On December 25th, Kyoto prefectural police revealed that they arrested a 25-year-old man for threatening to kill the popular seiyuu Yui Ishikawa who lent his voice to characters such as Mikasa Ackerman in Attack on Titan, 2B in NieR: Automata It is Violet Evergarden in Violet Evergarden. The threats were made on a forum in Japan and the man has already admitted the charges.
In 2020, seiyuu Yui Ishikawa filed a complaint with authorities after receiving online threats.
The man, Fukuta Kishimotowas arrested by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department in November after mentioning the name of the seiyuu Yui Ishikawa on an online comment forum, saying he wanted stab her to death with a knife.
The agency to which seiyuu belongs, which appears to maintain strict control over mentions of its members, quickly noticed the message on the internet and filed a complaint with the Police, requesting the authorities to act on the matter. In fact, the very Kishimoto He had already been arrested in 2020 for threatening to kill an anime director on an online comment forum, which earned him a fine of 500,000 yen (more than 3,500 dollars).
Yui Ishikawa is an actress, seiyuu and singer who also specializes in cynical arts. Since her debut in 2002, she has served as Mikasa Ackerman in “Shingeki no Kyojin”; Violet Evergarden in “Violet Evergarden”; 2B in “NieR: Automata”; Enterprise in “Azur Lane”; Sei Takanashi in “Seijo no Maryoku wa Bannou desu”; Riselia Ray Crystalia in “Seiken Gakuin no Makentsukai”; China Kousaka in “Gundam Build Fighters”, among many other roles. She also performed songs for AAttack on Titan: Junior High, Heroic Age It is Girlish Number.
