In the land where hot titles like Super Mario Bros and Final Fantasy are born, you would think that putting blames on video games would be the last thing that could happen in Japan. Apparently the recent case says otherwise, where a man named Masahiro Kanagawa went on a rampage stabbing 9 people (sad to say 2 victims didn’t make it).

Now … pushing video games to take the blame for every Tom, Dick and Harry crimes are pretty common nowadays. The infamous “crusader” Jack Thompson has been doing it for a long while now, accusing games like Grand Theft Auto and Manhunt to be the reason behind all the recent violence involving gamers. I have to admit, at least those titles do involve violence, whether or not it really does influence someone to commit them would be another matter.

However for Masahiro’s case, the media and “experts” are saying that Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball and Final Fantasy have some sort of a connection behind his recent stabbing. HELLO!? If watching fake boobies bouncing or seeing Cloud performing Omnislash makes a person want to stab someone, then I would be out running around eating or stomping people’s heads because I played too much Pacman and Super Mario Bros.

Now the the media are reporting that they found Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword (A DS game) in his bag, flashing the cover box all over the news. Ninja Gaiden creator Itagaki must be damn happy. Its freaking free publicity! [Kotaku]

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Since most of the victims were stabbed in places like the neck, one “expert” was saying that it was through fighting games that Kanagawa learned about the body’s weak points as assume things like that are only taught in video games.

Earth to that dumb expert … we don’t need no fighting games to teach us about body weak points. We have something far better and that something is called “Common Sense“. Don’t tell me Japanese never realised that the neck is one of the body’s weakest points. Should really ask those “experts” to go back to grade school.

Neko : Final Fantasy and Super Mario Bros are hailed as legendary titles for the rest of the world, but in their homeland of the rising sun, they are the prime suspect for violence, crime and … murder. Damnit, Jack Thompson might really be a Japanese in disguise! XD

Killer Murders 2, Stabs Seven, Played Sexy Game [via Kotaku]

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