Via Moon Phase: Yahoo! News is reporting that at 7:50 am this morning a 15 year old student at a private high school in Kagawa Prefecture attacked a classmate with a 16.5 cm wide-bladed knife in the course of a fight between the two boys. Both were lightly injured in the fight, with the police stating that the blow sustained by the knife victim was likely dealt by the blunt edge of the blade. The knife wielder is being held by the prefectural police as an assault suspect. Moon Phase speculates that this is yet another copycat crime, the third in a recent spate of assaults with bladed weapons that have been tied by the media to School Days and Higurashi; we’ll be watching for more details in this particular case as they emerge. (no more)
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Because stuff like this *NEVER* happend before School Days final episode….
Jesus.
kids are nuts, no wait, everyone is nuts to begin with. however something needs to take the blame when something goes down.
You must kidding. Another one…
If Higu kai get taken off the air we noe who to blame…
So, what is left?
With these series of Stand Alone Complexes, (pardon the pun), it wouldn’t be long before Japanese authorities starts raiding up all those “sleazy” back-alleys of Akihabara (you know, those “mature content” stuff) because they caused these deaths.
Fandom has truly died.
You know, this could be a new field for Jack Thompson to venture into.
LOL- and the guy who does those christen cartoon strips Jack Chick. they would show those stupid heathens!!
“Because stuff like this *NEVER* happend before School Days final episode….”
Don’t act so surprised. Most parents these days seem to think that before the internet, there were no child predators.
Keep in mind that while national news in the U.S. (and some other countries, I would guess) tends to be ‘oh, that’s so far off,’ national news in Japan feels more local.
The average news day in Japan is often just celebrity scandals and the like. (not always, mind, but often; at least when I lived there it was) So all of this sensational news is getting even more coverage, because it’s ‘different’.
> that have been tied by the media to School Days and
> Higurashi
When we say ‘the media’, you mean than ‘this one article once’, right? :P
If not, care to link some sources? Since the only site I see rant about this kind of doom and gloom thing is HD… which leads me to think you’re over-reacting a little.
Links in Japanese are fine.
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the media buzz over these knife incidents are ridiculous :p school days did not invent stabbings. now, if people were cutting open stomachs to check for babies…
>>Anonymoose
I mean this one article once, yeah. I hope I’m overreacting; me looking foolish on an internet site is a far better outcome from this than a government crackdown.
I won’t report on anything that doesn’t happen. That said, things are happening. I hope all this nonsense drops off the radar soon.
“Don’t act so surprised. Most parents these days seem to think that before the internet, there were no child predators.”
Counterpoint:
4chan makes you pedo.
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