| 'A 14-year-old boy leapt more than 100ft to his death from the top of an apartment block in Chaikovsky, Russia, after seeing his favourite manga character killed in a cartoon. Police say Leonid Hmelev died instantly. The boy was reportedly devastated after seeing the death of the character Itachi Uchiha in the animated movie 'Naruto - Hurricane Chronicle'. He left home after posting a message on a social networking site saying he was also 'planning an ending'. His worried parents raised the alarm after he did not return home and a search was organised together with neighbours. After being missing for two days his body was found yesterday and he was identified by his devastated father Ivan, 38. He said: 'I always told him he spent too much time watching the TV - he didn't know what was reality and what was fiction anymore.' Teenage suicide in Russia is endemic. It has the third-highest teenage suicide rate in the world, just behind its neighbours Belarus and Kazakhstan and more than three times that of the United States.' Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2226324/Russian-teen-leaps-apartment-block-seeing-favourite-Japanese-cartoon-character-die-television.html And you guys thought that Amanda Todd was dumb. |
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| That is one of the stupidest things I have ever heard of.. and I have heard some pretty stupid shit throughout my life. Probably had some other issues going on. |
| Are you fucking serious? Why would you even ask such an idiotic question? |
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| I would certainly kill myself if my waifu died, why would you even need to ask? |
fuck everything and rumble |
| sounds reasonable |
| they dont have an eyepatch?? |
| Well as my Waifu is Oshino Shinobu who is practically an Immortal vampire, I have nothing to worry about. |
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| Wouldn't give it a second thought. But i would be more creative actually. Jumping from a tall building isn't gangster. |
| Kill yourself after your favorite characters dies? That shit is for noobs. All Evangelion and especially Sinji fans know that you kill yourself even before they die because is just too depressing to live watching them. |
| Basically the only thing that's true in this article is that the boy killed himself. But they invented some father he didn't have and didn't mention that he lived with his mother and grandmother who always fought with each other and apparently abused him as well, and that he's also had troubles at school. So basically anime was the only thing that kept him from killing himself earlier. Also, he was 13 years old. Born in 1999. |
| But couldn't he have picked a better character to kill himself over? Itachi is so... meh |
LSanimeNov 2, 2012 5:22 AM
| Daily Mail. |
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| I would obviously kill myself if an animated character died, thats not even a question /sarcasm Srsly, how can someone even consider that. |
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seishi-sama said: Basically the only thing that's true in this article is that the boy killed himself. But they invented some father he didn't have and didn't mention that he lived with his mother and grandmother who always fought with each other and apparently abused him as well, and that he's also had troubles at school. So basically anime was the only thing that kept him from killing himself earlier. Also, he was 13 years old. Born in 1999. Don't get me wrong, I Believe you, but where did you find this out? The media twists a lot of things so its very possible. |
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seishi-sama said: Basically the only thing that's true in this article is that the boy killed himself. But they invented some father he didn't have and didn't mention that he lived with his mother and grandmother who always fought with each other and apparently abused him as well, and that he's also had troubles at school. So basically anime was the only thing that kept him from killing himself earlier. Also, he was 13 years old. Born in 1999. If true. This makes a tiny bit more sense. |
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| Doubt he committed suicide because he was depressed about his favourite character dying. More like a case of imitating, if he was planning for an end like what he wrote. Seems like a case of unable to cope with certain life's issues. |
| Couldn't stop laughing. |
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live2win said: Doubt he committed suicide because he was depressed about his favourite character dying. More like a case of imitating, if he was planning for an end like what he wrote. Seems like a case of unable to cope with certain life's issues. There is an above post which if true would clear it all up. |
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| Sooooo what is next? "There was this letter my son left, my little boy wrote he couldn't tie his shoelace, he commited suicide out of embarrasment." |
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| Ok even if he was depressed the death of a character was the thing that crossed the line? And of all the characters Itachi? |
