The man ARRESTED for threatening a game developer 

The Kyoto Animations (KyoAni) arson attack was really bad. 36 people died, 34 people were injured (they all recovered, 27 went back to work at KyoAni), making it one of the most deadliest massacres in Japan after WW2. It only makes sense that after that attack, Japan will take any threats much more seriously. It's been 2 years since then (man i thought it was only like 6 months ago time flies), and they guy still hasn't been sentenced yet but it will probably be a death sentence (chance that it will be life imprisonment because the guy has a history of mental illness). This guy was really stupid doing that on his phone, especially after the KyoAni attack. What did he think would've happened?

This takes rage quitting to a *whole* new level

I’m glad that nobody was hurt and he didn’t actually “set fire to the company and kill the employees.”

Rest in peace to the 36 that died due to the Kyoto Animation arson attack.

You just can’t get away with stuff like this in today’s society anymore. Well, unless there on Twitter, but even then it’s pretty clear that sending threats is a stupid as hell idea.

I’m glad Sega actually took his threats seriously. It’s sad just how many companies actually don’t take threats seriously.

I believe that Watanabe will be taken to either prison or jail, because threats didn't killed anyone but did damaged them. If it's something worse like hijacking, genocide, manslaughter or something worse then he could get a life or death sentence. And I agree that he should not go to jail, but take some therapy, because there's many people out there that have mental diseases, we can't stigmatize them, because that would just feed their illness becoming worse in their condition. I hope Watanabe is fine and doesn't commit the same crime, twice.

I think mental health care is the better course of action, punishing people doesn't really stop crime. Like sure, you'll always have that person who will do messed up things no matter what you do but that isn't an excuse to at least see what else is going on in Akira's life. Because I'm going to go on a limb and say, this isn't really about video games.

I always fear some video game company would get some violent threat over something and that said threat would be done, and this is downright horrifying yet petty. Didn't think Sega would be the one to get it. We don't want another KyoAni incident.

You know, I'm usually against conpanies overreacting to shit posts (I've sometimes been sent death and doxx threats OL before, I just ignore them), but _sending the same stuff 12 times in a row?_ I can understand why the company got really worried and the police got involved. Knowing how cruel the prison system in Japan is (98% conviction rate will never equal 98% fairness), all I can say is: Good luck, *he's going to need it.* Wow, 12 emails. What did he think was going to eventually happen?

This reminds me of what happened to Kyoto Animation and I can’t believe people would do stuff like this my heart goes out to whoever gets hurt by these acts

You know, sometimes you get a _bit_ too hyped, and get arrested for threatening to blow up Sega headquarters. Happens to us all.

Poor Sega, they don't deserve this type of hate! Even if I'm not crazy about Sega.

Oh my gosh! This reminds me of the incident that happened with kyoto animation back in 2019 😨 thank goodness they caught the guy to not let a similar incident happen ever again because oh my gosh that was terrible

I myself would rather just lose a game, scream at the top of my lungs about it for an hour, and listen to fun music as I play "a better game" Like, despite what I might say to myself or in a voice call with two or so others, I make it clear I don't actually wanna do awful things. I especially don't do it consistently. I think adding blatant humor or like, reasonable thoughts would help. I don't know if I should, but I kinda feel sorry for this guy. I know he's not the only person out there who rages at games and might be mentally unstable. I should know, I'm often both. I don't wanna end up like this, and I can't imagine how terrifying it was for all parties...

54 Years Old. WTF?!

Now this is what you call a *heated* gaming moment

Bro this is crazy hope all the employees and everyone at SEGA is ok, and Sonic good grief

In Japan, if you are arrested, you are guilty. Even if you are innocent. It is a bad system

R.i.p 30 employees of Kyoto animation

Well something similar Already happened someone burned down Kyoto animation like 2 years ago so can't blame them for taking this too seriously

"I will destroy the Krusty Krab" But serious.

I admit, I have anger issues, BUT THIS IS INSANE!

As a kid.... A KID, I used to sometimes get angry at video games and cry or have a tantrum but like that was it. And I will say it again, I was a child. I don't think I have got angry at a game since I was like 12 at the most and even if I have, it is nothing more than mild fustration. They are meant to be fun, I don't know why if you are suseptible to extreme anger you would be playing video games. Clearly this guy has something else going on in his life because that is just way too much.

