Current Mood:  Upset

According to ComiPress, a 17-year-old boy in Japan who killed his mother and took her severed head to the police station (where he confessed to killing her) was possibly influenced by the manga MPD Psycho. Actually, their headline is “MPD Psycho Causes Teenager to Murder His Own Mother?”Sorry to break it to you, ComiPress, but I’m willing to bet that that kid had Issues even before he read the manga. Manga, video games, movies - they don’t cause the violent acts. They may inspire specifics for such an act, but people who are going to snap will snap - if it wasn’t a manga that set him off, it would have been something else.

That said, I don’t know whether I should feel bad for Dark Horse or congratulate them. They’re releasing the first volume of MPD Psycho tomorrow. On the one hand? Boom! Instant press. On the other hand? Well…it’s not the most positive press. Hmm.