Disaster Kyoto Animation studio set on fire - 35 Dead, Many Injured

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A man started a fire at a Kyoto animation studio after spraying a liquid there Thursday morning, leaving nearly 40 people injured, several of them unconscious, and one person feared dead, local police and rescuers said.

The fire started around 10:30 a.m. at a three-story studio of Kyoto Animation Co., a company known for producing popular TV animation series "K-On!!" and "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya" (Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu).

The man believed to have set the fire, apparently in his 40s, was among the injured and has been taken to a hospital.
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This appears to still be ongoing and details are pretty sparse between any article covering it in english at least. This seems like a very unique case though, in that I don't think there is any precedent for this kind of thing at all.

AltisticRight said:
10+ dead at this point.
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According to Kyoto Police and fire department, one person died on first floor.
12 more cardiac arrest (dead).
36 more injured, 10 severe, 6 moderate, 20 meh.
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Locations and Bodycounts based on areas of the building. The 19 on the staircase on the third floor are pretty much stacked on eachother as they tried to make a rush to the roof, but appearantly the door only opens from the outside (suicide prevention) or was a pull door.
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Who?: 青葉真司 AOBA, Shinji. 41, unemployed. He was not an employee at any point. He had a prior arrest in 2012 for robbing a convenience of 20,000 yen and was in jail for 3.5 years. In 2016 he was released and lived in a rehabilitation facility before moving to a single apartment somewhere in Saitama. In March and August of 2018 police went to his apartment over Noise Complaints. July 14 days prior to the incident he had grabbed and threatened to kill a neighbor after they complained about noise, police were called again. He was spotted the day before the incident within the area of the studio laying on park benches.

How?:He brought 40 liters of Gasoline between 2 tanks, a BBQ lighter, and a bag with knives and a hammer. He used a pushcart to transport everything to a nearby area. Poured the gasoline at the entrance by the spiral staircase, which funneled the fire and smoke upwards at a rapid rate. He himself was caught in the fire. Due to an event being held that day, the security system which used ID cards had been disabled that day for a guest event, allowing him entrance.

Why?: Currently the theories are taken from statements that have been connected to him prior on 2ch/annel, and something he said while arrested.
1; Music/A song he may have claimed ownership too was used in Sound! Euphonium
2; He was a Railfan that had snapped over wrappings on a train "dirtying" it (This is being disputed by news stations)
3; Possibly another undetermined claim of them "ripping him off". Now claimed to be over a novel he had written, which was "plagiarized" by KyoAni. This is the prevailing theory as of yet due to his statements to the police
4; His waifu he shipped with another girl was confirmed to not be gay, got a boyfriend or was interested in one, and is not "pure" anymore

How many people were injured or killed?: 35 Confirmed Dead, 33 others injured, with 8 of them in critical condition. 6 Escaped unharmed.
Police say 74 people were in the building at the time of the attack. Some of which were guests from an outside studio attending an event.

Who died? (this may partly be speculation, its built off of people not being accounted for):
-Takemoto Yasuhiro
-Kawanami Eisaku
-Nishiya Futoshi
-Ishida Naomi
-Tsuda Yukie
-Ono Megumi

Here's a newer article with a more detailed explanation of the situation
Asahi Times Article said:
KYOTO--Thirty-three people were killed and 17 others remain hospitalized after a suspected arsonist set fire to a three-story animation studio here on July 18, police and fire department officials said.

Some of the 36 people injured in the fire were unconscious, according to Kyoto prefectural police.

The studio, operated by Kyoto Animation Co., is located in a residential area in Kyoto’s Fushimi Ward about 100 meters north of Rokujizo Station on Keihan Electric Railway Co.’s Uji Line. There were about 70 people in the studio at the time.

Several neighbors called the fire department around 10:35 a.m. after they heard an explosion and saw smoke rising from the building. Thirty-five firetrucks were dispatched to the scene.

Police detained a 41-year-old man who is believed to have spread a flammable liquid in the area. Witnesses said he ran into the building screaming, “Die.”

He was injured in the incident and remains unconcious at a hospital.

A 61-year-old woman in the neighborhood said she initially mistook the suspect for a victim of the blaze.

She said she opened the front entrance to her home after the interphone sounded and found a large man kneeling on the ground. Both of his arms had burns and his right leg was on fire. His hair appeared singed.

The woman asked the weakened man if he was all right, but he did not respond. She used a hose to pour water on the man.

As she waited for an ambulance, a number of police officers surrounded the man and peppered him with questions about how he entered the studio and why he set it on fire, she said.

