Anime fanfiction and regional language

[prillalar]

Thanks, everyone, for your input on the Very Important Tuque Question. I really like hearing about different regional expressions. Vide the "huck" question. (Hmm, all these questions seem to involve Kaidoh in some way.)

But now I'm wondering if the question is as Very Important as I first thought. If I use tuque instead of knit cap (or Pudelmütze), I'm sure it will be fairly obvious from the context that Kaidoh has some sort of winter hat on his head.

I do try to use language appropriate to the canon and genre when I write fanfic. When I write about shows that take place in the US, I try not to let my Canadianisms slip in. When I write Harry Potter, I try to use more English expressions. (Not sure how well I do, of course.) Et cetera.

But when I'm writing in anime fandoms, what's appropriate? The source material is in a different language, one I understand very little of. I suppose that in tenipuri fandom, at least, the English language fandom is primarily American, and so that's the accepted default for fanfic.

Once I did see Kaidoh (*koff*) doing maths instead of math and I remember how much it charmed me. And regardless of the source, I always use Canadian spelling in my fanfic and nobody has every complained to me about it.

I wouldn't put Daniel Jackson or Draco Malfoy in a tuque but I don't see why Kaidoh shouldn't have one. (Unless no one wears those kinds of hats in Japan.)

So, here are the questions:

* If you are an anglophone American (is there such a thing or is anglophone just a Canadian term?) or Canadian who reads anime fanfic, how would you respond to a fic written in, for example, UK English? Would it impair your enjoyment of the story?

* If you are a non-American anglophone who writes anime fanfic, do you Americanize your language when you write? Why or why not?

* Do your answers to the above differ depending on the particular anime fandom?

* Am I a freak who thinks too much? (And makes too many parenthetical asides?)

Comments

[deepfryerfire.livejournal.com]

Again, I'm wagging my finger at the GetBackers fandom here. It's mostly a problem of 'what's cheap in North America' vs. 'what's cheap in Japan'. The mains guys in GetBackers are living-in-their-car level broke, so naturally a lot of fic revolves around how these two manage to exist on 500 yen a day or less. People like to write about them eating a lot of pizza, because pizza is cheap food over here- but pizza in Japan is pretty damn expensive, not to mention the pies being much smaller. (We're talking 3000+ yen for what we would consider a medium-smallish pizza.) Also, the pizza they eat in fic has distinctly Western toppings- whereas Japanese pizza tends to have things like corn and mayonnaise and squid on it.

(There's a story about a friend of a friend who tried very hard to get a waiter over there to bring him a pizza with *gasp* just pepperoni- no corn, no mayo- and was told "I'm sorry, but we don't have the technology!")