A gang of otaku who robbed and burnt dozens of properties in Tokyo have confessed that they committed their crimes so they could afford to attend AKB48 concerts and visit Akiba maid cafes.
Police in Tokyo’s Adachi city report 3 youths aged from 15 to 16, a 21-year-old man and another unidentified man, all NEETs, formed a gang known as “Five Guys” in order to perpetrate their crime spree.
Starting in October, they were behind approximately 60 burglaries of homes and offices throughout the Kanto region, typically targeting unlocked premises.
In one representative case, they gained entry to an Edogawa city man’s home by an unlocked window and made off with cash worth ¥630,000 and precious metals worth another ¥1,500,000. In total, they are thought to have stolen at least ¥5,300,000.
However, their antics did not stop at mere burglary – after breaking into one office in a Chiyoda residential neighbourhood, they became enraged after finding nothing worth stealing, and decided to take revenge on their victims by burning the building down, which resulted in the destruction of 200 square metres of office buildings.
The group admits their crimes, and report disturbing some truly disturbing motives:
“We wanted the money so we could play around at the maid cafes in Akihabara, and attend AKB48’s concerts there.”
They face a slew of arson and burglary charges, although as most of the group are minors harsh punishments are unlikely.
The low moral fibre of AKB48 fans is fast becoming the stuff of legend online – although whether semen handshakes come above or below arson and robbery is still not clear:
“As expected of AKB fans!”
“Are otaku really this dangerous!?”
“Creepy otaku are ready to go that far now?”
“Ban AKB already!”
“Are AKB concerts and maid cafes that good?”
“Let’s earn the money we spend in Akiba legally, everybody.”
“Five guys… isn’t that a bar chain or something?”
“Arson is worse than murder really!”
“Why on earth did these morons decide to just burn down the places they failed to rob? If you’re going to commit crimes, at least use your brains, you’re bound to get caught doing something like that.”
“Arson can easily turn into indiscriminate murder, frankly the death penalty wouldn’t be inappropriate!”
“Send them off for Fukushima core labour!”
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Ew, stale tuna.
Japan wins again.
...And you lose again.
God I hope you didn't spend more then 2 seconds thinking that up.
Nope, just one second. :)
Do they get any kind of physical contact with the girls for going to the concert, or are these dudes just crazy?
They likely never even mentioned wanting to go to concerts. AKB has shows every day...Therefore they are not very expensive. You dont need millions of yen to go to AKB concerts all the time. Maybe someone mentioned AKB in passing so they are playing it up since it's a niche that is easy to degrade...but more than likely they're just common criminals. Does someone stealing money to buy an iPad make people with iPads crazy? No...so why should the same be true of people who go to akb concerts?
wtf..great.. this may give ishihara the upper hand to say ''we should ban anime and manga!! if not our kids will get fucked up like these guys!!!"
"BAN SEXY ANIME AND MANGA! BAN SEXY IDOLS!"
-Ishihara
I don't think anyone will believe him if he did say stuff like that.
Ishihara needs to be lock up
no, he needs to be made an example of. something to silence every other living fossil.
And get arrested in the process? I don't think that idea will work.
he needs to be butt raped by a big assed dog...
danger mister anonymous warning warning
All hail Ishihara-sama!!!
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tsuritama 3 graphic fail =x
So once again otaku gained some renegade points
man i can't wait for my glowing scars and eyes to appear
if it weren't for anime and idols neet ppl wouldnt be wankin at home.. today gangs would be quite dangerous don't ya think..
I lol'd
Is it bad that I kind of want to salute them?
Even if Ishihara does claim this incident was caused by anime and manga, no one will ever believe him. They'll just ignore him act like everything's normal.
“Ban AKB already!”
seriously, have them take pictures of your babies instead of burning down some innocent building
ha clearly they didn't do it for tickets. robbing, sure but burning down homes doesn't fit. clearly they're lying.
Where/Who's the 5th guy?
I'm surprised someone had the equivalent of 6 or 7 grand in cash and 15+ grand in jewelry just laying around.
Heck I'd be tempted to break in to his house myself.
Japanese are fervent savers - but I guess they don't trust banks.
Well, shit. Guess I know where I'm booking my next plane ticket. They don't lock their doors or windows, either. HACHA-CHA-CHA!!!!
And the next thing you find yourself is prison.
"A 21-year-old man and another unidentified man, all NEETs, formed a gang known as “Five Guys” in order to perpetrate their crime spree."
WTF!!!
This sounds like the start of a Shounen manga!!
Yeah, That sounds like it could be an interesting series! I'd read it.
move over Seven Samurai, for the story of Five Virgins has begun.
I'd watch it.
Their ancestors would be fuckin pissed. :D
NEET Five~
AKB isn't even good, come on!
Next thing will happen they will start world war three because of things they say in the net.
5 Guys when there are only 3? Are they prep-school drop out? They can't count.
PAID OFF BY CORRUPT GOVERNMENT AGENTS WHO ARE AGAINST ANIME AND WHO WOULD SEE IT DESTROYED!
> “Are otaku really this dangerous!?”
Otaku are not dangerous. Idiots are.
You are correct, sir.
Otaku be fuckin' gangster.
No, you mean GANGSTAS.
Otaku NEETS - DUH??!!
But.. I don't think Akihisa as dangerous. (ﾟ∀ﾟ)
otaku are like muslims.
Otakus like to waste time watching animated dot and lines, in other word = idiots
@14:07 That's some stupid logic you have right there.
They weren't idiots totally. They got off free for a while until they decided to burn that one house down. That's just a split second of uncontrollable rage.
While I HATE masterminds of 'idol groups' and their fans, including of AKB48, I wonder if these guys just wanna blame it on something otakucentric so the judge can relate and raise their chances to win appeal.
Same here, those guys don't look like otaku to me. 15 to 16 NEET ? They're either delinquent or hikkikomori, since they got out of their houses to steal and burn, I'd choose the first.
They're most likely delinquent with otaku hobbies, AKB48 is quite popular in Japan, and even normal people goes to maid cafe.
Nope, you are.