Influenced By Anime, 12-Year-Old Boy Jumps To Death

A 12-year-old boy in Kolkata, India, jumped to loss of life from the eleventh ground of a highrise hoping to get saved by an angel. The residents of the highrise, who have been alerted after listening to a loud crash, discovered him mendacity in a pool of blood by the swimming pool.

Preliminary investigation by the cops revealed that the boy, recognized as Biraj Pachisia, was influenced by a scene from the anime Platinum Finish.

Mirai Kakehashi, the protagonist of Platinum Finish, makes an attempt suicide in a similar way firstly of the collection. Nonetheless, he’s saved by his guardian angel, following which he receives particular powers.

“After major investigation we’re satisfied that the boy was hooked on this serial and impressed by it took this deadly step,” an officer advised IANS, a information company. “Although there isn’t any bodily proof to his suicide however contemplating the circumstantial proof we’re apparently certain that the boy was a lot hooked on this web-series that he although of leaping from the roof.”

The incident befell on Saturday, at a high-end housing complicated at Canal Round Street in Phulbagan space in Kolkata. Pachisia went to the roof of the excessive rise evading his members of the family who have been busy attending Saraswati Puja (a outstanding competition in India), and leaped off it.

Upon being found, he was rushed to a close-by medical facility, the place he was declared lifeless.

The boy was lately given an “digital gadget due to his on-line courses”. He apparently used to it watch the collection on-line and bought hooked on it.

Suicides and unintentional deaths are a typical trope in fantasy & isekai anime. This isn’t the primary time the damaging affect of such a trope has been mentioned.

On April 26, 2021, the Russian district court docket in Saint Petersburg banned a complete of 5 anime titles- together with isekai anime KonoSuba and That Time I Bought Reincarnated as a Slime.

The court docket dominated that the isekai (that means “otherworld”) titles KonoSuba and That Time I Bought Reincarnated as a Slime “promote reincarnation beliefs,” and present that “after loss of life, there could be a extra full and fascinating life, free from the management of 1’s dad and mom.” 

Platinum Finish is a Japanese manga collection written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata, of Demise Observe fame. It was serialized in Shueisha’s Soar Sq. month-to-month journal from November 2015 to January 2021. An anime tv collection adaptation by Sign.MD premiered in October 2021.