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My Hero Academia anime removed from Tencent, Bilibili after war crimes reference

Before this incident, My Hero Academia was a smash-hit in China, amassing millions of views on Tencent and Bilibili. (Picture: Funimation/Shonen Jump)

The Chinese platforms previously removed the manga over a villain’s name that appears to reference human experimentation by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II

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

Maruta Shiga in the story creates a race of genetically-modified golems called Nomu. (Picture:exobaited/Twitter)

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

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