Potential Comiket bomber arrested
by ~ August 20th, 2008. Filed under: Anime Comic News, Anime Industry News, Anime and People News.
Hiroyuki Kageyama, an unemployed 20 year old man from Kakogawa City in Japan, was arrested for making online threats against Comic Market (also known as Comiket) doujinshi convention.
Kageyama posted the threat on popular online message board 2channel, stating that he was going to toss a grenade at the convetion site.
In repsonse to the threat, the Comiket organizers have beefed up their security to unprecedented levels, in spite of the fact that Kageyama is safely behind bars.
