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In a fire at a cake shop in Motosu, Gifu Prefecture, that left five men and women dead or injured, police announced on the 8th that an autopsy found the cause of death for a 70-year-old male company executive — who died at the hospital he was taken to — was burn shock from full-body burns. Based on conditions at the scene, police believe the executive may have been involved in the incident and are continuing their investigation. With the motive and witness accounts still unclear, posters on the thread speculated wildly about how an uninvited person came to be at the scene, and about a mismatched headcount some compared to Moto Hagio’s classic manga 11 Nin Iru! (“They Were Eleven”).
9/8 (Tue), 7:49 PM
Mainichi Shimbun
In the case of a fire that broke out at a cake shop in Motosu, Gifu Prefecture, leaving five men and women dead or injured, police announced on the 8th that the cause of death for a 70-year-old male company executive, who died at the hospital he was taken to, was burn shock from full-body burns. This was determined through an autopsy. Based on conditions at the scene, police believe the executive may have been involved in the incident.
Source: topics.smt.docomo.ne.jp / Original article here
What people said
Sounds like a witch out of a Disney movie.
Well, popular as it was, it's an old shojo manga — most people probably have no clue what it is.
I watched the anime once but remember it not being that interesting…
A horrific, awful incident like this shouldn't be mentioned in the same breath as a Moto Hagio masterpiece.
Yeah, nothing yet. The funeral director apparently said something about him not being invited, but nobody's actually come forward saying they witnessed the crime itself.
It's been on TV news though.
Yeah, I feel like I heard about someone accidentally setting themselves on fire before too — was that the Aoba case?
Like in Rambo — soak the spot you want to burn, then trail off in a thin line like a fuse, and light it from outside the entrance by tossing in a spark. Though Rambo used gunpowder from a gun shop, not gasoline.
The families probably wished he could've been saved — just barely — so they could kill him properly themselves.
But he's only got 2 kills right now, so it's kind of borderline.
Classmates staying silent… there's some darkness in there that can't be made public…
It's the result of him crashing a mahjong tournament the classmates were holding among themselves. How he even found out about it is the real mystery.
Normally you'd assume there was some bullying involved, I'd guess.
More like an inner evil spirit, no?
What Aoba hit was a studio that represented Japanese anime as a whole — this is just some cake shop out in the countryside. Not sure what 'meaning' there's even supposed to be here.
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/df600a9e9263818a7e8c044453840693d12915e4
>'trip to North Korea'
Does that mean he knew Madam Dewi too?
Is that also why he had ties with Madam Dewi?
Lame punchline though — turns out it's just some uninvited guy who showed up.
Wait, hold on. If he invited 10 people, that's 11 including himself, right? Then one more person crashes it, everyone dies… and the bodies found still number 11. Wait, what? Isn't that the actual horror twist?
Sounds like he lived alone with his daughter.
He probably loved himself an awful lot. That alone seems like it'd explain most of it.
Having money is exactly what makes people's attitudes turn arrogant. All he had was money, but he convinced himself that made him important.
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
What police announced was only the cause of death as determined by autopsy — the executive’s suspected “murder and arson” remains just that, a suspicion, at this stage. Motive and witness accounts had not been made public as of the evening of the 8th, and the thread’s speculation ballooned to fill that gap. Especially prominent were comparisons to the Kyoto Animation arson attack (Shinji Aoba), still fresh in public memory, with posters repeatedly drawing parallels between the self-injurious arson method and the idea of an “inner impulse.” A weekly-magazine report (Bunshun Online) on the executive’s travel history to North Korea was also shared, though it’s worth noting this comes from a separate media source, not a police announcement. The core questions — the motive, his relationship with the cake shop’s owner, and how an uninvited person came to be at the scene — remain unconfirmed and under investigation, and most of the thread’s posts amount to nothing more than speculation.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Breaking News+) thread “[There Were 11] Executive Man Suspected of Involvement, Cause of Death Was Burn Shock — Fire at Gifu/Motosu Cake Shop.”
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