Hit manga My Hero Academia removed in China over war crimes reference

A villain’s name references Japanese biowarfare black-ops Unit 731 that experimented on and killed thousands of Chinese and Koreans in WWII

Japanese anime series My Hero Academia has been immensely popular in China. The country is home to countless fans of the manga and anime, which are available on Tencent’s and Bilibili’s platforms. But now the show’s popularity is in jeopardy because of a secret villain whose name references a World War II biowarfare black operation.

In the latest chapter published in the weekly Shonen Jump manga magazine, My Hero Academia reveals the name of a major villain to be Maruta Shiga. Maruta was a Japanese code name for victims of human experimentation during World War II, which killed thousands of Chinese and Korean people.

The apparent reference was immediately highlighted by fans because Maruta Shiga is a mad scientist who also experiments on humans. Subsequently, the character’s surname came into question as a possible reference to Shigella, an E coli.-like germ famously discovered by Japanese bacteriologist Kiyoshi Shiga.

Since the backlash, Tencent and Bilibili have removed the manga from their platforms. Bilibili confirmed the manga was removed “in accordance with China's policies” but didn’t elaborate further. Tencent didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.



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So, let's try to understand something here. MHA introduced a VILLIAN with a reference to VILLIANOUS WW2 war criminals to drive home the fact that he is a VILLIAN (and you'd have to DIG REAL HARD FOR THE INFO IF YOU'RE NOT A HISTORY NUT JUST TO GET THE REFERENCE, otherwise, it's just another Japanese name) and "fans" are triggered cause of.... Historical evil?

Have the world gone so politically correct that hurt feelings are more important than a fictional portrayal of EVIL in entertainment, over something that happened to their grandpas and not themselves?😒

Some reactions to it on Twitter.

i see sometimes manga got use Hitler and Nazi imagery..

i dont see ppl boikot also..

seems ok je

So the great peoples from country with 5000 years of civilization can also be easily triggered and scream plotek when maruah tercalar?

Got it.

lel bodo punya people. kalau Hitler ok jer.

Meh.
My hero academia is trash.
Pedulik la.

What about Wolfenstein games that repeatedly mention Hitler character potray as the big boss final battle? Honestly I've not read the comic before and never heard the name of it... but now I gain my history knowledge a plus 1.

Inb4 weeb come plotek.

Must be proud of their ancestor helping yat bun zai kill chinese in malaya.

like that also triggered

They need to watch Frozen 1...

Let it go~

Let it go~

maybe i dont share the same sentiment, but i think this is too extreme

meh

shounenshit

PRC memang mudah triggered, they got a glass jaw for anything that even remotely touches on anything bad that ever happened to them in those 5000 years of culture.

chinabun mudah triggered datang lagi

Let it go in my ass

biasa la tu racist people.

dia racist takpe. orang lain racist tak bole

Lol wtf I swear china people all brain-dead. It's a villain, so what's wrong with having a villain name reference???

but he is the bad guy

bad guy will lose

why triggered?

er, isn't he a villain?

Change the villain name to Winnie the Poo
baru happy

well the character's a villian and the author is not trying to hide the fact that human experimentation did happened during Japan's invasion of China. Why suppress it? this is history and many young generation that has never experienced war or warcrimes should know about the horrible things done by unit 731, fuck them.

I abandoned MHA after reading about 30+ chapters

just didnt tickle my fancy

manga popular in prc?



syukur ketuanan manga japan

Because it is typically lefties (which are usually the commies and socialists and fascists) who are triggered by facts and reality

Yup, if anything it should be Japan who should ban the comics for portraying Japan in bad light. Some countries are more snowflake than others.

baka academia

U mean more fragile than a certain religion that start since the birth of earth as claimed?

he dont take the book. too scared

Already posted:
https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=4901003

I can understand if that guy is a hero, but he is the villain

The CCP will take whatever petty issues they can get to distract their people from the brewing apocalypse that came out of Wuhan.

You think manga author care from oversea fan?

Those people heart made from paper, sikit sikit saja terkoyak.

Not like he is portrayed as a hero, he is a villain and I don't see anything wrong with that.

Some more who want to bet those that are complaining are not even born yet during the WW2 era, so they don't even suffer from it to use the argument "it reminds them of the time of suffering".

probably just coincidence.

Lol commies cepat triggered

You post too early, that time China not officially ban yet right?

that actually even worse.

murata is remark to the people who got killed for human experiment.
the people who got killed = villian.

Yes, but Chinese people always find way to read it illegally anyway.

China is big, power and prosper...
Their people was smart, hard working and efficient..

One thing and the most important thing China dont have was they donno how to communicate with the democracy world ... being communist to 1.4 billion human is fine but not to the rest of the world .. keep on using communist way to talk to the rest of the world and only love jilat and cannot criticize ... that is why some of the ppl from other nation love to make fun of them .. the more China trigger the more others will make fun of them in future ...

They want face but doing something people won't give face ..

hahaha..from Mudazumo Naki Kaikaku right...even have pol pot and many figure there playing mahjong

*cough* concentration camp

5000 years of hypocrisy

maybe mangaka actually wanted to remind his own fellow japanese of the war crime they did but backfire i guess

lol strawberry country

it was more often back in early 2000

now nothing can surprise

Like that also triggered?

Horikoshi should just change the name to Pak Samad oredi to make those fuckers happy.

All those racists claiming PRC racists, funny how they themselves got triggered by Charlie Hebdo of certain drawing.

Hypocrites

Wah why everyone from all sides triggered?

Like that also want to complain? over a manga, over a reference to some group that I believe 99.9% of malaysian doesn't even know existed.

If they go on doing things like this , CCP's reputation is going to be worst.



This post has been edited by Drian: Feb 7 2020, 10:13 AM

China suddenly triggered and feel the butthurt

prc triggers over everything la, never let go of the past

Mostly PRC and South Koreans are triggered. War crimes and all that shit, even though it's ALREADY ALMOST A CENTURY.

Then western SJW woke fanbase decide to latch on, cause "oh no, non white people are getting feelings hurt!! We MUST SPEAK ON THEIR BEHALF!!! "


It's insanity from wokeness and self guilt. 😩

Yes, but why are you so triggered?

Gonna watch jojo rabbit

Lol. Jojo even have a Nazi ally in part 2.

Everything is a Jojo reference.

But he cannot use it!!!

is like saying german cant even stand a hand salute. kek

this

I know right?

The villain in the history..name as hero..and commie triggered...owait..thats chin peng....my bad...owaii...

Mo Dao Zu Shi they don't want to ban? Since mainland are homophobic country

Biasa la typical chinese gov easily butt hurt

But this will affect the mangaka as his work may banned forever there

lol

Triggered