Just days after a South Carolina middle-school student was suspended over a Death Note notebook, a Connecticut teen was arrested after he allegedly uploaded a threatening video that used a quote from Naruto.
The New London, Conn., Day reports that police arrested expelled high-school student Brandon A. Brown, who on Feb. 29 had posted a homemade video to YouTube.com, directed at his former classmates. It read, “Beware All Those Who Cross My Path. On March 19, 2008, THE END IS HERE.”
The video contained a variation of the trademark line used by the Naruto character Gaara: “The Corpses Crimson Bitter Tears Will Flow And Mingle Through The Endless Sand Feeding The Chaos In Me and Making Me Stronger.”
Police say the 18-year-old Brown, who had been suspended in June, “readily admitted” that he created the video. He was charged with threatening and breach of peace and released on $2,500 bond.
Last week a middle-school student in Hartsville, S.C., was removed from school after the principal confiscated a Death Note-style notebook containing the names of seven classmates. A discipline hearing is pending.
The hit Death Note manga and anime center around a high school student who sets out to rid the world of evil using a supernatural notebook that kills anyone whose name is written in it.
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March 5th, 2008 at 8:46 am
Death Note. Making comics “dangerous” again! Wertham would be proud.
March 8th, 2008 at 12:18 am
Agreed, I hope that more students do the death note shtick. A part of me just wants to see the fringe religious right twist the whole thing out of proportion, start screaming how the “unholy” anime is corrupting us “youth”. What can I say, I love culture wars. When there’s blood in the streets there’s money to be made.
March 23rd, 2008 at 10:27 pm
they take these things way to seriosly.