{"id":11,"date":"2006-09-08T23:17:13","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T15:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.punkednoodle.com\/champloo\/2006\/09\/08\/obata-breaks-the-law-with-a-knife\/"},"modified":"2010-08-19T15:40:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T07:40:09","slug":"obata-breaks-the-law-with-a-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.punkednoodle.com\/champloo\/2006\/09\/08\/obata-breaks-the-law-with-a-knife\/","title":{"rendered":"Obata breaks the law with… a knife!?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently, Takeshi Obata, the lovely artist for the uber popular Death Note manga and Hikaru no Go, was arrested last wednesday after having been caught with an 8 cm knife in his car. He was actually stopped for not having his car lights on. It turns out in Japan, people are not allowed to hold a knife with a blade longer than 6 cm. Obata reasons that it was for camping, but he was still arrested by the police. <\/p>\n

Shounen Jump has released that they aren’t pulling out the books that have been published for Obata unless there is a viable reason for his arrest. Nippon TV, who will be showing the animated episodes of Death Note, hasn’t given comments yet with regards to this arrest. <\/p>\n

In all honesty, I think it’s silly, but a run in with the law is a run in with the law. I am half amused with this current turn of events. But I must add, thank GOD he’s not drawing for a manga now else I’d be so devastated to miss a week of his drawing. In fact, I quite miss him already. I hope things sort out for Obata-sensei. I mean, he should be able pay the fine of thirty thousand yen, right? <\/p>\n

Source: MDN <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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