#but he never speaks about mikey kindly anyway lol

[just-sp-in-inginthevoid]

I think it's kinda interesting that Shinichiro always calls Mikey "Manjiro". It's not like Mikey seems to mind that, anyway. I have some thoughts on it but they aren't very organized...

Everybody else, including Takeomi (Shin's close friend, has known Mikey before he started using another name), calls him "Mikey" in daily life. I wonder what grandpa Sano uses, though.

I'm pretty sure Shinichiro keeps using 'Manjiro' because Mikey, as well as his official name, is what he has left of his 'normal' life - what he has left of when their parents were still there. In the same way, their mother probably never used 'Mikey' (but she isn't as affected, since she's got only Emma to call Mikey like that).

I think grandpa Sano continues to use 'Manjiro' too, if only because Mikey was named after him ('Mansaku' - same first kanji (万)). If Mikey had demanded of them to use 'Mikey', perhaps they'd have, but I just think they're too attached to the name - the same way Emma is attached to 'Mikey'. There's a reason.

As for everyone else using it as well, for Baji and the Akashi I think it was Mikey pushing them to use it + kids finding foreigner names and aliases to be cool, and Emma using it too. At some point since they got used to hear it, they got used to use it. And for the ones Mikey met later on (starting Draken), he had been introducing himself as 'Mikey' for quite a while - to the point highschoolers call him like that. That's just how he introduces himself, the name he goes by on a regular basis.

For Takeomi, although he's known Mikey since he was a baby, he's still not as close to him as Shinichiro is - he's a family friend but not as close as family, albeit Akashi and Sano are very close (or were at this point in time anyway). And same things as his siblings or Baji, he probably heard it so often his brain started using 'Mikey' automatically. I do think he can still use 'Manjiro' at times, but for him there's no real difference between using one or the other.