Comic addict plots to kill parents to avoid cleaning room

[mercurial]

A Japanese woman addicted to comics reportedly turned to the Internet to look for someone to kill her parents, after they asked her to clear out her cartoon-filled room.

News reports say the 36-year-old woman – who is unemployed and lives at home – filled up three rooms with several thousand comic books and videotapes she had collected with an allowance her grandmother sent her.

She reportedly became angry after her parents told her to throw away some of her comic books to make space for her sister who was planning to move in.

The reports say she posted a message on the Internet asking for someone to kill her mother, who manages a bar in Tokyo, and her father.

Only in Japan

 

[Lycanthrope]

THIRTY SIX and living with her PARENTS?!

Yeeesh!

 

[Alan]

Japan

Must live in close proximity to a U.S base then

 

[PeterCH]

Only in Japan

A textbook OTAKU case.

Most comics was probably yaoi-manga.

 

[Devill]

ROFL

 

[Lycanthrope]

A textbook OTAKU case.

Most comics was probably yaoi-manga.

*gasp* Yaoi-manga does not incite violence toward parentals Unless it's seriously dodgy yaoi-manga

*runs*

 

[PeterCH]

*gasp* Yaoi-manga does not incite violence toward parentals Unless it's seriously dodgy yaoi-manga

*runs*

Its a woman, and yaoi is by far the most common genre for Japanese women.

 

[Lycanthrope]

Its a woman, and yaoi is by far the most common genre for Japanese women.

Bishies ftw

 

[PeterCH]

And that is an extreme example of what an 'otaku' is in Japanese everyday culture. In the West it's an anime fan, in Japan it's an asocial hermit type person who leads a dysfunctional life.

 

[PeterCH]

Bishies ftw

Definately not FTW. But shoujo manga(Comics) are sometimes cool.
Altho I prefer the anime series

 

[Lycanthrope]

And that is an extreme example of what an 'otaku' is in Japanese everyday culture. In the West it's an anime fan, in Japan it's an asocial hermit type person who leads a dysfunctional life.

*swoon* Sounds heavenly

 

[PeterCH]

*swoon* Sounds heavenly

It has very negative connotations over there.

 

[shadowfox]

And that is an extreme example of what an 'otaku' is in Japanese everyday culture. In the West it's an anime fan, in Japan it's an asocial hermit type person who leads a dysfunctional life.

Yep, they're called hikikomori.

Welcome to the NHK anyone?

 

[kingmonty]

See? Even Japan has hicks.

 

[shadowfox]

Yeah ... so a tip for anybody planning to visit Japan.

Even if you love anime/manga and are proud to refer to yourself as an otaku, don't do it when you're over there.

First thing that's gonna happen will be a series of long stares.

Second thing that's gonna happen will be a widening space around you

 

[Pooky]

One of my teachers lives with her mom.

 

[mercurial]

Go clean your room Pooky damnit.

 

[PeterCH]

Reminds me on the based on real life film Concreto,
about a group of high school punks who kidnap a schoolgirl,
molest her, finally she dies on them and they drop her body
in some construction site concrete.

 

[Lycanthrope]

Reminds me on the based on real life film Concreto,
about a group of high school punks who kidnap a schoolgirl,
molest her, finally she dies on them and they drop her body
in some construction site concrete.

PeterCH... You scare me

 

[PeterCH]

PeterCH... You scare me

It's a Japanese movie from a few years back. Apparently when it ran in theatres some cinemas got bomb threat warnings NOT to show it.
Suffice to say that those high school punks were otakus too. Not to say that this woman would do that too, by any measure of the word. Now I never saw it but its the type of exploitation movie akin to Battle Royale 1 and 2,
although sadly this movie was based on a real event.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_(film)