God Never Said That / Anime & Manga

God Never Saying Things in Anime and Manga.

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• Assassination Classroom: When Chapter 83 revealed the cup sizes of the female students, it caused backlash from the Rinka Hayami fans because they knew that it's impossible for Hayami to have a D-cup. The Shounen Jump redaction admitted that their editors made a mistake and accidentally switched Hayami and Sumire Hara's cup sizes (C-cup and D-cup, respectively). It was later corrected in the tankoubon release.
• There's currently a faked Bokurano novel translation circulating the 'net, which was actually based off a wildly canon-divergent fanfic which includes, among other things, Waku as the Dead Man Writing who narrates the story.
• Digimon:
  • There's a rumor in the fandom that not only did the couples of Ken/Miyako and Yamato/Sora end up married, but they originally slated Mimi/Koushiro and Takeru/Hikari for marriage as well. Since the ending was ambiguous many fans like to make that as an excuse to ship them stating that "technically, they got married". In fact the rumor was started by a fansite, and since every single All There in the Manual extra material has been leaked in every possible place and nobody can get a copy of the "interview" saying so, it's most likely false. (Especially since Mimi/Koushiro is particularly illogical given that the most screen time they had within four feet of each other was in only one minor episode until Digimon Tri came out and gave them more Ship Tease.)
  • Another bit of fanon is that Yamato and Sora were divorced. Many a fan were certain they'd heard it mentioned on the original episode, but the facts turned out to be false. While there is no evidence that Yamato and Sora were ever married, the Distant Finale of Adventure 02 claims that Ken and Miyako did wind up being married. Thus the idea that Ken/Miyako was never stated to happen ended up being false, instead of the idea of their eventual marriage being false.
  • It's sometimes said that the Show Within a Show in Digimon Tamers was explicitly said to not be Digimon Adventure or its sequel... except the only thing Konaka actually said on the subject was that he wasn't going to tie the two continuities together or have characters from Adventure interact with the Tamers characters for the sake of fanservice. Further materials released after Tamers actually go as far to imply that it was, after all, Adventure and Adventure 02.
  • Another Tamers tidbit is the fact that certain fans tend to take the interpretation of Digimon "biology" and generalize it to other seasons, specifically things like "Digimon have No Biological Sex". Tamers has no such sway over any other Digimon universe.
  • Certain events in 02 have led the fans to believe that it is impossible for Digimon who die in the real world to be reborn in the standard way, but this has never actually been declared or established. While it's perfectly legitimate to infer such a thing, it's not the hard-and-fast rule that fanon thinks it is. Until Digimon Tri came out and confirmed this theory in its fourth movie.)
• Fans flew into a panic when a magazine article stated that Doki Doki! PreCure would end in December, a whole month earlier than usual.^note Most Pretty Cure series end at the end of January/beginning of February, usually just ahead of that year's Super Sentai series The director of the series went onto his Twitter that very day and reassured fans that it was still committed to a full 49 episode series.
• Dragon Ball:
  • Many fans believe that the creator, Akira Toriyama, had once stated he planned to end the manga at the Freeza arc, yet he has never once stated this. He only ever said the only planned ending for the manga was the first saga, which he initially envisioned as lasting for at least a year but ended up lasting shorter and transitioning into a new arc when reader reaction was tepid. The one who said that it should have ended in the Freeza saga was the editor at the time, Kazuhiko Torishima^note Dragon Ball Manga Editor: Series Should Have Ended After Frieza, 2015..
  • He has never said anything about the original version of Broly (the new version created for Dragon Ball Super: Broly was actually created by Toriyama), since as a movie character, Toriyama's only involvement was giving him a design. That hasn't stopped Broly fans from claiming Toriyama has said he was "the strongest" in one place or another, even fabricating "interviews" out of whole cloth to "prove" their point.
  • Likewise, Toriyama has never gone on record stating a dislike of Dragon Ball GT. He was actually rather positive about it while it was on the air in Japan, and even drew Super Saiyan 4 Goku (whom he did not design) for the GT DVD box. The only Dragon Ball property he has gone on record stating his dislike for is Dragonball Evolution.
• Fairy Tail:
  • The fandom (or at least the sizable number of Natsu/Lucy shippers) claim that Hiro Mashima stated that the two would end up together and have a child named Nashi, which isn't quite true. Rather, he was responding to a hypothetical question, not to mention that the word nashi is the Japanese equivalent of "n/a" (no answer, no comment, not available).
