I know you said that you cant provide anymore info than the possibility of them not returning for events. But I'm curious as to if the reason is their character names? I know NA is extremely nit picky about these things

I think he's saying that the devs are trying to get more people to spend on them. Sasuke is about 3k ingots and I feel like Shikamaru has a low pull rate on the wheel. That since we have Kages now, it might be 3 or 4 months or even longer before they're back. I personally think it's their names. Odd coincidence that (Playboy) and (Make-Out) are no longer going to be sold. NA is always is strict on what is in these games. I don't know if people are familiar with league but they took Graves cigar away which was his identifier aside from the shotgun he wields because they believed it promoted drug use among other things. Its always the little things.