Like manga, I hate it when they, for example, transliterate さん as -san, when there is an “equivalent” word for it, like Mr. but would it carry the same connotation as the source material? I cringe when I buy translated versions of Japanese literature due to this (which is why I stick to the source material), it just… does not sit well, I mean instead of writing -sensei, -senpai, or -sama there are “equivalents” in English for those but the catch is that would it work well upon translation?
Usually when relationships change there a lot more things that change than just how they refer to each other. For example using a different pronoun for yourself, using the more casual version of verbs and so on. It’s just that the honorific suffixes are easy to notice for someone who doesn’t know the language. The problem is just that in english there is not much of a difference in how people talk depending on who they talk to, but a good translator might be able to reflect that change without relying on just leaving things untranslated.
Some are very difficult. In any romantic setting dropping the honorifics would be a huge deal because it implies a very intimate register, and it’s basically impossible to replicate if you don’t use them to start with.
Some yea, but idk one could just use the lastname in the tl before and after that the firstname which would be similiar. Honestly it has been so long since I last read anything that was translated from JP -> EN that I have no idea how stuff is translated lately. I’m not interested in checking how there are either. I’d rather read something new in jp.