  • Another claim from shippers is that Mashima said that the mind control magic Lucy fell victim to in the first chapter can only be broken by true love, or Natsu in her case. The only way to break that particular magic was actually stated in that chapter: the victim merely has to be aware that this magic is being used, which happened when Natsu distracted her. Mashima has never gone back on this explanation.
  • People came under the impression from Mashima's manga volume afterwords that he planned for Fairy Tail to be roughly ten volumes long, with the Phantom Lord arc being the intended ending of the manga, had positive fan reception not led him to keep it going. While Mashima has said the manga became far longer than he ever imagined, and credited fan reception for this, the rest is misinterpreted: ten volumes was merely Mashima's rough estimate for how long he initially thought the manga would last, with his idea for the Phantom Lord arc coming much sooner than he anticipated—both statements ironically being accompanied by his admission that he had zero plans for the manga's overall story, giving his spur-of-the-moment decision to jump into Phantom Lord as an example of this.
• Unsourced claims that "the creator" has stated that Rei and Nagisa are canon periodically pop up in the Free! fandom. An instance even appeared on the wiki for some time before being deleted.
• Similar to the above, an alleged interview in which Haikyuu!! creator Haruichi Furudate seemingly confirms Tsukishima and Yamaguchi to be an item has been thoroughly debunked, but still occasionally manages to fool new fans.
• The Hetalia: Axis Powers fandom has numerous instances of this, often as a result of fans mistranslating or misinterpreting the source material and Word of God:
  • The most infamous examples are Sweden's "grunting speech" (in canon he speaks with a Tohoku accent which was mistranslated and consequently Bowdlerized by fandom into grunting and mumbling), and America's Idiot Hero behavior being a case of Obfuscating Stupidity (what Word of God actually said was that America could read the atmosphere, but he just doesn't care).
  • There was also the claim that the to-be-created fifth season of Hetalia would make certain pairings, like US/UK, canon. Nothing was said by Word of God on this, and it was apparently just started up by fans.
• There's a persistent rumor spreading around in the Hunter × Hunter fandom that Naoko Takeuchi will continue working on the manga if something happens to her husband Yoshihiro Togashi that even news articles and fansites picked up on, yet there's no official interview of Togashi or her confirming they said this. She was an assistant to Togashi doing screentone in the early days of the manga before their marriage, which might have been the basis of the rumor, but she left due to the heavy workload and to focus on Sailor Moon.
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is a long, sometimes confusing series, so there are lots of false rumors that get treated as fact:
  • Stardust Crusaders: It's a common misconception that Avdol's death was at one point meant to be permanent, that Hol Horse was supposed to pull a Heel–Face Turn and replace him, and that Araki changed his mind because of his popularity at the time. However, according to an interview with Araki from the Jojonium release, Araki stated that Avdol was always intended to return, and that he was never very popular in any polls.
  • Diamond is Unbreakable: Due to the following part introducing Requiem Stands, many people have stated that Yoshikage Kira's Bites The Dust was a Requiem Stand. Word of God has never stated anything of that sort and instead explains it as a new power he was given by the Stand Arrow that matched what he needed. The ability may have formed the idea for Requiem Stands since Araki was starting to toy with the idea of Stand's evolving during this part, but within Part 4, it is explicitly stated to be a new ability.
  • Golden Wind: The theory that Cioccolata was created to fill the void of the aborted "Fugo Betrayal" storyline. Araki originally intended for Fugo to return to the story as a villain but decided against the idea and simply wrote him out of the story. The fact that Cioccolata, a later antagonist, had a Stand ability that was eerily similar to Fugo's led fans to believe that this was the story originally intended for Fugo. Araki neither confirmed nor denied this theory.
  • Stone Ocean: The reason Anasui was changed from female to male. The rumor of it being Executive Meddling due to editors getting cold feet at the possibility of a lesbian romance between female Anasui and Jolyne originates from Image Boards, and has never been confirmed in official sources anywhere. Another popular rumor was that Shonen Jump editors enforced it out of a belief that the high number of females in the cast would turn off adolescent male viewers. Both of these were nixed when Araki stated he was always meant to be a character who "went beyond the standard definition of genders".
