Currently, 25 volumes have been published selling 23 million copies. The series became hugely popular since beginning in Weekly Shonen Jump in December 2008. 'Kuroko no Basuke' is a sports themed manga that centers around a young student named Tetsuya Kuroko who aims to dominate in the world of high school basketball and defeat his former teammates who now play for rival schools.Īlthough the manga has inspired some independently made 'yaoi' (romantic fan fiction), there isn’t really any notably controversial subject matter in the story. Then, on Oct 15, a threatening letter was delivered to Fujimaki’s former high school which also reportedly contained a “white powder.” By the end of the month, similar letters were sent to broadcasters in Tokyo and Osaka that aired the anime version of 'Kuroko no Basuke.' In each, incident the letters were postmarked from outside the destination’s prefecture which made it impossible for authorities to track accurately. The post was traced back to an Internet cafe in Chiba Prefecture where security camera footage showed a man fitting the description of university witnesses, but revealed nothing otherwise distinguishing.

Shortly after, a message was posted on a message board site claiming responsibility for the crime. Several students at the university reported seeing a man dressed all in black and carrying a container around the time of the incident. Attached was a note which read, “I hate Fujimaki.” Inside the container was a liquid capable of releasing poisonous hydrogen sulphide. The court heard that on Oct 12, 2012, a plastic container was left on the second floor in the gymnasium of Tokyo’s Jochi University (Sophia University), the alma mater of Fujimaki. In handing down the sentence, the presiding judge said Watanabe had shown no remorse and had tried to disrupt businesses because he was jealous of Fujimaki, TBS reported. Hirofumi Watanabe, 36, a temp worker, was arrested last December. The Tokyo District Court on Thursday sentenced a man to 4 1/2 years in prison for sending threatening letters to convenience store chains and other establishments linked to Tadatoshi Fujimaki's 'Kuroko’s Basketball' manga series.

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