Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai Douchuu - Ch. 116 - The fed-up King and the Drunkards

[electro_neanderthal]

Also the fucking dumbasses in the comment section about dropping the honorifics are just ridiculous. The denotation and way each person views others, is very ingrained into each interaction.

This is, for the most part, true. Japanese media tends to rely on the baking how characters view each other into the honorifics, which often adds important hints, and at least an important flavor to the story.

So removing the honorifics simply dismisses any semblance of hierarchy and respect each character has with others.

However, Japanese is not the only language with ways to express hierarchy or throw subtle insults. English also has ways to do these things, there's just less ways, so in some simpler manga, it is possible to drop and/or entirely replace the Japanese honorifics with English ones. But that's quite limited, so it's not like you or anyone else is wrong for stating that the honorifics should be kept, because in most cases, it should.

Titles themselves aren't exactly the same as the honorifics used by Japanese. And those that claim to be fans that regularly read manga/LN/anime, but chose to have the original culture bleached out, ousts themselves as fakers.

I fully agree here, honorifics aren't that hard to learn, and any real fan will learn them.

With that said, in a fantasy world, in the same way that modern catchphrases can show up and kind of spoil the immersion in the fantasy, using honorifics can do the same. Because monsters definitely use and say "dono" to each other, right? And the Hyumans, under that bug? You sure they're honorable enough to care like that?

But, that's on the writer to craft it that way, not the translator or reader to fix it. If they use honorifics in a non-minimal way (which is most manga), then the honorifics should stay.

Perhaps I'm being a bit nitpicky on the details here....