Hold on a minute. When I first heard about this, I assumed it was an honest coincidence. The more I think about it, though, the more I wonder.
Your manga has been around since 2013. It's got a relatively short title. It's so short that the English version is only four syllables long, One-two-three-four. Its Japanese title has ten syllables, but that's not bad for a Japanese title. Dragon Ball Z in its Japanese form is seven syllables, compared to its four in English. And when the English version gets shortened to DBZ, that is at least, you know, actually shorter.
Since 2013, nobody's had to use a shortened/alternative name for your short-titled manga. It just never needed it. But in 2016, your manga gets an anime, and SUDDENLY somebody somewhere, probably somebody in the anime production or publicity department, decides to start planting the idea that One-two-three-four should be nicknamed WataMote, accidentally (?) co-opting an already existing short name from another manga/anime that has four syllables.
The reason this is a problem is because fans internationally have used WataMote to tag everything connected to Tomoko Kuroki's story for years. I'm just now starting to see the results in Google searches of this deliberate confusion; it's already boning the results. In a few months, WataMote will be completely useless for finding material connected to Kuroki. At some point, the WataMote page on Wikipedia will become a disambiguation. We can go back to the long form, but nobody can retroactively retag years of WataMote posts, when people were in the habit of using just WataMote.
The Japanese characters for the two nicknames are slightly different, but romanize the same way, and even Japanese users on Twitter have noted the confusion. I think it would be sort of like if Marvel created a superhero called Battalion Man, and nicknamed him BatMan, claiming that the spelling is technically different than Batman. If they got away with it, Marvel wouldn't be engaged in a coincidence, they'd be engaged in a dick move.
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