Thirty-six people died when he broke into a studio building and set it on fire. Read more at straitstimes.com.

TOKYO: A Japanese man sentenced to death for an arson attack that killed 36 people at an anime studio has dropped his appeal ...

The court said that the convict believed he was a character from the anime, and during the argument in the court, the lawyer gave a monologue in the Japanese language that matched the show.