"watashi wa kira desu"
<div class="IPBDescription">dn related murder</div>So, some dude cut a guy up, left part of his body in the park and left two notes saying "WATASHI WA KIRA DESS" (desu misspelled) on the corpse. The translation for this would be "I'm Kira", Kira being the main character in the manga "death note".
<a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-10-01/notes-left-near-bodies-in-belgium-linked-to-death-note" target="_blank">article</a>
<a href="http://www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/nieuws/belgie/603795?wt.bron=homeArt4" target="_blank">article in dutch for whoever else here understands it</a>
<a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-10-01/notes-left-near-bodies-in-belgium-linked-to-death-note" target="_blank">article</a>
<a href="http://www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/nieuws/belgie/603795?wt.bron=homeArt4" target="_blank">article in dutch for whoever else here understands it</a>
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Some psychotic dutch fellow is living out his manga-related homicidal fantasies, basing violent and grisly acts from a popular manga "Death Note", which I am assuming has something to do with murder(s) who leave notes on bodies, possibly bits of bodies?
The link is obvious, if my suppositions are correct, and that this Death Note manga is themed as I imagine it to be.
Kotoba mo nai wa...
**edit
Apparently the Death Note manga is slightly different then I had imagined, but after reading the article in question it's close enough.
The correlation is there! Hra!
This is just like that terribly violent game Mario Party.
Didn't something like this happen in China resulting in a ban of the Manga?
I mean <i>really</i> creepy.
Yeah, yours and everyone elses.
It's like zombie-ism.
are you a girl?
Only when you dream about me.
Since it's there was apparently a mispelling on the world "desu" to "dess" I'm assuming the note was written in romanji, since in any Japanese alphabet "dess" is impossible to write... Romanji isn't real Japanese, it's basically English character spelling of Japanese words, and isn't used by people who acctually know Japanese (as the written language is taught at the same time the phonetic language is).
Also, the world "kira" doesn't literally translate to "killer" in Japanese. It's a phonetic slang translation popularized by the anime death note, outside of that context a person learning japanese would never be exposed to that kind of slang, in all likely hood the person wasn't really even learning real japanese, just citing hack shift knowledge probably garnished off of an anime fan site such as 4chan.
Effectively, the note, due to the way it was written proves that it's referencing the anime... however, that's really the only consistency. In the Anime the killer does not leave notes, he primarily hides his identity, and it's established by word of mouth. In the anime the killer only kills criminals with the exception that he also kills people directly threatening his "just mission" (which is where my vigilante theory comes from), no one is ever dismembered during a killing in the anime, the majority of deaths are by far heart attacks. In the anime killings are preformed by writing a person's name in the "notebook of death", hence "deathnote". There is no consistency in terms of calling it a "copy cat killing" because it doesn't copy anything in the anime at all, aside from maby a reference to the character of the killer, which without knowing more, is a loose theory at best.
Also, the world "kira" doesn't literally translate to "killer" in Japanese. It's a phonetic slang translation popularized by the anime death note, outside of that context a person learning japanese would never be exposed to that kind of slang, in all likely hood the person wasn't really even learning real japanese, just citing hack shift knowledge probably garnished off of an anime fan site such as 4chan.
Effectively, the note, due to the way it was written proves that it's referencing the anime... however, that's really the only consistency. In the Anime the killer does not leave notes, he primarily hides his identity, and it's established by word of mouth. In the anime the killer only kills criminals with the exception that he also kills people directly threatening his "just mission" (which is where my vigilante theory comes from), no one is ever dismembered during a killing in the anime, the majority of deaths are by far heart attacks. In the anime killings are preformed by writing a person's name in the "notebook of death", hence "deathnote". There is no consistency in terms of calling it a "copy cat killing" because it doesn't copy anything in the anime at all, aside from maby a reference to the character of the killer, which without knowing more, is a loose theory at best.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
... or he could just be crazy.