Man Butchers Landlord, Blames Manga

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A man who brutally slew his potential landlord with a vicious hammer and machete combo attack, and then hunted down his family, hospitalizing them, has resorted to blaming manga for his crimes, specifically 銃夢 / GUNNM (Battle Angel Alita).

The culprit, a homeless man known as Huang, was reported to have looked up for houses to rent on websites, contacting potential landlords.

One landlord who agreed to meet him was showing him around the house, when he was savagely attacked by Huang with a hammer, then being slashed about the neck with a machete. The man died instantly.

Not content with that, Huang searched the man’s private documents, and locating his address, proceeded to go to the man’s house.

There he proceed to attack the man’s wife and son after tricking them into believing he was sent by her husband. Injuring himself in the process, Huang went to a hospital, ironically the same one that was treating the wife and son.

Having heard the wife’s description of him, hospital staff contacted police, and he was soon arrested.

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During interrogation the day after the grisly deed, Huang maintained that he was influenced by a manga, said to be GUNMM.

He said he was “trying to pass his misfortune onto others by killing”.

Taiwanese newspaper reports were skeptical, stating that this might just be a diversionary tactic, as unlike manga inspired murders in Japan, there were no manga that is being distributed in Taiwan with such a story, including GUNNM, which whilst violent, tends to concentrate on sci-fi battles and hyper-technology.

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In response to this, Taiwanese manga distributor Tong Li stated that they would be checking the work to see if there is any truth to his claims. They also offered their condolence’s family of the deceased.

Via United Daily News and NOWNews. Tong Li’s statement can be seen here.

Although the mass media is notorious for emphasizing manga related interests in killers (as well as games and anything else vulnerable to scare-mongering), given the complete absence of such content in the title in question it seems unlikely to become anything more than the tragic crime of a deranged individual.


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    Comment by t//B
    02:24 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    What. Don't blame your psychological problems on Alita..

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    Comment by vesper_nova
    06:06 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    ...just becase she's bad ass and you're (the prep) not

    Comment by Anonymous
    10:03 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    her name is gally you FAUCKING BASTARD

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    Comment by vesper_nova
    10:15 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    as quited by Wikipeda "Alita, known in Japan as Gally" Alita, Gally it doesn't mater to me, she's still bad ass. also I'm sad to say but I think your shoes are more mature then you, sigh children

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:53 04/12/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    no Alita/Yoko

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    Comment by Palmtop Tiger
    02:30 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    If he said he had a chip for a brain and wanted flan, he would ve more believable. Its like when christians say " the devil made me do it", so its ok, they're not to blame.

    Comment by LoliHat
    12:54 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Mmmm...Flan!

    Comment by じごくろ
    02:32 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Wow. Crazy hobo is crazy... so sad for the victims. I really doubt in this case that manga had anything to do with is though, even if he is mentally unstable.

    Comment by Anonymous
    02:42 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Weaboo is weaboo. Stop with that X is X 4chan bullshit. Down to your pathetic name which should be written as kanji. You weaboo fags disgust me.

    Comment by Anonymous
    02:50 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    You sure told him! Now we know you are "above" 4chan, bravo.

    Comment by anon
    02:51 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Accusations of weabooism? In a comment on a blog dedicated to anime and japan related 'stuff'? IRONY.
    The 'description object is DESCRIPTION' meme is far more widespread than 4chan, and likely didn't even originate there.

    Either this guy just picked a manga at random (likely), or he managed to read Dr Nova's karma ramblings completely wrong.

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    Comment by Michio
    03:47 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    facepalm.jpg

    Fail troll is fail. Nobody gives a fuck about such a small usage of meme other than some dumbass prick like you. Wow bro, you sure told him off. Don't take yourself so seriously.

    P.S. You're a faggot.

    Comment by anon
    04:33 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    If he is a troll, then successful troll is actually successful.

