I’ve said before it’s not totally out of the question for a convoluted chain of phone calls to have been made pressing on the editor/publisher in order to prove eren ‘wrong’ in the end. There was a lot of hubbub when the show was popular stateside about it ‘glorifying fascism’, to the point normies got into it.

I would totally expect some bureaucrat functionary to put in a ‘good word’ to make sure this newfangled pokemon franchise doesn’t “embolden the alt-right”. That’s how a lot of sausage is made behind the scenes.