same for something that you actually like?
I see what you did there. *Slow Clap*
Guess 2ch find racism and hating just easier than actually defending something. Human nature at it’s finest really. Easier to hate and blame….
Cowards!
Do your job, catch the person!!
If this is how easy they give in the IOC will certianly not award Tokyo the 2020 games.
Yeah, if this is their response to unsubstantiated threats without any proof whatsoever that they could actually carry out the threats, there’s no way Tokyo could handle an event that will have legitimate nutcases making legitimate threats that they will actually be able to make good on.
Giving in to an empty threat? This is exactly what the guy wanted, and now that he knows it works he’s going to continue.
I think its Ishihara would made the terrorist threat.
Then, he’ll blame the manga industry for promoting terrorism.
“If Ishihara doesn’t leave politics I will bomb the senate”
Let me guess, the politicians/police couldn’t cancel these events before so now they are sending/making up fake threat letters to cancel these events without raising too much suspicions…
I was thinking that the same thing — false flag operation by cops/politicians/Ishihara lackeys to kill off doujin events.
Why do they give in to lousy threats?
Because cops are useless in Japan.
TBH I was expecting one or 2 “Filthy Koreans are behind this!” or a “Fucking Chinese scum! Trying to kill Otaku culture”.
yeah me to! lol
Probably bribed……or the event didn’t pay their “recently enacted police protection money” >.>
And how was a bowling alley connected to this?
The bowling alley was NEXT DOOR.
‘it was decided it should be cancelled out of concern for the safety of those patrons.’
Because, y’know- otaku bone chips and 2hu PVC shrapnel are dangerous in an explosion, innocent bowlers might be injured.
PS: lrn 2 read.
Police y u haet da toohoos???
No… just, please, no…
i will send a letter to threat them.
“If u cancel [event name here] i will blow up the parliament”
Please do so. It would be interesting to see how they react to a counter-threat. If they so easily drop their pants and bend over to accomodate one ‘terrorist’, I suppose they would be most happen to wet their lips and BJ the other.
some people like to watch the world burn. i am one of those people
I hope youre just joking. That’s a criminal offense.
no shit sherlock
psh, and the shady dealings that the japanese police do aren’t? Puleeeeeeeaze.
^ this.
I mean seriously you might as well, some otaku need to step up and grab there none existent balls, i predict something will happen though touhou fans means serious business!
As if the police would find out. They can’t even catch people who send the threats then attend the events. How are they expected to catch people who don’t even appear in the area in person?
Haha that’s actually a really good idea, sending a counter-threat for what happens if they -do- cancel, and let them figure out which random anonymous to bend over for.
“Fake” terrorists = scum. Thanks for ruining and canceling this event faggots.
Hell Yeah!!!
f****n pussies. here we never give in to terrorist threats. we hunt them down and shoot them. well its time for otaku to do what the police are too scared to do. find and assrape the terrorist. then again its easy to abuse this info. just say whenever a guy is going to be accused of schoolgirl groping then they will blow up a police precinct if they plan to go after him
This is getting ridiculous. Best police in the world.
What’s the worst they could do? -.-
Exactly. Considering how much weaponry Japanese don’t have access to I’m betting nothing. We’d get bomb threats at our schools all the time and school was never canceled because of it. When the culprits were finally arrested turned out it was a bunch of stupid kids. 15 mph winds canceled more school then those idiots.
After Kuroko they were expecting what?
Sounds like a political agenda.
It’s easy enough to cancel events… just make some anonymous threat which the police seems absolutely incompetent (or more likely unwilling) to trace anyways, and the event is cancelled.
Since politicians and the police don’t want to deal with such events, it’s the perfect excuse to close them up – “we’re doing it for your safety”.
Only it seems they don’t understand how bad this is for the image of the police and politicians in a broader spectrum.
What they should be doing is enabling the event to happen, strenghtening security, and arresting supposed terrorists.
Things like that tends to spread over other non-related issues. If some terrorist alone has the power to close big events, with police caving in and all, soon all events – otaku/otome related or not – will receive terrorists threats of some kind.
