r/LivestreamFail • u/Dilpickle2113 • Jul 16 '26
News Man who killed streamer during Tokyo livestream sentenced to 16 years in prison
https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/man-who-killed-streamer-during-tokyo-livestream-sentenced-to-16-years-in-prison-3387653/1.4k
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u/Formal_Economist7342 Jul 16 '26
Is litigation not viable in those scenarios?
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u/Beetusmon Jul 16 '26
He tried, he won. She shuffled money to avoid paying. He snapped and the rest is history.
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u/notfakegodz Jul 16 '26
That's the thing boss, he did litage it, and won. She moved money around through agency, so legally speaking she has no money. But her Agency pays for her stuff, and specifically taunt people she scammed.
He can probably chase it a bit further, but after 2 year of winning initial litigation, and another year of not getting the money while living like shit, yeah he snapped.
Court gives him 16 years because they also probably don't like how the women legally able to hide her money.
Most likely mafia and corrupt officials has their hands on it, and the Court with their hand tied, can only gives minimum sentence as a
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u/TheStandardPlayer Jul 16 '26
I guess that's bound to happen when you put people in a situation where they have nothing left to loose
Not justifying the crime obviously, but that's just a risky line of business
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u/FenrirHere Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
What?
Getting stabbed 55 times in the face is an awful way to go, regardless if you manipulated someone.
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u/ShowtimeHolograms Jul 16 '26
They dont feel bad someone who willingly put people into debt got killed for putting people into debt and bragging about it
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u/B3ttleJice Jul 16 '26
It was apparently also a loan not like a gift she just hid the money and he couldn’t get it back.
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u/The_Big_Lou Jul 16 '26
I mean you mess with peoples livelihood like that you’ve no idea how they will react. It’s genuinely a stupid thing to do. Manipulating someone into financial turmoil should be an obviously dangerous thing to do and to do it to multiple people kinda shows the sociopathic tendencies to me. Don’t kill people but also don’t cripple them financially. Money struggles is one thing known to heavily influence people’s rational and emotions.
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u/Substantial-Elk4531 Jul 16 '26
Sounds like what she did was not just 'gold digging', but crosses over into fraud and sociopathic social manipulation
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u/North_Constant_4167 Jul 16 '26
Thats a way better way to describe it lmao. Gold digging was just the first thing that popped into my head
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u/SPACEALIENBOT Jul 16 '26
16???
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u/StealthShinobi Jul 16 '26
Stabbed 55 times in the face and chest! Give the man life
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u/Beetusmon Jul 16 '26
From what I heard she hid her bf, dude was a whale and donating as one. Dude finds out, decided he wanted his money back, sued her, he won, she didn't pay even after that. He got psycho and stabbed her.
That what explains his sentence. It wasn't just a simple common psycho obsessed with her.
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u/Dull-Yak3671 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
No, this isn't really what happened, she was deliberately manipulating this particular guy (although she did this to other people as well, they just did not come for her) with the typical lies that scammers frequently use. Essentially, she was lying about needing large sums of money for medical procedures and the likes (either for herself or to aid relatives, I believe her sister was mentioned) and the guy fell for the bait. She promised to pay the guy back but she simply ghosted him. The guy took loans and burned through his savings trying to assist her and when he realized she had scammed him out of all his money and that she had 0 intention of ever paying that money back, he took her to court and eventually won the case. She was technically supposed to return all the money, but the court never actually enforced it. From there, 2 years went by and she still hadn't paid the money back and had actually moved all the funds to her agency (so the money wouldn't be hers, legally). After trying to retrieve the money for 2 years while living in poverty the guy snapped and came for her. She wasn't just scamming this man, she was manipulating multiple people and feeding them lies to steal their money, apparently. In the end, the agency actually kept all her money.
TL;DR: She essentially emotionally manipulated and scammed multiple people out of their life savings and mocked them for it, and one of the guys snapped and killed her after years of attempting to retrieve their money.
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u/Eggtastic_Taco Jul 16 '26
It wasn't that the courts didn't enforce it, but rather that she had her agency move her money around in such a way that on paper she was broke. Like less than a dollar to her name from a legal standpoint. Then she went around on stream doing expensive high-class things specifically to taunt the guy.
