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NEWS: Boy Dies After Imitating Naruto in Sandbox

In response to the U.S. Anime industry being scapegoated for this child's actions and resultant death

I think people need to stop getting so hyper over "ZOMG anime's gonna get banned/scapegoated". That's not even important right now as those people I'm sure are more focussed on getting through the day. IF some action should be taken against Viz/Cartoon Network/whatever, then it'll happen and they'll deal with it how they see fit at that time.

Perhaps some anime is not fit for the American culture. For reason those things always happen in U.S., not UK, Japan, China or Canada.

Yes, we know the child died, everyone has read the friggin article and knows that.

I mean, I'm not going to cry myself a whole river because of a little kid that I didn't know. I don't even cry that badly when a relative dies (and I don't know that person). I've also lost friends and family, so I can sympathize ONLY with the feeling of losing a loved one.

And yes, I'm going to be concerned about the status of anime, because you would not imagine how many times I've seen a series, or had my little cousins around, and my godparents used to tell me not to let them watch it because it was demonic and would influence them to do evil things. But really....Is that it...?

My general issue is that no matter how we try to make things better, it's always getting tons worse. I remember when the internet was becoming a hellhole because parents blamed the internet for not protecting their children from child predators. Considering that an inanimate object cannot completely educate a human child, I say, wtf.

Or when kids play in the pool alone and end up drowning themselves. >.>;

I said there should have been supervision from the start, and only because there were younger kids around. What if the 10 year old and another kid went off somewhere, leaving the other kids behind?

Trust me, I could care less how many times people have said that it's the parent's fault. It's happening way too frequently, and it feels like an epidemic. It's not like they will come across this forum and hear us anyway. Give it a few days or so, we'll forget and move on to the next thread.


Yeah, seriously. I hate vague news reports. >_>;

This is an anime forum, not an "accidental child death of the day" forum. It's perfectly natural for this community to show concern for the industry.

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Whatever happened to doing this kind of thing to your GI Joe or little plastic army men?
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Do you even know the dark history of the word otaku? There have been dozens of anime related cases of people killing themselves or others around the world. This isn't a new phenomenon that's only associated with America.

Lacking empathy isn't something to brag about.

To those of you bringing up that supervision may have prevented this, while this is true, how many of you were constantly supervised at the age of ten? A fifth-grader can go in his backyard and be trusted to play in the sandbox without having to be watched.

What I'm most surprised about is how people care more about television than this kid dying in an accident.

It's just plain ignorance if you think that anime will be destroyed because of incidents like these, blaming the child and his parents for something that likely couldn't have been prevented. To all of you who fit this, stop being so self-centered and think about the others.

There isn't a chance that Japanese animation will be banned from the airwaves because of this. These people just lost their son. Try thinking about someone else for a change.

Lacking empathy isn't something to brag about.

To those of you bringing up that supervision may have prevented this, while this is true, how many of you were constantly supervised at the age of ten? A fifth-grader can go in his backyard and be trusted to play in the sandbox without having to be watched. The fault doesn't lie with the parents, and it's unfair to blame it on a lack of supervision.

This is nobody's fault. It's tragic indeed, but I can't say that anyone is to blame. What I'm most surprised about is how people care more about television than this kid dying in an accident. It's just plain ignorance if you think that anime will be destroyed because of incidents like these, blaming the child and his parents for something that likely couldn't have been prevented. To all of you who fit this, stop being so self-centered and think about the others.

There isn't a chance that Japanese animation will be banned from the airwaves because of this. These people just lost their son. Try thinking about someone else for a change.

Everyone who thinks that there will be significant fallout needs to wakeup. Of course some idiots are going to blame anime, but no one but other idiots will listen to them. This isn't a case where the industry is going to have to do any damage control.

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This isn't the time to be making sick jokes or worrying about the fallout to the anime industry. This young boy's family has just suffered an unimaginable loss and his playmates are going to be dealing with the scars from this incident for a long, long time. Can we please show a little decorum for once, people? I'm beginning to feel ashamed of being an anime fan.

My thoughts are with Codey's family and friends.