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Names aren't important, the core feeling and the overall plot are important. Names have very little to do with that.

Those things aren't really needed. In the end, such things tell you how close people are, but that becomes clear really fast with little dialouge.

It really hasn't made a difference at all to me wether a perspon's called sama, san, chan, dono, pyon, tan, rin, etc. It all comes down to how the two characters interact to me.

Plus, mannerismas are different in English depending on who and what situation you're dealing with. It's like that way all over. If you're in a formal situation or talking to someone you don't know, you'll be more formal, polite, etc. while if you're familiar with someone you'll generally be more blunt with them. This is true for both English anf Japanese at least. Plane form versus, formal that is. Although, in many cases some people are just portrayed as always being formal or what not, and this still is easily portrayed. Body language and word, even without honorifics, easily allow you to tell the character relations. I don't need a little sister character, or someone who acts like a little sister to another character to add "nii-san" or what not to the end of the character's name to know what's going on.

Actually, this fails to be the case. I hardly ever get the chance to hear dubs, and have gotten used to interpreting character relations shrough actions, not honorifics. Doesn't work in a lot of cases you know. Try interpreting character relations solely on honorifics in something like Muteki Kanban Musume, and Megumi will throw you completely off.

Actually, like I said, they don't rely on them. They CAN help, but you should be able to pick up these things pretty easily. I understand character relations with or without them. SInce I generally watch in ENglish first when it comes to Geneon or ADV.

I've heard nothing about Japanese using the Korean Language. Japanese are highly prejudiced toward Koreans, even more than Chinese. O.o

As a Japanese p[erson I have to tell you. Yes, Japanese are super raceist, and yes, they hate Koreans. They put them on the level of the "Eta" which were practucally considered "untouchables" in Japanese society. My grandfather actually was stilll pretty rigid about that back when he was alive. Basically he said to my mom, "Don't marry a Korean or an Eta."

That's just how things are, Japanese have a pretty big supremacy going on, perhps rivaling the French, and in the end, they generally didn't like the people close by.

The abuse and rape thing is pretty much known all over, and that's what the Japanese did to totally break the will of an opposing country... not that it worked. Their crazy devotion was more scary when it came to blowing themselfs up with grenades rahter than getting captured.


I may also point out that your claim that the Japanese took the Korean language system is simply an unproven hypothesis. If you hadn't noticed, the systems are pretty different right now, hell the writings not even close since Japan took up the Chinese writing characters. Anyway, Japanese, yes, in theory has the closest relation to Korean, but you have to throw thosse languages into a group with Mongolian, Turkish, and Tungusic.

Anyway, in the end, with Japanese, honorifics are used for social standing and endearment, nothing more, nothing less. In total, to actually complete this system, one actually has to change thier opattern of speach using completelydifferent words for different situations. With friends, you're more frank, can use slang, kand cut the formalies like uising "masu" form or verbs. Plus There's different verbs for differnt levels of things such as gicing and recieving depending on one's postion. Seriously, you can't get away with calling a rigid teacher just "-sensei," you'll have to use polite form and be... well, less frank. In this sense, we can allso look culureally at Japanese and their tendancy to be... indirect. Japanese people are supposed to be modest so when recieving compliments when not withfriends, they're expected to deny them, and when making a suggestion or posing a question of like or dislike they'll always ask if you DON'T want to do something or DON'T like something. Honorifics aren't even the half of it, and in the end, they're not all that necissary. People just expect them.


By the way, in case you didn't realize, although I'm born and raized in America, I'm full blooded Japanese, taking Japanese classes, and make references to school related websites to things I'm not sure of. Like that steppe language stuff. I got that inf from MIT.

i know this is kinda late, but the idea of mechs from different countries meeting up and fighting is pretty lame, it looses the feel of the other gundam series. Plus the mobile suits were just dumb, to look at and in what they did.