In July 2018, one of the greatest tragedies to hit the anime industry unfurled. Kyoto Animation and its employees were the victims of an arson assault that took the lives of thirty-six people, ...

Shinji Aoba was found guilty Thursday of setting fire to an anime studio in Kyoto, Japan in 2019 STR/JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty; Yomiuri Shimbun via AP A Japanese court has sentenced a man to death over ...

In 2019, the anime world was turned on its head after Kyoto Animation came under attack. The beloved studio was targeted by an arsonist, and the fire killed 36 people while injuring dozens more. For ...

The Kyoto District Court sentenced Shinji Aoba, the arsonist who set fire to Kyoto Animation Studio 1 and killed 36 people, to death. The judge believed that Aoba was of sound mind when he went ...

A man who deliberately set fire to a three-story animation studio in the Japanese city of Kyoto in 2019, killing 36 people, has been sentenced to death for mass murder. The guilty man, Shinji Aoba, is ...

As a refresher, the Kyoto Animation arson attack took place on July 18, 2019 when Aoba set fire to Kyoto Animation’s Studio 1 building. This fire killed 36 people and injured 34. This makes it one of ...

A Japanese court on Thursday announced the death sentence for Aoba Shinji, the man who burned down the Kyoto Anime studio in 2019 and killed 36 people. There was little doubt that Aoba, who himself ...