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Soutomu Mizazaki was born on August 21, 1962 in Izukaichi, Tokyo. Soutomu is the son of a wealthy and powerful family. The Mizazaki family owns a large newspaper in the local area. Soutomu's grandparents and great-grandparents were both senior officials in the town council. Soutomu was born young and had a very short life span, making his arms and legs stuck together and unable to fold his arms. Soutomu's parents were always busy with work, so they hired a babysitter to take care of Soutomu. Gradually, Soutomu's relationship with all the members of the family became cold. Soutomu said that his parents only thought about money, and his two sisters always looked up to him. The only person Soutomu loved was his grandfather, because Soutomu felt that only his grandfather really cared about his feelings. Since he was a primary school student, Soutomu has always been bullied. Soutomu lived in isolation, alone, did not participate in any of the school's extracurricular activities, and almost had no friends. However, Soutomu always had excellent grades. He dreamed of going to school at Meiji University and becoming a teacher in the future. However, after he was in grade 3, Soutomu's grades began to deteriorate. Soutomu dropped out of high school and was expelled from college. He was forced to go to a small high school in the local area to become a bully. Although Soutomu's family had a great influence in the local area and was respected by many people, Soutomu did not want to take over his parents' business. Soutomu became more and more popular in magazines, manga, and horror movies. Soutomu's personality was also more and more strange and fierce. Once, Soutomu's sister caught him peeking at her. She was very angry and shouted at Soutomu. But instead of apologizing, Soutomu kissed his sister and his mother when she intervened. In school, Soutomu practiced his photography skills by taking pictures of the girls' pants in the yard. Gradually, the horror magazine also became bored with Soutomu. He began to look for children's horror movies. In May 1988, Soutomu's grandfather passed away. This was a big shock to him, and his depression became more and more serious. Soutomu ate his bones to feel closer to his grandfather. No one knew that it was the beginning of a perverted demon Soutomu. On August 22, 1988, one day after Soutomu's 26th birthday, he attacked the first victim. Mary Kono, a 4-year-old girl, disappeared after visiting a friend. The kidnapper was none other than Soutomu. He used Mary to get into his Nissan car, then drove to a forest in western Tokyo. He parked his car under a bridge in a remote area near the Shitama power station. The two of them sat in the car for half an hour. Mary became frightened and began to cry. Soutomu knew that he had to act. He had no way back. The kidnapper put his hand on the girl's neck and grabbed her. Mary's tiny body was lifted and then stopped. Soutomu felt an overwhelming excitement that he had never felt before. Soutomu slowly removed the girl's clothes. Then he grabbed the girl's tiny, soulless, cold body. Then he hid Mary's body in a bush, but brought the girl's clothes and slippers home as a gift. He quietly walked out of the forest. No one knew a perverted crime had just happened that night. A few days later, Soutomu came up with a crazy idea, but full of excitement. He returned to where he hid Mary. At this time, the girl's body had begun to decompose. He brought Mary's body home, then cut off the girl's arm and put it in the closet. Then he burned the rest of the girl's body. He put Mary's ashes in a box along with some of the girl's teeth, some photos of the last clothes Mary wore. He also put in a postcard containing Mary, bone, cremation, investigation, evidence. He sent this box to Mary's parents. It was unimaginable, the pain her parents had to endure. Although there was evidence that Mary was with a bald man, and although there was a lot of evidence in the horrible box from the pervert killer, the police investigation was still ongoing. Meanwhile, Soutomu's crimes continued and became more and more brutal. After Mary's death, her family began to receive strange phone calls. At the other end of the line, no one answered, only loud breathing, making the listener feel sick. On October 3, 1988, Masami Zushizawa, 7 years old, was walking along a deserted road, when the girl fell into the gaze of the guard. Soutomu saw the girl. He approached and invited Masami to go to her. The girl immediately accepted. Soutomu took the girl to the place where he killed Mary. He killed Masami, the girl's killer. Then he brought the girl's clothes home. Even though I have a daughter, I couldn't raise my hand and offer her to Miyazaki. This is a little bit... I really want to be forgiven. I want to feel the same pain that Masami felt. Two months later, on December 12, 1988, he arrested Erika Namba, 4 years old, when the girl was walking home alone. This time, Soutomu carried the victim to a parking lot in Naguri. Soutomu arrested Erika, took off her clothes, and began to take pictures of the girl's body. Then he tied the girl's arms and legs, murdered the girl, raped her, and then used a gas stove to burn the girl's body into the trunk. He threw the girl's body into a nearby forest. A week later, Erika's family received a postcard with the words cut out from the magazine. Erika, cold, cough, throat, rest. And like Mary's family, Erika's parents also received strange calls for help, which made them lose their minds and live in fear. On June 6, 1989, Soutomu persuaded Asako Nomoto, 5 years old, to take pictures of the girl. Then he took Asako to the car and killed the girl. But this time, he didn't kill the body right away, but brought the body home. He acted as a bet with the girl's body, while filming and taking pictures in many different positions. When Asako's body began to decompose, Soutomu split up and left the victim's body parts scattered all over the hills and meadows in Tokyo. He only kept his hand to hold on to. However, a few days later, Soutomu was worried that the police could find Asako's body parts, so he returned to the place where he buried the body and brought the girl's remains back to his apartment and hid them in his closet. On July 23, 1989, Soutomu saw the two sisters playing in the park. He lured the two sisters to follow him, then he gave them candy. The little girl heard a poem, followed the stranger, and the sister hurriedly ran home. While Soutomu took the little girl into the car to take a selfie, the sister hurriedly ran home, eyeing her father. Fortunately, the sister managed to talk to her father, and he immediately ran to Soutomu to give him a life-threatening blow. After a while, Soutomu also ran away, but a few hours later, he ran back to get the car. However, his father notified the police, and Soutomu was finally arrested. The police searched Soutomu's two-room wooden house. In the house, the police found Mary's hands and feet and Asako's head. The police also found nearly 6,000 tapes of cartoons, children's cartoons. They found countless clips and images of the victims. After being arrested, Soutomu was still very quiet and never complained. He said he was very lonely and blamed it all on the masked man. He said the masked man was another soul living in him and catching him for his crimes. The case shook the whole of Japan. Soutomu was called by many different names, such as the masked killer, the young killer, and the most popular was the otaku killer. The otaku culture is the phenomenon of young people who only live in the world of cartoons, the world of manga. They live in an imaginary world, isolated and incompatible with society. However, many people argue that the appearance of manga is not the reason for the murder of a variety of perverts like Soutomu. Personality disorder and mental illness are the reasons why he committed such heinous, inhuman crimes. Soutomu's trial began on March 30, 1990 and lasted for 7 years. His family turned against him and refused to pay him a lawyer's fee. In 1994, Soutomu's father committed suicide because he felt too bad for his son. Judges believe that Soutomu was fully conscious when he committed the crime and he was sentenced to death on April 14, 1997. 11 years later, on June 17, 2008, he was hanged at a Tokyo prison.