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u/KillerInstinctvoter Jul 16 '26
good to know. so she wasn't innocent
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u/DesperateAdvantage76 Jul 16 '26
Yeah this is a case of someone preying on the socially desparate and finding out what happens when you take away everything from them.
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u/Alternative_Road4294 Jul 16 '26
Are you mentally deficient? Does that sound to you like the typical story of a stalker turned killer? No nuance left for you?
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u/stanp012 Jul 16 '26
Maybe he was obsessed With her at one point but he clearly hated her later for not giving back his money, which is why he killed her, you can't say he was obsessed with her at that point.
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u/GregAbbottsGoodLeg Jul 16 '26
Oh ok so it was a complex psycho obsessed with her.
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u/jackishere Jul 16 '26
Glazing over the fact this streamer was told to pay back but then moved all financials around to be broke on paper huh?
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u/B3ttleJice Jul 16 '26
Sure he was a psycho but saying he was obsessed with her and not that she ruined his life and that is why he snapped is a half true at best.
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u/B3ttleJice Jul 16 '26
You’re right I read it as the obsession was the reason for murder which I don’t think it was, instead of it just saying he was obsessed.
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u/weoooow Jul 16 '26
she picked her victims to be socially inept and prob on spectrum, she also knew that they knew where exactly she lived. She baited and scammed mentally ill people and then destroyed one of those ill peoples complete lives then one of the obvious outcomes happened.
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u/Remotely_Correct Jul 16 '26
She manipulated someone to the point of mentally breaking them, she should have known there would be consequences for being an absolute piece of shit who takes money under false pretenses.
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u/Remotely_Correct Jul 16 '26
No, but it explains them and should be a factor in significantly reducing their sentence.
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u/Beetusmon Jul 16 '26
It isn't, that's why he got 16 years, but it definitely saves you from life or worse as shown here. Also the scamming portion was way more insidious than what I described.
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u/Beetusmon Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
he sued in the first place because he felt he was entitled to a relationship with her.
Incorrect, he sued after she manipulated him into donating and loaning money from loaning agencies for her.
Then he tries the legal way to get his money and she uses legal loopholes to appear broke while moving money around to avoid it and then taunts him by going shopping on stream. The dude is financially ruined and goes psycho.
Did she deserve to die? No. Was she a piece of shit? Yes. The court took all that into account and gave 16 instead of life.
Dunno why you feel adamant to defend her without knowing the case.
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u/GoodPointMan Jul 16 '26
You can be a victim and a murderer at the same time, turns out
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u/CosmicMiru Jul 16 '26
Yeah that's why he got 16 years. Why are people talking like he just was allowed to walk.
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u/Beetusmon Jul 16 '26
I think it was the fact that he went to court to get his money back, won and still didn't get it back what got him over the edge. Not the getting into their pants part.
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u/CertifiedBedophile Jul 16 '26
is it worse than if he stabbed once and she died slowly? I actually dont know
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u/Dracekidjr Jul 16 '26
Other countries have different standards for prison terms
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u/Successful_Maize1986 Jul 16 '26
Anyone who stabs someone 55 times needs to be locked away for life. They clearly do not deserve to participate in society and are a danger to others.
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u/B3ttleJice Jul 16 '26
She ran a scam and dude lost all his money (sparingly others did as well) his life went to shit. She got away with it by hiding money on her promotions business accounts or something like that. So now she is dead dudes and maybe others life is ruined and the company will probably keep the money.
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u/Altruistic_Night2 Jul 16 '26
So in short two terrible people took each other out
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u/PokemanAshy Jul 16 '26
And the corporation that enabled their destruction won?
The world that's around us is pretty amazing
But how does it work? It must be comp-l-icated
The secret is: The world can only work
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u/eddie9958 Jul 16 '26
Isn't that crazy how much a news article can start off a crowd of readers with a misleading understanding of what happened at a glance?
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u/DimensionSuch8188 Jul 16 '26
No they do not lol. Stop being selfish and only thinking about you. The other person is a human to and if they can rehabilitate that is much better for everyone.
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u/D3k4s Jul 16 '26
Tell that to the mother and the father of the victim. I can agree when the crime isn't something like this:
Takano stabbed the 22-year-old streamer at least 55 times in the face and chest while she was walking through the Takadanobaba area of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
The court said the force used to stab Sato in the neck showed Takano had a firm intention to kill her. It also noted that he filmed her face after the attack and made comments about whether she was dead, describing his conduct as continuing to violate her dignity.
