Since the family name is the first name and given name comes second, it's even common (for boys/men especially) to call friends by their family name (since that's technically the first name).
Like, you'd almost only call literally life long childhood friends by their given name. A high schooler would call another high school friend just by their family name.
Like, if your name was John Buchanan, it would be Buchanan John in Japanese and friends would just call you Buchanan (whereas strangers would call you Buchanan-san)
Only other times (other than childhood friends) given names are used would be in romantic relationships or from a superior (as in, if you have a very good long lasting relationship with your boss, they'd call you "John-kun") or between girls/women who are friends
Dr. Foppo
2024-04-25 00:47:02 +0000 UTC
Ah yes, the infamous reintroduction of Itachi, the benchmark for power scaling for most of the story, and one of the most disrespectful characters in shonen. What he did to Kakashi here was pretty brutal… but just be glad he didn’t point
Another crazy nod in hindsight, Kisame’s line about Guy being interesting here upon meeting him. Funny stuff, that
AMetalWorld
2024-03-03 06:04:44 +0000 UTC
Yeah it seems like saying the family name first and then the personal name is common in Japan.
unc54
2024-03-02 16:03:42 +0000 UTC
kakashi isnt his last name, its just like Monkey D. Luffy they say the last name first
Doujinsensei
2024-03-01 08:57:39 +0000 UTC
Bruh I was not expecting you to bust out the KIng of Queens intro song XD
Chase Petersen
2024-03-01 06:43:59 +0000 UTC
The tonal whiplash within this episode and the last episode has always stuck out to me. You have this super serious battle going on with people more dangerous than Orochimaru and that gets juxtaposed with Jiraiya and Naruto goofing off.
unc54
2024-03-01 04:37:41 +0000 UTC
guy is is one of my favorite characters in the show. he THAT guy
Adrian Lara
2024-03-01 03:57:05 +0000 UTC
Series damn near ends lmao
Harry Branch
2024-03-01 02:18:55 +0000 UTC
I always wondered what would've happened if Guy went all out against these 2 there....