News from January, 2004!
News from January, 2004!
1/21/04~ During the opening statements of a murder trial prosecutors stated that Neon Genesis Evangelion
influenced a young man who is accused of beating his mother to death with a baseball bat. Hiroyuki Tsuchida, 22, is said to have killed his mother with a baseball bat because he believed that it would be
easier to kill others if he got over his hesitations by first killing family members. The prosecutors claims that Tsuchida came to believe the phrase "The
ultimate conclusion of (human) evolution is ruin," from Neon Genesis Evangelion and that he also came to
believe that humans were unnecessary being responsible for the destruction of the environment.
This brought him to want to kill people. The full article can be read here.
Tokyopop will publish the first volume of Kazuya Minekura's Gensomaden Saiyuki (Fantasy Romance Saiyuki) in March. Saiyuki is based on the famous
Chinese fantasy tale Xi You Ji ("Saiyuki" in Japanese), or Journey to the West. A sort of Chinese fantasy version of the Canterbury Tales, Saiyuki is a bawdy pilgrimage complete with a lecherous cleric (Genjyo), a Monkey King (Son Goku), a slippery water sprite (Sha Gojyo), and a legendary demon slayer (Cho Hakkai).
