Comments on: Japanese Net-linked suicides

By: ManiaC-DepressivE

ManiaC-DepressivE — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:36:41 +0000

I love Gloomy bear…

and I need all his love…

u______U

lol

By: Chomeki

Chomeki — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:16:59 +0000

Haa? i dont think the Glommy bears of a icon based on kill ppl. Hack i own a gloomy bear my self! What i think is that japanese ppl dont really think of or look at the bloody cover parts thats on gloomy. they just think of a cute pink bear.i think so 2. i mean our teddy bears are no different then them, i mean think about if u read about bears or check them out on the internet, it would say that a bear *bla bla bla something somthing* could kill 2, not that bears r bad just that the only difference is that we r just 2 over protective that dont show stuff that we think r inappropriate to the kids that we switch the truth around. at least the japanese ppl that made that product did switch the truth around. so net time u have so thing 2 say please think about it first before blaming others.

By: anime fan

anime fan — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:06:15 +0000

Your article doesn’t make sence. First you talked about this “gloomy bear”, then you talk about internet suicide…yet you never clearly stated the connection. What was the point of writing this post?

By: butt headddd 01

butt headddd 01 — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:17:34 +0000

killing bear

By: brittany

brittany — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:16:26 +0000

bears rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Hamm

Hamm — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:42:37 +0000

i love gloomy bear just like adding cute with violence just same with me

By: Gomita

Gomita — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:31:50 +0000

hahah gloomy bear hahah sta
shengonsesemo xD

hahaha me largow!

ese oso rosa es fregon!

_/\_
)uU(

By: laURa

laURa — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:59:02 +0000

gLOomy bEaR.. eS la oNdAa.. (L)

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:00:45 +0000

This is silly. Are they saying that Gloomy Bear has something to do with others’ suicidal acts?
It’s a cute icon that’s just for everyone to enjoy.
After all, Gloomy bear is not a real bear.
And Pity is not a real child.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 02:19:53 +0000

I love Gloomy Bear, and it doesn’t connect me with death.
I like a cute animal with a dark side.
But CUTE is all it is.
It’s not meant to have suicidal meaning behind it, well, not for most.
Everyone I know loves Gloomy Bear also.

So we carry around gloomy bear stuffed animals or keychains.?
It doesn’t mean we have a deathwish.
It’s just a stuffed animal with a twist. LMFAO. A badass bear.
The animations, are on my myspace page.

Maybe adults want to interpret as something more, but we teenagers, don’t.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 09:33:44 +0000

The connection is to show culture and how their beliefs. It isn’t that the bears cause the deaths, but that they don’t see such symbols as bad things. They are okay with sex and violence where many in the Western countries would find it outragous (even more in the US). The beginning helps you understand the problem.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 07:37:18 +0000

The connection (for me) is a mindset possibly shared by people with Gloomy Bears, and those bent on suicide.

Owning a Gloomy Bear could be a metaphorical yearning for death.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 06:26:28 +0000

It’s interesting how the first part of the article is about gloomy bear and the second part is about online suicide pacts.

There is no link between them, but the article suggest the first leads to the second or is somehow connected with it.

This alleged link is never explained, defined or summarised. It would be interesting to read *WHAT* exactly these too topics have in common.

Besides the “death” connection (which frankly is in about everything from foods [dead plants and animals] to health care products [made from… you guessed it dead plants and animals or derived products] ) there does not seem to be much correlation between the two.

Gloomy bear seems like a vicious animal who can protect itself by killing its foes.

Suicide groups on the internet attracts those who want to escape hardship.

Unless you suggest that the gloomy bears are manipulating vulnerable people into comitting suicide, I’m not sure I get the logic of the article.

As for the gloomy bear itself, it reminds me of Princess Mononoke.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 02:30:34 +0000

http://www.paranoiaagent.com/

there is a trailer there if anyone wants it XD… although, nothing can do the series justice, you just need to watch it for yourself… and its not nearly as confusing as say, the end of Evangelion… its easier on the brain… lol

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=3169

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 02:19:20 +0000

haha! I 2 was also in japan last summer, and was a little shocked to see the stuffed toy “Gloomy Bear”. My friend there had one on a keychain on her purse, and they were in every toy store, some even had the bloody nailtips!
I had known about Gloomy Bear before I actually went to Japan… but I was surprised to actually find out that it was a common toy!!!!! XD
I couldn’t get a straight answer out of my friend on why it was so popular… lol I think to her, it was a much more inocent idea. lol In some ways, maybe it is.

Although this story makes me realize that Gloomy Bear, and the popular Anime “Paranoia Agent” are quite simmilar!! In the Anime, there is a link between a cute little pink dog with sleepy eyes called Miromi )or something like that), and a rummored ’spirit’ kind of being that goes around killing people with a baseball bat called Shonen Bat! In the end we find out that Miromi and Shonen Bat are the same, in that they both are created and given life, through the collective minds of the people. lol its an instesting story, and I can’t explain it myself to well.
Shonen Bat is like a savior for people that are emotionally/stress cornered, cause he takes away their pain, by killing them.

Anyway, I can imagine the maker of the anime might have been playing on the Gloomy Bear culture icon. lol

Also in the anime there ACTUALLY is an episode about group suicide through the internet! Its actually quite funny, in a creapy kind of way… and you dont really know if they actually succeed in comitting the act… but I think they did. lol

On the topic of suicide, my personal belief is that its a choice, but not one to take likely… I’ll spare the arguments lol… I just think our culture makes it seem too much like a bad thing…
In Japan, its almost common, from what I’ve seen, to walk away from an attempted suicide, with nothing more than a slap on the rist, and a discuraging statement… lol but I could be wrong.
Still, Japan has a heavy cultural history of Suicide… And it wasn’t considered a bad thing at all! It was the honorable way to go, if you had lost your honor. And there were other reasons it was used too… lol

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 23:38:57 +0000

So what do they do to these people when the authorities discover them?