At this day, July 18 in Eastern timezones, one of the globally recognized animation studios in Japan, Kyoto Animation - more known as KyoAni, has been deliberately burned by an arsonist, and has claimed 20 lives and counting.

Please give a moment of silence for the fallen in KyoAni. All they wanted was to make people smile despite the low wage situation and Japan and this happens.

Rest in peace. I hope that the perpetrator doesnt get the death penality. It would be like "you have done something bad and go" in my eyes.

Whoever did that should rot in jail.
I really hope they can recover from the fire.

Now at 33 deaths per https://crunchyroll.com/anime-news/...

I don’t think Japan has the death penalty.

@bkwilliams they have. 2018 was the last execution.

Update: NHK reports final count

75 present

33 dead

35 injured

7 unharmed

In summary: half of the staff was lost to the fire

Update: 3 WIP KyoAni projects are unaffected but one pending screening project has cancelled its screening.

https://monstersandcritics.com/anim...

How would you handle task assignments when your coworkers were murdered?

@bkwilliams i think that every project will be at least 3 - 12 months late, with mid projects the most. Depending of the mental state the half of injured staff have a so heavy trauma that it will take years to be able to speak about this without breaking into tears. Without psycological help there will be suicides.

This is my opinion. I dont have enough medical, psycological knowledge to really understand this. I dont know How they feel, what their exact mental state or what EXACTLY happened and i dont want to discredit the hurted or the dead. I cant say what i would have done or how i would be after this. I can only say one thing if someone would ask me how i would feel: Empty.