Masahiro Sakurai receives death threats

Masahiro Sakurai is a Japanese video game director and game designer who is known for creating Kirby and Super Smash Bros. franchises. Along with that, he worked on other games like Meteos and Kid Icarus: Uprising. From a very early age, Sakurai had his pursuit of video game development starting at the age of 19 starting with Kirby has his first creation.

Overview
Super Smash Bros. is one of Sakurai's games that he made as you can tell. Everytime a new game in the franchise is in development, many fans had been speculating or wanting what characters from many different games could be in the roster. Despite this, things have started to change in more modern years (2010s to be precise) as some fans would get too serious about wanting certain characters in Smash and the development of Ultimate proves it. After E3 2018, the Waluigi zealots started to send death threats over Waluigi's return as an Assist Trophy. Same thing also happened when Byleth from Fire Emblem Three Houses was announced as a DLC fighter and this had happened before as Sakurai has gotten a lot of hate. Sure, Masahiro Sakurai's hatred had been vocal before yet Ultimate proves it as it continues to live on while it grows.

Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FmzNuj-_qk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS0kCDZW4JI