Would you kill yourself when your favorite anime/manga character dies?

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.

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)

OriginANIME said:
I've been sad, angry, and depressed over anime before, but never was suicide even a thought in my mind. I cant show sympathy for something like this, just gunna be straight up.

jal90 said:
Best part of the thread is how people are freely throwing spoilers on Naruto.

vbyo said:


Clannad? :P

Num1dad_Asura said:
You know what would be really funny, if the author at some point revives Itachi lol....I am such a dick.

Jenii said:

It actually did happen, according to people who watched Naruto.
Apparently he died a long time ago already and was resurrected from the dead in a later episode.

Jenii said:

It actually did happen, according to people who watched Naruto.
Apparently he died a long time ago already and was resurrected from the dead in a later episode.

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.

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.

EftychiaLena said:
Actually two of my favorite anime characters did die!!

I wouldn't kill myself umm... well... I guess that's evident and I don't really need to state it. I think that people who kill themselves because of such a thing are mentally ill and should have seen a psychiatrist... it's sad how parents don't take their children to psychologist even though they see they have problems. I mean the surely feel bad they can't help them, themselves, but sometimes it is important to seek help from a professional, it really helps, I believe, even for petty things, sometimes parents can't really offer anything else apart from support.
On the other side, I think that if a character dies in an anime it has a reason for doing so, it makes everything more dramatic and epic... sometimes I think that it's sad... I think it's also sad for the creator, making one of his or her characters die... But in that way they might want to show or prove something to the public who is watching the anime (^.^)

Rasco said:
Uhh They were never "alive" to begin with..

Treekodar said:
How do they know that was the reason he killed himself?

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)

dankickyou said:

If true. This makes a tiny bit more sense.

LordSenate said:
Spoilers anyone?

Ahh fuck it.. Just tell it all.

Chamry said:
the end ._.

Karpman said:

From others who posted in this thread, we get that the parents and direct family didn't like the kid. So why would they create expenses for something they don't like at all?

Karpman said:
I saw a documentary of the life of a poor teenager trying to survive. He lived in a basement and sniffed glue to feel less of the freezing cold and hunger. They also joined random protests for some pocket money. And all this in a major city.


But really, the circumstances in Russia are no joke. If you are with friends like the documentary I saw, you might get by with struggling each day. But I can't say I blame these kids escaping their path of pain.

This would also be the prime example of why I called the kid who committed suicide because of bullying "weak". Relatively of course. This just shows that there are harsher living situations where they still continue to live on.

Kanic said:
You are simplyfying it a great deal. Bad communication within a house doesn't mean lack of love and care. By this logic then the only ones who commit suicide are the ones abused by their parents (abuse here in the most extreme way). Sometimes it's the idividual who is weak, other times it's his parent, school or any form of social party.

seishi-sama said:
he lived with his mother and grandmother who always fought with each other and apparently abused him as well

Kanic said:
So, expanding on this, if we were to pinpoint the one leaving the most miserable life on the planet, would we agree that everyone else is weak and that the aforementioned individual is the only one to whom we can show understanding ?
Yes, there exist many worse situations in the world, but then again everyone lives differently and based on those differences they shape themselves and become strong and weak(strong and weak being firstly relative to their immediate society and secondly relative to the general world) . By your logic, it's the kid's fault who in his barely over a decade life didn't manage to become strong? Strength isn't innate and it's not something you acquire overnight.

Karpman said:
Suicide is a choice. Influenced by a lot of things, i.e. feelings, impulses, alcohol and maybe even drugs.

Strength. The power to make rational decisions in this case. Like I said before, you are responsible for your own actions. If I drop a glass of milk, it is my own fault. If I end my own life, it is my choice and my fault. Not everybody is born into equal situations, this kid didn't have any luck for getting born into that family. I might have done the same if I were him. But ultimately you are given your life and have to live with it as it is, regardless of emotional strength or not.

onedaysnotice said:
I just read the title of this thread and I immediately burst into laughter. LOL.

Kanic said:
Choice is a variable depending on how many alternatives you are given and how many you can think yourself. It's not like you are given a test and you only get to choose between a/b/c/d.

Kanic said:
I think you are once again oversimplyfying things. Throwing everything to self-responsibility is not the answer. Ofc, glorifying and making the kid look as a saint isn't my point either(since I 'd like to believe that suicide should not be encouraged), but when you consider his age, it's particularly hard to put the blame on him.

Kanic said:
Your words(and specifically your last sentence) should be viewed as a teaching, a creed if you want, that one should be taught and teach in return(as a parent, as a teacher and as a human). But it's not an absolute truth, or a biological/scientific fact(even mice commit suicide en mass sometimes). And even though it exists at the back of everyone's head it can be easily misconcieved and/or rejected. For example, for all I know, that kid might as well have mistaken suicide as his own form of strength (the post he wrote in some forum, according to the article, leads me to believe that).

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.

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.

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.'