Fire at Kyoto Animation

[bakato]

Originally Posted by Guardian Enzo

Some good news: apparently the materials from the Studio 1 servers have been recovered.

https://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/16849668/

Look. There's light at the end of the tunnel.

[Guardian Enzo]

More details.

News outlets reported on Monday that art and other materials have been recovered from a data server located on the first floor of Kyoto Animation's 1st Studio building. Daisuke Okeda, the lawyer Kyoto Animation has hired to provide communications to the public about the fire, confirmed that all the data on the server has been recovered without damage.

The server was isolated in a separate room completely surrounded by concrete on the building's first floor. The room was apart from the staircase area in which a 41-year-old man allegedly started a fire on July 18. Therefore, the server was protected from the fire and also from water used in firefighting efforts.

Okeda stated that specialists were able to fully recover the data from the server, but he did not specify what data the server contained.

[Mazryonh]

Originally Posted by Toukairin

If I were KyoAni, I would start giving phone calls and post job offerings right now to fill in the gaps. Of course, interviewing process would take place so they would still hire qualty people.

When Manchester United lost half of a team in the plane crash in 1958, they did a lot of work to keep a functioning club when a number of directors thought of shutting down everything. The interim coach at the time said the following words, and I strongly believe they can be applied in the process of hiring new people:

Of course, it only is my opinion. BUT that is a very good mantra to have in order to move on.

I do hope that KyoAni takes the opportunity to hire from outside the studio to replace their lost manpower. The attitude you mentioned that Manchester United had after losing half a team was a good one. But in any case, it's not like there's a lack of people who want to work for KyoAni, even now.

[Sheba]

That'll also take time to train them and teach them the studio's workings, if Hatta want to stay faithful to the studio's philosophy that make them distinguishable until the disaster.

[RRW]

https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=2...10001-kyt-soci

list of victim

宇田淳一 Junichi Uda - in-betweener
笠間結花 Yuka Kasama
大村勇貴 Yuuki Oomura
木上益治 Yoshiji Kigami - studio-wide mentor, director: Munto, Baja no Studio
栗木亜美 Ami Kuriki - key animator
武本康弘 Yasuhiro Takemoto - director: Lucky Star, Disappearance, Hyouka, Dragon Maid
津田幸恵 Sachie Tsuda - finish animation/digital painting
西屋太志 Futoshi Nishiya - character designer: Free!, Hyouka, Nichijou, A Silent Voice, Liz and the Blue Bird
横田圭佑 Keisuke Yokota - production manager
渡邊美希子 Mikiko Watanabe - art director: Dragon Maid, Violet Evergarden, Phantom World, Amagi, Kyoukai

[CrowKenobi]

The previous discussion was removed since it was off-topic to the title of the thread. If anyone feels the need to continue it, make a thread in General Anime and move it there.

[RichardFromMarple]

Originally Posted by Mazryonh

I do hope that KyoAni takes the opportunity to hire from outside the studio to replace their lost manpower. The attitude you mentioned that Manchester United had after losing half a team was a good one. But in any case, it's not like there's a lack of people who want to work for KyoAni, even now.

Many other teams loaned Manchester United players until they could replace the lost players.

I'm hoping the other studios can help out by seconding staff & facilities to help KyoAni get things going.

[bakato]

Originally Posted by RichardFromMarple

Many other teams loaned Manchester United players until they could replace the lost players.

I'm hoping the other studios can help out by seconding staff & facilities to help KyoAni get things going.

Well, KyoAni was one of the few studios that treated its staff like human beings so there's some incentive, but then again this industry is also about connections, which may have died with the directors.

[Liddo-kun]

this is really just sad. Many talented people die because of one madman.

I heard the director of Maid Dragon died in the incident.

[SeijiSensei]

Sentai has announced its plan for transferring the funds raised through its GoFundMe account to Kyoto Animation.

https://www.gofundme.com/help-kyoani...3192b3176a4442

In stage one, $2 million of the $2.37 million collected will be transferred to an account managed by KyoAni.

After the funds reach Kyoto Animation’s specified account, representatives of Kyoto Animation will distribute them to those in need according to their public pledge to do so. More specifically, Kyoto Animation has pledged that any funds received from this GoFundMe drive will go toward providing aid for 1) their lost co-workers, as well as their family and immediate relatives, and 2) their colleagues who remain hospitalized, as well as their family and immediate relatives. They have further committed as follows: “We consider transparency regarding these funds to be of top priority, and we will be reporting all income and expenditures. We are still in the process of determining the best way to report this information, but we will make an announcement once this has been finalized.”

The remaining funds will be transferred once all fees and other charges have been cleared.

There's no mention about how these funds will be treated under Japanese tax laws.

