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Japan Today
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Japan Today
Kyoto Animation arson marks 6th anniversary with death penalty finalized
A memorial service is held on Friday to honor the victims of the 2019 arson attack on a Kyoto Animation C. studio in Kyoto. Kyoto Animation Co held a memorial on Friday to honor the 36 victims of the 2019 arson attack, with families renewing the memories of their loved ones on the anniversary day that came months after the assailant dropped an appeal to overturn his death sentence. "Works that have been left (by the victims) are still moving the hearts of many people. You have clearly made a mark on the world, and we are proud of that," a representative of the families said in a message read out in a ceremony at the site in Kyoto where the burned down No. 1 Studio once stood. About 150 people, including bereaved family members and Kyoto Animation President Hideaki Hatta, attended the event that was held privately. A total of 36 sunflowers -- the same number of the victims -- were laid at an altar under a tent. The deadly attack delivered a heavy blow to Kyoto Animation, often referred to as "KyoAni" and known worldwide for producing hit anime works including "K-On!" and "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya." Hatta said in his speech at the ceremony that he feels the absence of the victims as their peers continue their work. The company, as it did last year, asked fans to refrain from coming to the site of the studio on the day of the anniversary. But it expressed its appreciation for their continued support. The assailant, Shinji Aoba, 47, was sentenced to death by the Kyoto District Court in January 2024 for the arson that triggered one of Japan's worst mass murder cases, after the court found him mentally competent to be held accountable for his crimes. Aside from those killed, 32 others suffered injuries of various degrees. The capital punishment was finalized after Aoba submitted documents to drop his appeal in January this year, but his lawyers contested the validity. In July last year, Kyoto Animation set up a monument to remember the victims at a park in Uji, a city in Kyoto Prefecture where the company's headquarters is located. It also plans to build a monument at the site of the No. 1 Studio. © KYODO
The Mainichi
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Mainichi
Kyoto Animation arson marks 6th anniv. with death penalty finalized
KYOTO (Kyodo) -- Kyoto Animation Co. held a memorial on Friday to honor the 36 victims of the 2019 arson attack, with families renewing the memories of their loved ones on the anniversary day that came months after the assailant dropped an appeal to overturn his death sentence. "Works that have been left (by the victims) are still moving the hearts of many people. You have clearly made a mark on the world, and we are proud of that," a representative of the families said in a message read out in a ceremony at the site in Kyoto where the burned down No. 1 Studio once stood. About 150 people, including bereaved family members and Kyoto Animation President Hideaki Hatta, attended the event that was held privately. A total of 36 sunflowers -- the same number of the victims -- were laid at an altar under a tent. The deadly attack delivered a heavy blow to Kyoto Animation, often referred to as "KyoAni" and known worldwide for producing hit anime works including "K-On!" and "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya." Hatta said in his speech at the ceremony that he feels the absence of the victims as their peers continue their work. The company, as it did last year, asked fans to refrain from coming to the site of the studio on the day of the anniversary. But it expressed its appreciation for their continued support. The assailant, Shinji Aoba, 47, was sentenced to death by the Kyoto District Court in January 2024 for the arson that triggered one of Japan's worst mass murder cases, after the court found him mentally competent to be held accountable for his crimes. Aside from those killed, 32 others suffered injuries of various degrees. The capital punishment was finalized after Aoba submitted documents to drop his appeal in January this year, but his lawyers contested the validity. In July last year, Kyoto Animation set up a monument to remember the victims at a park in Uji, a city in Kyoto Prefecture where the company's headquarters is located. It also plans to build a monument at the site of the No. 1 Studio.
