As someone who absolutely loves any and every attempt to use my mediocre Japanese skills, all I can say is もったいない[0]! ...that being said, this is also kind of

As someone who absolutely loves any and every attempt to use my mediocre Japanese skills, all I can say is もったいない[0]! ...that being said, this is also kind of inevitable. Masahiro Sakurai[1] talked about this in a video, about how he has to remind Japanese developers to name all their files and functions in English. Just in case they need to bring on foreign contractors. Japanese programmers are already slinging around a lot of English relative to the average resident of Tokyo, even if it's all wasei-eigo[2]. [0] What a waste! [1] Designer of Kirby and Smash Bros. Now runs a YouTube channel on game development, which has an English version translated by 8-1. Yes that is the same people that translated UNDERTALE into Japanese and yes it's because Toby Fox recommended them. [2] Made-in-Japan English. Japanese is like 10-20% English by volume, so sometimes they'll just make up new English words. Sometimes they even get loanworded back into English! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gairaigo_and_wasei-eigo_terms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gairaigo_and_wasei-eig...