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vbyo said: seishi-sama said: Basically the only thing that's true in this article is that the boy killed himself. But they invented some father he didn't have and didn't mention that he lived with his mother and grandmother who always fought with each other and apparently abused him as well, and that he's also had troubles at school. So basically anime was the only thing that kept him from killing himself earlier. Also, he was 13 years old. Born in 1999. Don't get me wrong, I Believe you, but where did you find this out? The media twists a lot of things so its very possible. Well, I live in Russia. It's just natural that I would know more about stuff that's happening over here. Can't say this story was all over the news but there's enough information about it in various russian sources. |
| There was a similar case a few years ago in Poland, when a 14-year-old girl commited suicide, because she wanted to be together with Alucard. And no one bothered to add that the said girl was being molested by her father and her mother did nothing to stop it. Blaming manga for this is as dumb as blaming Doom for Colubine High Massacre. And no, I wouldn't. |
| suicide is stupid overall anyway |
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| No but I would kill the person who made the story that made them die then change the story :| Jk this is stupid lmfao. |
| >Kill yourself Only if it protected my waifu. But really, I feel sorry for this guy. You just know there are some underlying issues not covered in the article. Too bad he missed out on his temporary resurrection. |
Necro-sama said: 'A 14-year-old boy leapt more than 100ft to his death from the top of an apartment block in Chaikovsky, Russia, after seeing his favourite manga character killed in a cartoon . Gotta be the most idiotic news i've ever heard. I mean who the fuck calls anime a cartoon? But seriously, no. i've seen some of my favorite characters die and so far, i don't think i will ever kill myself over something so stupid. I might kill the author though :)) |
What do you think? The meaning of our existence. Why do we continue to live? ~Iris Rain Umbrella, my favorite robot  |
| If he was going to kill himself over an anime character, why a Naruto character? It makes it so anti climactic! But seriously, it just means the anime was really good? =O |
 "I like to expose what people hide. I'm an intellectual rapist." - Furudo Erika |
Shoryuuken said: Sooooo what is next? "There was this letter my son left, my little boy wrote he couldn't tie his shoelace, he commited suicide out of embarrasment." That is a bit far, and stupid, if you comprehend that this would be a slightly fabricated story and that generally a lot of behind the scenes thing contributed to this. Sure, his reason isn't quite valid, I don't think any reason is valid enough for suicide, but lets be realistic, surely something else triggered it, could be abuse bullying, because he didn't make some soppy video about him being bullied doesn't mean he wasn't. |
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| Some people already said it, but... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation (I am honestly amazed that there is a Wikipedia entry for this) |
| Is this where evolution brought us ?? |
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| Darwin at work. |
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Yvese said: Darwin at work. Epic Call !! |
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| I wouldn't kill myself over the death of a loved one or family. You think I'd be stupid enough to suicide over a drawing? |
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jal90 said: Some people already said it, but... [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation (I am honestly amazed that there is a Wikipedia entry for this) Every time the media tries to connect two things, this is usually the explanation. Haha. |
LoneWolf said: @Josh makes me sad to call myself Canadian. |
| Hmm... I think depression is enough, killing yourself because of waifu etc... is too much :/ |
"A half moon, it has a dark half and a bright half, just like me…", Yuno Gasai |
| didn't itachi die ages ago anyway |
| ~"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands." (Pirsig) |
| No because I'm my favorite character. |
| Retard test. |
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| Meh I have yet to watch Naruto, thanks for that spoiler >.> |
| Narutards... |
| I probably regret this post by now. |
| I couldn't stop laughing when I've read some of the responses reacting as if the question was meant seriously XD But as for the boy, that's pretty stupid. Someone should create a meme of this. Something like 'In Soviet Russia, anime character cosplays as YOU!!'..but with this particular case (I couldn't think of anything funny regarding this) |
| The only thing you can rely on is that you can't rely on anything. |
| Is this the so-called natural selection I learned about in school? |
| Maeda could still write him a happy ending. |
| I definitely have superpowers. I can feel it in my balls. |
| Yes, I'd send death threats to the people in charge of the anime, and then I'd perform seppuku in the street and set my body on fire in protest. Hopefully my actions would start a revolution that is intent upon seeing the revival of my favorite character by an means. |
كنت تهدر وقتك عن طريق ترجمة هذه. mattbenz99 said: Christians and Satanists are technically the same thing |
| IN SOVIET RUSSIA, ANIME KILLS YOU. |
 "It's just...a bad dream! Wake up, wake up...!" |
| Maybe someone should have told him about the Edo Tensei jutsu? I wouldn't kill myself but I could see myself crying if One Piece gets canceled because Oda died or something like that. |
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