Pop Team Epic is one of the most irreverent and craziest anime of the moment, a series that even deserves a second season thanks to its originality. And just one of those new episodes recently became the focus of a controversy over the umpteenth censorship in China.

One of the Pop Team Epic Season 2 episodes became the subject of a dispute after a user tuned in bilibili, a well-known social network in the Land of Dragons, noticed something strange about a certain character that had appeared. It is about one Reproduction of planet earthGuest in an interview with one of the anime’s protagonists, who only appears as a blue sphere without the presence of continents.

The question has caused some confusion in China due to this censorship, but from the image in question attached at the bottom of the news, some continents and Asian countries can be seen in dispute with China, Taiwan for example, which is why one should avoid disputes with the broadcaster preferred to the government to directly censor the globe. It’s not the first time we’ve heard of these phenomena in the Land of Dragons, for example do you remember the story of Daki’s pants in Demon Slayer?

And you, what do you think of this censorship? Let us know with a comment below.

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