OK, I can understand people going on a rampage in America, killing high school teachers and high school girl students because they have no ichigo pantsu. But I will never understand why would you go on a killing spree in Akihabara?

Akihabara.

A place where one would go only to buy dolls, manga, anime DVDs and various other wanking material. But never ever would one go there to get seriously murdered by an insane individual. Picture this: a dude, a knife an a hell of an attitude. I have absolutely no idea if he was some sort of an anti-otaku dude, like you can spot now and so often recently (they are mostly disturbed rockers cutting themselves with various razors because life is not easy when you are a loser), but this dude went Shion mode and killed 7 fucking people in Akihabara. Wow. 7 people. For nothing.

No really, this is sick. And Ze Germans didn’t even get there.

Puppiez in ze Can gave us the sad news.

Update: ... and he also has a story with some new info about the attacker and what-not. Looks like he was an otaku himself, and even liked to sing "lolicon anime songs" (hell yea!). But the real kicker is this final paragraph:

"the police have announced that all the bystanders that tried to save the people that got stabbed should go for a blood test, because one of the males that died had an unnamed disease that can possibly spread by direct contact with his blood."

Update #2: Mainichi Daily News (Cryo backup) has just published more stuff about the 25-year old killer - Tomohiro Kato - and the ongoing police investigation.