We see this a lot in the manga/anime communities. Readers usually get used to the Japanese honorifics, name suffixes etc. and have a pretty good understanding o

We see this a lot in the manga/anime communities. Readers usually get used to the Japanese honorifics, name suffixes etc. and have a pretty good understanding of them. An adaptator getting rid of them to have more natural English will come up with way worse phrasing, while losing a lot of the nuance and meaning of the original text. In a way, the reader undertands that it all happens in a non-English country, so getting unnatural English phrasing isn't much of an issue.