And the T/N note about using your own first-name to refer to yourself is incomplete. Talking about yourself in 3rd person is considered "cute" or "childish" in Japan. When she says "Kasumi likes it too", it's a conscious effort to sound like a young child.
Surely that's not necessarily true? I mean 'conscious effort'? If a character does it all the time - like say Akari in yuru yuri, I usually assume the character to BE childish in nature - not trying so seem like they are.
If this is a way young kids speak but they stop as they get older, then still speaking like that when most have stopped but you were still pretty young would to me indicate they are just maturing slower.
Obviously it CAN be used deliberately to sound cute - but that would be one off separate 'acts'.
I can't see someone talking like it all the time like Kasumi does here if it wasn't natural for them - it would get tiresome fast and you'd keep forgetting to do it.
In the following comics, she panics at one point and forgets to refer to herself in third person (at least per translator's notes).
When your job sucks out all your emotions and you become a robot cashier-chan
That's pretty much how I was when I worked in retail. There's no quicker way to lose faith in humanity and become a soulless husk than working at a register.
I don't think it's a conscious effort so much as a habit. I mean, even people with a stutter can be shocked out of it, actually. Sometimes. I agree with the general "she's a somewhat childish personality." Akari definitely is. And Niko's got arrested development because she was deprived of a childhood.
I really like where this series is going. It's got a sweet original art style & the Yuri's level's are pretty strong. I really love it when a series give's us Yuri immediately within the first few chapter's. I've taken quite a liking to this.
And the T/N note about using your own first-name to refer to yourself is incomplete. Talking about yourself in 3rd person is considered "cute" or "childish" in Japan. When she says "Kasumi likes it too", it's a conscious effort to sound like a young child.
Surely that's not necessarily true? I mean 'conscious effort'? If a character does it all the time - like say Akari in yuru yuri, I usually assume the character to BE childish in nature - not trying to seem like they are.
If this is a way young kids speak but they stop as they get older, then still speaking like that when most have stopped but you were still pretty young would to me indicate they are just maturing slower. - Or are maybe particularly introverted / insecure.
Obviously it CAN be used deliberately to sound cute - but that would be one off separate 'acts'.
I can't see someone talking like it all the time like Kasumi does here if it wasn't natural for them - it would get tiresome fast and you'd keep forgetting to do it.
I'm pretty sure she does it deliberately, since she forgot to say it in third person in chapter 3