Nannyatropolis Pocky Poisonings

The Nannyatropolis Pocky Poisonings was a poisoning spree at Nannyatropolis Anime and Comic Convention where strawberry and chocolate-flavored Pocky, sold by Glico was laced with lethal rat poison, 11 people fell ill and caused one fatality on August 5th 2019.

Background
The Nannyatropolis Anime and Comic Convention is a popular convention in North Supernannya held every year in the city.

The only victim was Andrei Ming (Chinese: 明安德烈, Ming ān dé liè, Russian: Андрей Минг) was a 21-year old Chinese-Russian man and traveled to the convention with friends as a apart of a JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure cosplay group, he was dressed up as DIO at the time of the poisoning.

Simon Forresters showed annoyance with the cosplayers attending and the night before the convention, he sneaked in and stole two batches of Pocky sticks, a popular Japanese candy made by Glico, cut the wrappers and filled it with rat poison containing TETS and cyanide then emptied it and then repeated it, then resealed the boxes.

The death of Andrei Ming was caught on CCTV and a 18-year old Izuku cosplayer named Jack Takahashi who was recording his My Hero Academia cosplay group when he noticed Andrei’s collapse, he and his group was centered 6 centimetres away and stopped filming shortly after he was dead.

After Andrei’s death, people were told to throw their Pocky sticks away and those who have ingested any Pocky to go to the medical center, the entire convention was in lockdown to help survivors and take away Andrei’s dead body.

Motive
Simon Forresters was a former truck driver and was known as a far-right activist known for his hatred of anime and Japanese culture aswell as migrants, even saying if someone liked anime, they hated America and called them “traitors” and was annoyed with the cosplayers in general, even saying that “only one of the kids died” and he should not be charged.

Killed
Andrei Ming, 21, The only fatality at the convention, started to vomit and convulse and even started coughing up blood, Died before he could make it to a hospital, at the time of the convention, he was cosplaying as JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure villain DIO.

Injured
Joanne Devers, 12, Suffered serious organ damage, recovered but suffers chronic liver problems, at the time of the convention, she was dressed up as a Gryffindor student.

Josef Hünch: 17, Suffered severe poisoning, was in a coma for three weeks, suffered severe organ damage and wasn’t expected to live, dressed up as McCree from Overwatch at the time he was poisoned.

Reaction
The poisoning caused a panic in the convention with attendees throwing their Pocky in the trash and and the stall owner, who also fell ill after trying one of the sticks, put up signs warning attendees not to buy any of the Pocky sold.

It also stirred outrage due to Simon being remorseless and even calling Andrei a ”little greedy chink man” and he wanted those cosplayers to get sick.

The Supernannyan News headline for this atrocity was “ILLEGAL RAT POISON IN POCKY CAUSES OUTBREAK, ONE MAN DEAD” and “ALL THOSE YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE POISONED CANDY”, “ANDREI MING, 21, FATALLY POISONED”, and when Simon Forresters was convicted, “PURE EVIL, MAN WHO PUT RAT POISON INSIDE POCKY” and “MURDERER”.

Eyewitnesses and Reaction
(I started crying, My son was dead) ~ Andrei’s father, Bohai Ming

(Why did this have to happen, what did Andrei do?)” Andrei’s mother, Khristina Babikov.

I vividly remember my mother forbidding me and my siblings from buying Pocky sticks when the poisoning happened ~ Toshio Hiwatari.

I was focusing in my cosplayer group, I was the Izuku, and three minutes later, I was focusing on a DIO cosplayer dying of poison on the cold floor, he threw up blood so dark it was nearly black and stopped breathing, the other cosplayers were too busy trying to get me to stop filming him as he died, It was horrible, his body just turned inside out. ~ Jack Takahashi.

In other languages
Chinese (Mainland): (Dushuqiang-Pocky Murder)