Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20150214203742/@comment-25926003-20150304015312

Hmm, that makes sense. From what I'm seeing, Allen's narration is really putting emphasis on Allen referring to Kayo in Japanese - using kanji instead of katakana, using Eastern order instead of Western - versus whatever language he usually uses. It seems to really add a lot more to their relationship that could get lost in translation depending on translation choices, which is why I asked - even if there's nothing indicating such, for all I know he really could be saying "Kayo-san" in-universe and that's just getting lost. I'm not a translator, but given how the kanji VS katakana thing really does get lost in translation having the honorifics in those specific cases seems like it could get the point across to make up for that narration loss, if you get what I mean.

Basically I'm just fond of the idea of a translation having Allen use "Kayo-san" and keeping the Japanese honorifics in those cases while translating most other instances of them. It just seems to really add something that would otherwise be lost, especially since the use of kanji instead of katakana IS lost. I could be wrong though.