A Japanese man has admitted to burning down his family home after his mother threw away some of his favourite robot toys from the Gundam animation series.
Yoshifumi Takabe, aged 30 and living with his mother, said he had become suicidal after she dumped some of the robots, of which he had enough to fill 300 boxes stacked to the ceiling, the Sports Nippon said on Wednesday.
The blaze on August 9, 2009 completely destroyed their two-storey wooden house in Kasai, Hyogo prefecture, but no one was injured.
"The Gundam figures are like the partners I spend my life with," he reportedly said after pleading guilty at western Kobe's District Court. "I wanted to die with them in a fire if they were to be thrown out."
The Mobile Suit Gundam series, based on an animation TV series which started in the late 1970s, is about space wars fought by gigantic robots.
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