'Too painful': Kyoto anime fans join prime ministers in mourning fire victims

Sense of loss spreads beyond fans of the genre as Justin Trudeau and Tim Cook voice their shock

“I have watched animation since I was a student, and this was a terrible event,” says Jun Shin, a 30-year-old fan from Osaka who visited the site of the Kyoto Animation fire in Japan to say a prayer. “I wanted to come and mourn.”

Jun is just one of the fans of Kyoto Animation, affectionally abbreviated as “KyoAni”, to visit the Studio #1 building in Fushimi, Kyoto, after Thursday’s arson attack in which at least 33 people died, the country’s worst mass-casualty event in decades.

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