The Kyoto Animation arsonist trial continues, with the two psychiatrists who diagnosed accused Shinji Aoba testifying as to the man’s mental state. During one of their meetings, the arsonist claimed, “If only even five people read my novels, I wouldn’t have done it.”
The psychiatrists disagreed on whether Aoba did or didn’t have a personality prone to delusions, with one side claiming Aoba had the type of personality that was biased towards having delusions and that Aoba was suffering more from believing too strongly in his own interpretation of reality, but in a regular mental state. The others felt Aoba was surprisingly trusting in their meetings and didn’t show any hint of opposition, so they avoided diagnosing Aoba as such.
However, both agreed that whether or not Aoba was delusional in his motives did not affect his actions in carrying out the crime. According to one of them, during his meetings with the accused, the accused stated that “if even only five people had read his novels, it wouldn’t have turned out like this,” concluding that if Aoba had continued writing, he likely wouldn’t have carried out the arson.
Finally, Aoba was also seen as having a lack of common sense in regard to the internet, believing that he knew much more than he actually did.
As long as they give him the death penalty I’ll be happy, he doesn’t deserve a tiny spec of mercy specially with how delusional he is and if they somehow give it to him there will most likely be more people starting to do the same s♥♥t because they would’ve found a loophole.
the fact this guy is even still alive is insane….
Execute the dude in a public plaza already!!!!!
He should be praised. KyoAni is a SJW studio. They censor every single anime they make.
This is ridiculous. He did it, he’s guilty. Send him to the gallows already!
Burned at the Stake. got to make the punishment fit the crime.
It is never ridiculous to gather even minute details and data about crimes and the criminals who committed them. Publicly sharing those details…. yeah maybe
No. The Japanese obsess over minutiae. When I was living there, a dude randomly killed a little kid. Fleeing from the law, the man killed himself. People and the media were treating these cops like they did something wrong.
My Japanese friend explained it to me, “We needed to know why he did it.”
And I said, “No we don’t. Whatever his reason was, it was stupid and not justified. It’s better the bastard is dead.”
To anyone who doesn’t think this guy is gonna get off with a slap on the wrist, google Kobe Cannibal, this is the efficiency of japans legal system