Kyodo News
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Kyodo News
Kyoto Animation arson marks 6th anniv. with death penalty finalized
KYOTO - Kyoto Animation Co. held a memorial on Friday to honor the 36 victims of the 2019 arson attack, with families renewing the memories of their loved ones on the anniversary day that came months after the assailant dropped an appeal to overturn his death sentence. "Works that have been left (by the victims) are still moving the hearts of many people. You have clearly made a mark on the world, and we are proud of that," a representative of the families said in a message read out in a ceremony at the site in Kyoto where the burned down No. 1 Studio once stood. About 150 people, including bereaved family members and Kyoto Animation President Hideaki Hatta, attended the event that was held privately. A total of 36 sunflowers -- the same number of the victims -- were laid at an altar under a tent. The deadly attack delivered a heavy blow to Kyoto Animation, often referred to as "KyoAni" and known worldwide for producing hit anime works including "K-On!" and "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya." Hatta said in his speech at the ceremony that he feels the absence of the victims as their peers continue their work. The company, as it did last year, asked fans to refrain from coming to the site of the studio on the day of the anniversary. But it expressed its appreciation for their continued support. The assailant, Shinji Aoba, 47, was sentenced to death by the Kyoto District Court in January 2024 for the arson that triggered one of Japan's worst mass murder cases, after the court found him mentally competent to be held accountable for his crimes. Aside from those killed, 32 others suffered injuries of various degrees. The capital punishment was finalized after Aoba submitted documents to drop his appeal in January this year, but his lawyers contested the validity. In July last year, Kyoto Animation set up a monument to remember the victims at a park in Uji, a city in Kyoto Prefecture where the company's headquarters is located. It also plans to build a monument at the site of the No. 1 Studio.
SoraNews24
07-07-2025
- Entertainment
- SoraNews24
Haruhi Suzumiya makes surprise return with brand new song, anime video on very special day【Video】
'Did we keep you waiting?' Tanabata, also sometimes called 'the star festival,' is an annual celebration in which people write wishes on strips of paper and tie them to bamboo branches in hopes that they'll come true. So if anyone out there wrote 'I wish there was a new Haruhi Suzumiya song,' this year, guess what? Your Tanabata wish came true! Yes, Haruhi and her SOS Brigade buddies are back with a band-new song and dance, one that starts off with the lyrics 'Matasechatta? Iku wa yo !'/'Did we keep you waiting? Here we go!' They really have kept us waiting, as it's now been more than 14 years since the final episode of the second, and so far last, season of the phenomenally popular The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya anime aired. The timing of the new video's release, though, has more to do with the first episode in Season 2, 'Bamboo Lead Rhapsody,' which takes place on Tanabata. For the new song Mutekiteki Happiness (meaning 'Invincible Happiness'), they've gotten the band back together in multiple senses of the phrase. Not only do Haurhi, Kyon, Yuki, Mikuru, and Itsuki all reunite for the video, so too do their voice actresses/actors, Aya Hirano, Tomokazu Sugita, Minori Chihara, Yuko Goto, and Daisuke Ono, who provide the song's vocals. Aside from the voices, if the song's high-energy composition and snappy lyrical style have also got your nostalgia engine's cylinders firing, that's probably because those are the works of Aki Hata and Tomokazu Tashiro, the duo that was always behind 'Hare Hare Yukai,' The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya's ending theme that was almost as big a deal as the anime series itself. But while the audio is definitely a cheerful salute to what fans have known and loved, there's a new wrinkle to the visuals, which are CG. Depending on how strongly you feel about CG anime in general, and how attached you are to the hand-drawn Kyoto Animation-produced artwork of the Haruhi TV series and theatrical feature, that could make this new music video a bit of a monkey's paw as far as Tanabata wishes go. Still, online reactions so far are very positive, with fans clearly just happy to have Haruhi and the gang back, leaving comments such as: 'They did it…they brought Haruhi back!' 'What an awesome Tanabata surprise!' 'Now they've gotta make a Season 3!' 'Now I've gotta learn this dance!' 'Tanabata is a magical day.' 'Thank you to everyone who wished for this.' 'I never dreamed I'd be able to see a new Haruhi music video in this day and age.' 'Even in the Reiwa era, the SOS Brigade is still here!' 'Haruhi songs are always so positive and energy-boosting. Thank you for the awesome new one.' It's probably still a little too early to take this as undeniable evidence that the long-awaited Season 3 is on the way, since 'Mutekiteki Happiness' was produced following a successful crowdfunding campaign for a new Haruhi song and music video, so right now the only thing we can say with 100-percent certainty is that the full-length version of the video is scheduled to be released on July 28. Still, with rights holder Kadokawa seeing how much joy even a minute-and-a-half video is producing, odds are at least someone at the company is thinking about how much even bigger the reaction would be for some new Haruhi anime episodes. Source: YouTube/Anitune, YouTube/KADOKAWAanime, Twitter/@haruhi_official, Denfaminico Gamer Images: YouTube/Anitune ● Want to hear about SoraNews24's latest articles as soon as they're published? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter!
