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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-11-16 03:50 pm

[ SECRET POST #2875 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2875 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2014-11-17 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
I agree with this. I was pleasantly surprised when I read Yen Press' "Zombie Loan" releases and they kept the honorific. It was the first official release I had ever read that had done then and I thought it was a nice touch.

But them having Vincent call Gil 'Nii-san' in "Pandora Hearts" just seemed out of place to me since these characters weren't Japanese. There it just seemed gratuitous.

(Anonymous) 2014-11-17 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
To me, it doesn't depend so much on whether the characters are Japanese as whether they're written as if they were.

Rorona's Atelier clearly contains no Japanese characters, and yet the relationship between Sterkenburg and Esty is so markedly kohai/senpai that the entire translation of their interactions winds up being a bit cringe inducing.

Of course, basically most of the translation of Rorona is kind of cringe inducing, so I guess that's par for the course.