Angry anime shopper tells store employees to 'die' 3,852 times in death threat emails japantoday.com

By Casey Baseel, SoraNews24As Japan’s largest specialty retailer for anime merchandise, the Animate chain is loved by many otaku.
One said “Instead of the people from Kyoto Animation, all of you should have been killed,” referencing the July arson attack on the anime studio that resulted in 36 deaths.
Choi’s connection to Animate stretches back to at least 2014, when she made her first purchase through the chain’s online shop.
The arrest comes roughly four months after Osaka Prefectural Police officers arrested a 25-year-old man from Shizuoka Prefecture for sending threatening emails to video game developer Key/Visual Arts that also alluded to the Kyoto Animation arson attack.
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