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From: "Ren Driver" <kinkinhood@prodigy.net>
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Subject: Re: Evangelion-related killing in Japan
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Oh wow, people are so easy to blame other things arn't they?
"Drinian" <sailracer6@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:bqok87$238svd$1@ID-210864.news.uni-berlin.de...
> From the Manichi Daily News:
>
> > "Cartoon blamed for man's fatal beating on mom"
> >
> > YAMAGATA -- A man accused of beating his mother to death with a baseball
bat was influenced by a cartoon that made him believe humans were
unnecessary beings, prosecutors told the Yamagata District Court on Monday.
> >
> > In opening statements at the trial of Hiroyuki Tsuchida, 22, prosecutors
claimed that watching the science-fiction cartoon "Neon Genesis Evangelion"
had made Tsuchida believe a phrase in it that said, "The ultimate conclusion
of (human) evolution is ruin."
> >
> > He also came to believe that humans were unnecessary beings who were
destroying the world's environment, and in turn began to want to kill
people, prosecutors said.
> >
> > They said the man fatally smashed his mother in the head with a baseball
bat at about 2 p.m. on June 25, thinking that if he killed family members he
would not hesitate when murdering others.
> >
> > A representative of Gainax, the firm involved in writing and producing
the cartoon, said it did not think the content of the cartoon was related to
the killing. (Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, Dec. 2, 2003)
>
> Article available here:
> http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20031202p2a00m0dm001001c.html
>
> Personally, I've always thought Evangelion to be pretty powerful in its
> ability to maniupulate human emotions, but mostly towards
> self-destructive tendencies. If you really believed that the "end of
> humanity is in ruin," wouldn't you kill yourself and not others?
>
> It also seems to me that this quote is taken out of context. Where is it
> from in the show?
>
> -- 
> Drinian: http://www.duke.edu/~amt13/
>