supplementing your points: Japanese seem to prefer dropping the honorifics when in English: https://archive.ph/OI3S2 https://archive.ph/OI3S2 I've also heard

supplementing your points: Japanese seem to prefer dropping the honorifics when in English: https://archive.ph/OI3S2 https://archive.ph/OI3S2 I've also heard that it's still common to address one's peers with -kun in parliament. In GP's case it sounds rather quaint, but also endearing (like referring to a neighbor or a long lost schoolmate in the third person) Pedantry: Takaichi is her father's surname. (I had to look that up, tbh)