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== Anime and Manga ==
Tsuyu from ''[[My Hero Academia]]'' is somewhat vocal about who she wants to call her by her given name followed by [[Japanese Honorifics|"-chan"]]. Izuku often fails to oblige her, which she often responds to with a request to recalled "Tsuyu-
* "''[[Sempai-Kohai|Sempai]]''" is frequently used without explanation in English dubs these days.
* ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' has power and hierarchy in relationships as a major theme, so it's no surprise that honorifics are used in all sorts of interesting ways to reveal this. (The dub tries its best to get the idea across, but can't always manage.) There's ''lots'' of examples, but one of the major ones is Anthy's habit of using ''-sama'' for the current winner of the duels. At the beginning of the show, she always addresses Saionji as Saionji-''sama'' (translated here as "Master Saionji"). Then, after Utena defeats him, Anthy emotionally devastates him with one sentence:
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