Shinji Aoba, the man suspected of setting a fire that killed 34 people at the Kyoto Animation studio, remains hospitalized and too injured to be officially arrested and questioned. Police in Kyoto ...

In July 2018, one of the greatest tragedies to hit the anime industry unfurled. Kyoto Animation and its employees were the victims of an arson assault that took the lives of thirty-six people, ...

Shinji Aoba was found guilty Thursday of setting fire to an anime studio in Kyoto, Japan in 2019 Kirsty Hatcher is an Associate Editor on the People.com Morning Team. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

Over the weekend, more information emerged about the fire that devastated Kyoto Animation’s studio last Thursday. Since Cartoon Brew first reported on the incident, the official death toll has risen ...

A Japanese court on Thursday announced the death sentence for Aoba Shinji, the man who burned down the Kyoto Anime studio in 2019 and killed 36 people. There was little doubt that Aoba, who himself ...

A Japanese court on Thursday sentenced a man to death after finding him guilty of setting an animation studio on fire, killing 36 people and injuring dozens of others. The Kyoto District Court found ...

A 45-year-old man has been sentenced to death for the 2019 arson attack on Japanese animation studio Kyoto Animation, in which 36 people were killed and 32 more were injured. According to broadcaster ...