  • Steel Ball Run: It's common to find people saying that Steel Ball Run was not originally meant to be JoJo Part 7, and that Araki changed his mind and retroactively made it one, based on the fact that it didn't originally carry the "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" name. However, this is completely untrue. In the author's notes of volume 1, Araki flat out states that he considered SBR as Part 7 from the very beginning. In the guidebook JoJoveller, it's stated that the name change was actually a request from the editorial department to increase sales by featuring a "new series".
• Little Witch Academia: In the Japanese only book, Little Witch Academia: Chronicle, series creator Yoh Yoshinari has stated that "Akko is the kind of girl who has no interest in guys at all", which many somehow took as being a Word of Gay confirmation for Akko, despite Yoshinari never mentioning or implying anything about Akko having an interest in women. In fact, Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time would imply, if not confirm, that Akko has no interest in romance period.
• The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer: A supposed translation of an interview with Satoshi Mizukami◊ stated that an anime adaptation by Gainax with music by The Pillows was in the works, but the record companies didn't want to license the band and the deal fell through, with funding going to Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt instead. This claim was never verified, but that didn't stop the rumor from being propagated by disgruntled fans for several years.
• In the Macross Frontier fandom, former Fandom VIP Shaloom made up multiple fake interviews by a supposed writer of the series, Hiroshi Ohnogi (who did work on the Macross metaseries but not on Frontier itself, though that show did have some Shout Outs to stuff he did for Macross Zero). They also referred frequently to series creator Shoji Kawamori in a pretty... bad light. Everyone believed him until someone actually went searching for the interviews in question. Here is the Macross World FAQ on the whole deal.
• This was pretty common during the airing of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny:
  • An interview from director Mitsuo Fukuda was altered, leaving many a fan to think that he actually believed that Chairman Durandal was right for his actions in the last episodes.
  • Another was SEED Destiny's infamous interview with screenwriter Chiaki Morosawa, which was also a fake. Thankfully, this was caught by a forum administrator when they looked for the original article.
• For years, fans of Mobile Suit Victory Gundam used Tomino saying that "for people like Katejina, death is the easy way out" to illustrate just how evil she was. In fact, Tomino never said this. The actual quote was that he "wanted to give Katejina a punishment heavier than death", and even this was a misquote from this interview, where the actual quote is that he wanted to give her a punishment heavier than the blindness that was ultimately decided upon. Tomino pitied Katejina, and insisted that though he was obligated to punish her at the end, he wanted to leave her alive so that she has the chance to work hard to atone for her evil deeds and earn her happy ending eventually. Basically, Tomino's stance on Katejina's fate shows that he believes she is redeemable, rather than the opposite.
• In Naruto:
  • Masashi Kishimoto is often mentioned as having said that Sasuke is his favorite character, particularly by people who think he's a Creator's Pet with too much screentime. He actually said Sasuke is his favorite character... to draw.
  • During mid-2014, persistent rumors circulated about how Kishimoto had stated that the manga would end in 2014; in truth, he did say that the manga was nearing completion and was in its final arc, but didn't put forward a concrete deadline. This is a very peculiar example in that the manga did end in 2014 after all, so anyone who believed the rumor was Right for the Wrong Reasons.
  • During the fandom meltdown surrounding the resolution of the series' Romance Arcs, several "translations" of Word of God were strategically circulated that were so out of touch with the original source that they had to have been deliberately engineered to cause grief, facilitate denial and mislead impressionable minds. Those consisted of a myriad in-universe and out-of-universe disheartening "true" reasons that the Official Couple got together - it was only because one of them felt sorry for the other and settled for her as a consolation prize; it only happened because of Executive Meddling and the author caving in to fan demands; the TRUE love standing in its way was there and mutual, but it never got to materialize merely due to some tragic misunderstanding, or ill-conceived and needless martyrdom on the part of the characters - the author failed to follow through on it on a vindictive whim, or because his hand was forced.
    Compared to all of this, the truth is ridiculously banal; the Official Couple got together in the usual way that fictional couples do — because the author decided, from the early stages of the manga, that it would be great if they were to fall in love, so they did. No reservations, no cynical "yeah, but"s about it. Some of the "true" alternate explanations were just fabricated whole-cloth; others were "inspired" by actual Word of God that had little resemblance to them, and instead described considerations that are much less scandalous and are par-for-the-course for the occasion, e.g. "I threw in some nuggets towards one pairing just to throw their fans off, but I never thought about making that pairing official, because I already decided on the Official Couple at an early stage".
