Why was the character Shoto in the book renamed to Sho for the movie?
I know that there were many, many, many changes made from the book Ready Player One to the movie adaption. But the most puzzling to me is why the character called "Shoto" in the book was renamed "Sho" for the movie?
They kept his partner's name, Daito, the same. And since Daito and Shoto are both classifications of Japanese swords, it seems it would make more sense (especially for Japanese audiences) to keep the name as "Shoto".
Any idea why the filmmakers made this seemingly capricious change?
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There's an entry in UrbanDictionary.com for shoto. This seems to be a fairly family friendly forum so I'll just say that the definition is sexually explicit and the makers may have wanted to avoid any association with it - particularly for a child character.
This is a guess based only on a google search for "shoto".
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Why is Shoto called Sho in the movie?
Change the name to Sho - possibly a homage to Sho Kosugi - a martial artist who's best known for playing ninjas in 80s movies (Enter the Ninja, Revenge of the Ninja, Ninja Assassin).Are Daito and Sho brothers?
The brothersIn the movie, Daito and Sho are real-life brothers, and Sho is only 11-years-old. In the book, Daito and Shoto never meet in real life. They were both enrolled in a support group for hikikomori, OASIS addicts who'd disengaged from the real world. Shoto is the younger of the two, but not a kid.What happened to Daito in Ready Player One movie?
Death. Daito was also brutally murdered by the Sux0rz when they threw him out of a window in his apartment. However although he was the first to get zeroed in the film, he does not die and survives to lead the OASIS alongside his friends.The Life Of Shoto Todoroki (My Hero Academia)
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In the book, Shoto is often shortened to Sho - so the movie just adapting that has some precedence.
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