The Weekly Poll..? [1]

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Maybe I'll start posting random polls. How's that sound?

Anyway, what do you guys think about honorifics in translated/scanlated manga? I prefer when the translators leave them in, personally. It's a handy shorthand with many nuances and tells you a lot about characters and their interactions. I know some people don't like them though, and I can see how they'd be distracting.

[Hirato Murano]

I also prefer when the translators leave them in. Sometimes some people are bothered by them, but they really help to establish the nature of the relationship between the characters. Without them, it would be more difficult to figure out how one character related to one another and that might cause some confusion. For that reason, I cast my vote as preferring when translators leave them in.

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Yeah, that's basically my reasoning behind it too Bro. Authors don't write their manga expressly to be translated, so they might leave out a lot of things that are shown with honorifics and pronouns. While you can't really do anything about pronouns, honorifics can be left in without being as obtrusive and they show a lot once you know their meanings and implications.