Personally I'd still find suffixes awkward, but then it's a pretty rare instance where I don't find them awkward. Prince of Tennis or Japanese school settings where status and addressing others is pretty integral, but then that's set in Japan itself.
I've read a lot of very good fusion fic for FMA, although most of it blended other anime/manga sources which in some ways eliminates the issues you're bumping up against. Figure that if you were really going to go for getting some of the native cultural things across that some of the most noticeable are also some of the most problematic, particularly with gender roles.
Amusingly, I was cosplaying Roy Mustang when I was told by a person from Japan that they liked it more when they visit US conventions and saw cosplayers since they 'looked more like the characters should' than Japanese cosplayers. Snerk.
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Date: 2010-11-18 12:38 am (UTC)I've read a lot of very good fusion fic for FMA, although most of it blended other anime/manga sources which in some ways eliminates the issues you're bumping up against. Figure that if you were really going to go for getting some of the native cultural things across that some of the most noticeable are also some of the most problematic, particularly with gender roles.
Amusingly, I was cosplaying Roy Mustang when I was told by a person from Japan that they liked it more when they visit US conventions and saw cosplayers since they 'looked more like the characters should' than Japanese cosplayers. Snerk.