Burst! A well-known Japanese anime producer was arrested, involving 120 women, and more details were picked

Everyone knows that Japanese comic movies are very famous in the world.

"Your Name", "Five Centimeters per Second", "I Want to Eat Your Pancreas", etc., are all popular to watch.

When Makoto Shinkai's "Lingya Journey" was released in Chinese mainland, everyone was looking forward to it, but everyone did not know that producer Koichiro Ito would be arrested.

Bad taste

In fact, there were already signs when the movie was released before.

Because at the beginning, the theater was not only the sound of the girl's running footsteps, but also the sound of panting.

Everyone who has heard it knows that such a panting sound is not normal.

The proportions of the voices are abnormally unbalanced, and the breathing sounds are specially processed.

If you don't watch a movie, just listening to the sound makes everyone blush, and they feel that this is definitely not a normal sound.

This detail also sparked heated discussions in the comment area of social platforms.

Some netizens compared with audio software and found that there was indeed a deviation.

The frequency of breathing sounds, physiological responses during normal running are not normal at all.

Other design students pointed out that the producers deliberately suppressed the breathing reverberation effect of the sound.

That is, he deliberately created a sense of presence that was close to the ear.

At the time, everyone thought it was an artistic expression of the director.

There are even other netizens who speculate that this paragraph is a real dubbing, not an AI generation.

Then there is a trace of this source.

This kind of gasp that is strange when you hear it, who can get it from normal channels?

It's not a special way, who believes it.

But there are still many people who say that everyone thinks too much.

It wasn't until February 2025 that the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office issued an arrest warrant that everyone could see the true face of the industry.

After someone analyzed it with professional equipment, it was found that there were obvious traces of artificial synthesis in this breathing sound.

Strange, can't you run well? Do you have to synthesize? What's so unsightly?

In other words, he didn't use the wheezing sound of running normally at all.

Besides, who hasn't run? How can you not hear it?

And this kind of processing is more common in adult film and television.

Now that this technique has appeared in normal anime movies, isn't it a bad taste?

It's too obvious to hit the edge ball.

Netizens also commented on this at first, saying that it was too strange, but at that time, many people retorted that the heart was dirty at all.

One thing may not express anything, but there is more than one coincidence.

The 2019 release of "Weather Child" had a similar controversy.

Most of these occur when the wheezing sound is deliberately amplified while running.

The main thing is that everyone has never resisted the movie with running sounds, but his deliberate distortion of people's normal voices into messy screams is too much, right?

At that time, Koichiro Ito was also a producer and was in charge of the final review of the sound design.

Everyone thought it was a coincidence at first, but one after another made everyone feel that something was more and more wrong.

It wasn't until he was arrested that these charges were confirmed.

Caught and brought out the shady

Koichiro Ito, now 52, was a key figure in Toho's animation division.

The works he has participated in have a very high box office and are also liked by many people.

But behind such a glamorous appearance, there is a 20-year-long crime.

Investigation records from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department show that Ito has been in contact with underage women since 2005 on the grounds of "auditions."

In 2018, an anonymous report letter said that he had installed hidden cameras in the recording studio.

It's really ill-intentioned.

However, the results of the internal investigation at that time were not sufficiently substantiated.

In March 2023, two decades later, an underage female high school student finally provided evidence of sexual assault to the police.

This is the violation of minors, it is too perverted.

Prosecutors then began an investigation, only to discover that his criminal network was extensive.

Under his claws, there are not only performing arts schools, but also sound training institutions and many other types.

Not only that, but in the cloud of his phone, the police also found indecent videos of 117 underage women.

And the time span of the photo is as long as 15 years.

This shows that in the past 20 years, he has destroyed more than 120 little girls.

It's been 15 years since I took pictures, and the remaining 15 years have not been recorded.

This is simply a loss of conscience.

Not only that, but these materials are also stored in different categories, and a system of up to 12 tags has been established.

It's simply perverted.

He also met two underage girls online between 2022 and 2023, and molested them a whopping 11 times, during which he took indecent photos to force them.