Think concerts, events related to international diplomacy, among others.
And of course politicians who doesn’t like some aspects of it’s society could also simply fabricate some threats to stop them.
It’s an assault on freedom of speech and freedom overall. It’s not simply cancelling an event, the issue is far deeper. Japan is revealing itself as a country that can’t guarantee it’s citizens’ rights.
A minority, or even one person alone, telling what people should or should not do.
They shouldn’t have complied to terrorist demands on Kuroko, since the obvious consequence is this.
If the police can’t protect and respond properly to such threats, things will escalate.
When it finally reaches stuff politicians and most of society does give a damn (because obviously, they are only cancelling those events because they consider them to be small, for a minority, and not important), it’ll be too late.
This is why the primary directive when dealing with terrorists, criminals and kidnappers stands true: We don’t negotiate, period. Whatever the consequences are, because we are defending principles worth taking the risk. No matter how dangerous things could get – and if they get dangerous then it’s time for a reform in police or politics – this is the last line of defence on the people’s freedom and way of living.
Look, it’s simple. The Comiket culprit was clearly female, so all you have to do is perform body cavity searches on all females attending these events and then everyone would be safe.
From the informations flying around on the net, the culprit is a gay male who is having a serious case of self-entitlement after having a crush on some basketball guy few years ago, and one of the characters from Kuroko reminded him him. So he wants the author to apologise. Absolutely logical, eh?
Solution: cavity search everyone. Otakus and fujoshi will finally get some action!
So it’s true, what japanese racist nutjobs always said: japanese are just different, they did not directly evolve from primates, like we did, but from jelly fish.
Some scientists have discovered proof that japs actually evolved from chickens.
What a bunch of bullshit.
What a pussy.
A wild Touhou Event appears!
Mad Otaku uses Terrorist Threat.
It’s super effective!!!
Touhou Event is cancelled.
Let the girls to do the dirty work.
So all we need to do is send a threat that we’ll blow stuff up if they cancel… the police will probably force the entire country to cancel any and all plans and hide under their beds.
Pathetic.
Yeah, someone should just start making threats to all and ant events that come up. See how long before people realize that caving to these threats is fucking retarded.
Spend more time and effort to catch the pathetic mouthbreather who made the threat, and punish them to the fullest extent of the law.
Anybody can make a threat call, police or politician included. Just thinking.
The Japanese Police are total in competent.
japanese police…
useless as always, they cant even work for what they earn
Maybe someoene should call in a threat in case they cancel the event, lol
I’m guessing they canceled the event in order to earn…..their “under the table” bonuses >.>
It’s probably easier to ban the event than searching for a culprit (it is less work and easier for police so busy looking suicidal and molesters of little girls):\
Maybe it was the Ishihara, was dismissed as the only way to ruin events is by letter of threat.
Hopefully the otakus find this troll and give this sucker a lesson!!
They put in more effort when it comes to suspicious males.
They had a choice, protect the event for several days and actually have to work, or shut the event down?
My suspicious males you mean normal guys.
More like every normal guys are suspicious
Suspicious males = WMDs
Like what artefact say before,the japanese are being more spineless…
And they can get away easily and defended if doing some healty excersise with JK~
オーマイゴッド！イッツア給料ドロボ！
Oh my God! Dorobo salary Ittsua!
And this is why you can’t google translate language jokes.
Curse those peoples who did this. Hope the police can catch them real soon
*In Darth Vader voice* NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Reimu….
I promise you will be avenged!!!
Cirno’s will be done.
FOR SAKUYA!!!!
For the pads! *knifed*
In the name of Youmu!
Hail Imouto-sama!
What’s the big deal? It’s just Touhou, it’s like a furry convention in scale, speciality and comparison to real big ones like Comic Con (or Japan’s version Comiket). Regionally miniscule and insignificant.
They could do the same thing meeting in a clubhouse one Sunday afternoon.
Nice try, troll… No one is THAT clueless!
And do you know how big is the touhou fanbase? It is much larger than the rest. Do your research first.