A Kyoto court has sentenced Shinji Aoba , the man responsible for the arson attack on the Kyoto Animation in 2019 , to death. 36 people died and 32 were injured in the fire, making it one of the deadliest murders in post-war Japan.
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The incident occurred in 2019 and gained worldwide attention. Shinji Aoba admitted to starting the fire and said he regretted the crime. At the time, Shinji entered a KyoAni novel competition and was rejected in the first round. Eight months before the fire, a random scene from the anime Tsurune aired, in which Aoba accused the studio of stealing his idea, which was the motivation for his actions. The studio denied plagiarism.
So the scene itself was of the characters buying discounted meat in episode 5.
The lawyers tried to reduce the sentence or acquit Shinji by claiming that he was not psychologically well on the day he committed the crime, but their attempts were in vain.
Source: G1