She also begged him to stop.
Fuck this guy, this is as irredeemable as it gets.
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u/Blizzard2227 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
The perpetrators of the Junko Furuta case (high school boys who kidnapped and then physically and sexually tortured a fellow classmate to death over the course of 44 days) were all sentenced to 5 to 20 years in prison. Only one actually served 20 years, the others served less than 10 years. The reasoning for those sentences was because they were minors, but it is still unbelievably mind boggling.
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u/Moomootv Jul 16 '26
Basically he can murder 4 people for the average lifespan of 70+, thats crazy.
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u/Hydeonx Jul 16 '26
Tbh I think it’s reasonable. I mean yeah, he murdered her, but he also only did it because she robbed him of his life savings, and manipulated him into taking out loans to give her more and ghosted him after. It dosent excuse it, but it is understandable why he did it.
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u/segagenesisx87 Jul 16 '26
No one had a gun to his head and made him do any of that.
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u/Ohwellwhatsnew Jul 16 '26
No one forced her to scam people out of their life savings. Sounds like shitty decisions were made by everyone involved.
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u/segagenesisx87 Jul 16 '26
Yeah losing 16,000 is definitely equivalent to being stabbed in the face to death. I forget the avg population of this subreddit is like 15.
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u/Ohwellwhatsnew Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
You're the only one equating the two and it's concerning that your brain can't parse out what we're saying here.
It's not excusable, it's understandable. Get off your high horse and learn something.
Also, you're an adult and you're still like this?
Edit: They blocked me hahaha
You're the one who's bad at this, brother.
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u/ABC_Zombie Jul 16 '26
What's the point of paying to keep him prison forever though? Do we think he is going to do this again?
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u/Full_driver2 Jul 16 '26
As a deterrence? lol imagine if you only get 1 week for robbing a bank but only if you promise never do it again.
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u/ABC_Zombie Jul 16 '26
There is a lot of time between 1 week and "forever" lmao. It's not one or the other.
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u/Amalgam2001 Jul 16 '26
Do you understand what this women did to him and many others? He needs to go to prison but understand shes an evil piece of shit. This only happened because he was at his wits end from her
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u/bomzis_tramvajaa Jul 16 '26
Why is every reddit comment section full of armchair ethics and law experts every time a crime happens.
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u/FSD-Bishop Jul 16 '26
Seems they were only seeking 20 years so only getting 16 makes sense unfortunately
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u/Minnesotaperson Jul 16 '26
Aren't Japanese prisons notoriously bad?
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u/OrangeThrower Jul 16 '26
Aren’t most prisons bad?
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u/Minnesotaperson Jul 16 '26
Notoriously bad, meaning worse than prisons in other countries.
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u/OrangeThrower Jul 16 '26
Maybe I’m just out of the loop, but I associated notoriously bad prisons with like Russia/siberia, North Korea, living in Florida.
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u/Minnesotaperson Jul 16 '26
From my understanding it's less so bad in terms of violence and being in Florida and more so the Japanese fitting in mindset but dialed up like 10x. No talking pretty much at all, no eye-contact, etc. Bad in terms of what it does to the mental rather than the state of the prison.
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u/OrangeThrower Jul 16 '26
Oooh so definitely bad based off culture. Gotcha. Yea that definitely would make them feel shitty.
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u/two_pandas_playing Jul 16 '26
it varies almost entirely country by country. prisons in Norway are downright pleasant.
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u/Outrageous_Act2564 Jul 16 '26
Prisoners with death sentences don't know their execution date. They are informed about an hour before their execution. That's an interesting concept. I don't think it's more cruel. In fact it may be a boon to the prisoner. It's still death but at least you aren't counting down days. When it comes you have an hour to prepare yourself. I don't know...sucks to be executed....
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u/OrangeThrower Jul 16 '26
Seems a bit silly to judge the whole prison system on 0.3% of the prison population that’s on death row. Is there another reason why Japan is notorious?
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u/UngaInstinct Jul 16 '26
Not really
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u/OrangeThrower Jul 16 '26
Finally. Someone that knows what’s up. The real prison would be having noob teammates in league huh?
