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INTEREST: My Hero Academia Manga, Anime Removed from Chinese Digital Platforms

SaiyamanMS wrote:

Looking at the controversy over this, it honestly kinda amazes me that Pokémon of all things actually got away with an item called the “Holo Caster” invented by a man who wanted to eliminate half of Europe to create a master race.

...So you're trying to say here the item of the XY games called Holo Caster which is based on Hologram and News Caster/Broadcast or more simple it's an "Hologram Caster", according to your twisted theory is based on the "Holocaust"? and the worst of all is that you're being apparently serious about it get help!

In the court of public opinion it doesn't matter what something is "based on". The kind of people who will cry foul about this kind of thing don't care about the fact that the name comes from "hologram caster". The mere fact that it sounds superficially like "holocaust" is enough to trigger them.

This MHA fiasco is a great example. The character in question is the main villian if I understand correctly. If we assume the name of this character was a deliberate reference to Unit 731 then there really is no problem here...naming an evil guy after an evil event makes sense. People would be right to be up in arms if the hero were named after a war criminal or war atrocity, or if the atrocities were presented in a postive light, but that's not even close to the real situation. Look at what's actually happening here: people are mad at the mere mention of an atrocity, nevermind the fact that deliberately giving an evil character that name is fundamentally accepting that the acts in question did indeed occur and were in fact evil.

Obviously people stopped paying attention and they're getting outraged over a villain having name that reminds atrocity. Absolute failure of comprehension and logical thinking.

SaiyamanMS wrote:

Looking at the controversy over this, it honestly kinda amazes me that Pokémon of all things actually got away with an item called the “Holo Caster” invented by a man who wanted to eliminate half of Europe to create a master race.

...So you're trying to say here the item of the XY games called Holo Caster which is based on Hologram and News Caster/Broadcast or more simple it's an "Hologram Caster", according to your twisted theory is based on the "Holocaust"? and the worst of all is that you're being apparently serious about it get help!

To be fair, you could argue that his claim is as ridiculous as the Chinese claim about the doctor's name.

Imagine if the villain character is named after Hitler or Stalin, it would've been a scandal and a backlash too.

To ANN staff. Could you rewrite the acticle so it explains the actual reasoning behind the doctor's name? You were corrected several times in the thread for the previous article by people who actually can speak Japanese and yet you repeated the same incorrect explanation in this article. As it is right now it paints wrong people in wrong light and us posting here to correct that does little because most users who post in this thread choose to do so without reading it first and an untold number of users choose not to open the thread at all.

"Maruta" refers to the code-name for human experimentation undertaken by the Imperial Japanese Army's Unit 731 during the Second Sino-Japanese War of World War II. The Chinese victims of the experiments were called "maruta," the Japanese word for "logs" as a reference to the facilities cover story that it was a lumber mill. Victims, including children, the elderly, pregnant women, and the mentally handicapped, were purposefully infected with diseases, dissected, lobotomized, and amputated while still alive.

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encrypted12345 wrote:

To be fair, you could argue that his claim is as ridiculous as the Chinese claim about the doctor's name.

Being a pedantic butthole here, but I’m a girl.

This MHA fiasco is a great example. The character in question is the main villian if I understand correctly. If we assume the name of this character was a deliberate reference to Unit 731 then there really is no problem here...naming an evil guy after an evil event makes sense.

Edit; And if you insist going with the explanation the name refers to the character itself, 'round and fat', it would have been logical he would have gone with '達磨' (round, fat) which is also a common name in Japan. He didn't, instead he went with '丸太' (log).
Too many coincidences...

God China is pathetic. Blowing such a non-issue this far out of proportions. Of course not that this is any different from their usual MO.

AkumaChef wrote:

This MHA fiasco is a great example. The character in question is the main villian if I understand correctly. If we assume the name of this character was a deliberate reference to Unit 731 then there really is no problem here...naming an evil guy after an evil event makes sense.

You gravely misunderstood.

The author allegedly named the evil guy after the victims of Unit 731. Not Unit 731 itself, but the people who were experimented upon. Unless you're trying to say the victims themselves were evil or whatnot, then that's just beyond the scope of civil argument for me.