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The Apex and the Abyss presents the chasm.

Episode 6. The Otaku Murders.

Killer, cannibal, necrophile. These are the words used to describe Sotomu Miyazaki. Over the span of 10 months, Miyazaki terrorized the people of Tokyo by taking the lives of four young girls.

Mizaki was the product of an incestuous relationship between his father and one of his father's sisters.

He was born premature, and this caused him to have developmental issues and deformities.

Most notably, his hands were fused to his wrists,

causing him to have to move his entire forearm to even rotate his hand in any way.

As he grew and went to school, he kept to himself due to the fact that the other students

did not want to associate with him. For a time, he was regarded as a star pupil, but at a certain

point in high school, something shifted, and his grades began to plummet. Before he went off to

live at college, he intended on becoming a teacher, but he decided to take

courses to pursue a career as a photo technician instead. By the mid-80s, Miyazaki returned to his

parents' home where he shared a room with his older sister. At this point in his life, he was greatly

depressed and contemplated suicide. He didn't have many friends,

no love interest, and even his own family rejected him somewhat. The only person he felt any

sort of closeness to was his grandfather. But unfortunately, his grandfather died in 1988.

Miyazaki fell into a deeper depression and began to lash out at his family.

In one particular incident, one of his sisters caught him spying on her while she was taking a shower.

When she yelled for him to leave, he attacked her.

Then, when his mother found out about the incident and confronted

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