This Anime Character Kil*ed Kids In Real Life ! #anime #facts #another — Transcript

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1. 0:00Could it be that the main character of
2. 0:02an anime did such horrible things to
3. 0:04some children in real life that people
4. 0:06refuse to even mention that character's
5. 0:07name? Well, are you surprised? Yes,
6. 0:10this actually happened. Today is Day 52
7. 0:12of 100 Days of 100 Anime, and I am
8. 0:13talking about the anime "Another". The
9. 0:15main character of the anime "Another"
10. 0:17is named Koichi Sakakibara. And even
11. 0:19though hearing this name doesn't mean
12. 0:20much to us, for Japanese people, this
13. 0:22name is nothing short of a nightmare.
14. 0:24In real life, there was a 14-year-old
15. 0:26boy named Koichi Sakakibara. And the
16. 0:28crimes he committed were more horrific
17. 0:30than those of an adult. He kidnapped
18. 0:33two children, 10-year-old Yamashita and
19. 0:3511-year-old Hase, and tortured them.
20. 0:39But even worse was the fact that he
21. 0:40dismembered their bodies, tied them up
22. 0:42in a plastic bag, and dumped them at
23. 0:44the gate of a junior high school. But
24. 0:46the thing that made this case spread
25. 0:49widely was his letter. He left a letter
26. 0:51for the police in which he wrote that
27. 0:53he would kidnap more children, and to
28. 0:55stop him if they could. This case came
29. 0:57to light in May 1997. While the
30. 0:59timeline of the anime "Another" takes
31. 1:01place in the spring of 1998. The author
32. 1:03said he intentionally gave the main
33. 1:05character this name so that everyone,
34. 1:07from kids to adults watching the anime,
35. 1:09would feel a real-life presence of fear
36. 1:11. And he was successful in doing this
37. 1:13in Japan. But did you know there was a
38. 1:15terrorist group that used to go to
39. 1:16colleges to recruit new followers? And
40. 1:18a manga artist showed this in their
41. 1:20series. But the consequences for them
42. 1:22were not good at all. I will tell you
43. 1:24about this fact in tomorrow's video. So
44. 1:25make sure to follow me for that.