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Riku157
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I didn't even know about the name change until this article.
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Iritscen
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2026 2:30 pm |
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To be fair, Horikoshi was absolutely referencing Unit 731 ("Shiga" = Kiyoshi Shiga, the discoverer of the toxin in E. coli, a disease that some victims, "maruta", were infected with in Unit 731's experiments), but I don't blame him for trying to smooth things over. It's strange that the Chinese gov't would take it so personally considering this is a villain in a fantasy story. He's not a good guy!
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HyperGatack
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2026 2:31 pm |
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| Riku157 wrote: | | I didn't even know about the name change until this article. |
Oh yeah, it was a heck of a scandal.
Though… naming Dr War Crimes DR WAR CRIMES doesn’t really sell the “it was an accident, honest!” angle.
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FireChick
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2026 6:34 pm |
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| HyperGatack wrote: | | Riku157 wrote: | | I didn't even know about the name change until this article. |
Oh yeah, it was a heck of a scandal.
Though… naming Dr War Crimes DR WAR CRIMES doesn’t really sell the “it was an accident, honest!” angle. |
Well, considering Japan doesn't like acknowledging its war crimes at all, even in schools to the point where a lot of them are rendered as just footnotes, it's not really too far outside the realm of possibility.
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Slop Slop no Mi
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2026 6:50 pm |
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| FireChick wrote: | | Well, considering Japan doesn't like acknowledging its war crimes at all, even in schools to the point where a lot of them are rendered as just footnotes, it's not really too far outside the realm of possibility. |
I don't think China has any room to be criticizing other people in that regard considering what they're current doing in the present day where as Japan's stuff was 80 years ago.
But this is about Detective Conan, not MHA. And I hate this middle school drama of trying to police who other people can hang out with or talk to because they deemed someone off limits. These people got to be some of the most thin-skinned individuals out there.
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whiskeyii
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2026 8:15 pm |
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| Slop Slop no Mi wrote: | |
I don't think China has any room to be criticizing other people in that regard considering what they're current doing in the present day where as Japan's stuff was 80 years ago.
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Two things can be true at once. Tho imo, based on the themes Horikoshi's written into his work, I feel like he was more trying to highlight Japan's war crimes than do a cheeky nod to them (unlike Isayama.) It just wound up backfiring on him big-time, unfortunately.
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Twage
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2026 4:53 pm |
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Nationalism is so weird
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TheRealMaria
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| Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2026 5:45 am |
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Ah, I guess that would explain all those AI videos I've been seeing from Bilibili of Conan fighting and sometimes killing the Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. Shame Conan got wrapped up in this crap.
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