My Hero Academia Author Apologizes for Unintentionally Naming Villain After Japanese War Crime io9.gizmodo.com

All Might faces off against one of the mysterious Nomu in the first season of My Hero Academia’s manga adaptation.
The current arc of Kohei Horikoshi’s smash-hit manga has seen its heroes track down a villainous scientist named Daruma Ujiko.
The Nomu have been one of My Hero Academia’s longest-running threats, but their true creator has been a recent addition to the manga’s story.
The reason is the word “Maruta”—which, in Japanese, simply means “log”—is a term used to refer to the experiments of a covert biological warfare research and development detachment of the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II, Unit 731.
“In naming the character, the author and editorial department had no such intention.