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Old 2011-08-29, 09:49   Link #13766
Hiro Hayase
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Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen View Post
Yeah, Kamachi went through a relatively lengthily description about her very presence on the battlefield
Okay then, since its a tittle like Maiden of Versailles, then I'll capitalize it as Femme Fatale.


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I've only skim through four official English translated Light Novels- Haruhi/Shana/Gosick/Geass, none of them kept the honorifics.
That's shame, the -sama, -san, -chan, and no honorifics illustrate a noticeable change in the characters relationships. How hard would it have been to just kept the honorifics, than conforming the structure of the novel without it?

This reminds of the Detective Conan manga, where the english publishers translated all the main casts/protagonists names into those of European/American names, while the villain names are Japanese or Asian. I think they stopped doing that now after some complaints....
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