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why english in anime and manga

[(Anonymous)]

i'm a big anime and manga fan and i just want to know why is it that often in anime, things are written in english? you'll see someone write their name on a pad (like in this week's jojo's bizarre adventure: stardust crusaders) and it will use regular roman spelling. even though the characters are japanese (except joseph and polnareff but they know japanese) and they're currently in pakistan. why wouldn't the names be written in kanji?

or when anime have english taglines, like this season's aldnoah zero, or anime op and ed songs that have english in them.

Re: why english in anime and manga

[(Anonymous)]

there's a lot of english use in japan, at least text-wise. it might not be GOOD english, but it's there.

Re: why english in anime and manga

[(Anonymous)]

For the taglines, pretty sure it's just "foreign words look cool and exotic." It's not always English -- Utena had a lot of French, for instance, and there's a bit of that in Sailor Moon Crystal too. It's the same reason English-speaking countries have groups with Latin mottos, products sold with French or Italian slogans, and pop songs that slip in a couple of lines in non-English languages.

Re: why english in anime and manga

[(Anonymous)]

As far as Jojo goes, I always assumed that the common language the SC gang communicate in is English, as it's more likely that all of them speak it than Japanese/Arabic/French, and it's more likely to be understood in all the countries that they visit. In that specific case they deliberately misspelled names to fool Enyaba, who (though her ethnicity is unknown) could be presumed (by them) more able to read English than Japanese.

Re: why english in anime and manga

[(Anonymous)]

Some people tend to forget that Jotaro has an American mom, so English and Japanese were probably his first languages. Both.

Re: why english in anime and manga

[(Anonymous)]

I've noticed that in One Piece especially. Noragami has more of a mixture like it would be in real-world Japan, though.

Re: why english in anime and manga

[(Anonymous)]

One Piece is kind of different than some because it's set in an alt world where there is no Japan (albeit one may argue Wa may be the stand-in) nor England, America, France, Russia, etc. So it isn't that "English" or "Japanese" is a language widely spoken, it's a matter of what Oda chooses to represent the commonly-spoken worldwide languages. I think the fact that he tends to use English more than Japanese (only an impression, not a scientific fact) is a way of differentiating the OP world even further away from his main Japanese audience.

The man tends to make puns in English, such as the Ammo-knights on Fishman Island, and he's well versed in Western mythology and literature, so his intentions for using English may be far different from the typical "lol English is so exotic and foreign!" reason you get with most series set in Japan. You can argue the exotic-and-foreign reasoning in some situations with some characters (e.g. Brook using terrible Engrish lyrics in his songs) but overall? There might be deeper reasons. Or it might be as shallow as "I'm educated enough to make references to literature most of you have never even heard of, so I'm gonna."

Re: why english in anime and manga

[(Anonymous)]

True. And then there's Princess Tutu which has German, of all things, as the base for its cultural mash-up.

Re: why english in anime and manga

[(Anonymous)]

It's not English, OP.

It's ENGRISH.

Re: why english in anime and manga

[(Anonymous)]

Actually in OP they go to some extent to get it right so it is proper English.