I wonder what percentage of the people writing in English about it are kids and creepy guys who use their alt account to post about being an Anime character stuck in a white person's body.

Pretending Japan isn't still incredibly xenophobic is quite the hill to die on.

Nah, the weird terminally online hard right-wingers, the netouyo, are big mad about it. And they can stay mad.

The netuyo are probably whinging about it, but I stay away from those corners of the internet. Osaka Naomi and others have faced issues as well. Mostly, from what I remember, it's been sports competitions where this comes up