  • Kishimoto's involvement with the production of the movie Naruto the Movie: Road to Ninja, which is heavily loaded with Naruto/Sakura Ship Teasing, made a lot of their shipping fans claim that the author was giving an explicit endorsement of the pairing and that it was meant to be the official one; in reality, Kishimoto was only involved with the characters' designs and story draft, while the actual script of the movie was done by Yuka Miyata, who was infamous for her Naruto/Sakura-teasing scene additions to the anime filler that didn't exist in the manga (although she stopped doing this after the manga ended and the anime continued to drag on, for obvious reasons).
  • When the series was reaching its end, quite a few fans claimed that Kishimoto had confirmed that in the ending Naruto would have a son named Shinachiku, based on an interview made during the promotion of the aforementioned Road To Ninja movie; in reality during the interview when Kishimoto was asked what Naruto would call his child in the event he had one, he jokingly answered that it'd probably be Shinachiku. The real names for Naruto's children turned out to be Boruto and Himawari.
  • A few of their shippers claimed that Kishimoto had confirmed in an interview that Naruto and Sakura's relationship was based upon his and his wife's; in reality during the interview when asked if his relationship was more similar to Naruto/Hinata than Sasuke/Sakura, he answers "it might not actually be like either", then when comparing Hinata to his wife he describes the latter as "strong", then it's the interviewer who suggests that Sakura could be more similar to Kishi's wife personality-wise (Naruto's relationship and dynamics with Sakura were not even mentioned).
  • Some fans claimed that Kishimoto wanted to reboot the series after he finished it. In reality, according to this 2016 Jump Festa interview, the one who actually said that was his assistant, Mikio Ikemoto. Kishimoto has consistently said that he's happy with Naruto and the way he finished it, and Ikemoto stated that he loved the idea of making a sequel rather than a reboot, so after Kishimoto endorsed him to Shueisha, he began writing the Boruto manga under Kishimoto's supervision.
• One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda is frequently claimed by fans to have said a great many things that he never actually said. He really does give regular Word of God answers to fan questions, but not in a language that most English-speaking fans can read, but even if they could, some of his answers are crazy even by One Piece standards. Some of them are clearly jokes (for example, claiming that Chopper eating four Rumble Balls within six hours results in Oda turning into an uncontrollable monster), but sometimes it's impossible to tell.
• Once, a Troll posted an interview on 4chan, supposedly by the director of Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, in which he claimed that the series was made on a dare in order to prove that any poorly-written piece of trash would succeed as long as the cast was packed full of Bishōnen. Obviously, this was fake, but it didn't stop the detractors from giving out triumphant cries of "I Knew It!!".
  • In an interview with Animerica, director Masashi Ikeda said that he didn't write the relationship between Heero and Relena as romantic because he "can't write boy-girl relationships" and considered their symbolic relationship more important. Some yaoi fans gleefully seize on this as proof that Heero/Relena is non-Canon and never would be, which ignores what Ikeda said after that, which was (paraphrased) "I wouldn't rule out the possibility, though." They also ignore the fact that he said he didn't intend ANY romance at all.
  • Similarly, one of the biggest points of contention in the infamous "Great Trowa Rape Debate" was in reference to supposed interviews where the producers had "confirmed" that Trowa Barton was sexually abused during his days as a mercenary. Obviously, these claims were fake.
• Believe it or not, Neon Genesis Evangelion was never expressly stated to be any kind of reaction to trends in anime. Series creator Hideaki Anno loved older mecha shows and has said so publicly more than once. Rei was not intended to be disturbing; Anno stated that Rei represented "the most inscrutable" part of him, and her voice actress Megumi Hayashibara backed this claim up.
• Pokémon: The Series:
  • A mistranslation of a line in the episode "Bye Bye Butterfree" led to the mistaken belief that it was canon that Butterfree die after they mate.
  • In an interview in 2008, Masamitsu Hidaka stated that when Ash Ketchum becomes a Pokémon Master, the show will end. Many fans took that to mean that Ash will never win a Pokémon League because if he wins, he would be a Pokémon Master. Never mind the fact that the goal of Pokémon Master is deliberately vague, with Ash himself saying that winning a League is just a small step to that goal and that being a Pokémon Master is greater than simply being the world's strongest Pokémon Trainer. This misconception has become so notorious that Sun & Moon director Daiki Tomiyasu had to address the issue by saying that a Pokémon Master is not just winning the League and that learning is more important over winning or losing. Amusingly, Tomiyasu had Ash win his first Pokémon League and become the Champion, as if to hammer in that fact once and for all.
