A female seiyuu has been arrested for killing a 3-year-old girl she was in the process of adopting.
Police arrested the “woman seiyuu,” who lived in Tokyo’s Suginami ward with her 42-year-old husband and 2 daughters, on manslaughter charges after her 3-year-old foster-daughter-to-be “Miyuki-chan” died under suspicious circumstances.
The incident came to light when the infant was discovered in the basement of a Suginami apartment in 2010 by one of the woman’s daughters, collapsed by the stairs.
She was confirmed dead after being conveyed to hospital, where an autopsy revealed she had apparently received severe blows to the head and back. Autopsy reports suggested she had likely not been the victim of regular abuse, but that the injuries were consistent with having been beaten.
Police began a child abuse investigation, and soon assembled a case against the seiyuu, alleging she had caused the child’s death through brain damage after beating her.
The woman denies the charges, saying she “thinks she must have fallen down the stairs.” Investigators say the corpse lacked signs of a tumble, and that there were bloodstains in her room.
The seiyuu in question was not named in the initial reports, prompting intense speculation as to her identity:
“Who is it?”
“Who!?”
“A female seiyuu!? Who?”
“At least give us her age!”
“Tell us the agency…”
“Clues:
Seiyuu
Woman
Suginami
Foster parent
We can’t pinpoint her with just this…”
“Why did they press charges a year after the crime?”
“Why did they feel the need to identify as a seiyuu anyway?”
“You lot have been trolled… it’s an ordinary child abuse case and the mention of a ‘woman seiyuu’ gets you all going.”
“If only we knew her major role!”
“She might not even be an anime seiyuu.”
“It’s probably just some third-rate minor fringe eroge seiyuu anyway.”
“It’s scary enough that she was abusing her in a basement, but if this turned out to be some eroge seiyuu…”
“She probably just calls herself a seiyuu.”
‘[…] seiyuu woman (43) […]'”
“She’s 43…”
“There are thousands of freelance seiyuu with no agency and tens of thousands of self-proclaimed seiyuu. Could be anyone.”
“Remember their official ages can differ from their actual ages.”
“[…] police arrested 43-year-old seiyuu Shizuka Suzuike on manslaughter charges […] she went by the stage name of Shizuka Yuna […]”
[According to Wikipedia, most of her work consisted of narration for TV and advertising – however, she is credited with voicing Ai Makihara in the 18+ eroge Triangle Hearts 2 and 3, seemingly proving 2ch’s speculation right…]
“Her real age is out now, now she’s in real trouble.”
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What's the penalty for child killing in Japan, ten years of brutal tentacle rape?
No...
Japanese women like rape. So it'll be 10 years of no rape?
No rape, vibrators, or tentacles, and chop off her hands so she can't use fingers.
Man your comment and your avator makes me LMAO so much! X)
OK but what if it's a man? Does he get the corn?
It's not rape. It's tentacle love you didn't even know you wanted.
Killing a child in japan is just a bit less serious than being a man and ask a child for direction
“Her real age is out now, now she’s in real trouble.”
Oh, 2ch.
At least try adding the Keikaku meme!
She's 43, so what?
How Tragic and terrible some people can be ;_;
I suppose moral-fags would use this to say V-novels can lead to violent behavior
How tragic and terrible some people can be ;_;
and probably without the influence of entertaining media
I was actually expecting it to be Aya Hirano. That would have made SanCom explode.
^^ This, this anon gets it. I would die laughing if that were the case. Am I a Hirano hater? No, but the pure unfettered rage that would arise is enough to make me wish it were true.
On a side note, child murder is bad and she should feel bad for doing it. I demand we make her skydive from low orbit without a parachute.
Oh shit, LanSlyde and Anon 15:56 got voted down.
Wow, the Harano fanboys have a hard-on for me me now? I'm flattered, I will accept your blind hate. You people need love too.
You'll have to wonder what interesting sort of news she'd make in prison.
I recall Martha having a positive effect on fellow inmates.
I wouldn't be surprised if she pops out 5-6 kids in the next couple years.
She was preparing for a role. "Mama-chan's Guro Adventure."
Well, she lost her career now that she's behind bars. The bitch deserves it after treating children in such a cruel manner.
What career? It wasn't even important enough to mention what show she did. Probably something that sucks, like Hetalia.
Or Naruto himself.
