In the latest words of “My Hero Academia”, the controversial name “Shiga Maruta” in the latest words of “Shiga Maruta” will cause people to connect with the infamous 731 troops in the history of invasion of China. After consulting with the author and deciding to include the manga in the manuscript, the character’s name will be changed

Today, the comic of “My Hero Academia” suddenly happened, because the word “Maruta” in the name of the new character “Shiga Maruta” in the new serialization is the name of the Japanese troops invading China’s 731 troops, This was first passed from the Korean manga fans, and then a man named @ 朝 儿 on Weibo also posted a Weibo to introduce this issue to everyone. In the story, this character is a villain doctor and an experiment with human bodies

丸 太 maruta Explanation of the word.

There is a description and explanation of maruta in Morimura Makoto’s book Ogre Cave.

731 troops may be the most notorious Japanese invaders of the Japanese army in the eyes of the Chinese people. Bacterial warfare, chemical warfare, and human experimentation with the Chinese people. As for whether the cartoonist knew this history when it was named, I can n’t tell. Anyway, Jump editor and cartoonist Hiroshi Kohora both denied in the official statement tonight that the name is related to history, and they also decided to replace the character name in the comic. However, Tencent Comics has removed the “My Hero Academia” comics, but the animations on the video website are still there

“My Hero Academia” Hiroshi Gengping’s explanation of the name of the new character and the notice of the future name change.

To be honest, after reading the character situation, Jimmy felt that the author did not consider the feelings of Chinese and Korean readers. Although the name is used for villains, not to agree with the work of Unit 731, mentioning the name makes the nationals of the invaded country very uncomfortable (but to be honest, 90% of people think it is not Too likely to see the meaning of this name). This made me think of the author of “Attack on the Giant”, Mikasa’s name and the appearance of the commander were also said to have a tendency to militarism. If you insist that the names of many people in EVA are related to the names of warships of the Japanese Navy. In addition, there are many characters called Maruta in Japanese comics, and now there are many Japaneses called Maruta. In the original work of “Scientific Super Electromagnetic Cannon T”, which is popular on Station B, the slashing military tyrant wearing a sunburst flag has also changed to the all-red TEE in the animation

JUMP statement.

Since “My Hero Academia” is an international work, the theater version was also released in China last year, so the response given by the Jump official in the afternoon is very fast for Japan, if The wave of resistance has really come up, basically designed to the content of World War II, that is, except for Japan, there is basically no market. The statement first denied the character’s name and historical relationship, and also confirmed that the name will be renamed in a separate book in the future, and the cartoonist Rising Yue Gengping all published the same content