  • It was apparently stated that Pokémon Sun & Moon was non-canon to the anime timeline according to a Twitter post written by the sound director. However, that was a mistranslation because Word of God said that, after returning from Kalos, Ash spent three weeks at home before going to Alola.
  • Despite fans saying someone confirmed it, it has not been confirmed that Verity from Pokémon: I Choose You! is the daughter of Cynthia. Her mother is a powerful trainer from Sinnoh who looks like Cynthia, but the director has stated that they're not the same character.
  • A lot of people like to exaggerate just how much contempt Takeshi Shudō had for the executives that had control over the anime, to the point where they believe his novels of the anime were made specifically to spite the higher ups. This isn't true; while Shudo did have some frustrations towards his ideals for the anime being softened, it was merely because he wanted to explore the more realistic implications of the anime's world, and his novels were made specifically so he could do just that. For the most part he maintained an amicable relationship with the higher ups, remaining as the show runner until early Johto and as a staff writer until the Johto League.
  • There's a rumor going around that someone who worked on the anime flat-out confirmed that Serena kissed Ash at the end of XY. This is untrue. It was a Shigeru Miyamoto impersonator on Twitter^note not that the real Shigeru Miyamoto would even know this, as he doesn't have as much involvement in the Pokémon games, much less the anime, as Nintendo's other properties.
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica:
  • Word of God stated that Mami Tomoe's wish was "to connect to life" - as in remain connected to her own life because she was going to die. Editors on this very wiki seemed to think it actually meant "connecting other lives" and stated that Mami had lied about her wish in the anime.
  • Some people are quick to say that Gen Urobuchi changed the ending to Rebellion to be more open-ended for the executives and that he hated it. Not true. He did say someone's gonna hate it, but that the people hating it would be the fanbase, ironically enough considering that the "some people" are usually members of said fanbase. As for the ending, it actually came up before Gen even wrote the script (He did consider an ending with more closure, but the problem was less meddling and more 'where do I go from there?' and that the idea to change the ending actually came from a co-worker.
• Happens quite a bit in Ranma ½, partially thanks to its age and its copious amount of Fanon. Four of the most common "falsely canonical" statements are:
  • "The Jusenkyo Guide took Ranma and Genma to Joketsuzoku to investigate a cure": He didn't. No reason why he took them there is ever given, though the fact that the two are in China to train and the fact that the village is full of martial artists, plus the fact he is doing the tour-guide routine when they reach the place, may indicate he took them there per request after Jusenkyo turned out to be such a flop for training.
  • "Happosai/Nabiki is a total villain": Rumiko Takahashi has never said anything about their villain status; the most that happened was that she once reported in an interview that being a Karma Houdini is what makes Nabiki funny and has called her nothing more than "a greedy girl with an impure heart". She also thrice drew non-canonical pieces of artwork showing Nabiki in a stereotypical "devil suit".
  • "There is no cure for Jusenkyo": Takahashi has, in fact, stated that the water of Nanniichuan will undo a Jusenkyo curse for Ranma or any of the other cursed men, and showed a temporary version of Nanniichuan curing him and Genma for its duration. This likely came from the fact that nobody ever managed to get their hands on Nanniichuan water and use it (which can actually be explained quite easily as Status Quo Is God), and the fact a minor villain managed to use Jusenkyo to create a Mix-and-Match Critters curse (though he was one to begin with).
  • "Ranma accepts being trans/genderfluid": A popular scanlation penned by well-known Western H-fanartists replaced Ranma's dialogue after the Final Battle to say that "[his] girl side was a part of [him], and it wasn't a curse after all." Which has been used as ultimate evidence of Ranma's feelings about his curse. While there is characterization elsewhere in the manga to support such interpretations, Ranma never said that particular line. In both the original Japanese and the official translations, Ranma is merely musing to himself that, with Akane's life on the line, trying to get a cure for himself didn't matter anymore. But he's still jumping at the chance to cure his curse in the very next scene. Why the scanlators decided to invent dialogue wholesale, leading to fanon that persists over a decade later and has supplanted the official release, is anyone's guess.
