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[bjornwilde]

 Finally watching the Daredevil episode where Foggy finds out what Matt has been up to. Foggy's pain is breaking my heart.

Also, watched the second episode of season 02 of Knights of Sidonia, aka Sidonia no Kishi, and suddenly they are using honorifics. Not sure if this is because I am watching a translation of the Japanese and not an English dub or not.

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[aberration]

Not sure if I'm understanding this right but - honorifics are often not included in English dubs. I wouldn't take their absence in a dub to indicate they were absent in the original Japanese.

[bjornwilde]

This is very true and I sort of took it into account. But I swear the first couple of episodes from the first season, viewing from the same source as season two, which is streaming the Japanese with English subtitles, didn't use honorifics; which threw me to be honest. It could easily be more Western-y translation of the subtitles in the first season, though there are still some weird translations, like the main character telling his class mates, "Um, Strive..." as an awkward inspirational speech.

A big part of this could easily be my not being used to watching anime without so many Western filters applied.