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Maiahi No Doragostea Din Tei-Love Murder Threat Tie-in Date: 11/2/2005 |
As we had previously reported, an animation released by AVEX entitled "Maiahi no Doragostea Din Tei-Love" had recently come under fire in Japan. According to an anti alcohol / drugs civic group, a portion of the animation promotes heavy drinking and have demanded it's deletion. The animatiion features the popular character nomaneko. It was announced on September 30th that Avex's application for a registered trademark on the character would be withdrawn. Protests came due to the cat's resemblence to the 2ch mascot. Now a 23 year old suspect has been arrested in Tokyo's Koto Ward Shirakawa for allegedly posting threats to the popular Japanese internet board 2 channel. The threats refer to murdering an employee of the Japanese record label AVEX. The same suspect reportedly also made posts about killing Sendai fourth grade elementary school girls. When the suspect's personal computer was confiscated and searched a record was found of a post to two channel from September mentioning "The employee of AVEX is murdered with cutlery". What's more the suspect mentioned being repulsed by the use of the 2ch mascot Nomaneko in the label's release of Maiahi no Doragostea Din Tei-Love. |
Source: Anime News Service |