The suspect in the Kyoto Animation incident was interrogated and said that the motive for the crime was plagiarism from "String Sound", and Kyoto Animation denied it

In a blink of an eye, it has been a year since the Kyoto Animation arson case that ended tragically with the deaths of 36 animation industry elites and shocked the world. Not long ago, the arson suspect Shinji Aoba (42 years old) has basically recovered from his injuries and is under investigation. Recently, according to Japanese media reports from the police, Shinji Aoba confessed his motive for the crime. The source of his extreme resentment was the plagiarism of Kyoto Animation's classic animation "String Sound - Kaze Dance High School Kyudo Club-", but Kyoto Animation denied the claim of plagiarism.

· Let's take a brief look back at the disaster . On July 18, 2019, one of the buildings at the headquarters of Kyoto Animation, a veteran in the ACG industry, was suddenly set on fire by a criminal. It was later found out that it was an unemployed man named Shinji Aoba who deliberately set the fire, which resulted in 36 deaths and 33 injuries. He himself was also seriously injured. According to eyewitness testimony and preliminary police investigations, the suspect Shinji Aoba had submitted his work to Kyoto Animation many times before but was not accepted. This malicious arson may be related to this matter.

Shinji Aoba confessed that some scenes of "String Sound - Kaze Dance High School Kyudo Club-" were plagiarized from the work he submitted to Kyoto Animation that year. When reporters contacted Kyoto Animation, Kyoto Animation completely denied this statement. The police judged that it was Shinji Aoba's unilateral and stubborn resentment.

The police said, "It is difficult to define the so-called original settings, and most of them are just one party's own statement."