A leopard can't change its spots.

[Autumnlicious]

It has a history in racist terms. I'm not surprised you didn't immediately grasp the connection, because its popularity as a " harmless toy " has wained over the decades since racism was more in-your-face than it is today.

So? The Swastika was appropriated by the Nazis and now holds (even more) meaning as a "Racist symbol".

And yet both are still used, like the sauvastika in "Blade of the Immortal"


Guilt by association is such a tired trope, bozo.

Though it does stand to state that for Blade of the Immortal, on each English tankoubon, there is a brief cover-your-ass explanation of the differences between swastika and sauvastika (mirror versions of each other).