Russian Teen Commits Suicide After Seeing His Favorite Anime Char Die On TV

• Nanachi wrote on 2012-11-06 03:43

  A 14-year-old boy leapt more than 100ft to his death from the top of an apartment block in Chaikovsky, Russia, after seeing his favourite manga character killed in a cartoon.
  Police say Leonid Hmelev died instantly.
  The boy was reportedly devastated after seeing the death of the character Itachi Uchiha in the animated movie 'Naruto - Hurricane Chronicle'.
  He left home after posting a message on a social networking site saying he was also 'planning an ending'.
  His worried parents raised the alarm after he did not return home and a search was organised together with neighbours.
  After being missing for two days his body was found yesterday and he was identified by his devastated father Ivan, 38.
  He said: 'I always told him he spent too much time watching the TV - he didn't know what was reality and what was fiction anymore.'
  Teenage suicide in Russia is endemic. It has the third-highest teenage suicide rate in the world, just behind its neighbours Belarus and Kazakhstan and more than three times that of the United States.

  
  
  Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2226324/Russian-teen-leaps-apartment-block-seeing-favourite-Japanese-cartoon-character-die-television.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
• Lan wrote on 2012-11-06 03:44
  I know Itachi was epic and all but COME ON! [SPOILER="Spoiler"]He even gets Resurrected later on[/SPOILER] I feel sorry for his parents.
• Nithiel wrote on 2012-11-06 03:56
  To think, his death could have been avoided by spoilers.
• RebeccaBlack wrote on 2012-11-06 03:59
  The poor kid... he just loved his character a little too much.
• Lolicon wrote on 2012-11-06 04:03
  I knew Itachi died like 3 years ago but Jesus Christ.
• Herro wrote on 2012-11-06 04:15
  ;;;>.> i know this sounds bad but imagine what would've happen if he watched TTGL...
• Yoorah wrote on 2012-11-06 04:15
  Sad. I knew Russia was in a pretty messed up state atm but I had no idea teen suicide rates were so bad there. :x
• Nithiel wrote on 2012-11-06 04:17
  Yeah, I know. I have a hard time caring about this. If I killed myself every time a character I loved died I would have already killed myself over 300 times. Shit, just cry and get over it.
• Hypercombo wrote on 2012-11-06 04:27
  Based on the information given, I am not really someone to feel too bad about this.
  As in I don't see any reason to kill myself over a show. I don't really watch
  Naruto, as much as I did before, but Itachi was a villian right? Villans die right?
  I saw Haku die, I think.
  
  With that out of the way, I should note that it does say on there that
  Russia's apparently not a very happy country, and if the Itachi thing
  was like a sort of back-breaking straw I feel very bad for that kid.
• Nithiel wrote on 2012-11-06 04:32

  Quote from Hypercombo;976200:

  Based on the information given, I am not really someone to feel too bad about this.
  As in I don't see any reason to kill myself over a show. I don't really watch
  Naruto, as much as I did before, but Itachi was a villian right? Villans die right?
  I saw Haku die, I think.
  
  With that out of the way, I should note that it does say on there that
  Russia's apparently not a very happy country, and if the Itachi thing
  was like a sort of back-breaking straw I feel very bad for that kid.

  
  
  Haku dying was sad. I cried. ):
  Also
  [SPOILER="Spoiler"]Itachi isn't really a bad guy, you find out that he is actually a good guy and that he did what he did because he had to in order to protect the village. If I recall correctly his clan was planning an uprising to try and take over the village and hundreds of people would have been killed. And then right after you find out he's really a good guy, he dies. xD[/SPOILER]
• Blassreiter wrote on 2012-11-06 04:35
  Makes me wonder what would happen if Pikachu died...
  
  [SPOILER="Spoiler"][video=youtube;WAsA2nU6TDs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAsA2nU6TDs[/video][/SPOILER]
• Sinned wrote on 2012-11-06 04:36
  I'm a bad person... I found this funny....
• Mentosftw wrote on 2012-11-06 04:38
  Hey, I know, let's blame this on the media because it's totally the faults of the animators, writers and developers of the anime who caused this teen's death!
  
  But really, this guy overreacted pretty badly.. poor guy, he must have been isolated by society and felt like he had nothing else to attach to but that character..
• Nithiel wrote on 2012-11-06 04:42
  I'm isolated from society but characters dying doesn't effect me to the point of suicide. <<;
  
  Then again I'm an INTJ so maybe it affects me less.
• Blassreiter wrote on 2012-11-06 04:43

  Quote from Mentosftw;976209:

  Hey, I know, let's blame this on the media because it's totally the faults of the animators, writers and developers of the anime who caused this teen's death!
  
  But really, this guy overreacted pretty badly.. poor guy, he must have been isolated by society and felt like he had nothing else to attach to but that character..

  
  
  Well, it's not America at least so that might not happen.