Disclaimer for errors since I never read/watched MHA, but I know there was a doctor character who was called 'Dr. Maruta', translated 'Dr. Log'. Mostly (exclusively?) Chinese grievance farmers raised hell because 'maruta' was the term used for test subjects/victims of Japan's brutal Unit 731 in WW2. The claims of if being a direct reference became inflated, to the point that people started saying Unit 731's entire project was referred to as 'Project Maruta' (it wasn't; closest claim I could find is that the unit might have called the project Holzklotz internally, german for 'log'). It is also just the extremely common term for wooden logs - if you've ever played an MMO in Japanese, you've probably collected 1000 'marutas' at some stage.
Regardless, the creator acquiesced to the outcry and changed the name.
Wow, that sounds even more pathetic than the outcry over Tanjirou's earrings, from Demon Slayer.
(People were bitching that they had the rising sun design of the flag from Imperial Japan and that's bad, because reasons. And it wasn't even true in the first place.)
I'm out of the loop on that one. What happened?
Disclaimer for errors since I never read/watched MHA, but I know there was a doctor character who was called 'Dr. Maruta', translated 'Dr. Log'. Mostly (exclusively?) Chinese grievance farmers raised hell because 'maruta' was the term used for test subjects/victims of Japan's brutal Unit 731 in WW2. The claims of if being a direct reference became inflated, to the point that people started saying Unit 731's entire project was referred to as 'Project Maruta' (it wasn't; closest claim I could find is that the unit might have called the project Holzklotz internally, german for 'log'). It is also just the extremely common term for wooden logs - if you've ever played an MMO in Japanese, you've probably collected 1000 'marutas' at some stage.
Regardless, the creator acquiesced to the outcry and changed the name.
Wow, that sounds even more pathetic than the outcry over Tanjirou's earrings, from Demon Slayer.
(People were bitching that they had the rising sun design of the flag from Imperial Japan and that's bad, because reasons. And it wasn't even true in the first place.)