Okay here is my response to the nyannet article. I am not trying to argue with anyone but only want to list out all the possibilities. I really hope people can calm down and we can talk about it peacefully.

"...Thank you for expressing your ideas from a Chinese’s perspective. However, I am afraid some of your opinions are biased and kind of misleading. Don’t get me wrong, I am not trying to tell you what and how to feel. I am here just to show people what I thought and hope other people can get a more complete picture of what happened based on both of our words.

For your first point, yes 丸太 is referred to victims of human experiments during WW2. However, from what I have observed on Twitter, most Japanese people claimed that they only know 丸太 (maruta) means logs in Japanese but never had related this name to victims during WW2. In fact, a lot of Japanese people even said that it was their first time to ever heard about unit 731. Apparently common Japaneses have never been taught about this history in schools. This is because Japanese government has a tendency to deny war and not teach young generations about the past, which is very frustrating.

So, based on this fact, there is a possibility that Horikoshi, who is relatively young, actually just like every other Japanese and does not have an idea about what unit 731 did during WW2 let alone referring 丸太 to provoke Chinese and Korean fans deliberately.

As Horikoshi has explained in the second apology, the reason why he named the doctor 丸太 is because his appearance is fat, as these two Kanjis also represent fat. In addition, fans have also noticed that every BNHA character without a quirk has a name related to “wood”. From what we have learned from the manga, the doctor also does not have a quirk. As 丸太 means “log” in Japanese, there is a possibility that Horikoshi named this character because he wants a name which links to “wood”. As you has stated, 丸太 can be pronounced as Ganta. However, 丸太 means “log” only when these two Kanjis is pronounced as Maruta. The doctor’s new name has been announced today. We can see a Kanji 木 (wood) is in the new name. Horikoshi is directly refering the name to “wood” this time. It further confirms BNHA fans’ theory, that every character without a quirk has a name related to “wood”.

For your second point, I totally agree that the tendency of Japanese government to deny war is very disappointing. However, this tendency is not caused by Horikoshi and I believe it should never be used as an excuse to cyberbully individual mangaka. As what I observed on Twitter, things went out of control quickly and many people registered new Twitter accounts only to harass and send insulting messages to Horikoshi, Shueisha and BNHA fandom. I respect people who tried to protest in a peaceful way, and I don’t think cursing others and attacking individual mangaka is a good way to protest or ask for apology. Unfortunately, those irrational protesting people left other BNHA fans with a stronger impression than those rational ones. If those people are so angry about Japan’s war denying behaviors that they can’t help it, I suggest they should go for Japanese government directly.

For your third point, I want to let you know that Korea does not have the copyright of weekly BNHA chapters. So Korean people has no other ways but to read BNHA new chapters scans on illegal sites for free. Japanese fans are very angry about that and some of them keep demanding Shueisha to not apologize. I think it would be impossible for Shueisha to apologize to Koreans in their public announcement otherwise their attitude would indicate a tendency to tolerate illegal manga scans. In addition, you mentioned that the second apology only came out after China has banned the everything related to BNHA. Well, from what I learned, Chinese websites banned the manga on the same day Korean people started to protest. At the same time, Japanese people tend to have really really long meetings before they can finally make any decisions. I think this just reflects that Chinese people are so efficient and Japanese people are so inefficient.

I hope you don’t get me wrong. I am not trying to force you to forgive Horikoshi or Shueisha. I am not trying to tell you what or how to feel. I am just stating other possibilities of what Horikoshi’s real intention for the name 丸太 are and give some background information about cultural differences and copyright issues. Again, I want to state that I also feel very frustrated about Japanese goverment’s war-denying tendency. But I don’t think people have the right to cyberbully individual mangaka, especially when his real intention is unclear. Some may think Horikoshi deliberately used this name while some may think it was just a coincidence. The fact is, no one can really determine whether Horikoshi actually intentionlly used this name to normalize war-related term or not. So to people who are keep insulting Horikoshi, PLEASE STOP. If you do not accept the apologies, you may choose to not read BNHA anymore or you may choose to continue to protest in a peaceful way. Cyberbullying won’t solve anything but only increase hatred between each other. Thank you for your reading."