Give a sum of money at the end of each time, and so on the next time continue to force.

One can imagine how frightened the two girls were in the face of such a gentle-looking, but vicious-hearted devil.

I thought he was so mad alone, but I also saw other people in the animation industry in some videos.

At present, 3 relevant personnel have been listed as the objects of investigation.

The case about him has also exposed loopholes in the Japanese anime industry.

These producers really belong to the emperors of the anime industry.

They hold important rights such as casting, and in order to pursue realism, many links even allow unprofessional people to participate.

For example, the footsteps of "Lingya's Journey" were collected, in fact, the producer arranged a special channel to obtain it.

And the well-known voice actors, the professional environment is particularly severe.

Nearly 68% of new voice actors have experienced workplace harassment.

There are even some producers who will ask newcomers to create all kinds of gasps and crying sounds when they record.

This is obviously uneasy and kind.

But the producer's power under the production committee is very large.

This mode of separation of production and broadcasting has also allowed them to master more and more.

They have the ability to change the script and the core rights to design the characters, and some production companies even assist the producers in obtaining special material for profit.

Naturally, this special material is not normally obtained.

By 2010, such special services were even as high as 8%.

It also shows that the industry has been polluted.

If the producer is a little better, it would be better to say, once the heart is malicious, then what will happen to the voice actor, none of us knows.

There is also a set of obscure terms within these industries, saying that it is material collection, but in fact it is candid photography, and emotional training is the guidance of sexual innuendo.

After this happened, Makoto Shinkai, as the director, was silent.

Because it was also clearly stated in the production notes of "The Journey of Suzuya" that the producer was responsible for confirming the photographic materials, but now the director says that he does not know the source of the materials.

Finally began to rectify

Such a contradictory statement is indeed hard to believe.

Originally, the review of Japanese animation was relatively strict. Now, his case has led to a 40% increase in the review standards of Japanese anime by overseas distributors.

A person in charge also said that each work needs to provide a complete proof of material collection.

With this new regulation, the cost of production is 20% higher.

Nowadays, the image of Japanese anime, which is already bad, is getting worse and worse.

In the introduction of international animated films, many Japanese entries were even asked to be reviewed individually.

Everyone knows about these things and is strictly resistant to them.

Our country's State Administration of Radio and Television has issued new regulations, requiring the introduction of animation must provide proof of age of the voice actor and a compliance statement during the production process.

It can be said that Koichiro Ito's case alone led to a decline in the income from overseas copyrights of Japanese animation.

The Chinese market alone has lost nearly 320 million yuan, not to mention other countries.

These three are more than 100 million, which is equivalent to 12 medium-sized animations for them.

In March 2025, the Japan Animation Association finally launched the Sunshine Project.

All member units are required to establish a third-party review mechanism.

They have finally begun to protect minors, and they have also begun to regulate the messy anime dubbing in their own country.

All of their animation projects are now required to pass a child safety vet.

Not only the character design and line content, but also 12 other dimensions. Shueisha, on the other hand, has set up a database for the protection of minors.

This collects information on the age and health of all the voice actors who work with them.

It also shows that minors were used to dub before. The means are no longer so dirty.

All that remains is normal and healthy.

Although the Japanese animation industry is relatively developed, there are many dirty things in it.

The 2019 Toei Animation sexual assault case, the 2022 Kyoto Animation arson case, and so on.

These are all things that everyone sees, and there are countless transactions that are messed up behind the scenes.

Under the glamorous appearance, in fact, this animation industry has been riddled with holes.

In the anime store in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Blu-ray sales of "Reiya's Journey" have plummeted by 73%.

This is also normal.

If you do something wrong, you have to bear all the consequences and deserve it.

The Japanese anime industry has also begun to rectify these things, and at the doujin exhibition in Akihabara, there was a technology that uses AI to reconstruct the sound of classic characters.

That's a good thing.

This kind of big thing has happened in the animation industry, and if you don't rectify it, you really can't get mixed up.

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