Has Anime Gone Too Far?

Russian teen leaps from apartment block
after seeing his favourite Japanese cartoon
character die on television
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A " boy leapt more than to his
death from the top of an apartment block in
Russia, after seeing his favourite
mange character killed in a cartoon.
Police my Leonid died instantly.
The Boy was reportedly devastated after seeing
the death oi the character Itachi : haha In the
animated movie ‘Hamid " Huricane Chronicle‘.
He led home after posting a message on a social
networking site saying he was also ‘planning an
ending'.
His worried parents raised the alarm after he did
not return home and a search was organised
together with neighbours.
After being missing for two days his body was
too rid yesterday and he was Identified by his
devastated father Nan, 33.
He said: l anoraks told him he spent too much
titre watching the TV - he didn' t know what was
reality and what was diction : lre.'
Teenage suicide in Russia is endemic. it has the
teenage suicide rate in the world,
just behind its neighbours Belarus and
Kazakhstan and more than three times that or
the United states.
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Leonid Amstell, 14, jumped to his death from an
apartment Hock after his favourite Tilt character died