To be fair, she hasn't been proven guilty yet, has she?
Guilty until proven innocent.
They found her at the bottom of the stairs, case closed. Horatio from CSI would say, "You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything, right down the stairs," then he'd whip off his sunglasses defiantly and cue The Who: YEAHHHHHH!
Looks like our victim....
*sunglasses*
took the stairway to heaven.
YEEAAAHHHHH!
CSI well I think you are qualified to be Gil Grisham or Detective Conan.
So all you need to be is a 10-year-old detective with a fetish for bug collection and a beard, and you're the best of both worlds.
Which part of "There's no sign of tumble" and "bloodstain in her room" did you not get?
She's a woman...of course there will be "bloodstains" in her room
the child's room, i suppose...
Yeah, cause women are vampires.
No why Ai Makihara!
Now I am going to be a flatlin... er who's Ai Makihara?
Three year old is not an infant.
Internet expert, hey? Legally, the term "infant" can be applied to any person on non-adult age.
Look it up.
Respectable news media outlets use it in the legal sense, often interchangeably with "child".
Yep. In the legal sense it's pretty much a synonym of "minor."
How is the above anon an "internet expert"? is it only on the net that we use the term infant then?
If you are going to bash some one [excuse the pun there] please get the terminology right. thankyou
The original anon is right; the legal sense is outright wrong in this context.
Outside immediate legal circles, an infant is defined as a child less than one year of age. In some situations -in accordance with its alleged etymological origin- "infant" refers to children who haven't learned to speak yet---see [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/infans.]http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/infans.
3 years is actually the cutoff age for infancy.
So if the girl was at least three years of age she shouldn't be called an infant.
That's what happens when a french word is used in english
I wouldn't exactly call a 3 year old an infant either.
Something reeks here..... where is the EVIDENCE that this woman was the one who beat this child? Just that the child was beaten is not enough.
Did they match her handprints to the wounds? Did they have something else that pointed at the mother-to-be?
For fuck's sake, have they NEVER heard of a baby being beaten by a FAMILY MEMBER other than the mother or STRANGER! It happened that way with a recent case where I am.... the mother was accused at first, then when the police actually INVESTIGATED, they found DNA evidence pointing at a family friend.
At this point, the way the case reads is that there is suspicion, and it's reasonable when there is blood in the room, and no signs of a tumble. Basically they have suspicion of a case, and perhaps the mother was the one who fit the bill most up front based on injuries found. They can assemble the case over time, or it'll be dismissed.
I'll just assume we're not getting all the information from Sankaku, and that a good deal of it hasn't been released. For the sake of everyone, I hope it was an unfortunate accident, but there are some stressed out people who unfortunately can take it out on others.
And for some reason... I get this odd gut feeling that the children may have had something to do with it. I hope I'm wrong about that though.
Even if there hasn't been all the evidence released in the Sankaku article.... give me a break here.
They are dragging this woman's name through the mud by arresting her before there is enough evidence. I could understand if they thought she was going to 'flee'..... but with a husband and two other children? I don't think so, at least not alone, and it's harder to hide 4 people than one.
Evil step-siblings... I think I saw that in a movie once.
Well if you think about it, if they hated the kid due to attention or whatever, it's that type of child logic if they accidentally killed the kid when they attacked because they didn't like her, and then moving her to the bottom of the stairs and being the ones to find her there.
I've heard of things like that happening. It's pure speculation based on this feeling in my stomach though, so don't read anything into it I guess.
Cinderella: -Guro Version- (vague reference)
if the children where the culprits, t woudlnt make sense for one of them to report th ecase to the police though.. iddnt it say oen of her daughters found and reported the corpse?
Child logic usually goes to 'if I was the one to find and report it, they won't suspect me' which is relatively good logic, if adults didn't have the ability to recognize that logic themselves. So they would consider they wouldn't get in trouble if they made it like she had an accident and then were the 'good kids' and told their parents about it.
Sounds storybookish, yes, but I've said it here before. The truth is stranger than fiction. Now whether anything like that happened here, we'll probably never know. All that matters is a 3-year-old girl is dead for no reason.
And why mother but not the father?
It's surprising that the (Japanese!) police in this case DIDN'T arrest a man. They must have some heavy evidence to the contrary.
Maybe the force used in the beating wasn't sufficient for a man?