The woman said she could not catch much of what the man said, but she did clearly hear him shout, “They ripped me off.”

A woman in her 20s who works nearby said she went outside after hearing the explosion around 10:30 a.m. When she approached the burning building, she saw a man apparently in his 20s trying to escape along a support on the outer wall on the second story.

The woman and a co-worker brought a ladder to the building to help the man reach the ground.

The head of a local taxi company’s branch near the site said two men ran into the office around 10:40 a.m. and asked that the fire department be called.

One of the men was assisting the other, whose clothes were badly burned. The branch chief tried to support the two while they waited for an ambulance to arrive.

A 22-year-old man said he heard two or three explosions and saw black smoke emerging from a first-floor window. He said flames could be seen in many of the building’s windows.

Kyoto Animation has produced a number of popular TV anime series, such as “K-On!,” “The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya” and “Sound! Euphonium.”

Although many major animation companies are located in the Tokyo area, Kyoto Animation has kept its base of operations in the ancient capital since its founding in 1981 because the city has accumulated a long cultural history, company officials said.

Much of the work on the company’s TV programs and movies is done in Kyoto.
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Sources-
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201907190042.html
http://archive.fo/WZ1Ed
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190719/p2a/00m/0na/003000c
http://archive.fo/zr1gf
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/...-repeatedly-caused-trouble-for-neighbors.html
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20190719_32/
http://archive.fo/qNZ6l

Edit: Cleaned formatting, additional information, trying to identify what is speculated, spelling/grammar.
Edit: Added information, added sources, archived sources.
 
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Eh, you guys can get away with this because Kiwi Farms. Plus, at least you all don't band up with whiny oldfags who try to manipulate the flow of anime production at an almost corporate and insider level just because you don't like something. I can respect that at least.

*coffcoffANIMENEWSNETWORKCOUGHHACKCOLONYDROPGASPHACCKKKKKTHEMANIMEREVIEWSHACCCKKKKK*

Sorry, I'm really sick as of late. Damn summer illness.
 
The most chilling thing here is how much this guy reminds me of a number of the cows we document here, but for a book of matches. He claims they stole is saxophone solo? Anybody else getting Alex Mauer vibes?

Thoughts and prayers for the victims, the families and the firefighters and responders. This sort of thing fucks you up for life. I really hope we don’t see any copycats or a fad of this sort of thing. The fact that this is quite literally pouring fuel directly onto the unstable mass of concentrated autism that is the worldwide anime community does not leave me optimistic in that regard.
 
Ponderous Pillock said:
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Apparently confirmation Yasuhiro Takemoto is dead. :'( (:_(
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Here's the thing.

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Rescue operations are over. They got everyone out, people and bodies.

Japan has a thing where if they haven't confirmed a body, they say they "left someone behind due to a heart attack." That's coded language, it means "we found a body."

Anyone still "unconfirmed" at this point is probably dead. It just means they haven't told his family yet.
 
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I'm going to close out the current poll due to all the new information that has come out since. These were the results as of this time.
Poll results said:
  • Otaku
    Votes: 63 25.5%
  • Hikikomori
    Votes: 18 7.3%
  • Ex-Staffer
    Votes: 52 21.1%
  • Haidou Samu
    Votes: 8 3.2%
  • Miyazaki Hayao
    Votes: 27 10.9%
  • Just some insane guy
    Votes: 79 32.0%

  • Total voters 247
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I'll also update the op to reflect on who is presumed dead, and start a new poll on KyoAni recovering from this.

The new poll will be in 24 hours, did not know there wasn't an option to close right away.

Also if there is anything I missed in the op, am misrepresenting in the op, or feel should be included in the op let me know.
 
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mindlessobserver said:
Oh god, it literally IS a redux of the Triangle fire. In that one management locked escape routes and dozens of people died desperately trying to break through the locked doors as the fire spread behind them. Horrifying way to go, like a rat in a trap. Its why it is 100% illegal in the United States to have any exit door unable to be opened from the inside. Absolutely apalling Japan does not have similar laws.
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The better (worse?) comparison is the Happyland Disco Fire. Lunatic lobbing gasoline into the main entrance and staircases. The alternate exits locked. I used to work with the guy that was the first firefighter in the door on search and rescue for that one. It fucked him up real bad. His stories of that one were enough to make you believe in “secondhand ptsd”.
 
