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ani12
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I hope they find the girl alive and arrest that guy ASAP.
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gatotsu911
Posts: 457 Location: US of East Coast |
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As far as I can tell from what I've read, the girl went with the dude willingly. Who knows what their motivations could be? I suspect it's some kind of twisted love affair. Or maybe she had a reason for wanting to escape her family? It's hard to say; there are some situations that I think it's better not to get involved in.
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Zalis116
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Posts: 6869 Location: Kazune City |
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And why am I thinking that this is going to turn into yet another black mark on anime fandom's reputation? "Tonight on FOX News: Anime fans: depraved paedophiles who abduct young girls and drag them to their amoral weekly bacchanals." |
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ani12
Posts: 165 |
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[quote="Zalis116"]
Unfortunately, I would not be suprised if that happened. |
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bleuster
Posts: 455 Location: Orange County |
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Who cares? I enjoyed anime before all the craziness started happening. What a couple knuckleheads do doesn't speak for the million of fans of anime. If the media wants to make us look like fools, then that's their problem. And if people stop liking you because of anime, they weren't really your friends in the first place. |
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LKK
Posts: 426 Location: Virginia, USA |
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At the very least, anime fans who attend conventions should care. This is exactly the bad type of publicity that makes hotels and convention centers nervous. If anime cons become associated in the general public's mind with pedophiles luring teens and young children, then hotels and convention centers will become even more reluctant to rent function space to conventions. My experience has been that hotels and convention centers are already nervous about renting to fandom-oriented events in the first place. It doesn't matter that most conventions are safe; it's the perception of cons that influence rental facilities' decision, not the reality. Any publicity that adds to the public's negative opinion of fans and fan gatherings will hurt conventions in the long run. |
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Spiked Vash
Posts: 17 Location: Hand State |
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Hmm, I wonder if the person in this photo could be him at Ikkicon: http://trsrockin.com/ikkicon09/20.jpg Besides, the girl in the photo looks like the missing girl, too. If this IS the suspect, it's not good. |
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DomFortress
Posts: 751 Location: Richmond BC, Canada |
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Hon'ya-chan
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Nope. Not the Perv. Girl also is innocent. http://www.cosplay.com/gallery/a156767/ http://drjubal.deviantart.com/ My guess if the girl was obsessed with Captain Komamura, she'd have at least a collection of images of the Bleach Captain at best on her computer or on some form of removeable media (which might include the image in question seen on AMW). Parents/Police go into her room and personal effects, find said image, notice the similarities with the accused perv, and go from there. tl;dr: Mistaken identity FTW. Guilty until proven innocent. |
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bleuster
Posts: 455 Location: Orange County |
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Really? With all that money involved they'll just say, "Nope! No more thousands of anime fans allowed here bringing in all this business!"?
I think they're smarter than that and so are we. If this was a reoccurring thing directly related to cons I'd might see it that way, but it's not. Anime cons aren't NAMBLA. These two dopes would have ran off together for any reason. Traveling for anime cons could have been a scapegoat for all we know. |
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Yuki_Kun45
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Posts: 725 Location: U.S.A. |
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To some credit fortunately she wasn't snatched at a con.
But it still can be bad in the public image, regardless of how much business an annual con can bring in for a hotel. Cons happen once a year, hotels have to keep tourists coming all year (assuming of course a hotel hosts) and convention centers have to attract other venues all year round. If the image of a fan convention which is crazy enough with out this, they'll want to protect their image. To some fortune (but not a lot) this has gotten relatively little media attention thanks to Caylee Anthony (now that Obama is prez they need someone else to be fixated on). |
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eaglestorm
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No matter how you slice it, it is still not anime news. And as a few pointed out, it only serves to tarnish the image of anime fans. If a criminal is targeting anime cons, that's another story. But that's not what happened, is it? The link to anime is tenuous, at best. If this is a public service announcements, then treat it as such. And not disguised it as something it's not. And do spare me the sarcastic condescending attitude. |
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alexcampos
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Yet another black eye to anime, and anime fans. Unfortunatly, anime fans are already black listed by conservative Americans, who are to hypocritical, not to mention ethnocentristic to the idea of a lot of anime, and manga. And now to add fuel to all the anime haters out there this story comes along.
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dtm42
Posts: 14084 Location: currently stalking my waifu |
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Hmmm, I did wonder what had happened to her. Perhaps they're already in Mexico; I certainly would try and flee the country if I were him.
The bold is my doing. Why do they persist with this? He is shown in the accompanying picture to be already beardless for crying out loud, and in the previous thread on this she was shown to have already dyed her hair black. Saying "may" is just ludicrous when you know it to be true. They should instead say "She was last seen with dyed black hair, and he is relatively clean-shaven though he may try to grow his beard back." That wasn't too hard now, was it? |
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braves
Posts: 2309 Location: Puerto Rico (but living in Texas) |
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Hmm, there is so much truth in this statement that I just can't stand it. Not to mention that playing the race card is always effective. On the other hand, MSNBC did this little gem.... |
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