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do you ever freeze up when someone asks "are you ok?" because you don't know if they're just asking to be respectful or if they genuinely care and want to hear the whole story about how you're a mess and just want to get swallowed up by the ground or is it just me?

doginshoe

I LOVE SPY X FAMILY

I LOVE SPY X FAMILY but in red

wmanages

Bro when Loid says" I wonder how I would feel if this were a real family" bRoOOOOOOOOOOOO😭😭😭

mookybear12404

Twi from the rooftop: “You need to apologize.”

Anya:

spyxfamily

I dont know why they changed the names, the ones they used first were perfectly fine! Besides if i was looking for a spy the last name 'forger' would probably pique my curiosity.

First, it is important to look at the raws for the Japanese chapters, which do include English spellings.

Yor Briar. Loid Forger. Ania. These are the spelling that is intended by Endo-sensei.

I’m not sure if this would end up changing if we were to get an anime adaptation or a physical English volume, but those are the canon spellings.

Why do the translators keep mixing up the spellings?

I know that the difference between Folger/Forger and Yor/Yoru and has to do with the fact that the Japanese language has different sounds compared to English. In Japanese there isn’t a clearly different sound for R and L like in English.

For instance, from bnha, All Might is spelled with Romaji as Ōru Maito. Notice the R vs the L. And the hero Rock Lock’s name is spelled Rokku Rokku. And with the hero Mirko, her Romaji spelling is Miruko. Like Yor vs Yoru. Something to note, though, is that in all these cases, the u sound isn’t there when translated into English.

Forger and Folger are both real last names, so I can see why the translators might have been unsure with which spelling to use if they had ignored the English that was present in the raws and only focused on translating the Japanese speech bubbles.

I think one of the reasons Forger was ultimately chosen by the translators is because it gives a clue to the fact that the Forger family is a fake family. It’s a pun, a joke, that’s the point.

Often in manga names have significance to the characters. For example. BNHA all of the character’s names in Kanji are a pun centered around their Quirk or personality or backstory.

As for Loid vs Lloyd and Ania vs Anya, I think Endo-sensei decided to use European-esque spellings. Ania seems to be is a Russian spelling, which makes sense to me, since the plot and world building of this story reminds me vaguely of Soviet Russia and the Cold War era.

I personally don’t mind the new spellings, but I’d like for the new translations to stay consistent.

sorry this got long

mookybear12404

Twi from the rooftop: “You need to apologize.”

Anya:

irlbinx

Nothing to see here... just yuto nyoom-ing across your screen

i-am-a-fish

this school year..

gonna be good

maknae-wooseok

when yuto does his little “yutoda” thing reblog if u agree

retrogamingblog

girls + skirts = im gay

posi-pan

pan people are allowed to:

have gender preferences

not have gender preferences

be attracted to genders in different ways

be attracted to genders in the same way

experience attraction where gender is a determining factor

experience attraction where gender is not a determining factor

be in any kind of relationship

not be in any relationship at all

use gay/bi/queer/etc as personal umbrella terms

also identify as bi

not want to be referred to as anything but pan

be aro, ace, aroace, or anywhere on the ace/aro spectrums

have control over the terminology used to refer to them

have full control over their identity/label(s) in general

this has been a psa

posi-pan

shoutout to the pansexual people who knew they were pansexual before they knew there was a word for it.

shoutout to the pansexual people who were confused and struggled to define their sexuality.

shoutout to the pansexual people who knew they weren’t straight but couldn’t find a label for their sexuality that they really identified with.

shoutout to the pansexual people who felt pressure to label themselves before they fully figured their sexuality, so they labeled themselves as gay or bi.

shoutout to the pansexual people who described their sexuality as them just “liking who they like" or “liking people”.

shoutout to the pansexual people who, upon discovering the term pansexual, felt like everything suddenly clicked because you finally had the term that accurately described your sexuality.

you’re all wonderful, cute pans whose journeys are all valid.