Mom throws away Gundam figures, son burns down house.

" the roof, the roof, the roof is on fire...."
"Gundam rage" replaces road rage in Japan.

I'd be pissed off too if anyone threw away my anime/manga stuff... that is if I had more than a few things. *is sad*

Crazy. I wonder if this concerns the psychological case of being a hikikomori / freeter. And in that case: Sad face.

terms:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori

I love my anime as much as any girl, but hey that dude was extreme! (I also don't own action figures, but I would have some of the pets as plushies if I had the cash!)

I don't condone his actions, but out of mutual respect for each other, his mother should not have trashed his collectibles, chances are he spent years getting them and lots of money and they obviously were meaningful still.
That goes for not messing with anyone's stuff without asking... geez.

You all have to keep in mind that this is in Japan... Their thought process is different from Americans....

...And he still lives w/ his mother...at the age of 29....and is overly attached to action figures...not surprised.

/m/ spotted. don't kill yourself!

Obviously the reaction was crazy and uncalled for, but his mom's throwing out of her 29 (!) year old son's collection is also crazy. I would wager that she was a crazy control freak and probably this poor guy living with a mother like that is where and why he was in the state of mind he was in. I'm sure she must have known that his collection meant a lot to him, and that she knowingly took action to destroy something her son loved. Whatever emotional distress this man was obviously in, I'm sure it came from growing up with a woman like this for a mom, and this was the straw that broke the camel's back.

It seems that people who do crazy things like this usually have horrible abusive overbearing (or the opposite -- neglectful) parents. I tend to think this is probably the mother's fault to a large extent.

I would be seriously pissed! Moms, sisters, older siblings have no respect of what a possesion means to you. I used to have this sick collection of cabage patch kids...then my sister threw them out for more space in the room and like 4 years later people raved about how valuabe they were. I was in a pretty bad mood myself!

I would have a similar fit of murderous rage, If I was 12 and my parents threw away my collection of hotwheels.

At 29 though... This guy needs to get laid

lol, GEEKS GONE WILD!!!

I honestly feel this is a fair trade... That is like you buying a shitload of games or something you value and your mom just throwing them out... His mother was a turd and he reacted properly...

GET A LIFE Mr. Takabe

It might seem silly to us, but certain things are very special to certain people. The person who was best placed to realise just how much those things meant to the fellow was his mother. Obviously she's either just stupidly cruel, or she didn't know her son very well.

Just for the record, it's common and socially acceptable for bachelors in Japan to live at home, as it is in Italy and surely other cultures as well. It'd be much more common here if it weren't frowned upon.

No, burning down the house was not an acceptable reaction, but, What the hell was she thinking? Of course, what the hell is he doing living with his mom? At 29? It's nice to see that the U.S.A. doesn't have the monopoly on disfunctional families, though.

The whole thing has me wondering "What if Ed Gein had Gundam"?

Sure, now that he's a confirmed emotional cripple, it's fair game to make fun of him.

What you'll never hear about is how he became such a psychological retard.

One thing seems certain, the mother is used to obliterating any kind of identity the man has setup for himself.

Or maybe she just thought it would be really, really funny.

They might have been models he had to build and paint. That takes a ton of time. The guy needs to get out more but what his mother did was very wrong. She was trying to help him but in the wrong way.

Gundam has been a franchise in Japan for almost 30 years, and you don't think any of that stuff can be worth more than retail?

For Deathsythe...

By the way....he's 29-years old...why the hell is he still living with his mom?

Last week on TV someone said, My mom threw away my comic books when I was a kid. Could've made so much money.
Don't think gundam toys would bring more than retail value.
Now Ultimate Muscle (M.U.S.C.L.E.) toys, the right kind can be over $100.

Talk about C-R-A-Z-Y...all over some damn plastic toys.

Maybe he wasted all his adult time doing these figures. So now maybe he'll get an apt. of his own so he can start another collection.
Maybe she wanted him to man up!

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha da Japanese be crazy dawg. XD

That's fair.

I keep reading comments comparing Gundam models to Transformers and the like. For guys who are into this they take hours to assemble and paint. It is a hobby that guys devote themselves to like car guys and people who make costumes for sci-fi conventions and comic book conferences. There is always the guy who takes it too far. There is no excuse for what he did, he was disturbed.

There was a reason why he still lived with his parents , my friends

All that money gone

He needs to move. Oh wait! I think the state is going to help him out with a new home. next door to Bubba over at cell block D. I don't think he is going to like the neiborhood. Maybe he should have grown up before the melt down. I love this new generation there going to make us GenXer's look good

I'm sure he could have made a few out of other people's skin or something. It was probably only a matter of time.

you have to see maybe those toys are his only true friends

So we all agree that he should have been trying to incinerate his mom and not himself, right?

i used to play with transformers when i was 6, i forgot about them and didn't care

crazy
son of a bitch

I hate to break this to a lot of you, but sometimes those "toys" can fetch a pretty penny from a collector. I understand his rage. My own mother understands this as well (her father threw away stacks of Batman Detective comics, one of which was a first appearance).
Parents should realize that the toys they buy their children eventually become extremely valuable to a collector.

Like my Rancor toy from the 80's. I still have him, and I know I could sell him for a nice price.

Nonetheless, No kid should burn down his house... how about just doing more subtle things, like taking up the drums and driving the whole neighborhood nuts with loud drum noises? or "accidentally" nudging a precious piece of china from the shelf? Now you don't even have a room to put the other stuff you have! We all have important items that we own, and many of you would react the same way if they were disposed of without your consent. I'm glad my parents were nerds. O=)

Sistersafety: have you watched the video of the kid whose mother canceled his WOW account? People like this obviously had few boundaries as children. I'm sure the opposite can be argued as well. I feel that cases such as these reinforce my belief in spare the rod spoil the child. IDC how upset you are… nothing warrents this kind of behavior.

I was obsessed with POGs but I didn't attempt ritual suicide when they got thrown away

(ok, I think I threw them away myself. But POGs were awesome)

Obession.

29 years old and still living with his mother? The only other final for this story is that the guy kills his mother and start dressing like her.

I never quite understood how someone could fail at killing oneself. You'd think it wouldn't be that hard.

Well, if they're the models and he built all of them then I could see why he'd be astronomically upset.

In the manner of Chris Rock: "I'm not saying he should have [done it], but I understand."

a few years ago i heard about a kid in my area that was 15 or so that literally beat his mother into a wheelchair for grounding him from his ps2.

nuff said.

Reminds me of the time my mom threw my Metallica concert tickets thinking they were trash. I took it out on my car. Poor RX7.

You must really suck at life if you can't SET YOURSELF ON FIRE correctly.

When I saw this I thought it would have been an over-reacting 10 year old. But 29?? Come on, man...

you kill yourself for that reason its sad you fail at killing yourself its pathetic

he needs to grow up..

He was searching for his beam saber to vent his rage with, but he figured fire works just as well.

Wow. Really.

That's like extra crazy with a side of crazy. And a dessert full of crazy with crazy sprinkles!

A full course meal of crazy!

DONT F-with my toys mom ! FUN FUN !!

my thoughts are with this poor soul. My grandmother threw my comic book colection once and I certainly was in a murderous mood.

I'm getting flashbacks to the youtube video of the kid on Xbox live flipping out because his mom wouldn't get him a chocolate milk... I JUST WANT A CHOCOLATE MILK, MOM!!

That'll teach her to throw away a Toynamai special edition! /sarcasm

Maybe with the insurance money she can kick him out?

Wow, even the residents of that anime site think he's a bit weird.

Damn dude, they're just Gundam toys, i mean i used to play with them when i was younger but really...