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    Comment by Emc2Trooper
    08:59 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I think you meant 'newfag'

    Comment by shh227
    02:44 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I doubt this has any real link with manga he is just a mindfuck guy.

    Comment by Otaku Dan
    02:45 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    there goes again some crazy son of a bitch blaming manga for his problems

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    Comment by Kip
    02:51 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Deadly hammer and machete combo attack!
    Seven damage!

    Sorry, that's instantly what I thought of.

    Comment by Anonymous
    03:08 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Falcon Punch!

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    Comment by DHYohko
    04:37 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    i instantly went to diablo 2 days, barbarians dual-wielding weapons whirlwinding all over the place.....

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    Comment by XSportSeeker
    03:18 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    This is exactly why mangas should never ever be considered cause for lunatics actions.

    Here's the problem:
    1- The fact that the killer thought it would be plausible to blame it on a manga
    2- The fact that the manga distributor felt obliged to say they were gonna investigate the manga
    3- The fact that people are even considering that he's telling the truth to the point of seaching correlations in the manga

    Murders and killing cases like this one WILL NEVER be caused by manga/games/movies/rock music or whatever they want to put the blame on.

    A disturbed mind will use ANYTHING to trigger actions like that.

    The fact that people still waste time trying to point correlations like that only delays the obvious conclusion: The guy is disturbed, he needs psychological treatment, jail time, or death penalty.

    Simple as that.

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    Comment by XSportSeeker
    03:21 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    It's like a psychopath saying that the killings were motivated by some voice only he can hear.

    We don't see the police, media or anyone in their right mind trying to find out what this so called "voice" is, if it exists, if there is a correlation to it, if the voice is to be blamed for the crime.

    I really don't get how some "news", police and other people are so fucking retarted to not realize something simple like that.

    Comment by cloner4000
    05:08 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    While, I agree with you 100% that the man is just trying to divert the attention, not everybody have the same opinion as you, especially those not familiar to the subject. It's easier to blame for thing you don't understand than try to find the solution.

    That said, I say the newspaper at least give a benefit of doubt that the guy is using diversionary tactics instead of jumping the gun and agreeing with it.

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    Comment by Vegio
    05:24 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    it would be enough to mention all the people who read the same manga and never went shooting people down.

    or else they'll censore RE:5, saying that it causes racist white people to hunt down black ones. or blaming black ones for not falling dead even if they're shot in the head.

    really now, i'll gladly give them 5$
    go buy yourselves a future now, crap talkers.
    i mean, those who blame mangas and so on.

    Comment by Anonymous
    03:21 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    if you can't separate yourself from the fake world generated by manga/anime/games/movies/books/etc from the real world, you shouldn't be using them in the first place.

    Comment by Anonymous
    03:32 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Still waiting for some lonely virgin to blame Love Hina or something for giving him false hopes of scoring a harem of hot chicks, and becoming a rapist.

    Comment by Fonzer
    03:36 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I think i will actualy go and read the manga becouse of this :P

    Comment by Anon
    05:29 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I think you're onto something here. This "homeless" man is actually a marketing associate for Alita and it's distributors. They did this publicity stunt in order for the Streisand Effect to kick in at full force. BRILLIANT!

    Comment by nox
    03:42 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I could believe him if he had been abandoned by his parents when he was a baby, and then transformed into a fucking cyborg earthworm by a crazy scientist. Otherwise, I can't.

    Comment by Anonymous
    03:52 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    He might just be some thug taking a stab (no pun intended) at an insanity plea.

    Comment by MMM
    03:58 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    can you actually get a lesser punishment if you blame your crime on manga and the like? if so, I can see why those criminals do that. If not, it doent make sense both the criminal, the mass media and the plice -.-

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    Comment by MaidNiac
    04:01 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    What an Idiot. If he's wholefully influenced by Alita, he should've killed the landlord with Panzer Kunst style.

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    Comment by vesper_nova
    06:38 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    that why he sucks.

