TOKYO—A man screaming “You die!” burst into an animation studio in Kyoto, doused it with a flammable liquid and set it on fire on July 18, killing 33 people in an attack that shocked anime fans across Japan and beyond.
Thirty-six others were injured, some of them critically, in a blaze that sent people scrambling up the stairs toward the roof in a desperate—and futile—attempt to escape. Others emerged bleeding, blackened and barefoot.