Cosplay Flasher Ryuk Exposes Himself to Worldwide Sneering and Censure

It seems that a gentleman in Kita-Ku, Sapporo has not been a credit to his mother.

Though he has been flashing what she gave him to unsuspecting ladies in the Tonden district of Japan's fourth largest city.

So far, so sad. But the truly bizarre element - and the part which makes it relevant here - is that he did this while cosplaying Ryuk.

That's right. A wannabe Ryuk revealed himself to a rightly disdainful woman, who promptly reported him to Sapporo's Kita-ku constabulary.

全身タイツ男が下半身露出 きのう午前4時50分頃、札幌・北区屯田7条7丁目付近で、女性が下半身を露出した男を目撃しました。男は35~40歳位、やせ型、身長170~175cm位、黒色の全身タイツ、背中に黒色の羽のようなものがついていました。札幌北署 #不審者

— UHBニュース公式アカウント (@uhbnews_uhb) August 21, 2015

Man in Full Body Tights Exposes Himself

At 4.50 am yesterday morning, in 7-7 Tonden area of Kita-ku, Sapporo, a woman witnessed a man exposing his lower half. The man was around 35-40 years old, slim and roughly 170-175cm tall. He wore full body black tights and what appeared to be black feathered wings on his back. Sapporo Kita-ku Police #SuspiciousPerson
- UHBNews (Hokkaido news channel),  August 21st 2015

Sapporo police are appealing for any information that will help their inquiries into the incident.  (Or should that be APPLE-ing?) 

I shouldn't laugh, but the notion of a Ryuk cosplayer exposing himself is so ridiculously pathetic that pointing and laughing seems the only recourse.

Though not, of course, for the lady who had to witness this. That really couldn't have been pleasant, and good fight her for reporting him. Too many incidents like this pass without any response at all, which allows idiots like our erstwhile Shinigami Ryuk flasher to continue without consequence.

Now it's not just police officers seeking to track this offender down.

Police Hunt Death Note Shinigami Flasher - and So Does Everyone Else

In choosing to don a Death God costume to flash at strangers, this dodgy individual now knows what exposure truly means. UHB's news report became an instant internet sensation.

Far from lurking in Tonden back-alleys - where his sordid actions might conceivably remain concealed - they're talking about him all over the city; and across the rest of Hokkaido, throughout Japan and around the world.

I'm sitting in Great Britain telling folk about his shameful actions.

Closer to home, you can be sure that everyone is watching out for a flasher in a shinigami costume, or indeed anyone cosplaying Ryuk, now or at any time in the past. If they seem to be the sort to act suspiciously, then a tip off to police could be coming any time soon.

His poor mother must be so proud.