#the series i'm reading now includes 'kaa-san' 'nii-san' 'tadaima' and 'okaeri'

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@heytheredeann basically tied me to a chair and forced me at knifepoint to read banana fish (that is false, she started posting gifs/screencaps/edits/etc. from the anime, the manga coincidentally appeared one day as a "top 5" on the home page of the site where i read manga, i fell for it like the dumbass that i am) and now that i've (finally) finished the series (hence the mass liking of posts, in case you were wondering, sorry about that), i'm reading fic (as is required), and it's great and all but...oh my god. jesus fucking christ. i can't believe i used to be this annoying.

dear people who write english fics of japanese series:

the story is set in japan. i know that. you've explained that. unless otherwise specified, the characters are speaking japanese (or english, as the case may be; bonus points if the pattern of speech makes it clear which is which for bilingual characters).

do not. do not. do not throw random (romanized) japanese words into your otherwise english narrative.

(especially if you spell them wrong. but also especially if you don't.)