UPDATE: Konami cancelled the MSG4 launch event... seems that the image of Solid Snake overlooking the stabbing rampage in Akiba has touched other people than me...

During the sixities Manson never killed anyone (almost personally), the good thing in this case is the fact that we don't have an "otaku guru" telling people to kill everyone... that guru in a certain way has been Shoko Asahara. He has never been an otaku guru but, before the sarin terrorist attack, he was in synch with the otaku subculture... Now the akiba killer is just a crazy guy who choosed Akiba since on Sunday there isn't a more "media dense" area in the World. There isn't a group behind him, nor a subculture supporting his hate/killer instincts, he just wanted his 15 minutes of fames, so it's pretty impossibile to stop this kind of tragedies...

20 years have passed since Tsutomu Miyazaki. In all these years the otaku culture permeated the Japanese society (and jpop culture) so, this time, I think the "Otaku is  socially dangerous" meme will not get grip in the Japanese mediasphere almost not as before... I feel this bloody sunday is more the otaku "September 11" than anything else...