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Police have released one of Sunrise’s anime directors after arresting him for threatening to go on a killing spree in Osaka’s otaku district, having ignored his protestations of innocence whilst doggedly maintaining “we have proof – your IP address!” – only to discover his PC was being remotely controlled by a virus inflicted on him by 2ch.
42-year-old Masaki Kitamura, an anime director with Sunrise whose many credits include Gundam 00, Tiger & Bunny and Planetes, was originally arrested for making a criminal threat to commit indiscriminate violence (“I’ll kill lots of people at Otaroad!”) via a form on the Osaka city homepage.
Elite cybercrimes investigators with the Osaka police force could not believe their luck upon discovering that the threats made no attempt to conceal their sender’s identity, and promptly arrested and charged him with interfering with the activities of a public official.
The fact he made the “threat” using his real name has been pointed out as a dead give-away that something was amiss, but Osaka police were having none of it and attempted to coerce him into confessing anyway, telling him “we have proof called your IP address!”
Police did notice he had also incorrectly spelled his own name (using an incorrect reading of the kanji in question) in the threatening mails, but again decided to press charges anyway.
Read more here. (NSFW Sankaku Forums)
42-year-old Masaki Kitamura, an anime director with Sunrise whose many credits include Gundam 00, Tiger & Bunny and Planetes, was originally arrested for making a criminal threat to commit indiscriminate violence (“I’ll kill lots of people at Otaroad!”) via a form on the Osaka city homepage.
Elite cybercrimes investigators with the Osaka police force could not believe their luck upon discovering that the threats made no attempt to conceal their sender’s identity, and promptly arrested and charged him with interfering with the activities of a public official.
The fact he made the “threat” using his real name has been pointed out as a dead give-away that something was amiss, but Osaka police were having none of it and attempted to coerce him into confessing anyway, telling him “we have proof called your IP address!”
Police did notice he had also incorrectly spelled his own name (using an incorrect reading of the kanji in question) in the threatening mails, but again decided to press charges anyway.
Read more here. (NSFW Sankaku Forums)