Genuinely shocked this doesn't have a lot of views. Even if it's a little different it's a crazy topic and I hope everyone involved can find themselves in a better place

It's always a good day when Thomas uploads

Sadly I’m not that surprised. Some people have no control of their emotions when it comes to video games. My estranged brother would go on cussing fits and throw stuff when something didn’t go his way. I felt so bad for his dogs who would run to the other side of the house and shake nonstop out of fear.

I agree that sega isn’t the best company out there but they don’t deserve to be threatened like this Heck they shouldn’t be threatened at all you should never threaten someone over something as harmless as losing to an online video game like sheesh

and here I am sweating through my clothes because I had to send a reminder email asking for a response to a previous email

oh this is RECENT 😳

Sega should have responded with”lol git gud scrub”

Guy was probably mad his sonic fanfiction can't be canon

I’ve been watching all your videos lately, great channel ! Keep up the good work!

Using your own phone, or your home internet connection for illegal things is just dumb

Dude this is literally OfficeSpace

Japan has a high conviction rate due to how they do interrogations and that they can hold suspects and such for a long time without a lawyer even being present. Most convictions, to my knowledge, were usually based on the "confessions" the police get out of the suspects during interrogation. By the sounds of it, they seem to mentally wear them down. When living over there, I was really curious about this, but I still couldn't get a way to verify or even clarify if this was definitely the case. Of course for this particular case with Watanabe, given that he confessed and all that, he probably will be found guilty. I'm also still so-so on the mental health thing. I moved back home in 2018, but lived in Japan from 2010 - 2011, then again from 2012 - 2018. During that time, mental health seemed to be kind of a taboo subject and not spoken about all that much. I'm not sure if it's any better now, though. Maybe cases like this one can help bring more awareness. I now wonder if anything came of that case with the teen girl who decapitated one of her classmates and kept the corpse in her apartment (which her family was paying for, iirc). That happened while I was still over there, but when talking about things that happened prior to that, the signs were there of how that girl needed mental help.

Sega's console legacy had died and trying to kill the company is so messed up that Satan will not even let him enter

A problem that is quite large in Japan, is that there are bitter and suicidal people take to violence in order to procure "suicide by murder". This is the unfortunate consequence of having the death sentence here. This is a reason behind a lot of arson and knife attacks here unfortunately. More needs to be done here about helping people from developing mental health issues and keeping people healthy, body, mind, and soul. Terrible.

Sonic: YOUR GOING TO DO WHAT TO ME???

The thumbnail for this video showed the title as "The man ARRESTED for threatening a game..." I don't know what I expected from that. XD

When you get stuck in the spikes in sonic 1 and the invincible frames don’t care and you die:

I don't watch this channel often but today I got a surprise: a 15-second ad turned into the video itself. Loved that.

Fascinating Thomas!

"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!" - Cave Johnson, Sega fan

Good freaking grief it's a video game company they ain't hurting anyone, but are wallets.

I don't know why but I feel calm every single time I watch one of his videos

6:27 is that ace attorney music I think it is

Is there a leading theory as to what game he could've been playing?

So I went from watching about Nintendo making a game about Google to this video, funny how things work out

What a psycho! You know the rage took full control of him he couldn't even think of the consequences.

I couldn’t believe this happened. It is on called for this guy to do that. There is no need for him to do threaten that

You can get angery on Sega whatever you the way you want, but THIS one will certainly be a ticket to your prison.

This is what you call *rage mode*

You're not a true gamer until your rage so hard you threaten to burn down a company headquarters

Damn, Japan doesn't mess around.

This happen this year recently this month, this should appear in the news in the United States talking about the news in Japan. This is top news from Japan

Making an example out of people who threaten seems a bit misguided, if anything, it just pushes those who would act to act with no warning. Threats beforehand give the police and victim a chance to ready up, tighten security and such. Silencing the threat doesn't really stop someone who's gonna burn down a building anyway, it just makes them think 'better not make a threat, I'll get caught before I can act.' Better to quietly figure out who made the threats and watch them, catch them in the act of setting up to do something instead of making a huge show of punishing over a threat. This feels like a reactionary tactic to win back the public after failing to act on the previous arsen to me. More security theater than security, if they can stop death threats it's something to show off to the media, versus keeping quiet and using threats to find those panning to act and stopping them before they do. Often actual security is very invisible, it works better that way. But it doesn't win police brownie points with the media.

