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Replica_Rabbit
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Nope, I guessing they twins since they look like the same person. |
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Scion Drake
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Just to be clear this isn't an American controversy.
The bulk of the people who have a problem with this are in China & Korea. Hell a Chinese publisher actually discontinued sales of MHA eBooks over this. Other people can get mad too. |
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Krunky
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Hell people went after FGO during Nobunobu event due to potential allegations of WWII and when it came out it has nothing to do with it at all. These people are far too sensitive. |
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Engineering Nerd
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My guess would be....since the whole thing got started since some Korean fans were able to got the scans early (how on world they got it on MONDAY this early is beyond me) , but as an official news source, ANN is unable to use illegal or leaked source outside of anime announcements, so they just decided to use a similar-looking character... Just my 2 cents 
Last edited by Engineering Nerd on Mon Feb 03, 2020 5:09 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Krunky
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The west and Japan have been surprisingly supportive throughout this endeavor its China and Korea who are being unreasonable. They are also spamming MHA's billibili pages with 1-star reviews and Korean artists and closing/deleting their twitter accounts. This is all so sad. |
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Replica_Rabbit
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When they made the article, the chapter has already been out in English for a couple of hours. The picture they using is basically the doctor |
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Krunky
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Which was never the author's intent and was sprung on by people who read illegal scans and have been sending death threats harassing him to apologize for crimes he didn't even commit all for some preconceived notion that he's a fascist the same shit people tried to push on the Kimetsu author due to Tanijiro's earrings design. He already apologized and they're going to change his name to accommodate to the outcry which is a lot more than they deserve considering how they acted and continue to act as I'm typing most artist would have flat out ignored them (Isayama) and carried on their work. |
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Scion Drake
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Which means these people aren't even fans, just something else entirely. Something that's been harassing other authors long before this & will continue do so long after sadly. |
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Agent355
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That’s pretty tasteless. And I have a hard time believing that it’s a coincidence, or that Horikoshi is ignorant of history.
I’m glad that Shueisha and Horikoshi are responding to legitimate criticism from fans. It’s too bad that they probably feel they can’t be honest about whether the name was chosen on purpose. |
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kotomikun
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To me, that name sounds more shallow/cliche than offensive--like naming a bad guy Adolf or something--but if so many people are bothered by it, what's wrong with changing it? They aren't censoring some important part of the story. It's just a name, making an ill-advised reference to some real-life horror.
Twitter mobbing someone and amplifying extreme viewpoints? Must be a day of the week. I can't condone that either, but, fundamentally, it's not worth worrying about over this specific thing. The author named a character something that rubbed people the wrong way, so he changed it. End of story. Doesn't do us any good to get worked up over other people's worked-up-ness; that's the whole reason social media behaves the way it does. |
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Krunky
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People really don't get how nuanced the Japanese language is do they? Not even Japanese readers considered it was even a reference to that because its so far removed from his regular naming conventions. |
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ANN_Lynzee
ANN Executive Editor
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Hey Krunky, we get your opinion. At this point you're responding to everyone and flooding the thread, not having an actual conversation with anyone.
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Krunky
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I'm just correcting people on their misconception on the situation. I didn't mean to flood the thread. |
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ETX
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This is incorrect. spoiler[His first appearance was in Episode 1 of the anime and chapter 1 of the manga respectively. It is the same doctor.] |
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Watanabefan
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Yikes.
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