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INTEREST: '[New Life+] Young Again in Another World' Anime's Protagonist, Novel Creator Cause Contro

OP made this post on r/anime too so I'll post the same reply here. The author has indeed made disrespectful, anti-China and anti-Korea tweets 5+ years ago. But his opinions have nothing to do with his work.
There isn't anything anti-China in the original novels. This whole thing was made viral by a Japan born Chinese person on twitter until it was picked up by other media outlets. But the thing is that it doesn't reflect the reality. The original novel never makes a mention of Nanjing or Second Sino-Japanese War.

OP keeps repeating that he was in Nanjing in the other thread but even the timing doesn't match up. Also mind you, the fact that he has killed so many people is a part of the MC's backstory and adds very little to the story other than showing that he is an edgy bastard. The story itself is your run-of-the-mill transported to another world story. Main character keeps being ruthless doing overpowered things and getting a harem. Basically every Isekai story out there.

Is there a reason for the detail on how many Chinese people the protag killed, other than to indicate who the intended audience is?

People who aren't Chinese or Japanese are also possibly missing the context that the Nanking Massacre was a terrible atrocity perpetuated on the Chinese by the Japanese, and certain groups in Japan are constantly trying to play revisionist, to the point of altering history books taught in schools and such to make it seem less bad, for instance. That kind of thing is almost certainly what the people who are complaining are reacting to. So this is an EXTREMELY touchy issue.

meruru wrote:

People who aren't Chinese or Japanese are also possibly missing the context that the Nanking Massacre was a terrible atrocity perpetuated on the Chinese by the Japanese, and certain groups in Japan are constantly trying to play revisionist, to the point of altering history books taught in schools and such to make it seem less bad, for instance. That kind of thing is almost certainly what the people who are complaining are reacting to. So this is an EXTREMELY touchy issue.

Yeah, like maybe the guy's just a huge racist? That "bug country" thing is kind of telling too.

Whole lot of people rushing to the defense of some generic isekai author. "It's fiction" means approximately nothing. Someone created that fiction, with their inherent biases and prejudices baked in.

Because he is referencing a historical event he is a racist? At the end of the day it's just fiction, if you don't like it then ignore it no one is forcing you to watch it...