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The story
On August 29 in Yamatotakada, Nara Prefecture, caregiver Yohan Homma (26) was arrested on the spot on suspicion of attempted murder for allegedly striking his sister, who is in her 30s and lives with him, on the head and other areas multiple times with an approximately 4kg dumbbell in an attempt to kill her. The sister suffered bleeding from the back of her head and was taken to the hospital, but is said to be conscious. As the thread title suggests, the incident is said to have started when the sister knocked a figure off a shelf in her brother’s room. On 5ch, discussion focused less on the severity of the crime and more on how seriously to take figure-collecting as a hobby, along with prying speculation about the siblings’ living situation.
A male caregiver has been arrested on the spot on suspicion of attempted murder for allegedly striking his sister’s head and other areas with a dumbbell in an attempt to kill her.
Yohan Homma (26), of Yamatotakada, Nara Prefecture, is suspected of striking his sister, who is in her 30s and lives with him, on the head and other areas multiple times with an approximately 4kg dumbbell on the morning of the 29th, in an attempt to kill her.
The sister is bleeding from the back of her head and was taken to the hospital, but is said to be conscious.
Source: newsdig.tbs.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
If she's single, being a 30-something 'kodo-oba' (a jab at adult women still living off their parents at home) is a way bigger offense than being an introvert, so she's in no position to mock him.
But if she's got a husband, then having a 'kodo-oji' brother (the male equivalent — a grown son still mooching at home) around would be a nuisance, so it's no wonder she looks down on him.
Can you not read?
It literally says right there that he'd been mocked nonstop for years.
Oh no… 😰
Where does it even say she's single?
He should be thanking his sister for actually caring about her family.
You don't actually know that the figure was the most important thing to him.
It's probably just that years of pent-up stress happened to explode over that particular figure.
So should he have dropped her from a height scaled to match the figure she dropped?
Which might be exactly why the sister wanted to do something about it — still, it's a sad situation.
After reading 'he'd been mocked for years,' how do you even land on some heartwarming takeaway like that?
Sounds like the parents raised them wrong somewhere.
Sounds like hell — parenting that never actually gets to end.
Maybe it's labeled as 5kg but actually weighs 4kg once you measure it?
Maybe the bar itself is 1kg, and he had two 500g plates and two 1kg plates loaded on?
Background and Talking Points
Attempted murder charges can apply even if the victim doesn’t die, as long as intent to kill and an act carrying out that intent are established; the statutory penalty is imprisonment. Here, the fact that the weapon was an approximately 4kg dumbbell and that the victim was allegedly struck on the head multiple times could weigh into how maliciously the act is judged. On the thread, discussion drifted away from the incident itself toward differing attitudes on figure-collecting as a hobby and the stresses of “kodo-oji/kodo-oba”-style living arrangements with family, with opinions split over speculation about whether the sister is married or single. That said, at the time of reporting, neither party’s marital status, how they came to live together, nor the details of the motive had been made public — so most of the speculation about the family situation in the thread remains just that, speculation. The banter about the figure’s resale value also got tangled up with stories of contemporary art pieces fetching huge sums at auction, which is a separate matter entirely from the actual value of the item knocked over in this case.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread “Sister: ‘I tried knocking my brother’s figure off the shelf’ →“
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