Yahoo
06-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
An Anonymous 4chan Post Accidentally Plunged Mathematicians Into a Global Puzzle
In 2011, an anonymous 4chan poster asked how many episodes of a particular anime they would have to watch if they wanted to watch the minimum episodes in every possible way. The problem with this is that the answer to this question is a mathematical permutation (every way a set of items can be arranged) known as a superpermutation. It is impossible to come up with a completely accurate answer for a superpermutation of a number over 5. While a single answer still eludes us, mathematicians were at least able to figure out the upper and lower limits of the anime superpermutation. Spoiler alert: that would be a ton of binge-watching. Anime has been capturing the hearts and minds of fans all over the world for as long as it has existed. Across the format, you can find a huge variety of stories—from long adventure serials to high-fantasy action series to sweet coming of age dramas and beyond. And if you happen to be one of those people who love the (predominantly Japanese) art form—especially a series known as The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya—you're in for something really sugoi (awesome). See, the 14 standalone episodes of Haruhi Suzumiya can be watched in any order. Back in 2011, an anonymous fan of the series posted on a 4chan discussion board asking how to watch the episodes in every possible order—and in what way that could be done by watching the minimum number of episodes. Whether or not the poster realized it, they had just opened the portal to a math conundrum that had been around for years. Enter permutations. In math, a permutation is the number of ways a set can be arranged. For example, there are two permutations for a set consisting of the numbers 2 and 7 (the permutations are 2,7 and 7,2). In this case, these are both the maximum and minimum permutations for this particular set, since there are only two numbers involved. The Haruhi Suzumiya dilemma, however, goes far beyond that. Figuring out how to watch 14 episodes in every way possible while still watching the minimum number of episodes would mean solving for not just a permutation, but a superpermutation—a sequence of every possible permutation—and, even more specifically, the minimum superpermutation. Permutations of two-number sets are solvable, but as the numbers go higher, things get more complicated. Really complicated. The shortest superpermutations for any sets with more than five parts are unknown. An attempt to tackle one with six numbers was made in a 2014 study. If we do this anime-episode style, with each member of the set representing one episode, it would have meant watching the minimum number of six episodes in every way possible. That ends up as a marathon of 872 episodes repeated in different ways. This number, however, was one short of the 873 that had been estimated with an algorithm. Bummer. Nathaniel Johnson is not an anime fan, but in 2013, the mathematics professor was searching terms that had to do with superpermutations when he stumbled across the discussion of the Haruhi Suzumiya problem and felt compelled to blog about it. The blog post didn't generate much attention until it was seen five years later, when his colleague—Robin Houston, author of that 2014 study—discovered the post. Houston tweeted out a realization: 'A curious situation. The best known lower bound for the minimal length of superpermutations was proven by an anonymous user of a wiki mainly devoted to anime.' Houston got together with colleagues Jay Pantone and Vince Vatter to turn what he found on 4chan into real math in this study, crediting 'Anonymous 4chan Poster' as the first author. The start of their argument goes as follows. Basically, if you want to binge all possible combinations of episodes in a series and still watch the minimum number of episodes, that comes out to the number of episodes in the series—we'll call that number 'n'—plus (n-1)! plus (n-2)! plus (n-3)! plus n, then minus three. The '!' symbol in mathematics is called a factorial, and means a number multiplied by every whole number between it and one (for instance, 4! = 4*3*2*1). This algorithm had been previously published by mathematician and science fiction writer Greg Egan. That would bring you to at least 93,884,313,611 episodes and at most, 93,924,230,411. Supermutations still do not have a definite answer for any more than 5 items in a set, but at least there is now a way to estimate a more accurate range. Haruhi Suzumiya, whose episodes are about 24 minutes each, would therefore take around 4 million years to watch in the way the original poster wanted. You Might Also Like The Do's and Don'ts of Using Painter's Tape The Best Portable BBQ Grills for Cooking Anywhere Can a Smart Watch Prolong Your Life?
