Quote Originally Posted by Telkira View Post
I'm glad that you agree that it shouldn't have been censored, but if you pay attention to the discourse that happened regarding that, many people argued that his character was 'creepy' and needed to be censored, while completely ignoring that doing so would be logically incompatible with respecting foreign culture, which the game objectively is a product of since his character is not seen as problematic in Japan. Literally just a comedic trope that has existed for decades.

I blame most of the outcry on a lack of critical thinking and media literacy, but there were too many people who did have these skills, but didn't care because it offended them, so they celebrated the change.
You have maybe half a point here; people did say "he was creepy in Japanese so it's good he was changed". But it's really interesting that you immediately leap to thinking it's because those people were offended. Is it not equally possible that, if he came across as a creep in English, people would simply find his heroic sacrifice less moving, and thus they think it's a better storytelling decision?