• Happens quite a bit in the Sailor Moon fandom.
  • "But Naoko said this!" and "Naoko said that!", it's rarely true. Series creator, Naoko Takeuchi rarely gives interviews or even makes public appearances, and fans very rarely interact with her. There are many fan misconceptions that range from her hating the 90s anime adaptation to regretting creating the series at all. There's also the long standing rumor that she prevented the final season of the anime from making it over to the states out of fear of how they would treat it. None of these are true, although supposedly she did have some issues with the original anime, there's no evidence that she outright hated it.
  • There's some debate if Naoko really did approve of the English voice cast for the Viz redub. Viz themselves only say the "creator" approved them. Some believe they were actually referring to Toei. In addition, there's the longstanding rumor that Naoko hated the 90s anime dub, and that influenced the the prevention of the final season making it over. There's really no evidence one way or the other, although she did once directly complain about DiC's slow pace of bringing the show to the US, and supposedly thought Jill Frappier's performance of Luna was interesting, while finding Usagi/Serena's voice too deep.
  • One Wiki once posted a "quotation" from Naoko, ostensibly from an interview, saying that the lesbian relationship between Sailors Uranus and Neptune was actually between Sailor Neptune and Prince Uranus, the latter of whom had died and been reborn as a girl (as his sister's powers had been passed on to him, causing him to be reborn as her). When no one could find a source for said quote, or the interview in question, the site quietly removed it.
  • There's no concrete proof that Naoko said that Setsuna was part Romani, but it's a persistent rumor—and generally accepted headcanon. The official reason for Setsuna being Ambiguously Brown is simply aesthetic.
  • It's been repeatedly claimed in the fandom, including on This Very Wiki, that anime director Kunihiko Ikuhara not only disliked Mamoru (explaining why he was Demoted to Extra increasingly more often after the first season), but wanted to pair Usagi with Rei instead. Neither claim has ever been actually sourced, and the anime itself contradicts quite a bit of the latter idea (not only is Rei's Does Not Like Men trait from the manga changed to make her boy-crazy in the anime, she has an anime-only male Temporary Love Interest and a crush on Mamoru in the first season that never existed in the manga).
• It's commonly said by fans that Slayers creator Hajime Kanzaka hates Slayers TRY, but good luck ever finding a source for it.
• An early online translation of Soul Eater manga referred to Crona with female pronouns, because the translator couldn't quite determine what Crona's gender was. This led some fans to believe that Crona was a boy in the anime but a girl in the manga. Canonically, Crona's gender is unknown in both, but both official English translations use male pronouns for convenience. These cases happened before "they/them" became more widely used as gender-neutral pronouns in English.
• Sonic X: Cosmo's species has never been officially been called "Seedrians". It's a Fan Nickname that became widespread.
• Spy X Family: It's often reported that creator Tatsuya Endo has said he doesn't care about the characters because they're not what he wanted to draw, but what others wanted to see. However, in its full context, an interview in the official fanbook, it's apparent that Endo, the interviewer, and the other interviewees are just joking around about Loid. What seems to have happened is that people saw the line without translating the rest of the interview and jumped to conclusions.
• Stitch!, the second TV series in the Lilo & Stitch franchise, is so disliked by much of the Western fanbase that many Western fans say that either Disney or Lilo & Stitch creator Chris Sanders^note who does not voice his famous creation Stitch in this show like he normally does have declared the anime to be Canon Discontinuity to the previous works in the franchise. No legitimate evidence has ever turned up confirming that he's even heard of the show. The same thing applies to the Chinese series Stitch & Ai, although that show is much more recent and does have the distinction of sharing a showrunner (Tony Craig) with the American animated series.
• A persistent rumor about the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga said that Yugi has diabetes, allegedly from Word of God at an American convention. Not only did Kazuki Takahashi not go to any American conventions, a line implying Yugi did have diabetes was added by a Viz translator for no apparent reason and didn't exist at all in the original version.
• YuYu Hakusho fandom frequently circulates a quote from Yoshihiro Togashi wherein he states he had to nix a potential romantic relationship between Hiei and his liege lady Mukuro because he was legitimately afraid that the Hiei/Kurama fangirls would make an attempt on his life. The source has never been traced.

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