>>530776585
Nobody fucking knows, but based on this book, as early as 2010. If you type in アルトリア into google translate it spits out 'Altria' and while I'm not sure if this was also true back then, it is entirely possible this is why Nasu is a complete retard.

Reminder that we have 'Mash' because Nasu some fucking how didn't know that Matthew was a male name, and 'Mashu' being the Japanese transliteration of that. Is there a feminine form of Matthew that could have salvaged it? And for someone who's supposed to be reading and researching all kinds of foreign texts, how the fuck is Nasu's English so uniquely godawful (Altria)?