[LoweGear]

[Crunchyroll] Japanese Government Offer Tax Relief for Kyoto Animation Donations: Money donated towards Kyoto Animation will be treated as “disaster relief” funds

Originally Posted by Excerpt

It’s been over a month since the devastating attack on Kyoto Animation that wounded 33 of the beloved studio employees and killed 35 staff that was working out of the Fushimi Ward Studio 1 office. Included in those killed was Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid director Yasuhiro Takemoto, legendary animator Yoshiji Kigami, and chief animation director on the Free! franchise, Futoshi Nishiya, among many more.

On July 29, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga held a press conference to discuss measures to help offset the tax burden of donations to Kyoto Animation. These offsets were to deliver some tax breaks from donations received both domestically and internationally as well as helping train new animators at Kyoto Animation.

On the morning of August 22, The Sankei News reported that the Japanese Government will now be treating the donations to Kyoto Animation as “disaster relief” rather than revenue. By positioning the funds this way, the money donated towards the families and rebuilding of the studio will be the same as money donated to local governments in times of need.

Before now, any donations towards Kyoto Animation would have been taxed at the usual rates, as would any money handed over to the families of the victims. This could have hindered rebuilding progress, or put undue burden on families who might have settlements to pay in the wake of losing family members.

This change also gives a tax incentive for corporations. Now donations to Kyoto Animation is like donating to other charitable operation, which gives a significant deductible on operating income when taxes are finalized at the end of the Japanese financial year.

This is quite an incredible policy they're doing for KyoAni isn't it?

[Guardian Enzo]

It all comes out of the Diet committee that was formed to come up with ways to help the company recover. This is a sizable amount of money that the government actually doesn't have to pony up themselves, so it's pretty much a win-win for all parties.

[Dextro]

We had a very similar situation happen here in Portugal during the wildfires of 2017 (which killed at least 60 people) where our government waived VAT on certain prominent donations as well. Good to see Japan doing the same

[Toukairin]

Very good initiative. When the country weeps altogether, showing such solidarity in the process of healing the wounds is always beautiful.

Speaking of helping KyoAni, I was at Otakuthon in Montreal last weekend. There was a box for donations to KyoAni, and I'm glad that I could finally make my part from this side of the world to them.

[Infinite Zenith]

It looks like the perpetrator has been formally arrested now.

[Yu Ominae]

The old KyoAni office is gone now. It's demolished completely.

[TinyRedLeaf]

Man charged with murder for arson attack on KyoAni

Kyoto (Dec 16, Wed): Japanese prosecutors have charged a man with murder for the 2019 arson attack on Kyoto Animation which killed 36 people, according to local media.

Shinji Aoba, 42, was detained in the aftermath of the July 2019 attack, but has been hospitalised since then with severe burns sustained in the incident, and reportedly only regained consciousness the following month.

The charges, which the Kyoto Shimbun newspaper said also included attempted murder and arson, came after a psychiatric evaluation of Aoba.

He had nearly died of the injuries he sustained in the attack, a doctor who treated him told the newspaper recently.

He required 12 operations to apply skin grafts, and the hospital opted to use Aoba's own skin rather than a graft bank "to avoid shortages of skin for (his) victims", the doctor said.

Aoba only regained consciousness last August, the doctor added, and apparently sobbed with relief after undergoing a procedure in September that restored his ability to speak.

The attack was the country's deadliest violent crime in decades.

Parents of some of those killed said news of the charges did little to ease their pain.

"My feelings don't change," Chieko Takemoto, who lost her son Yasuhiro, told NHK. "When I'm alone, I want to cry remembering him...I'm so sad he's gone."

"No matter what (Aoba) says in the court, Yasuhiro won't come back," added his father Yasuo Takemoto. "This reality won't change no matter what ruling is given."

Arson is considered a particularly serious offence in Japan, where many buildings are made of wood and extremely fire-prone.

Japan is one of the few developed nations to retain the death penalty, with more than 100 inmates on death row, and support for it remains high.

But many years usually pass between sentencing and execution, which in Japan is always carried out by hanging.

AFP

[mangamuscle]

Any news on what motivations he had? Supposedly he has deem fit to stand trial, which means he isn't crazy.

[Dextro]

I almost wish he had died in the fire as well. Mostly because I'm vehemently against the dead penalty (and even more so when it's done by hanging which is anything but quick and painless).

However even I'm struggling to have any sort of pity for that man after what he did. Even more so after reading the words of director Takemono's family. Fsck! Still to this day I wish it was all a bad dream and that it didn't happen.

[SeijiSensei]

Originally Posted by mangamuscle

Any news on what motivations he had? Supposedly he has deem fit to stand trial, which means he isn't crazy.

He claimed he had submitted a script or perhaps a story to KyoAni where it was refused. He then believed he saw his material in a show the studio produced and apparently decided to murder over thirty people in return. It's hard to know how much credence to give the claims of someone who seemed as deranged as this guy.

Kyoto does have an active annual competition for novels though it was suspended for 2019 after the fire. Most submissions don't get very far, but Violet Evergarden came along via this route.

YouTube

https://youtu.be/a1Fi5Njzgz4

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