    Comment by LoliHat
    12:54 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Clearly he hasn't learned to control his Bezerker body yet...

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    Comment by onitake
    04:46 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    i wonder what punishment he'll gonna face. taiwan surely doesn't adhere to p.r. of china's penal system i would assume?

    on another note, a german kid went postal today and killed at least 15 people plus himself.
    bet they're gonna blame it on those cursed videogames again!

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    Comment by maga
    04:48 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Don't blame manga you bastard...

    Comment by Riiku
    05:01 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    He could say: "Oh, its Contex's fault for producing the condom, wich breaked while I was fapping and I got cummed all over with my own cum, so I got angered and wanted to kill someone. blame them, its not my fault"

    What a fat piece of fucking dumbshit.

    Comment by Fonzer
    05:14 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    fucking lold.
    Yeah don't try to blame anime,manga,games,movies.
    You can blame music though

    Comment by Anonymous
    05:13 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Hmm, was he trying to be more like Springfoot Jack of the Starship cult? Or was he following Proffessor Nova's advice and trying to deal with his karma?

    Damnit Viz! You're so far behind in getting this out in the States! I need more Last Order!

    Comment by MikeeUSA
    05:34 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    A Defense of the Biblical rule in regards to the rape of young maidens (As seen in Deuteronomy 22; that they there henceforth be the wives of those who chose, unilaterally, to consort with them.)

    In the case of the rape of a young virgin female who has come of age to be married (that is: is of childbearing age) we in society have looked on the action and its effects as a whole with abject horror and thusly have brought down a harsh judgment upon those men who choose to act in such a manner.

    The two schools of thought that currently exist in support of the harsh punishment of the rape of young maidens are that of the feminist and that of the traditional (common law, Anglo-Saxon influenced).

    The feminist thought pattern runs on the idea that the female be the sole arbitrator of her sexual relations and that she, so that she may benefit in what way she wishes, decides with who and at what time conjunctual relations may commence. In this ability to nearly fully regulate conjunctual relations against an almost unlimited desire for such amongst the men of the world she gains immense market power (the demand outstrips the supply (which (in the feminist school of thought) is completely dependent on the wishes of the woman). This market power is secured through the coercive power of the state.

    The thought pattern of the traditional (or common law) runs differently but has the same effect; It is known and accepted that men desire that their brides be untouched (this is: that they be virgins and innocent) at the time of their marriage. It is seen, thusly, that a non-virgin unmarried female may have a great difficulty or discover an impossibility of securing marriage and thenceforth be consigned to a life of unfulfillment, despair, and loneliness. Also in this world view is seen that whatever man may in the future be perhaps destined (that is: it is presumed that at some time in the future the young maiden would have found, had the rape not occurred, a man to be betrothed* to and then (no later than one year after) be married to) to marry that female would now be denied a virgin wife. The man who has raped the the young maiden has, in this school of thought, irreparably damaged the life of the female and has also offended some unknown man, who would have traveled the path to marry the young maiden, in the process. Thus in the mind of the traditional (but not the Biblical) this rape must be punished with great vigor. The power state is used, in much the same way, to protect the woman's conjunctual rights. The market power of the woman over the men of the world is not diminished.

    The unwonted school of thought on this matter, the Biblical, takes an opposite view of rape (effectively). In the biblical world view, as seen in chapter 22 of the Book of Deuteronomy, the man who rapes a young maiden who is not in betrothal or married to a man states, unequivocally, his absolute demand of marriage to the maiden... and thus it is granted (permanently: that is he forfeits his privilege to divorce (and it must be noted: this is a privilege that the female _never_ possesses), though the Biblical laws and punishments against adultery still stand against the female and any man who would have relations with the female in the husband's stead) and a fee is payed to the father of the new bride. In this case the man acquires the young maiden he presumably wanted (with such force that he felt that he had to act) and the female is not consigned to a life of loneliness (and perpetual loneliness is what all, both male and female, dread). This school of thought partially agrees with the traditional in that it would be greatly unfortunate to waste a young female and allow her to live a life unfulfilled, but it remedies the situation in the favor of the man rather than punishing him to the favor of upholding the female's market power; in this it is in direct opposition to the feminist world view.