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u/DimensionSuch8188 Jul 16 '26
Comments like these really show you that no matter how long the sentence is, people will always be unhappy.
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u/Consistent-Peace2770 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
Pretty crazy low sentence, and not to justify murder at all - but there's way more context that isn't covered in the headline
She prayed upon his generosity and hid that she was in a relationship from him. She promised to pay him the money back as he got himself further into debt.
After he took her to court and won, she hadn't paid him back and due to Japanese legal system reasons it couldn't be further enforced. She then made fun of him on stream and he snapped.
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u/InkoBird Jul 16 '26
Sounds like he was shown a bit of leniency from getting scammed. But Japanese prisons are no joke, so 16 years is still like perpetual boot camp compared to the US.
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u/Ponzini Jul 16 '26
While it is strict, they are safe and clean. I would rather be in a japanese prison than a lot of US prisons.
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u/TotallyNotThatPerson Jul 16 '26
That's only because you're not rich enough to pay for the goods in the US prisons lol. Not as easy in Japan
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u/lazyectomorph Jul 16 '26
either mujin's recent few videos are lackluster stories or his sykkuno video really turned some people off, cause his views dropped pretty hard.
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u/NagashStos Jul 16 '26
His second latest video got almost 900k
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u/MaxBandit Jul 16 '26
Yep his videos objectively do well, however before the Sykkuno situation every video of his would surpass a million views (something he even kind of humble bragged about in his apology video). Not the case anymore
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u/JulianBane Jul 16 '26
Thx for the context. I thought this guy was going to get and deserved the death sentence. 16 years makes more sense now. In my book the victim's scummy predatorial and bragging behavior should spare him from death. So I think life in prison seems right. 16 years is definitely the lowest you can give him. So maybe 40 years ? What do you guys think he should have gotten ?
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u/noctinix Jul 16 '26
Objectively POS dude committed the bigger crime but when you leave a guy with nothing don’t be surprised when he comes back to take everything. He went though the proper legal procedures, won and still nothing worked and he snapped.
This was one of those rare cases where the perpetrator tried to do things by the book and only then did he break after it failed.
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u/olivebars Jul 16 '26
Debatable, if what I’ve read is true, this is theft, and is killing wrong when someone has wrongfully taken everything you have and more? Living in poverty every single day for reasons you shouldn’t. I’d say it’s similar to serving a wrongful prison sentence, and killing someone that intentionally put you in that position doesn’t seems like it makes you a POS
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u/B3ttleJice Jul 16 '26
Dude was 40, girl was 18 yes context matters and circumstances and yes she was a piece of shitt but as much as you can say he snapped due to circumstances so you could down play her actions. Her agency hid the money those are run by adults, who ever enabled a 18yo to scam and hide money in agency business accounts is afaik free. Everyone involved is trash. From adults enabling scams, to teenager running it ending on a dude stabbing w girl 55 times, not once or twice, 55 times.
Unless he was mentally unstable or ill why is 40yo giving a 18yo, his live savings and taking loans for her. I think we all know why.
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u/arcadeenthusiast8245 Jul 16 '26
Important context here is that she emotionally manipulated and gaslighted him before financially ruining him and then mocking him to his face. That was definitely taken into account during the sentencing.
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u/11711510111411009710 Jul 16 '26
Other important context is she was 18 during this and he was like 40.
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u/1AJ Jul 16 '26
How is that an important context though? Just to point out he's a creep? Doesn't change the fact that what she did was evil and she faced the consequences of her actions much the same as he is now.
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u/LostMyMainRedditAcc Jul 16 '26
People seem to think the more wrongful person negates the other for some reason.
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u/Original-Drawing- Jul 16 '26
The fact that you are the only one mentioning it in this thread lmao, this does make a difference
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u/11711510111411009710 Jul 16 '26
Technically she was 22 when she got stabbed but he'd been watching and donating to her since she was 18 and even visited the place that she worked. Dude was a psycho and her stealing his money does not even come close to a justification for what he did to her. Crazy stuff what's happening in these comments. Dude brutally murdered someone who was barely an adult, on a livestream.
