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Man Pleads Guilty on Trial for Threatening Voice Actress Yui Ishikawa

Fuji News Network reported on Friday that 25-year-old male Fukuta Kishimoto pleaded guilty in trial for threatening voice actress Kemono Friends 2). After being arrested in December, he itted in court to posting on a message board that he would stab Ishikawa with a knife and kill her. The prosecution requested that the court sentence Kishimoto to 18 months in prison, adding that Ishikawa trembles in fear at night. The defense asked for a more lenient sentence. The court will declare its verdict on February 9.

Police previously arrested Kishimoto in June 2020 on suspicion of intimidation and forcible obstruction of business. According to the police's statement, the suspect had been threatening anime staff and cast over the Internet.

According to the Sankei Shimbun newspaper and the public television network killed 36 people and injured 33. According to Sankei Shimbun and NHK, once the voice actress reported the threat to the police, the anime staff had temporarily halted work. NHK identified the voice actress as Ishikawa, According to the investigation, the suspect itted to the charges and said in a deposition that he had a personal grudge against the director, but did not intend to actually hurt him.

TATSUKI filed a police report due to threats that began that April.

Ishikawa's anime roles include Attack on Titan's Mikasa Ackerman, Girlish Number.

Source: FNN via Hachima Kikō