Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-1439943-20190828080733/@comment-2108497-20190828195905

Maria.ionescu.5437 wrote: Angelo Gabrini wrote: That's because the Japanese version uses the Japanese style on how to refer to other people, which means you refer to everyone by their surname unless you're close with them. It's a cultural thing I know this, but aside from Tenma and Shinsuke, even people who are close friends call each other by surname. And I don't understand why for the most part, the girls are exceptions to this. Are the girls any closer to the boys as the boys are to each other? For a lot of people basically only family will refer to them by their first name. With girls usually it's more lax, they tend to be referred by first name more easily when younger (think of Natsumi and Aki, when they meet again as adults during the HR finals, they refer to each other by family name and even add "-san" to it). It's an intricate cultural dance, it's hard to explain properly, it's one of those things you really learn by experiencing it.