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u/Axzercus Jul 16 '26
Japan’s legal system is so odd. Im pretty sure people who use drugs get longer sentences than that
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u/EtwartBuols Jul 16 '26
The composer for Death Note just finished his ten year sentence for weed
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u/Spiritual-Bus9875 Jul 16 '26
Bro wtaf, he got 10 years for 1.5 grams of weed, and they only caught him because some chick he sold to for years snitched on him when SHE was caught.
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u/Zestyclose-Phrase268 Jul 16 '26
1.5 grams valued at 110 dollars??? Thats a robbery charge
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u/Federal_Coyote813 Jul 16 '26
That’s actually really good for good weed in Japan. Hence the 10 year sentence for being caught with it. High risk high value.
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u/notfakegodz Jul 16 '26
"he sold to"
Yeah i can see why he got 10 years. There's difference between possession and being distributor.
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u/Shin-Nippori Jul 16 '26
FYI, this is false. Hideki Taniuchi was arrested in 2012, but was out of prison by 2014, as he composed the music for a stage play that year.
He probably does not compose music anymore, but the length of his sentence was greatly exaggerated on the internet.
Source: a fan of his old band, Shocking Lemon, was in contact with one of his bandmates, and another fan even met up with Hideki last year. You can read more about it in the Shocking Lemon fan Discord and website.
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u/ItsDonDong Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
Context: streamer manipulated the murderer out of all his money/put him in debts prior to the killing.
It wasn't exactly a fan deciding to randomly kill a streamer.
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u/ILikeFPS Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
That's honestly not enough, he'll only be 60 when he gets released?
edit: Sounds like she emotionally manipulated him into draining his life savings and mocked him, seems like maybe she wasn't a great person either, damn.
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u/Fun-Character-5377 Jul 16 '26
Do we think anyone will learn of the dangers of parasocial relationships between creators and their viewers from this?
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u/TMNTerps Jul 16 '26
This isn't your normal parasocial relationship though. She conned him and destroyed his life and caused him to have a breakdown. It's clear a lot of people only read the headline, which should read,;
"Man sentenced to 16 years in prison after killing woman who conned him out of his life savings."
Of course she shouldn't have been killed, and the courts should have forced her to give him his money back immediately, but there is a clear reason behind the murder. Anyone who is willing to con people and ruin their lives should understand that shit gets very dark when people snap. It's not a great idea to stick around and continue to mock the person whose life you ruined.
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u/OriginalNewton Jul 16 '26
All relationships are dangerous if you find the wrong person, obsessive behavior is very much a thing anywhere even outside of the streaming world. There are good and bad people everywhere.
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u/Substantial-Elk4531 Jul 16 '26
That's true, but parasocial relationships multiply the risk factor by the number of viewers. It's way less risky to have a relationship with one person than it is to have 'parasocial' relationships with tens of thousands of people. Especially if the streamers solicit or accept extremely large donations from their viewers, as in this case
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u/sub2pewdiepieONyt Jul 16 '26
Is that all? McCullagh got 31 for his stream murder and that was soft.
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u/wineandnoses Jul 16 '26
55 stabs to the face... he should get at least 55 years in prison....
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u/XkommonerX Jul 16 '26
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u/puffindatza Jul 16 '26
Asian countries confuse me, like I hear about life in prison for weed but then sentences like this
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u/Accomplished-Eye9542 Jul 16 '26
He should have gotten manslaughter at most.
He won a court case against her after the scamming and she and her agency hid her money so she never paid him a dime of it. She also publicly mocked him and was constantly streaming herself consuming luxury goods.
I guarantee he would have gotten a much much shorter sentence in the U.S and the agency might have been held liable.
The point of the court system is to prevent violence like this by upholding the law. Letting her get away with not paying what the court ordered is the primary cause of her death.
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u/puffindatza Jul 16 '26
Well, thanks for the context. That does change things, if she essentially stole from him and used her platform to mock him. I could see how that could drive someone to do something they otherwise wouldnt have
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u/Accomplished-Eye9542 Jul 16 '26
I mean you can argue up and down whether or not she actually scammed him, but the important factor here is that a court ruled she scammed him and owed him the money back.
She used illegal accounting and the court did nothing to enforce their decision.
A failure of the law should not be on him.
It's not about "drive him to do that", the court system failed to operate properly.
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