    All in all, neither the feminist nor the traditional schools of thought are to the advantage of men and neither do they remedy that which we are horrified to think of: that a virtuous young maiden would have her life be wasted to loneliness. Only the Biblical solution both avoids the waste of the female and gives to the man what he presumably wants: a wife for himself.

    *Betrothal consists of the betrothed maiden living in the house of her husband for one year prior to the marriage ceremony, as per Biblical designs on said institution.

    --MikeeUSA--

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    Deuteronomy 22 (New International Version)
    22 If a man is found sleeping with another man's wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

    23 If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, 24 you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to deathhh—the girl because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man's wife. You must purge the evil from among you.

    25 But if out in the country a man happens to meet a girl pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die. 26 Do nothing to the girl; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders his neighbor, 27 for the man found the girl out in the country, and though the betrothed girl screamed, there was no one to rescue her.

    28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, 29 he shall pay the girl's father fifty shekels of silver. [c] He must marry the girl, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.

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    Deuteronomy 22 (King James Version)
    22If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.

    23If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

    24Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.

    25But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die.

    26But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:

    27For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.

    28If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

    29Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.

    30A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.

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    Deuteronomy 22 (New American Standard Bible)
    22"(M)If a man is found lying with a married woman, then both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman; thus you shall purge the evil from Israel.

    23"(N)If there is a girl who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies with her,

    24then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city and you shall stone them to death; the girl, because she did not cry out in the city, and the man, because he has violated his neighbor's wife. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.

    25"But if in the field the man finds the girl who is engaged, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lies with her shall die.

    26"But you shall do nothing to the girl; there is no sin in the girl worthy of death, for just as a man rises against his neighbor and murders him, so is this case.

    27"When he found her in the field, the engaged girl cried out, but there was no one to save her.

    28"(O)If a man finds a girl who is a virgin, who is not engaged, and seizes her and lies with her and they are discovered,

    29then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become his wife because he has violated her; he cannot divorce her all his days.

    30"(P)A man shall not take his father's wife so that he will not uncover his father's skirt.

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    Comment by vesper_nova
    06:41 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    you're way off topic, baka. this is about murder not rape. bleeding heart liberal

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    Comment by Shuu
    08:58 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I wouldn't exactly call him liberal, let alone bleeding heart.

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:40 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    You do realize the religious fundamentalists are typically conservatives, right?

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    Comment by Anonymous
    08:39 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    You mean Xenu right?

    Comment by Firo
    17:37 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    SATAN!! \m/(ಠ`皿′ಠ)\m/

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    Comment by Anonymous
    09:07 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    xenu?

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:25 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Ei, Artefact, try to filter the IP addys to block out fringes like these.

    Comment by azzu
    16:58 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    oh,no...
    not you again
    please not you again

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    Comment by Zelgadis4tw
    20:28 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I used to think you weren't a retarded raving fool before, but now I do. Congratulations, making a complete fool of yourself and me for not thinking of you such the first time you opened your mouth. Go live in Turkey if you love it so much.

    Also, there is another way to interpret the purpose of those passages in Deuteronomy. You can interpret it as the man is forced to atone for his sin against his companion (as Eve was made to be a suitable companion to Adam) by taking care of her for the rest of his life, natural death or otherwise. Not to protect the "rights" of the other men to wed virgins, but to also help prevent single parent households, and we see how well that's working for us in this modern era.

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    Comment by Bastille
    07:22 12/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Surprised to see newspapers actually doing their job and researching the material blamed instead of just joining in the blame game as per what is sadly far too common in North America.




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