A stalker has been arrested after Mikasa’s Japanese Attack on Titan voice actor, Yui Ishikawa, called the police after receiving death threats.
Jiji reported on December 25, 2023, that a 25-year-old man, Fukuta Kishimoto from Kyoto, was arrested and charged with intimidation after threatening to kill Ishikawa. He posted the message “I will stab her with a knife and kill her” in November and was arrested the same month. He has now confessed to the crime. The threat was identified after Ishikawa’s agency discovered the online post.
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Ishikawa is best known for playing Mikasa in Attack on Titan, ending her 10-year run in the role in November 2023 with Attack on Titan The Final Chapters: Special 2. Ishikawa’s final thoughts have gone viral. After she burst into tears, received flowers for her long service. Most recently, Ishikawa ended her role as Riselia in The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy, continued playing Lihua and Mui in The Apothecary Diaries and Undead Unluck, and will be the main character in the upcoming Doctor Elise anime.
Kishimoto has a history of online harassment after making an online threat to kill an anime director in 2020. He was fined 500,000 yen ($3,500) for the incident. As actors deliver iconic performances for viewers, there has long been a feeling that their safety is not guaranteed through lax laws or lack of self-regulation from actors. online community. Most recently, Jump Festa 2024 saw the likes of theater actor Yui Ito, who plays Sakura in Live Spectacle Naruto: Song of the Akatsuki. The security forces did not grasp the incident or the perpetrator and Ito expressed feelings of depression and anxiety after being chased by the man.
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Ultimately, as Kishimoto’s history and recent events show, harassment is an industry-wide problem. Sailor Moon director Kunihiko Ikuhara’s recent legal victory against an online harasser continues to be undermined by the psychological trauma that followed. In his statement, Ikuhara couldn’t help but liken it to the arson of Kyoto Animation following months of online harassment. The director now has constant police protection around his home.
Source: Jiji