All I can think about is Milton from Office Space...

I've heard similar stories of gamers making death threats against developers if they release another game in a franchise that they don't like. In my opinion the only "therapy" people who take games that seriously is to grow up and get a real life.

my my i wonder what level of anger he was in when he sent those threats. poor guy

Ohh this was a particularly interesting one!

Now that's some next level rage quiting right there.

POV:Me when I die to the final boss in any sonic game

0:34 *oh no my headwaters how could they!!1!11 at least it’s not my **_headquarters_** but my HEADWATERRRRRR*

your videos are addicting

possibly the scariest content ive seen you cover on this channel! i’ll watch anything narrated by you though haha

U upload this on my birthday

Man ragequitted so hard he threatened to burn down sonic's company(SEGA) Just because he lost to a genshin impact type game I know the feeling of losing to some toxic 8 year old but wanting to commit arson is just mental

And I thought I got mad when I yell at the screen lmao.

Darkest of your videos I’ve seen since you told me Donkey Kong was gonna have a GUN!

Wow that's crazy

Dang that's crazy man omg

I worked as a GM for World of Warcraft when it came out, and these kinds of threats were pretty common, to the point we had a policy. Generally warning the customer our policy was to immediately contact law enforcement shut them down pretty quick... but occasionally, they would persist and law enforcement would be contacted.

Now I can understand why Karen’s say video games make you violent.

Thank you for uploding on my birthday!

I am so glad they found him before he did anything.sonic is one of my favourite characters

When the nuber 30 was mentioned i thought it was going to be 30 injured no wonder these threats were taken so seriously

U upload a video after my Birthday thanks

Wow this is insane!

My sister when the internet router is being slow:

when i discovered that there was a fire at kyoani's hq. i was shocked at the effects it caused when watching videos about this topic. the 36 people who died will be missed. if this fire would've happened. it would be worse. since sega has 3,238 employees as of 2020.

This should have been toward Game Freak and the horrible quality and story of their latest games.

i actually just finished a tgd vid, but this one popped up so now i have another one to watch!

If one gets so angry at losing a game, they should not play such games. Therapy only works if the patient actually wants to accept the help and want to get better. Having known a couple of pathetic gamers who take a medium of entertainment way too seriously, they don't want help. They want an echo chamber and feel personally attacked when someone tries to help or even give advice on how to play a game better. While I do not agree with some of japanese justice system. The behaviour of threatening others is unacceptable, regardless of where one's mental state is.

That would be scary

Wow this happened very recently…

1:52 Police light on the roof, Kojak style

Sega has already ruined itself enough, this guy is stupid for thinking he's going to do something that hasn't been done already. It's a terribly managed company that shouldn't even exist.

me when they don't put chao garden back in sonic games

Everyone if you ever get mad at a game please just turn of the console and go take a nap or something instead of making threats and stuff

i'd understand if it was just one email but any more than that is just insane

Oh no I heard about Kyoto Animation so sad that we will never get Haruhi

Why do I feel like this is going to be referenced in an anime in the near future.

I get really mad at games but not to the point he went. That’s insane. If you truly feel that way then keep it to yourself, you’re helping yourself and keeping yourself and others safe, no one likes living in danger.

When "why king dedede dont look like he used like" I mean he got many redisgnies

That's terrifying. Your practically in danger because people will take things in an unhealthy manner, which possibly turns violent.

I am a big Sonic fan, and what that guy did to Sega, makes me very upset and angry.

7:10 What is the music playing in the background here?

The person who burned down KyoAni's studio was given capital punishment on 2024-01-25. It was so sad how 36 innocent souls had to perish with the studio itself... Many drawings that were used in anime like K-On, A Silent Voice, and Clannad were lost to the fire.

he must have thought they wouldnt read his messages