Culture
Lightning Bolts and Mongol Villains: Japan Shrugs at Overseas Objections
A collaboration earphone for The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls character Yuko Hori carried a twin-lightning-bolt mark that overseas viewers said resembled the SS insignia, and its release was reported as postponed. Alongside an objection to how the historical anime Jaadugar of the Tent depicts the Mongol Empire, Japanese netizens answered both with the same shrug about overreaction and creative freedom.