Honey And Clover

In Japanese culture, using someone's first name is a sign of intimacy / friendship. In western culture, referring to someone by their surname is a mark of gruffness.By using the first name in the translation for Surname-kun/san, they're trying to accurately convey the appropriate relational level between the two characters. I much prefer when the subbers keep it as "Takemoto-kun", but someone unfamiliar with Japanese honorifics would be confused (so their thinking goes, in my mind), and they decide to use the first name instead.This method fails, of course, when we move on to characters actually using the intimate first name, or the common -chan or -sama suffixes. Best for the viewer just to get up to speed.   See 2 other replies

(general reply, not just to Sean Lane)
Nothing is more stupid nor amuses me more than internet arguments.That said, I agree with Sean.
If anime is just a truncation of animation and animation becomes plural by putting a 's' on the end of it why not do the same with anime if your speech pattern wishes it?
I say anime for both but if you like saying animes more power to you.   See 23 other replies

hehe its not Niko I was replying to there, it was Wes, but Niko is correct toopoint being, nobody is 100% wrong here, this is English and there will always be exceptions, oh Using the S is refered to as a Mass Noun, IE this is a plural of a Plural, like use of water and waters.
And Japanese words don't bother with the Plurals, but since they can make our words into their words using their grammer rules its hard to argue and correct on this. You are taking a borrowed and reworked word and taking it back saying we can't mess with more? hehe Animation, becomes Anime, and we call it Anime animation? lol   See 23 other replies

I would agree with Niko with Anime being the plural, but Anime isn't a true Japanese word, its an adopted word from Animation making it a loanword. But in a way since the word is now changed and we say it as the Japanese do, so as such you don't need pluralsBut I can agree with its use as not being totally incorrect, for one simply phonics can be agrued but I doubt there was a poetic reason behind this use of Animes. I can say that it might refer to different groups of anime, thereby making its use of Animes correct. They are series and as such a group, but I would have still used just Anime. =P   See 23 other replies

If you want to go along that line of reasoning, she didn't have any specific intentions on marketing towards an American audience either.   See 2 other replies

So I guess you say fishes and deers, huh?(and I was introduced to English when I was born, so your welcome is unnecessary)   See 23 other replies

Welcome to English, when words are spoken in that grammatical matter, its pluralized, learn something.   See 23 other replies