BeeryForest

Imaging thinking actual human writers are Not Real because they use... professional writing in their works.

Imagine thinking millions of people who have been using em dash way before AI becomes a thing are all robots.

KHR anime seems to make it a point to ignore the whole language thing, while in the manga the only one we are shown as speaking a different language is just I-Pin, even though there should definitely be more characters — did the whole Varia learn Japanese just in case?? In what case?!

Also Gokudera? Let me not even get started on him, although I will say this, why is his name Gokudera Hayato if he's supposed to be born and raised in italy and italian?

5 year old Lambo?!

Rokudo Fucking Mukuro?? Who was imprisoned? Like did his prison offer a Japanese crash course?? YOU KNOW, IN CASE YOU MIGHT NEED IT SHOULD YOU GO TO JAPAN AND TRY TO MURDER VONGOLA DECIMO

List of characters that have a believable excuse for knowing Japanese:

Reborn

Basil, because Iemitsu taught him instead of taking care of Tsuna

Byakuran, do I even need to say why?

Characters who were living in Japan at the start of the series (Tsuna, Takeshi, Hibari, Kyoko, Ryohei, Haru, etc)

that's it, that's the list.

t’s hard to work around the fact that the two characters who need to interact and have a conversation don’t know each other’s language. Often, it's encouraged by the fans to interpret these moments as if they’re speaking english. And while that makes sense for most of these characters (Lambo and I-Pin are presented as assassins, so knowing English seems like something the organization they work for would encourage), it doesn’t for Tsuna specifically.

In canon, Tsuna is barely taking his education seriously, and that's just because Reborn hits him when he doesn't. He's shown to be bad at japanese, and isn't shown to be part of a majorly english-speaking-fandom. The likelyhood that he knows fluent english is low.

But it's just something that everyone does at some point; Charlotte does something similar, One Piece (Though it's never explicitly told that they speak different languages, but come on over 70 islands (at least) and they all speak the same language?)

Realistically, the Varia would have to bring an interpreter, but then Akira would have to create that character, which would make the Varia seem less like their own characters and more like “the weirdos with (insert interpreter’s name here).” Without the interpreter, they would be stuck in a constant game of charades and that's just weird for a group of assassins that want to kill you.

In the end Akira did have to choose the lesser evil, even if it makes my head hurt. It's just one of the many cases where authors were forced, by the circunstances of their own narrative, to bend reality in order to make it work.