Multiple Fatalities Confirmed in Kyoto Animation Fire

Truly horrifying news. May the souls of the innocently deceased RIP, and may my thoughts and best wishes reach all the families affected by this utterly barbaric attack.
 
Please don't fall for this. As I write this, he and four others are still missing. I've seen a lot of people on Twitter fall for this... Don't listen to unconfirmed / fake sources!
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It typically takes Japanese media a long time to name casualties due to respect for the families and a desire to get things right with the identification process (not to mention the time difference). There's a much greater focus on personal privacy in Japan than in the UK/US. It's quite ghoulish to speculate on an individual's death based on no evidence aside from them not having been seen in a while (for example) so it is best to ignore unsubstantiated reports until anything official is said. Japanese (and foreign) forums are drawing up lists on whose safety has been confirmed and whose has not been mentioned which appears to be the only real source for the rumours.

What we do know is that a lot of creative people were robbed of their lives. More details will likely continue to emerge tomorrow, Japan time.

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I feel rather conflicted about Sentai's fundraising efforts. While I understand that people want to be supportive, I can't really feel happy about it however much money they might raise. Perhaps it's the fact it was so immediate.

When it's a building like Notre Dame, just a thing that can be replaced with enough cash I understand it better, but when we're talking about people's lives... I don't know. Something about the idea of love or sympathy being measured in monetary terms doesn't sit so well with me. Even a hundred million quid isn't going to bring those people back or heal the mental and physical scars the survivors are going to have to live with and it feels a little bit cynical to think that any amount of money can ever put that right.
 
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What are people falling for? That its confirmed?
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Yes, it's the confirmed part that I take issue with.
People believe that he is confirmed dead based on sources such as that Facebook page, tweets from random users etc.
It's best to wait for an official response before we jump to conclusions.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1151849697734037504

He said that the source comes from Japan Times but didn't provide a link...
 
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If this goes on for a few days those who've donated will end up paying for every single brick of a new building.
May I make a suggestion that may never come to fruition, and build a statue of violet where the former building was as a memorial?
 
KyoAni has a shopfront for high resolution digital image downloads, which you can download immediately after purchase.

京アニショップ！ダウンロード販売専用サイト

京都アニメーション製作オリジナルグッズのダウンロードショップです！
kyoani.shop-pro.jp kyoani.shop-pro.jp
There is a tutorial for non-japanese people here, too:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1151770699054428162

I was a bit put off myself at first, after noticing that the URL is quite diffrent than the usual KyoAni shop url, but there wasn't any news suggesting it's fake showing up. Then I learned the normal shop links to it, so it must be genuine.
( 京アニショップ！ | the button right below the blue twitter button leads to the shop.)

Funds obviously go to KyoAni directly this way (and are perhaps also easier in term of tax stuff?).
 
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ayase said:
I feel rather conflicted about Sentai's fundraising efforts. While I understand that people want to be supportive, I can't really feel happy about it however much money they might raise. Perhaps it's the fact it was so immediate.

When it's a building like Notre Dame, just a thing that can be replaced with enough cash I understand it better, but when we're talking about people's lives... I don't know. Something about the idea of love or sympathy being measured in monetary terms doesn't sit so well with me. Even a hundred million quid isn't going to bring those people back or heal the mental and physical scars the survivors are going to have to live with and it feels a little bit cynical to think that any amount of money can ever put that right.
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money could go towards funeral costs or additional health care stuff, insurance will probably cover most of their lost technology but i think in cases like these they can take a while for them to process everything
 
So many lives and so much talent lost. Kyo ani had some highly skilled people working for them which is why they are loved by many.

Awful news and it's hard to see how the company will recover. I really hope the culprit gets what he deserves.

The more details come out the more heartbreaking it is
 
news.tbs.co.jp

「小説盗まれたから放火した」 男は青葉真司容疑者

　京都市のアニメ制作会社で３３人が死亡した放火殺人事件で、警察は１９日、身柄を確保した男の名前を発表しました。青葉真司容疑者（４１）です。青葉容疑者は「小説を盗まれたから放火した」という趣旨の話をしています。 　１９日午前９時半、警察と消防による現場検証は京都アニメーションの八田社長も立ち会って始まりました。１８日の火災では３３人が死亡、さらに建物内にいた３５人が重軽傷で病院に搬送されました。...
news.tbs.co.jp

"Started the fire, because a novel was stolen" is the headline of the article and allegedly what suspect Aoba has said.
 
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