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NEWS: Police Arrest Man Who Threatens Woman Because of Touhou Project Voice-Over


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scrwbll19



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 6:55 pm Reply with quote
I wonder where the videos she has done are. I would be interested in hearing her work for myself. Seriously, her work can't be that bad either.
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mdo7



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 7:05 pm Reply with quote
CatzCradle wrote:
Isn't 2Channel supposedly anonymous? I'm curious how the police managed to find the man just from there?


There's no such thing as Anonymity on the internet. Police can track your IP address if you make threat like that dude just did.
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tee2330



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 8:54 pm Reply with quote
Well that's.....you know what [insert witty comment about how stupid that is here] also how the fudge do you track down someone who's on a chat website, many fan bases have lots of people do dumb sh*t, like the sonic fan base do not get me started on those idiots though it's more like a cult following, being part of that following myself I can't stand the stupid sh*t people say about the 3D sonic games, every hardcore fan base will have a couple of nutcases that make you double facepalm but that's the way life is, still with japans tight internet law I doubt have the illegal streaming websites on the net could exist.
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grgspunk



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 11:24 pm Reply with quote
scrwbll19 wrote:
I wonder where the videos she has done are. I would be interested in hearing her work for myself. Seriously, her work can't be that bad either.


According to the 2ch thread in question (unfortunately, it's deleted now), this was the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq5GRMsHhQc (Part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULDYU33-sB8 (Part 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YJrSMEKtKA (Part 3)

Marisa and Alice's Cookie Kiss (魔理沙とアリスのクッキーKiss) was a fanmade voice-drama video based off of the Touhou Project series, originally posted on NicoNico in 2010. It became notorious for its cheap plot, inconsistent artwork, and shoddy voice acting.

It's got quite a bit of history to it. As soon as it was uploaded on niconico, it was panned by viewers all across the board for its poor quality. Then, it became an internet meme (クッキー☆) that stemmed from dirty jokes made by 2ch/niconico users who began to associate the movie with low-budget gay porn flicks--The result was the uploading of many fanmade MAD videos that spliced scenes from Marisa and Alice's Cookie Kiss with said gay porn flicks.

The creator, Rio Hazuna, didn't take very kindly to this and started reporting these MAD videos on niconico to get them taken down, similar to how YouTube videos get reported for copyright violations. The fans of these videos got pissed, then tried to dig up as much real-life information on him and anyone involved in creating the video in hopes of using it to get back at him.

What resulted was an even bigger scandal. In their search, the fans actually got in touch with some of the voice actresses, who testified that they were sexually harassed by Rio Hazuna when they came in to do the voicework.

Fans realized that he organized the production as an excuse to get in touch with and sexually harass as many females as he could--As long as he could form "relationships" with his female colleagues, the quality of the work was irrelevant. This provoked more backlash from the fandom, which forced Hazuna to apologize and withdraw from uploading works on the internet.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cookie☆

That was in 2010. Here we are, four years later, and it still seems to be attracting quite a bit of drama. It's pretty sad, really.
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SteveUzumaki



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 1:36 am Reply with quote
What on earth is wrong with this man? So what if this woman didn't voice this character just the way he liked, it's not the end of the world. I could face palm until I fractured my skull and it wouldn't be enough to show this man's stupidity.

Excuse my mini rant, but when fans like this exist out there, they give us sane fans a bad name and that drives me up a wall.
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scrwbll19



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 1:41 am Reply with quote
Thank you. I have to wonder how much of this is hear-say though. I am not calling grgspunk a liar or anything. Rather, the nature of such incidents tend to be largely exaggerated from something relatively small. Either way, it seems to me that a lot of overreaction took place to get things to where they are. If Hazuna Rio sexually harassed the voice actresses, he probably should be arrested and charged. However, if he did not, this whole thing is probably a smear campaign that resulted from a lot of mudslinging. As a Touhou fan myself, I find it sad that these things happen because people enjoy something.
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Admiral Pizzaman



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 8:50 am Reply with quote
CatzCradle wrote:
Isn't 2Channel supposedly anonymous? I'm curious how the police managed to find the man just from there?


Well,Not in the eyes of the police and the governments.
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Prody



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 9:58 am Reply with quote
grgspunk wrote:

This is something that happened a really long time ago and is not relevant to this case. There has been multiple touhou fanmade drama videos, so the confusion is understandable.

The video in question for this case is this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-_o4JiLPBo

Nicopedia article for details (Japanese):
http://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/クッキー☆☆

grgspunk wrote:

That was in 2010. Here we are, four years later, and it still seems to be attracting quite a bit of drama. It's pretty sad, really.

In my opinion, I think more people are having a sarcastic mocking attitude rather than a hateful one.
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Chrno2



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 1:01 pm Reply with quote
When I look at Emerje's avatar, it pretty much sums up how I feel about this whole debacle. What the HELL is WRONG with people??? I mean I think folks are just going ape$h*t over anything. Folks really need to check into some sort of health clinic because stuff like this is a big much.
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Kadmos1



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 4:44 pm Reply with quote
Glad that the woman is safe. As reality deprived that this man may seem, it might be worse weeaboo.
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enurtsol



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 2:35 am Reply with quote
Like blowing a gasket about a dub of one's waifu.
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Joe Carpenter



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 8:37 pm Reply with quote
sounds like he has a real burning passion for the character Laughing
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