From: chriskern99@gmail.com   
      
   On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 18:02:50 -0400, Phoenix    
   posted the following:   
      
   >BTW, Mamoru called Usagi by her first name when they were speaking   
   >with that artist on the street. That's huge! Considering their   
   >relationship at that point, how could he treat her in such a familiar   
   >manner?   
      
   I think it shows that he basically considers her a kid; I would not   
   expect in general that a college-age male would use particularly   
   polite language in talking to a middle-school-age female no matter   
   what their actual relationship.  The younger a person is, the less   
   likely it is that anyone will use polite language when speaking to or   
   about them.  Mamoru has been speaking using non-polite language since   
   episode 1 so the plain "Usagi" isn't that surprising -- what I find   
   more surprising is that he actually used her name.  This may be the   
   first time in the series he calls her Usagi instead of "odango atama".   
      
   >Now that I've caught up, I think I will try to watch both the original   
   >and the English dub for each day's exercise.   
      
   Do you have those on tapes or something?  I haven't seen the DiC dub   
   in at least 9 years, possibly 10.   
      
   -Chris   
      
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