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At least some anime appearances are nods to this old logo. Since 1984, the distribution arm of Bandai, "Emotion," had a pair of Moai as their logo.
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Even more recently, this explanation has fallen out of favor due to new evidence suggesting that transporting the moai was not done by rolling them on logs, and the extinction of Easter Island's trees was caused by the accidental introduction of rats that ate their nuts. More recently, the island is held up as a Green Aesop, since archeological research suggests there was a thriving population, but it was apparently so obsessed with creating the statues that they overtaxed the island's resources and made it uninhabitable with an environmental collapse. Many works also tend to describe the moai as ancient, even though they were really built between the 13th and 15th century CE, which makes sense considering that the people who built them, the Rapa Nui, started inhabiting Easter Island less than three centuries earlier. Very frequently their existence or history is treated as a mystery, possibly to be "explained" by some element of the plot, even though in Real Life their significance and means of construction are known and uncontroversial. For whatever reason, they wind up cropping up in fiction quite a bit. Moai (literally "statue" in the Rapa Nui language) are famous stone statues found on Easter Island that typically depict a human's head and body and are sometimes seen with a hat called a pukao.