Quote Originally Posted by Chessala View Post
I'm aware of the bad joke they are trying to make. Alas, it fails because the original is a joke already. A joke of a joke...well, let's not go further into this. Sorry you missed my point <3
I think you missed the hundreds of other jokes of jokes that the NA Localization team has snuck in over the past few years. Just as one example (off the top of my head—but there are others), there's a FATE in Southern Thanalan with the title "Call Me Mayhaps," from that whole "Call Me Maybe" song that went viral on the 'net awhile back. Call Me Maybe was already a joke in and of itself, but they often reflavor the joke in a small way to make it fit the game as a whole—so instead of using Senpai, they use Mentor, because it's the "in-game" version of a Senpai. That's pretty much just standard operating procedure for them at this point.

But honestly, a number of players probably wouldn't even know what Senpai meant—anime has a pretty niche audience these days in the States.