Quote Originally Posted by MomomiMomi View Post
Calling me "partner" or anything like it is going to sound really cheesy. This is where culture comes in. We don't do that here.
It sounds cheesy in both cultures. It's supposed to, and it fits Estinien's role and change perfectly. He's not used to be social, so he does so in a slightly awkward way. Japanese do that even less than here, which makes it even more special.

Having worked in localization for six years in the past, I always find it funny how some in that role nowadays try to feed to the masses that theirs is an authorship role, while it should be in service of the author's world view and creativity. What makes it even worse is how certain media outlets are doing their utmost to roll that drum in order to further their own agendas in which different development cultures are flattened to western taste and standards.