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NEWS: Evangelion brings man to kill mother

prosectution is repeating this a part of their case against the individual.

You know, just because he got the idea about human kind as a disease from a show does not mean he is mentally ill.

This man took that influence to place most of us would not go. That does not mean he is crazy.

Just becaus he killed his mother also does not make him automatically crazy. He might have carefully planned and executed this action with forethought and knowledge of consequences.

Ted Kazinski (Unabomber) was a college professor but still decided to send letter bombs to businesses because he believed that corporations were to be the down fall of society. A smart guy who used a different form of logic that made killing people okay.

Let's also not make it a personal attack on Anno. After all, he was only expressing himself.

The point is, is that the prosecution of this case is singling out an anime as the major influence of a man murdering his mother...While this may seem stupid to us, you can assume that the court is going to look into that allegation and try and determine if something like Evangelion should be allowed to be seen by the public for fear of causing mental instability.

Whether or not you like Evangelion, if the prosecutions strategy works...that could be very bad for the fandom. I can see this going the same way as the short uprising against video games.

An upsurge in negative media, while it may not put a dent in the anime industry in Japan, could have a much bigger impact here in the States and other countries. I can already see Lieberman or another like-minded politician speaking out against the unwholesome scourge of "Japanimation".

And I could almost guarantee that once the "Soccer Moms" catch wind of this, you'll be seeing an uprising of anime detractors, organisations, boycots and protests. And while I'm a christian, I don't even want to think about the implications within the religious circles, especially seeing as Evangelion is the apparent culprit.

If nothing else, we may see a wave of much unwanted censorship to our hobby, and no matter how you like Evangelion, I don't think that's something any of us want.

Even if he was mentally, really was influenced by the animation, or just plain stupid, it is very sad that he beat his mother to death.

Really Gatsu, not everyone thinks with a penis.

First off, when has Anno stated that Eva is an example of his of what he thinks is right from wrong?

Eva is, in my interpretation, one hell of a ride through the human psyche. It's not meant to be a guide, it was meant to be a form of entertainment that got you thinking about issues of what being human is

I believe one of the main issues throughout Eva was what was right from wrong, and that in certain situations, this is never clear. Eva just showed that deep down, instinct has different rules for this, and that anything goes.

The story was mainly about people fighting god,

Technically, the "right thing to do" in Eva would of been for them all to just sit down and face God's judgment. Is just accepting the end really right?

Like Mentioned with Battle Royale, people in desperate situations result to desperate measures.

The rules of society are gone, and Dawin's "survival of the fittest" kick in. In some cases, it's killed or be killed.

Yeah Shinji flipped out that one time and began strangling Asuka, but really, it's not like Anno flashed in big bright letters that "This is right! Go strangle people that piss you off!"

All the characters obviously had mental problems, and if you're going to base what's right and wrong off them, you need to see a psychiatrist.

These were people pushed to their limits with the fate of mankind on their shoulders. In that situation, who really has the right to say what is right and what is wrong?

That there is called sterotyping, and I consider my self an Evangelion fan, and I can assure you I have no feelings whatsoever to go bomb abortion clinics.

It's not like every Eva fan thinks of Evangelion as a religion to follow. I'm sure many people on this board can explain that to you.

And Anno doesn't have an excuse? He doesn't have an excuse for what? Expressing himself? Please.

I'm wondering now that if this gets out to the US around the time the movie comes out, and if ADV was planning a nationwide theater release, well then parents may be boycotting the movie.

I personally don't believe that a person can blame something like a tv show for this kind of action. Like people have pointed out, Columbine. People afterwards tried to start blaming things such as Marlin Manson since that's what the kids listened too.

No matter how artificial we are, no matter how hopeless we are, no matter how godforsaken this land is, no matter how hellish our lives are, live, for heaven's sake live

FYI, it was Charles Manson who blamed that song on his killings. (Ironically, most people thought another song on the album-Revolution #9-would be dangerous.) Anyway, while you can't be responsible for what people do, I do believe it's your responsibility to make people aware of the material you're exposing them to, not to mention making yourself aware of the material you're showing them.