Nevada Tan
| Nevada Tan | |
|---|---|
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| Collection | Redacted Remilio Babies |
| Category | Shirt |
| References | Nevada-tan; Sasebo slashing (2004) |
| Count | 93 |
| Rarity | 0.93% |
Nevada Tan is a shirt trait in the Redacted Remilio Babies NFT collection, depicting a sweatshirt referencing "Nevada-tan," the internet nickname given to an 11-year-old Japanese girl who murdered her classmate at an elementary school in Sasebo, Japan in 2004.
Background
On 1 June 2004, Natsumi Tsuji, an 11-year-old girl known in Japanese legal proceedings as "Girl A," murdered her 12-year-old classmate Satomi Mitarai at Okubo Elementary School in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, slashing her throat and arms with a box cutter during the lunch hour.[1] A class photograph taken on the day of the murder showed her wearing a sweatshirt bearing the word "NEVADA" — a University of Nevada, Reno athletic shirt — prompting users on the Japanese message board 2channel to nickname her "Nevada-tan," the suffix -tan being a childlike variant of the Japanese honorific -chan.[2]
The image of the girl in the Nevada sweatshirt spread widely on Japanese internet forums and was subsequently adopted as a meme, spawning fan art and discussion. The case drew particular attention for the perpetrator's young age and high academic ability — she had an IQ of 140 — and for the murder's origins in a dispute over an internet message board. A German pop band named themselves Nevada Tan after the meme before later renaming themselves Panik.
See also
References
- ↑ "Sasebo slashing". Simple English Wikipedia.
- ↑ "Nevada-Tan: Japan's Murderer Turned Internet Trend". Unseen Japan.