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TOKYO - A JAPANESE woman addicted to comics turned to the Internet to look for someone to kill her parents after they asked her to clear out her cartoon-filled room, reports said on Thursday.
The 36-year-old woman, who was unemployed and lived at home, filled up three rooms with several thousand comic books and videotapes she had collected with an allowance her grandmother sent her, news reports said.
She reportedly became angry after her parents told her to throw away some of her comic books to make space for her sister who was planning to move in.
'I was told to throw away what was precious to me since I was a child. I felt frustrated and angry and wished that my parents would disappear,' she told police, as quoted by Jiji Press and the Sankei Shimbun.
She posted a message on the Internet asking for someone to kill her mother, who manages a bar in Tokyo, and her father, the reports said.
Police intervened after being notified by someone who read the message and are seeking to charge her with intimidation, the reports said.
Police declined to comment.
Japan's 'manga' comics have a huge fan base at home - including Prime Minister Taro Aso, who is said to read about 10 comic books a week - and have been growing in popularity overseas.
It is common for unmarried Japanese to live at home well into adulthood.
Japan has a low crime rate but has seen a string of recent high-profile incidents.
On Wednesday, an unemployed man saddled with thousands of dollars of debt was arrested for starting a fire in an all-night video shop, killing 15 people.
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