RodgerDodger said:
The better (worse?) comparison is the Happyland Disco Fire. Lunatic lobbing gasoline into the main entrance and staircases. The alternate exits locked. I used to work with the guy that was the first firefighter in the door on search and rescue for that one. It fucked him up real bad. His stories of that one were enough to make you believe in “secondhand ptsd”.
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its depressing that there are so many examples of the exact same issue. You would think not locking the escape routes in the event of a fire is common sense, but if common sense was common we would not need laws and random inspections by Fire Marshalls. I am getting an eye twitch at the possibility this scenario is standard practice in Japan with windows that cannot be opened and roof access doors locked. FFS, the Roof is usually the ONLY way out of a burning building if the lower levels catch fire. It why (again) in the USA there are big red signs in stairwells that say ROOF ACCESS UPPER LEVEL or NO ROOF ACCESS. Its so someone running from a fire can know if they can or cannot get out that way.

These things are so ubiquitous we don't even think about it. Like a lot of things sadly.
 
ManateeHunter said:
I'm sorry.
This idiot used to "work" at KyoAni. He mas associated with the production of Haruhi and LuckyStar, and was promoted to director for Kannagi… only to get fired because he "didn't live up to the standards" according to the other staff. Since then, he's become some sort of lolcow. Talentless hack who thinks he can still make it big. By the way, his new movie, Hakubo, was shit and bombed at the box office.

In the tweet, he replies to Shinkai (director oYour Name) tweeting his concern for KyoAni to shut up. He is stupid that way.

Cougar'd by @PS1gamenwatch
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whoever he is he really doesnt like the Your Name guy :story:
He's just going off on him again on twitter. Do you know any beef they might have?
 
Teriyaki 69 said:
whoever he is he really doesnt like the Your Name guy :story:
He's just going off on him again on twitter. Do you know any beef they might have?
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Don't know, and I don't think he wants to bring that up beyond throwing shitfits over how Shinkai's more famous than he is.

Thank fuck he's not making any more anime now.
 
Who else here was starting to make their anime jokes about the fire until they found out about the horrible lost of life?
 
DogEatDogFood said:
Don't speak ramen. What happen?
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ちよっと黙っといて means shut up. Yeah this guy is a massive fag, saw the tweet some hours ago, didn't feel like posting twitter sperges in this thread.

Some better news than twitter fags that should be blazed up:
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Reached and surpassed.

I also don't wanna be the guy that says it, but they lost 1/4 of their staff. They employ about 140 if I was correct, 33 dead and 10+ with severe injuries is a solid 1/4, that's not taking the trauma and depression into account. From drawing cartoons to getting blazed up by allegedly a train sperge or neet trash, something that nobody could have ever predicted or even thought about... yeah, like what the fuck. I feel like they won't be able to adequately recover.

This has been posted and I'd like to comment on it.
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We can see the density of the victims.
On the second floor, one died on the stairs, probably a failed attempt to escape to the third floor. This at least means that whatever posted earlier in the day showing what looks like perished human remains is false.

11 more at the end, what is this? Why weren't they able to break the windows and take a leap? Worst case is some broken bones right, since it's just the second floor.

19 dead on the stairs of the third floor. This is what gets me mad, what the fuck, why? Can't they escape to the roof, then surely jumping from there, risky but high chance of living right? Yep, it's very likely that they were't able to do so! The door was either locked, non-functional, or opens inwards and they were attempting to push it. I'm leaning towards the former. So what happened?
1. Criminal locked the door, which means he planned everything out, even their possible escape routes.
2. The safety standards when it comes to fire prevention is fucking abysmal.
I'm sure most will say it's number two. Earlier I talked about how there's no emphasis on fire prevention due to slant thinking, I can confidently say it's accurate till what we learned about the third floor. While sprinklers aren't mandatory (it should be), is it not against the law to block such doors? It fucking is in Chingland and Aboland, right?

These 19 people could have fucking lived. The 11 people on the second floor too, if the windows weren't made out of something hard to break.
 
I think we should all take Mister Metokur's advice and finally have sperg tests to be a thing.
If someone that is going to some video game tournament even looks at a toy train being placed near the entrance then they are banned from entering the tournament.

In this case if someone even looks at a toy train then they are banned from even setting foot near an anime studio.
 
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Never liked KyoAni's stuff (CGDCT is boring and lame) but this sucks to hear. Is there any confirmation about what the motive was? I keep hearing multiple things.
 
Jewelsmakerguy said:
Don't know, and I don't think he wants to bring that up beyond throwing shitfits over how Shinkai's more famous than he is.

Thank fuck he's not making any more anime now.
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So he's basically just a japanese version of John Kricfalusi since both think they're better than most other animators who have way more talent than them.
 
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